june-2010

June / July 2010 36 WIZZ magazine
KATOWICE
that our area is crowded, but we don’t care
about that. What people don’t notice is that
this is the key to Katowice. Our music is an
answer to all that we observe and feel.”
Iowa Super Soccer has strong ties to
another city in the Silesian Metropolis –
Mysłowice, an ordinary town in every respect
except its musical history. Everything
started with Generał Stilwell, a group formed
in 1986 and the first to break away from
rock standards and finding inspiration in
shoegaze, post-punk and British alternative
rock. From this scene came Myslovitz,
“There’s no
doubt the
sound of
Katowice is
driven by
the young”
Left: Avantgarde
composer
Henryk Górecki
Right: Alt rock
band Iowa Super
Soccer
U2 raise the
roof at Spodek,
which from the
outside resembles
a fl ying saucer
whose recordings in the late 1990s were
epoch-defining for an entire generation of
Poles. In 2006, the town reaffirmed its status
as an alternative rock focal point upon the
launch of the annual OFF Festival, organised
by Myslovitz vocalist Artur Rojek. This year,
however, the festival will expand to larger
grounds at Katowice’s Three Lake Valley
where from 5 to 8 August you can see The
Flaming Lips, The Fall and Tindersticks.
At the heart of post-industrial Katowice is
the city’s urban planning at its most creative.
On one side of the street is the famous
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