Pop-Kultur Festival 2025 @ PANDA platforma: Day 2
PANDA platforma
Knaackstraße 97 (im kleinen Hof der Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin
Pop-Kultur Festival (25–30 August 2025, Berlin) – A six-day celebration of pop culture featuring live concerts, DJ sets, experimental music formats, talks, workshops, and networking across the silent green Kulturquartier, nearby clubs, and the Kulturbrauerei. The festival showcases Berlin’s most relevant music trends, topics, and talents, offering fans fresh discoveries, artists’ creative freedom, professionals’ thought-provoking discussions, and emerging talent’s real opportunities.
Lineup in PANDA:
21:00 Canty
Canty, a songwriter and visual artist, is one of the most captivating voices in East London’s queer underground scene. On her mixtape »Dim Binge«, she processes autobiographical ruptures – including her MS diagnosis – through electronically infused songs that shift between tenderness and loss of control. With trembling honesty, Canty explores trauma and desire – her voice not trying to please, but waiting to be truly heard.
Her art is both trip and therapy, a dance of resistance against silence. Her sound: art-pop with a DIY attitude. Her language: radically honest, poetically sharp.
Canty’s live performances are fully realised artistic experiences – carefully staged yet intimately open, always seeking connection. After acclaimed appearances at The Great Escape and Simple Things Festival, she now takes the Pop-Kultur stage for the very first time.
22:00 Zoon Phonata
A Dane and two Welshmen walk into Berlin – and start a psych-disco band for stylish danse macabres. That’s more or less how the story of Zoon Phonanta begins – a band that describes itself as the »Nicki Minaj of dungeon synth.« Their atmospheric sound fuses drums and bass with vintage organs and analogue synths. The result? Krautrock-tinged soundtracks for forgotten horror films. Sometimes Zoon Phonanta sound like Can, other times like Swans – only to suddenly drift into space like The Comet Is Coming. Their self-titled debut album was released in September 2024 on the British label Bronze Rat Records (home to acts like Jon Spencer and Gemma Ray), recorded and mixed by Ingo Krauss at the legendary Candy Bomber Studio. The band‘s name is taken from a work by British author, composer, and linguist Anthony Burgess (best known for »A Clockwork Orange«): »Zoon Phonanta« – the talking animal. Or in other words: the human.
23:00 Eilis Frawley
If there were more artists like Eilis Frawley – clear, clever, and uncompromising in their message – the world of pop, and beyond, would be a better place. Originally from Australia, with a stopover in Seoul before settling in Berlin, Frawley manages the rare feat of making experimental songwriting sound accessible – pop with purpose, without preaching. Her latest album »Fall Forward«, released on Berlin indie label Sinnbus and co-produced by Kat Frankie, is a blazing manifesto – somewhere between pop, jazz, and krautrock, between rage, tenderness, and resistance. A standout: the single »Be a Lady«, a feminist flare fired into the darkness of societal expectation.
Previously involved in projects like Laura Lee & The Jettes, Party Fears, I Drew Blank, Kara Delik, and Restless, Frawley has long since found a sound of her own – one she uses to speak about the crisis of late capitalism, queerness, feminism, and personal loss.
More information: https://www.pop-kultur.berlin/
Tickets
A project by Musicboard Berlin
Kindern und Jugendlichen unter 18 Jahren ist der Zutritt zu Veranstaltungen in PANDA platforma nur in Begleitung einer erziehungsbeauftragten oder personensorgeberechtigten Person in Verbindung mit jeweils einer gültigen Eintrittskarte gestattet. Grundlage: §5 JuSchG