Attending a festival where there's several bands performing the music of Frank Zappa, the greatest inconvenience will be that you will hear 'Cosmik Debris' performed a lot. Perhaps even once too many.
That being said, "Cosmik Debris / Kosmische Brocken" also is the name of the documentary that was made about the Zappanale Festival.
It's about 90 minutes long and it will be shown with English and German subtitles at the Kamp Kino. That's the Kamp Theater Cinema (Severinstrasse 4, Bad Doberan), next to the little park in the center of town.
- Thursday July 17th - 2:00 pm
- Friday July 18th - 1:00 pm
- Saturday July 19th - 1:00 pm
Kamp Kino, Bad Doberan
And whilst we’re on the subject of subtitles, Bad Doberan is located in former Eastern Germany. Not everybody is fluent in English but that has improved enormously over the last 20 years.
Plus there's always dozens of optional translators around. Easy to spot by their Zappa T-shirts. The friendliest people you could ever meet.
Another nice introduction to the Zappanale Festival is the "We Are The Other People" book, compiled by Dieter Jakob, Burkhard Schempp and Robert Riedt to celebrate 25 years of Zappanale.
It got published in 2014 which seems like ages ago (and, in fact, it is), but it's great reading with lots of superb pictures.
There are also quite a few excerpts from interviews I conducted (as UniMuta) with some of the musicians.
the book, hardbound and 496 pages
cover artwork by Helmut King
(who will have another expo this year)
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