YARD | GNOD + MC Sissi | HAEPAARY | comfort | & more |

Music festival for possible futures

Hybrid is a music festival for possible futures by VERA and OOST. On March 1st, 2025 Hybrid will explore the common ground between the sonic frontiers of different scenes and sceneries within Groningen. Taking place across both clubs on the Oosterstraat, as well as the monumental Akerk and Grand Theatre, the festival unfolds many of contemporary music’s potential trajectories. It’s a stage for the global cutting edge, right as it mutates, steers and reroutes. Unique voices from the spheres of electronic, experimental, pop, dance and guitar-based music show the present in a state of transformation. To reveal what's next in the world of sound.

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Hybrid acts in VERA:

YARD (IRL)
YARD is a gripping electro-noise trio from Dublin, Ireland. The band seamlessly blends the raw energy of techno and noise rock into an intense, immersive experience. With their eerie mascot ‘Bucketman’ as a visual signature, their music is designed to leave listeners sweaty, energized, and intriguingly unnerved.

Gnod + MC Sissi (UK / POR)
Gnod is a prolific, politically charged psychedelic and noise rock collective from Manchester, acclaimed for their immersive performances and installations. Their latest release, ‘Inner Fucking Peace’, blossomed through a collaboration with the Portuguese multidisciplinary artist and vocalist MC Sissi, who will be joining Gnod on stage for their evocative performance at Hybrid. The album features minimalist tuned percussion pieces, tracks driven by thunderous electronic drums, a reggaeton-gone-minimal-synth track, and songs that reach a zenith of haunting gloom, layered with bursts of industrial ferocity.

HAEPAARY (KOR)
HAEPAARY is an alt-electronic duo from Seoul, South Korea. Their work breathes new life into the ancient melodies and lyrics of Jongmyojeryeak, the sacred royal shrine music of the Joseon dynasty, and Namchang Gagok, a traditional vocal genre once reserved exclusively for men. HAEPAARY’s compositions unravel the rigid structures of Confucian music, re-articulating them through the pulse of rave and trance. Their intricate soundscapes, full of refinement, invite intimate strangers to their own secluded party.

comfort (UK)
comfort are a sibling duo from Glasgow, backed by wildly oscillating software synths to create punk music with a lyrical focus that is direct and engaging. They have been developing their sound through years of intensive writing and performing in spaces aligned with Glasgow's queer and punk scene. The raw, confrontational vulnerability at the core of their music seeks a personal, yet queer, liberation within a society that often constricts. comfort creates music that demands freedom, not tolerance, sending a clear message that they hold no interest in finding a middle ground with bigotry.

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