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We warmly invite you to the ninth edition of the Music Is The Weapon Festival.
This time, four bands will take the stage – as always moving across very different sonic landscapes, yet united by one common denominator: exploratory music.
◾ Performing for you: Izzy and The Black Trees, RZWD, Pleń, and Ivo Shandor & The Gozer Worshipers.
👉 Start: 19:00
👉 Tickets: https://www.tickets.drizzlygrizzly.pl/…/music-is-the…
🔸 Izzy and The Black Trees – a Poznań-based band playing an explosive mix of post-punk, noise rock, and raw rock’n’roll. Their sound is defined by gritty punk guitars, an intense rhythm section, and the charismatic vocals of frontwoman Izzy.
The band debuted with the album Trust No One (2020, Antena Krzyku), promoted among others on BBC 6 Music by Steve Lamacq. Their follow-up record, Revolution Comes In Waves (2022), was enthusiastically received in Poland and abroad – earning the title of Polish Album of the Year 2022 by Teraz Rock and placing 8th in Gazeta Wyborcza’s ranking.
In 2024, they released the EP Go On, Test the System, with the single F-16 highlighted as Song of the Day by KEXP Seattle. The band appeared at the prestigious Eurosonic ESNS Festival in the Netherlands, with their concert recorded by Rockpalast.
Izzy and The Black Trees have performed at major festivals in Poland (OFF Festival, Jarocin, Mystic Festival, Summer Dying Loud) and abroad (Liverpool Sound City, Sharpe Festival). They have just finished work on their third studio album.
📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/izzyandtheblacktrees
📘 Facebook: www.facebook.com/IzzyandtheBlackTrees
🌍 Web: https://linktr.ee/izzyandtheblacktreesband
🔸 RZWD (Rozwód – eng. Divorce)
Links: https://linktr.ee/RZWD | https://rozwod.bandcamp.com/
A Wrocław–Toruń-based noise-dance band founded by Szymon Szwarc (swrcfx, Jesień) and Damian Kowalski (SKI). Currently joined by Cezary Rosiński (Młyn) and Krzysztof Rogalski (Pchełki).
RZWD has performed in clubs and at festivals across Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. So far, they have released three full-length albums: POMPY (Fonoradar Records, 2020), GOLD(Fonoradar Records, 2022), and their latest GAPS (Gusstaff Records, October 2024).
Drawing from dance music, improvisation, and noise, RZWD transform these elements into a raw, garage-like live experience powered by intense drums and guitars. Their ongoing effort is to merge the structure of a DJ set with the energy of a noise-rock show.
🔸 Pleń – a Łódź-based trio playing something between post-rock and shoegaze. Active since 2019, their debut album simply titled Pleń was released in 2021 by Jvdasz Iskariota Rec. The group has shared the stage with Titanic Sea Moon, Ampacity, Tie’n Lai, Wczasy, Melisa, Zdrój, Popsysze, and Szorstkie. They have also performed at Music Is The Weapon Fest and Fląder Festival.
A few words about the new record:
The title track “Rondo straconego czasu” (Roundabout of Lost Time) refers to Rondo Solidarności in Łódź – a place where hundreds, maybe thousands of the city’s residents regularly lose several minutes of their lives, stuck in standstill traffic, unable to escape, knowing it’s not a one-off situation. “Rondo…” is a specific point on our city’s map, but everyone “has one at home” – sooner or later we all end up in a place we can’t simply get out of, where change requires more than a shift in mindset or gaining distance. To regain agency, we must break the cycle.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDM9qU-_vAw
BC: https://plen.bandcamp.com/album/ple
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5smC6gqi0GLPGNjYUB5wYm…
🔸 Ivo Shandor & The Gozer Worshipers – a quintet founded by Boro (Lonker See, Why Bother?) as a continuation of his journey through the world of psychedelia and musical spaces, where inspiration flows straight from the turbulent rhythm of life by the sea. The band is known for expansive forms, rich improvisation, and creative dynamics. Their music fuses captivating melodies with the grit of distorted guitars, weaving elements of jazz, szumbient, and rock’n’roll.
Together with musicians from Pleń, Goodly, Szczęki, and Jutra, they recorded material released on March 28, 2025, by the cult label Antena Krzyku. The album is an emotionally charged journey in search of musical meaning, reflecting the energy of the place where the compositions were created – a place full of contrasts: calm and turmoil, silence and intensity.
BC: https://ivoshandor.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBsvaQ4gMo…
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/18woljLY3MR6eOURnQ0B7e
