Halftime at the festival – Lido Sounds: Decadence with a socio-political touch

Young with Michael Jackson
Füreder has also been a physical Linzer again for some time, having moved back home to Linz’s Pöstlingberg after years on Mallorca. “There’s London, Barcelona and Madrid, but Linz is Linz,” echoes from the concert stage. The preparations for the biggest hometown concert of his life were hardly glamorous. “I took my son to school in the morning and picked him up again. Then I cooked for him and hung up the laundry – just like you would expect at a big festival.” In his house, Parov Stelar has already seen a lot of the opening day. “It’s really cool, I heard the Kings Of Leon all the way up to Pöstlingberg, that’s great for Linz.” When asked whether he himself had been an enthusiastic festival-goer when he was younger, he has to laugh. “My first concert was Michael Jackson, I was about twelve years old. I was young about 35 years ago, there were no festivals at all.”