Sunday 19 May 2024 19:00
On Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19, Generations, the music festival that brings together different generations, is back at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) for a fourth year, featuring a diverse program and setting up a meeting point for young and old alike.
For two whole days, the SNFCC will be filled with music and activities in all its spaces, the midpoint being the Great Lawn: from the Playgrounds and the Water Jets to the Mediterranean Garden, the Outdoor Games Area, the Dome and, of course, the Canal, a whole array of options will be available to both parents and children.
The festival starts at 11.00 in the morning, with music and DJ sets by local and international DJs. This year, adults will have the opportunity to introduce the young into the musical choices of two legendary Brits: the 2024 Generations festival headliners are Don Letts and Eddie Piller! At the same time, kids can choose from a variety of activities, in an unforgettable two-day event, in the course of which they will dance with colorful hoops, have fun with giant soap bubbles, stilt walkers and acrobats, sow plants, paint, kayak, play basketball, and capture their favorite moments using fun props at the photo booth. And all this, with their faces adorned with spring colors and drawings by face painting.
Generations, a genuine celebration for the entire family and a standing Athens rendezvous for a colorful weekend at Stavros Niarchos Park, full of joy and carefreeness, is staged with free admission thanks to a grant of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
A legendary figure of the British music scene of the past 40 years is coming to Athens for a unique DJ set.
For Eddie Piller, it was almost inevitable that he would end up a “mod,” seeing as his mother ran the fan club of Small Faces in the 1960s. Nevertheless, his true love and passion for the mod music scene came about when he started going to concerts, in the late 1970s, and seeing bands like the Buzzcocks, The Jam, and Stiff Little Fingers.
His musical career began in the 1980s, when he launched Extraordinary Sensations, an iconic underground mod fanzine featuring photos, news and information about mod bands of the time, while also working as a mod/soul DJ and concert organizer. In 1985, after his stint as director of the label Stiff Records, he founded Countdown Records, to which he signed a new wave of promising bands, such as Makin' Time and The Prisoners.
After appearing in The Style Council’s “A Solid Bond In Your Heart” music video, he took over the career of the James Taylor Quarter, who soon began to dominate London’s up-and-coming jazz scene. As the mod scene simmered down in the late 1980s, Piller collaborated with Gilles Peterson to establish the legendary Acid Jazz Records label, which started out humbly but grew at a dizzying pace. Very soon, the two of them together discovered and signed bands such as Galliano, Corduroy, A Man Called Adam, The Last Poets, and The Night Trains, which combined the eclectic sounds of jazz, funk, soul, and reggae.
In 1989, Piller left Acid Jazz Records to found Talking Loud, a label that signed the next wave of artists who were influenced by the acid jazz scene, including The Brand New Heavies and Jamiroquai who climbed to the highest positions of the charts and became the most successful artists in the world.
In 1993, Piller bought an abandoned nightclub in a dark corner of East London, in Hoxton, which was a deprived urban area at the time. He renamed the club Blue Note and brought in several new DJs, including Goldie, Talvin Singh and James Lavelle, popularizing the drum and bass genre in the mid-1990s.
In the late ’90s, Piller moved on to television and radio, presenting Jazz FM’s legendary Newbeats show, as well as radio shows on BBC Radio London, BBC Radio 6 Music, and Q Radio.
Sunday 19/05,19.00 Great Lawn, Stavros Niarchos Park
Free admission
