On 13 and 14 November 2026 8MM Fest returns for two nights across three of Berlin’s most distinctive spaces: 8MM Bar in Prenzlauer Berg, ACUD MACHT NEU in Mitte, and the Zionskirche. Deliberately kept lean, the festival channels 8MM Bar’s two-decade reputation for curating the best of the world’s underground into a compact, Mitte-centered weekend.
New York City’s New Colossus Festival is delighted to return to curate a stage for two nights at ACUD MACHT NEU. Here is a brief introduction to some of the artists performing. The origins of Plattenbau sound like the beginnings of a joke told by some drunk uncle. Holed up in a bleak East Berlin winter, Welshmen Lewis Lloyd and Swede Hans Tobias started a recording project that took inspiration from ex-communist architecture, post-punk, and cheap pilsener. The result was corporate post-truth band Plattenbau, providing a clash of the primitive with high-minded internal feelings. They bring their guitar-trashing, synth-smashing noise-pop and post-punk to 8MM Fest.
Please provide 5 words to describe Plattenbau?
Tight, loose, evil and CURSED.
For those that don’t know Plattenbau, what song should they start with?
‘Sleep / Paralysis’
A surprising fact about Plattenbau please
They’re not really German.
What are you looking forward to playing in Berlin at the New Colossus showcase for 8mm Festival?
‘Spell’ the first track off our latest record CURSED.
Looking forward what’s on the horizon for Plattenbau?
After this current tour we got a spring tour with a deluxe version of CURSED coming up. Then back into the kitchen to cook up a new record.
If I looked in your fridge right now what would I find?
You do not wanna do that.
For more information on 8mm Fest in Berlin please check here.
For more information on New Colossus please check here.
For more information on Plattenbau please check their instagram and website.
