The nights of the underground – the King Nude Festival

The second edition of “The nights of the underground – the Nude King Festival” will be held at the Vapor Factory in Milan. The protagonists of the Festival also this year will be young independent artists between the ages of 16 and 30.

The Festival will open with an evening in memory of Gianfranco Manfredi to be held on Monday 26 May at 9 pm in via Quarenghi 21 in Milan, with the participation of Ricky Gianco.

These are the musical contents of the program:

Thursday 5 June

8pm (Space Naked King)

Exhibition opening

• Stories of rock, stolen photos and disappeared clubs by Walter Scarabello

8.30 pm (Square)

Music

King naked free live music – Concerts with

• McBain
• Golden Hind

Friday 6 June

3pm (Balcony space)

Docufilm projection

• A mystical Etneo: Franco Battiato

Focus on the experimental period of the Sicilian artist

15.30 (Loggia)

Music

King Nudo World Music – Sagegreen concert

5.00 pm (Loggia)

Music

King naked acoustic club – with

• Cckh
• Scalene
• Rake

6.45 pm (Square)

Music

King naked free live music – with

• In.visible
• Caste
• East-hegò
• Lady & The Clowns

Saturday 7 June

5.30 pm (Loggia)

Music

King naked acoustic club – with

• Beca

6.45 pm (Square)

Music

King naked free live music with

• Aga
• The backs of Schiele
• Wild Bloom
• Tragic Carpet Ride

Sunday 8 June

5.30 pm (Loggia)

Music

King naked acoustic club – with

• Isygold
• ribl
• His
• The roses and the desert

• Mike Orange
• Tusk

Meanwhile, from 10 May, the exhibition “was playing to do Woodstock at the Lambro Park” continues: 80 black and white shots by Fabio Maria Minotti who document the festivals organized by King naked at the Lambro Park of Milan between 1974 and 1976. The exhibition, set up in the former Cisterne Atelier, will continue until June 8.

Among the artists photographed Francesco De Gregori, Edoardo Bennato, Eugenio Finardi, Franco Battiato, Demetrio Stratos, Jenny Sorrenti, Tony Esposito, Mario Lavezzi and Don Cherry. The texts of the catalog are signed by Luca Pollini, director of King Nudo; The preface is by Eugenio Finardi (here a photogallery)

The catalog includes the testimonies of some of the artists who participated in the festivals. Below is a selection:

Eugenio Finardi: «Parco Lambro was a rave ante litteram. It was extraordinary days of peace, love and music, but not only. There were also clashes at the limit of the ridiculous among the groups of the left».

Jenny Sorrenti: «The Festival of the Youth Proletariat at the Lambro Park despite the harsh disputes of the last edition, I think it has left us an important legacy. For us musicians it was a remarkable experience because it made us live, through music, the debates, the assemblies, more awareness and participation so that today we can benefit and walk enriched with that experience».

Patrizio Fariselli: «We wanted to build an ensemble that would openly deploy in life, politics and texts. Driven only by a stratospheric creativity (freedom). Not from ideology. At the Lambro Park we found a large territory freed from Utopia built. It was an extraordinary moment for Milan».

Paolo Tofani: «I remember in 1976 the assault on the truck with the frozen chickens, they took the driver and took possession of chickens that roasted the beautiful and better. It was useless to talk about a new society, rights and alternative if the results were then. In fact, the great dream of the movement shortly thereafter is over».

Franz di Cioccio: «The feast of the youth proletariat became the center of utopias, artistic trends, dreams and drives and no other event was so disruptive and contradictory. Artists were offered the opportunity to perform, exchange their vision of life without separations or classifications of any kind between languages, form and expressive freedom».

Ricky Gianco: «It was a fantastic experience, unique in Italy. Unfortunately, ruined by the arrival of heroine and the violence of groups that called themselves left ».

Claudio Fucci: «Transplanting the experience of the naked king festivals in the metropolitan crucible was a beautiful and reckless experiment. Being on that stage at the opening of the Festival in 1974, it was a great and unforgettable emotion for me. Still vibrates inside».

Ivan Cattaneo: «I still remember that Lambro park from 1975 where homosexuality was not yet tolerated by most. And then Mario Mieli and I went on stage to scream comic slogans: “Fags yes, but against the DC … El Pueblo Unido is better disguised” and then together with all the others of the outside we left the festival. It was the dawn of civil rights of all minorities that were not yet well understood even by the Orthodox left. But King naked, in his underground underground world, had already understood the way to go. ”

Alberto Camerini: «The music on the stage of the Lambro Park was the natural synthesis of all the stimuli and information we were continuously subjected».

Mario Lavezzi: «On stage you could not act as Rockstar, you had to be absolutely the same as others. I remember when they presented Adriano Pappalardo “and now ladies and gentlemen …” a disaster broke out. People wanted to go on stage to lie him and the order service even wondered “But how, we have to defend it”? “

Antonietta Laterza: «I got on stage at the Lambro Park to sing feminist songs with other girls. Pandemonium succeeded, they began to whistle and insult us, because the companions of the time did not accept the feminist movement, for them it was a deviation from the class struggle».

Days and opening hours of the exhibition:

Monday – Closed

Tuesday – Closed

Wednesday – from 14.30 to 19.30

Thursday – from 14.30 to 19.30

Friday – from 14.30 to 19.30

Saturday – from 11 to 19.30

Sunday – from 11 to 19.30