Bull Nakano Moshpit Edition. The pain is still present. Bruises on legs. Bruises on arm. Oh, such a stampede, Bull Nakano is roaring, crashing, bucking, crushing, and we are all into it. Elbows smashing while drawing the Popfest Rodeo, bodies pushing, sweat and beer mixing into a slippery alchemy soup on the floor that resurrects those who fall. Hardcore magick potion. Someone lost his glasses. The stage is no barrier anymore, band and crowd mixing, cables spanning telegraph lines with riffs morsecoding directly into the brain while trying to catch a last breath. Long short long long short short long. .-.. --- ...- . .-.-.-

A4, Crayons on Cardboard
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On the third day of Popfest 2026, Shake Stew took over the Seebühne stage with jazz and tunes that made me tipsy in their flow of notes and nuances, and so also the crowd, whose collection of smiles and grins grew bigger and bigger the longer the band was rolling. I sat, hopped, and drew the view of the front row - its the people bathing in jazz sound, the crowd shaking, the rhythm as pencil strokes, cigarette ash fiddling over saxophonics, aperol splashes on the bass, the music moving tree branches at Karlsplatz into a crescendo, or whatever it is called. Extastic. Fantasimorph. Brillomenious. Amazinlistic. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

A4, Pencil, Cigarette Ash, and Aperol Schnaps on Cardboard
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Popfest 2026 - 3 Days, 6 Live Drawings: Day 2, Alles Exhausted took over the sound and the room was either giving all energy or it happened the other way round. In the epicenter of shaking shoes and heads moving, the pencils did their dance along independently. Front row, stage thrill and some exhaustion only because day 2 of Popfest was setting in. It is a rush, it rolls, it rocks. Home is where you head bangs. Slowly at least.

A4, Pencils an Crayons on Cardboard
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On the second day of Popfest 2026, Vereter & Die Woarmen Semmeln playing their slot in Prechtl-Saal, the random pencil selection got the blues, and all Popfest people doing the waltz and wiggle. It is a new perspective, these are stories worth telling and listening to. Vereter & Die Woarmen Semmeln shine a spotlight on what we Viennese often neglect to look at. Pete Prison IV portrays those real-life experiences if you are not Gänsehäufl Red/White/Red. Blue lights flashing because you don't look Opernball, or attempts to break your rock foundation because it is allochthonous. Things that happen to so many people in cities of home. Well played. More needed. Thanks.
(aand also moooore of Mekongg Band, pretty pleeease. But that's just my craving for loud guitars)

A4, Crayons and Pencils on Cardboard
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Spilif was touching my buried hiphop soul from the good ol' rap days, with beats marching and flows to pay tolls for a track graze. With my hand moving in the grooves played by the band, I pressed mentally play for some hope the tape deck has no end. I was a 4/4 machine - back on the dream that words matter, despite all lines crossing my mind came out clean but still shattered. Time time - with a tick of the moment, sounds sounds built a home and became dormant. More more, one more round for the Popfest trendsetter, I am back on the hiphop baby, at least for one letter.

A4, Pencils on Cardboard
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And that's how it started - Thursday evening on Karlsplatz, Vienna, strolling into @popfestwien. The yellow duck was floating smilingly in the pond, the people gathering to start an auditory journey to whatever styles and places their eardrums enjoy being stimulated by. Beer cans in hand, the night setting in. I began the yearly series with Tamara Flores on stage, and me having a drink and my hand drawing the crowd.

A4, Pencil and Crayons on Cardboard

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Live Drawing at Concert, Crayons and Sweat on A2 Cardboard, Flucc Vienna, 2026

Whenever the Cosmic Dead from Scotland come to town, it liquifies earth like the Ship Which Sails Over Land and Sea and as an Eternal Champion's fever dream. Jumping like humpbacks in their bow, crawling alongside like burying beetles, our molecules are shattered as soon as the wall of sound does its tsunamiesque arrival. We are stardust. Slowly dissolving in the darkness, only lit by dim, dying suns and the stroboscopic cascades of stage light's supernovae. We are cosmic. The trance captivates everyone, a whole room of moving bodies, bending, bowing, breaking apart. Don't forget to breathe. Don't stop. Don't stop! Bones are protesting, and eardrums are humming, but don't stop. That's the sound of eternity. That's what vibrates deep down in the fibers of the cosmos between nebulas and stars. This is the dark matter. The search is over, the results are in. We are dead.

Show by Dazed and Confused
The Cosmic Dead - Space Rock from Scotland
Date: 26. May 2026
Venue: FLUCC
Support: Liquid Earth

NASA Live Stream Watchparty, Artemis II from Vienna's Metalab Hacker Space | Live Drawing with Beer, Watercolors, Acrylic Paint, a little Floor Dirt, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard

Three - Two - Artemis II started up into the sky some days ago, and mankind is returning to the Moon. In Metalab Vienna, people who care deeply for space, the universe, and have their brains extending into the cosmos with mental wires and beams, gathered to watch the live stream of the rocket launch along with some drinks and snacks. One - my drawing pencil moves frenetically with the growing excitement, and everyone was holding their bottles as if they were lifelines and talismans to appraise the fiery ghosts of the exhaust flames - And Lift Off! To the Moon!

Some weekends from last year and this year condensed in one large A2 artwork, the Kramladen Techno crowd does dance dance and the beats go boom boom, and me in the corner scratching the Fridays' souls onto cardboard while spilling beer and shaking along in strobo laser light beams. That's entertainment.
See ya there crazy beat lovers!

Pencil, crayons, and spilled beer on A2 cardboard, Kramladen Club, Vienna 2025/26

Vollmondnacht Party Fledermaus @cabaretfledermaus | Live Drawing with Acrylic Paint, Strawberry Shots, Dirt from the Floor, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | See it full on www.vonSeiten.com

Sometimes I become a bat and follow the full moon in the opposite direction downstairs, perhaps to avoid the light or simply because the underground of the Fledermaus club in Vienna opens its winged arms to hug you in loud music, bloody strawberry shots, and flashbacks.

Ingredients: Pencil, Red Wine, Cigarette Ash, and Acrylic Paint on Cardboard, A4

And there it was again - a full two days drag into some different state of mind, down the stairs two levels and a hall full of sound, psych, and paradise. And all shadows became snakes, faces melted into a common mass of like-mindedness, and I swam through the blissful dance-induced sweat and tears of joy. Jolly good, roger roger. Sail ho, and until next year, when we are again summoned.

Dragged Into Bliss is a yearly festival by dazed_and_confused_shows in viperroomvienna - carve it in your calendars around end of a year!

Live Drawing and Painting on A2 Cardboard at Cafe Anno Bar, Vienna | Crayons, Beer, Glow Makeup, Glitter, Watercolor, and Pencil

This one started already 2025 with drawing a moment in the old and wonderful Cafe Anno, a night bar in Vienna. People sitting, talking and recharging on their drinking needs under gloomy lights, while time flies through the ghost hour. Two of them standing in the center of the room, getting closer to each other slowly, sip by sip. I carried the rolled cardboard with me into the new year, through Silvester, and then back to the place, painting the new year in aquarell colors, but with beer instead of water. Meanwhile a party glitter box exploded in my art bag, and a friendly girl gave me some special makeup pen to draw in. Its all effect. We are there.

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Live Drawing A2 at Arena Wien Open Air Concert | Crayons, Some Spilled Blood, Red Wine, Beer, Cigarette Ash, Dirt from the Stage, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard

When there was still a sun in the sky, Castle Rat defended the Realm at the Arena, Vienna, and in the front row there was me as a rodent minion of the Rat Queen, nibbling down on every moment of that intercosmic journey. With the stakes getting higher and higher, it was time to chant and draw the pencil, holding it like a wand and doing my share to fight back against Lady Rat Death to end all suffering. And also Bum Shelter . And Heavy Lezzers The Cult of Heavy Metal Lesbians/DJ Team. What could a rat want more?

Live Drawing A2 at @theloftvienna & @retropartyvienna | Crayons, Red Wine, Jägermeister, Schnaps, Beer, Cigarette Ash, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard

We have been at this point. There is the kinda magic Saturday time warp anomaly called @RetropartyVienna in @theloftvienna , and it takes you back to some past golden age when the world was only mad in a good way. And since the Retro Party had its 22nd birthday a short while ago, I made a A2 big one this weekend. As a present for the past. See, it is all about time here.

Live Drawing at Kramladen Vienna with Crayons, Leftover Drinks, Beer, Cigarette Ash, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | See it full on www.vonSeiten.com

Right after the Metal Dropdown in Cafe Carina, the Kramladen became the host of all the Metalheads, shaking their manes along the beats in the green light strobes and laser beams. Complimentary Coexistence. Shake bang rave on.

Live Drawing with Crayons, Beer, Dirt from the Floor, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard

Each year, on Karlsplatz, the Popfest sings out in its subconsciously humming voice, mimicking some kind of contemporary siren call to draw everyone into its arms. From a stage in a lake to a hall with a huge yellow duck welcoming you at first, and into the tech university's belly called Prechtlsaal throughout the night - it is a three day excursion into the music of the generation, with each night blurring into one perpetual movement of draw, dance, drink, repeat.

Live Drawing with Crayons, Watercolor, Cigarette Ash, Red Wine, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard

Sometimes you can find me on the shores of Anno,
where waters flow and strangers meet,
an island made of the night.

Live Drawing with Crayons, Acrylic Paint, Cigarette Ash, Beer, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | Kramladen Wien

In the pale light of seashells, rocks, and structures projected behind, an ethereal soundscape looped all minds through space travel dimensions and interwebbed the heads of a slow-waving audience into some form of cosmic yarn. I am not sure what exact incantations pushed me over the edge of reality, but as at some point I floated along while sipping down the beer as potions and the pencil became a wand scratching forbidden sigils into the sheet. When those lines started to reflect the shapes of the people present, it became clear that something was calling out into the universe to breathe life onto dead rogue planets, so they become home for all the wandering nocturnal creatures. A path summoned, and everyone was drawn into the rift towards the strange sky of an unseen world.

Live Drawing with Crayons, left over Drinks, Cigarette Ash, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard

Well, it required plenty of patience at first, standing in line at the Funkhaus, in which the Free Republic of Vienna Festival (Freie Republik Wiener Festwochen) found its festive home. After the stairs, the building opened its arms, and welcomed me into a mélange of flows by beats and people with drinks and drums spreading their love. Heimlich galore!

Live Drawing with Crayons, Red Wine, Beer, Acrylic Paint, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard

Every some years, my industrial heart does a 86BPM jump to the left when the gritty gods of experimental hip hop come from New Jersey to Vienna with a bag of rough beats, samples, and world view superfriction. I squeezed myself into front row, put a A2 on the stage and let the lines flow along. Millions of images. Trains on the loop rails. Deadverse deluge. Love.

Live Drawing with Crayons, Beer, and Pencil on A4 Stickers

The celebration was about 30 years, and probably a long breath and music culture. I was celebrating something too, but more in the line of having accidentally landed in Cafe Carina on a Friday and enjoying bands and drinks, while the pencils and crayons go broom broom fire.

Live Drawing with Crayons, Beer, Dirt, Cigarette Ash, and Pencil on A4 Stickers

I stranded there accidentally yesterday, and found myself on a shoreline of songs while dancing on glitter stones fused in asphalt. A stage full of people, a crowd waving hips and hands, and chansons of some kind of cultural royalty, singing about the depth of hearts, minds, and hangovers. 10 years of @Kramladenvienna, @gikksgikksgikks @gikkmagazin special and a derivational multitude of guests. Take me home, Vienna.

Fledermaus Halloween Party @cabaretfledermaus | Live Drawing with Crayons, Beer, Jägermeister, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard

In between the pages of a drawing pad, this one hid well until now. On Halloween 2024, we dwelt into Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna, and there a menagerie of creatures, mimes, and monsters waved their extremities to the sound of heavy rock music. Oh the scenery, all a carnival.

Pencil and Crayons on A4 Sticker

I wish I would remember - it could be Goth Night in Down Under, or it could be another thing at Weberknecht Vienna.. or something else. The memory has faded, and only the Ghosts remain.