The third edition of Paradise Must Be Nice Fest will take place in Berlin from June 6 to 8, 2025. Over the course of three days, the festival will activate various cultural venues across the city, presenting a diverse program of music and performance that engages with contemporary realities and social conditions through sound.
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Programme:
The festival opens on Friday, June 6, at the listed Zwingli Church, with a focus on the human voice as a central instrument of expression. Egyptian composer and vocalist Abdullah Miniawy, together with Robinson Khoury and Jules Boittin, will present a new trio project merging jazz and Egyptian sonic traditions. The evening will begin with a performance by Maï, whose atmospheric compositions are shaped by her powerful and distinctive vocal language.
On Saturday, June 7, Galiläa Church in Friedrichshain becomes a space for genre-defying sonic exploration. Spoil — the new trio formed by Rosa Anschütz, Jonas Yamer, and Till Funke — will celebrate their live debut. The program is complemented by Masshysteria Collective, whose dance-based performances channel emotional intensity and rebellion, and by Lyricdata with deconstructed ambient soundscapes.
The festival concludes on Sunday, June 8, at Neue Zukunft in Alt-Stralau. Across two stages, bands and artists will traverse the sonic terrain between post-hardcore, industrial, noise, punk, shoegaze, and experimental electronics. The lineup includes Dis Fig with Spooky J, Rauchen, PΞB, WüT, Glaza, Thomim, Zustand D, Forbidden: 4ØΞrror, and Hammatawatannaruenbolleflaasch. The outdoor area of Neue Zukunft offers space to relax and move freely between stages.
Supporting programme:
In addition to the live program, the festival hosts a workshop on experimental soundscapes at Studio Ziegra, open exclusively to FLINTA* participants. The resulting works will be exhibited on Sunday. A digital compilation featuring previously unreleased tracks by participating artists will be released ahead of the festival, with a limited cassette edition available on-site.
Paradise Must Be Nice is an independent festival that emerged from Berlin’s free cultural scene. It sees itself as a platform for artistic self-assertion, sonic experimentation, and collective encounter—beyond fixed genre boundaries.
