It’s May! It’s the 1st of May!

On labour day let’s take a moment to acknowledge how hard it is to work in this industry and how your support is important: it allow us to pay fair fees to artists, graphic designers, venues, technicians and leave something to cover our wages and the costs of running a small business (office rent, softwares, promo and so on!)

The poster for May is designed by Zoë Matt-Williams. A phone background is also available for download.

Here our concerts in May (links to free tickets are on Patreon):

10.05 — Matching Outfits + Vilma Crow — Donau 115

12.05 — TOPSY TURVY + Salamirecorder — Neue Zukunft

12.05 — SØWT + Rooves — Schokoladen

13.05 — Sean Nicholas Savage + Intro to Film Theory + Elizabete Balčus — Neue Zukunft

21.05 — Liv Solveig + WIM — LARK

27.05 — Marta del Grandi — Oblomov

Here the phone background to download:

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In painting, graphic and video, Stella works with the vision of exploring raw intensity through colour and abstraction. Forms destabilise, structures dissolve, meanings shift. A new visual idiom takes shape in the cracks of the unfamiliar.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_interstells/

Website: https://www.stellaschwake.com/

Romana Ruban is an illustrator and book designer based in Berlin. She’s sure that showing character is not a deadly sin, and keen to apply that motto to different projects and topics. From witty weirdness to sentimental realism, sometimes with a pinch of brutality: cycling, macabre, body positivity, urbanism, self digging and sweet coincidences merge in one world to evoke emotions or long forgotten memories.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/romanaruban/

Website: https://romanaruban.com/

There are only a few day left in 2025! This year was incredible!

We promoted 22 shows in Berlin this year, up from 14 in 2024: think about it!

We are happy to share our January poster, designed by Eva Schlutius.

Eva is behind the artwork of some amazing artists we had the pleasure to host this year, like LAWN CHAIR and Slowklahoma (who supported Popular Music at Tennis Bar back in May)

Putting on small shows also means working with a lot of risk and small margins. We are thankful for every ticket we sold and we are happy also for the times when we lost some $$$.

Christmas is in a few days and concert tickets make a great last minute present, so grab one for our upcoming shows!

And because a steady support is super important for us we want to thank our Patreons by adding some new perks! From now on you will get free entrance to selected shows & reduced tickets.

Here our upcoming shows and your Patreon perk:

27.01 — Andreya Casablanca + Städtische Manieren — Schokoladen 💫 limited free tickets for Patreons

18.02 — Queen Quail — Schokoladen

11.03 — Jana Horn — Neue Zukunft 💫 free for Patreons

13.05 — Sean Nicholas Savage — Neue Zukunft ✨ extra reduced tickets for Patreons

21.05 — Liv Solveig — LARK 💫 free for Patreons

Amery Sandford is a Montreal-based illustrator and musician. When she’s not working in her studio, she’s riding her bike around the city or making music with her friends.

Website: https://www.amerypress.com/illustration

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amerypress/

This is already our third poster, and we love to see a new design every month. This time our designer is Julia Boehme a.k.a. Studio Goof.

Julia Boehme lives as an artist and illustrator in Leipzig (Germany) and likes to draw friendly characters that she places in all sorts of adventures while using different analogue techniques and mediums for her pictures, stories, gig posters or objects. They often turn out personal and poetic, often based on experiences, travels or playful reminiscences or homages to historic works and musical pieces that inspire her – processed in a comic way. She has mostly self-published her books or prints in small handprinted risography or silkscreen-print editions and takes part in exhibitions. When she doesn’t draw, she works as a graphic designer and printmaking teacher for kids and is also part of experimental-pop project ‚Mellie‘.

To see the poster you can check our Patreon page

Here how to get it:

We hope to see you at one of our shows in November:

02.11 — runo plum + philip brooks — Neue Zukunft
05.11 — Iosonouncane + Daniela Pes — Betonhalle
15.11 — Lawn Chair — Rough Trade Neukölln

You can find more info and tickets on our Berlin Shows page.

Thanks a lot for your support!

✨ Anita

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Hi, I’m Anita.

With my company, brighter agency, I organize concerts in Berlin and tours across Europe and the UK for independent artists from all over the world.

I chose the name brighter because I want to support underrepresented artists and give them the visibility they deserve. In other words: I aim to create a safe space for everyone and everything that deserves to shine brighter.

This is the third year of running Brighter as my full-time job. Things are going well, but the world around me is becoming scarier and more unpredictable. Concert production comes with a lot of financial risk: production costs and general costs are rising, I want to pay everyone involved fairly, and this means small profit margins for me. At the same time, many people have less disposable income to spend on live music.

That’s why I’m starting this Patreon: to create a more secure and steady foundation while I continue building Brighter in a sustainable way. By supporting here, you’re not only helping me: you’re directly supporting the artists who perform at brighter shows, and the guest artists I’ll invite to design a monthly poster that I’ll share exclusively with patrons.

I’ll be posting more about my work and vision in the coming days. Thank you so much for considering supporting brighter agency: it would be an honor to have you as part of this community!

✨ Anita

(picture by Michele Piazza)

There is so much that we could do with your support!

In 2023 I organized 6 concerts in Berlin as brighter agency. In 2024, that number grew to 15 and this year they will be 21! But there is so much risk that comes with it.

For me, brighter agency is more than just a concert promoter or booking agency. Brighter focuses on FLINTA* artists, emerging artists, and promoting values of inclusion and accessibility at every event. It’s a way to change the music industry from within.

We work with artists from across Europe and beyond, and I love hearing languages other than english on stage! So far we’ve worked with bands from the USA, Australia, Malta, Iceland, Italy, Serbia, the Netherlands, and more.

Keeping this diversity alive also means we don’t simply follow industry trends. But it also means we can’t always make artistic choices completely freely: we have to find a balance between what inspires us and what will sell enough tickets to make a show possible.

With your support brighter agency will be able to:

Your support makes all of this possible. Thank you for helping us making the music scene brighter ✨

Anita

(picture by Michele Piazza)

Our first poster is designed by Linus Kallin. You might recognize his style from the fantastic poster for Jeffrey Lewis he designed for us earlier this year. He’s also the mastermind behind the band Dusty Houseplants (maybe you saw them playing with Wishy and Crow Baby at Neue Zukunft last year) and he also makes beautiful videos (did you check out “It Keeps Happening” of Matching Outfits or “Another Try” of Blumes?).

Don’t you want it? Don’t you want to hang this on your wall or fridge and get reminded of brighter shows you don’t want to miss? Or even if you can’t make it, isn’t it nice to know you’re helping make these events happen? 💛

This poster will be available for all our paying Patreons. This is how to get it:

Thanks a lot for your support!

✨ Anita

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