This year’s Pop Messe music festival is only the third in its series. It is therefore a relatively young festival, but it is already very popular. This is a unique festival concept on the outskirts of Brno with the aim of connecting art, music, technology and urbex. A side effect is the support of tourism and the promotion of current social issues such as ecology or sustainable development. This year, the festival won the Vinyl music award for the Beginning of the Year.
Songs by many Czech and foreign bands and performers will be played on several stages. The festival is not limited by genre. You can listen, maybe even dance, to songs in the styles of pop, rap, folk, guitar music, electronic music and more.
The organizers promise that this year will be even better than last year. Spectators are attracted to a larger space, more stages, a rich gastronomic offer and an entertaining accompanying program.
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The Czech music rap scene will be represented, for example, by the duo P/ST or the group 58G. The Champion Sound band will pour the hip hop rhythm into your veins. Ventolin may surprise you with her art, and singer and lyricist Annet X will charm you.
The foreign line-up consists of the bands Young Fathers, Max Cooper, VTSS, Grove, Hudson Mohawke, Dlina Volny, Snapped Ankles, Lankum, Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Skin on Skin and the Japanese Dos Monos.
However, you still have to wait for the exact schedule and list of all the performers.
Transport to the Pop Messe 2023 festival
I own a car
If you go to the festival by your own car, please note that there is no festival parking lot right next to the venue. You can use parking garages and other parking areas anywhere in Brno and then get to the festival site by public transport. E.g. the DOMINI PARK parking garage, Parking u Janáčkova Divadla or the ROZMARÝN parking garage are suitable.
From Prague you can easily reach Brno via the D1 highway in about 2 hours. Take exit 190, direction Svitavy and Výstaviště, get off the highway and continue along road number E461 to Královo Pole.
The path is very similar from České Budějovice. You take road number E551 to Humpolec and here you join the D1 highway. The rest of the journey is described above. Expect 2.5 hours behind the wheel.
The fastest way from Liberec leads through Prague. The journey begins on road number E442, at Ohrazenice you will connect to the D10 highway and past Mladá Boleslav, Benátek nad Jizerou you will reach Prague. This trip will take you 3 hours. If you want to avoid Prague, you can exit the highway at Mladá Boleslav (Nepřevázka) and take road number 38 (around Poděbrady, Kolín, Kutná Hora, Havlíčkova Brod) to Střítež. Here you connect to the D1 highway. This option is only 10 minutes longer.
Ostrava it is about 180 km from Brno. The journey will take you 2 hours. The easiest way is to take the D1 highway to Lipník nad Bečvou. Here you take Exit 296 to the D35 highway. The bypass around Olomouc connects you to the E462 road and in Vyškov to the D1 highway. After about half an hour you will reach Brno.
By bus
Bus service from Prague to Brno is extremely satisfactory. There are several regular direct connections and the journey will take you 2.5 hours.
From České Budějovice there are only two direct connections a day – one around 9 in the morning and the other at half past three in the afternoon. These connections will take you to Brno in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Another possible bus connection is more than 4 hours long and forces you to make 2 transfers.
You need about 5 hours to move from Liberec. In most cases, you have to change to another connection in Prague or Hradec Králové. Some connections force you to make another transfer in Turnov or Hodkovice nad Mohelkou.
Up to 10 regular direct connections run daily from Ostrava. You will be on the bus for 2 hours.
By train
Direct train from Prague it goes to Brno several times an hour and it takes about 3 hours on the tracks. There is a train every two hours from České Budějovice. Expect a travel time of 4 hours here. Brno is also easily accessible from Ostrava. You can board a direct train every hour, which will arrive in Brno in two hours.
Passenger from Liberec unfortunately they are not so lucky. A direct connection must be replaced by up to three transfers. The whole trip takes 5-7 hours. The easiest connection means one transfer in Pardubice and you can use it at up to eight times of the day.
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You can get to the festival area from the main station by tram, bus and trolleybus.
Bus number 67, Sportovní stop, will take you directly to the campus.
Tram number 1 (direction Řečkovice) and number 6 do not stop directly at the festival site. You get off at the Hrnčířská stop and from there you can reach the complex in a few minutes.
Trolleybus connections number 25 and 26 stop near the venue. Get off at the Zimní stadion stop and walk a few meters. Trolleybuses run every 15 minutes.
Every year, the organizers negotiated discounted fares and special night connections, the so-called shuttles. Therefore, follow the website of the festival and the Brno Transport Company.
Accommodation at the Pop Messe 2023 festival
The Brno metropolis offers many accommodation facilities, so it should not be a problem to find a place to spend the night even on the day of the festival.
One of the options is accommodation in the Jan Amos Komenský dormitories, which are managed by Mendel University. You will pay 900 CZK/person for two nights here. One night here costs 450 CZK/person.
The downside may be shared showers and toilets on the floor. But you may be pleased with the kitchenette and the option to buy breakfast. From the festival, there are regular public transport lines and night reinforced connections to the vicinity of the accommodation. We recommend booking this accommodation as soon as possible.