ATHENS IN NEW ORBIT.

Who was Gagarin?

April 12 of 1961 the first earthman escaped gravity leaving behind him planet earth. In spaceship Vostok the senior lieutenant Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin set into orbit around the Earth at the altitude of 302 km for 108 minutes with speed of 18.000 miles per hour. Gagarin was the first man who show that earth is realy round, mostly waterish and indeed grand! What is Gagarin 205? 41 years later, on September 2002 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin lands in Athens. In the center of the capital, 205 Liosion Str. operates the most modern concert venue of Greece, a venue build with the 21st century's specifications. Capacity of 1.200 standing or 600 seated, GAGARIN 205 is not another "store", but a multiplex venue which hosts with the most demanding requirement concerts, theatrical shows, projections, special events and happenings. Initiating its activity on September 27th of 2002, with the first appearance of Barry Adamson in Greece, Gagarin 205 Live Music Space is already in six seasons of operation, which according with the majority of the medias in music business, rightfully belonged to ASTRA and Gagarin 205 Live Music Space, both artistically and in a production level. The venue hosts important names of the international music scene and also of the Greek area, in ideal productions, while the ideal sound and the perfect air-conditionic satisfy both spectators and journalists who welcomed the new multiplex venue of the city with comments more than positive. Indicative, the last ten years, made more than 1200 different events which included concerts from around the spectrum of modern Greek and foreign scene, DJ Sets, music and film festivals, tributes to filmmakers and film projections, record label's party etc. An avarage of more than 100,000 tickets visit the area annually, a fact that proves that Gagarin 205 Live Music Space is the ultimate point of reference in concert and in general the artistic map of the capital, with the next years to promise an even more impressive continuation.