Hurricane Festival

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The Hurricane Festival, also just Hurricane, is a music festival that takes place in Scheeßel near Bremen, Germany, usually every June. It is promoted by German private music television channel VIVA, which belongs to Viacom, the MTV Network's parent company, since the end of 2004. The festival and its guests are generally associated with the alternative part of mainstream music, although the festival has been becoming more and more mainstream over the years.

The Southside Festival, often referred to as the daughter of Hurricane, takes place on the same three days in the very south of Germany (contrary to Hurricane, which is in the very north). Together they're a twin festival, since they are on the same days and usually have the same lineup with only few exceptions.

[edit] History

In 1973, the first festival was held in Scheeßel, the place where today's Hurricane takes place. It was called "Es rockt in der Heide" at that time (literally translated: It's rocking the heath) and was attended by 52,000 people.

At the "First Rider Open Air" in 1977, fans caused damage of more than a million marks when riots broke out, because only five of the announced 23 bands could perform—a huge scandal was uncovered few days later. The organizer was forced to make a long pause.

In 1997 rock returned to Scheeßel in the form of the Hurricane Festival, with numerous bands performing in front of 20,000 guests. It has taken place on the Eichenring, a motorcycle sand racetrack, ever since. Audience size peaked in 2001 with about 60,000 guests; from 2002 to 2004 between 40,000 and 50,000 people came.

[edit] Past lineups

(lineups partly differ from Southside)

• 1973: Argent, Buddy Miles, Chicago, Chuck Berry, East of Eden, Epitaph, Ian Carr with Nucleus Osibisa, Karthago, Lou Reed, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Odin Bronco, Richie Havens, Soft Machine, Ten Years After, Vinegar Joe, Wishbone Ash

• 1997: 16 Horsepower, 311, Ani DiFranco, Armageddon Dildos, Bad Religion, Chumbawamba, Cucumber Men, Daft Punk, Deine Lakaien, Element of Crime, Fischmob, Hip Young Things, INXS, L 7, Lamb, Lecker Fischbrät, The Levellers, Manbreak, Mansun, Neneh Cherry, Peter Bruntnell, Phish, Primus, Rammstein, Rekord, Sharon Stoned, Sheryl Crow, Son Volt, The Cardigans, The Inchtabokatables, The Jinxs, The Lightning Seeds, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Thumb, Tiamat, Weltempfänger

• 1998: Alaska feat. Bobo, Apocalyptica, Asian Dub Foundation, Beastie Boys, Bell, Book & Candle, Björk, Chumbawamba, Dave Matthews Band, Del Amitri, Die Sterne, Garbage, Guano Apes, Hazeldine, Heather Nova, Iggy Pop, Madonna Hip Hop Massaker, matchbox twenty, Megaherz, Money Mark, Oomph!, Oysterband, Pop Tarts, Pulp, Rancid, Readymade, Sonic Youth, Such A Surge, The Bates, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Notwist, Tito & Tarantula, Tocotronic, Torn!, trieb, Two, Vivid, Ween, Widespread Panic

• 1999: Blumfeld, Blur, Built to Spill, Bush, Calexico, Catatonia, dEUS, Die Fantastischen Vier, Eat No Fish, Everlast, Faithless, Guano Apes, HIM, Hole, Ich-Zwerg, Kashmir, Liquido, Live, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Miles, Molotov, Motorpsycho, Muse

• 2000 : A, Ani DiFranco, Blind Passengers, Bomfunk MC's, Bush, Die Firma, Eat No Fish, Element of Crime, Emiliana Torrini, Fink, FM Einheit feat. Gry, Fu Manchu, Gentleman, Giant Sand, Gomez, Groove Armada, HIM, Laika, Live, Lotte Ohm, Macy Gray, Madrugada, Missing Link, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Project Pitchfork, Rico, Rollins Band, Sandy Dillon, Skunk Anansie, Station 17, Surrogat, The Cranberries, The Tea Party, Therapy?, Tonic, Uncle Ho

• 2001 : 5 Sterne Deluxe, American Hi-Fi, Ash, Backyard Babies, Blackmail, Blumfeld, Deftones, Die Toten Hosen, Donots, Faithless, Fantômas, Fink, Goldfinger, Grand Theft Audio, H-Blockx, Iggy Pop, Incubus, Jan Delay und die Sam Ragga Band, Jimmy Eat World, JJ72, Krezip, K's Choice, Last Days of April, Nashville Pussy, OPM, Paradise Lost, Phoenix, Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Stereo MCs, Superpunk, The Hellacopters, The Hives, The Offspring, The Weakerthans, Thomas D, Tool, Weezer, Wheatus

• 2002 : ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, 4Lyn, A, Beatsteaks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Die Happy, Die Ärzte, Dover, Emil Bulls, Fettes Brot, Garbage, Gluecifer, Heyday, Jasmin Tabatabai, Kane, Lambretta, Less Than Jake, Lostprophets, Madrugada, Mercury Rev, Nelly Furtado, New Order, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age, Readymade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rival Schools, Simple Plan, Soulfly, Sportfreunde Stiller, Such A Surge, Television, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Breeders, The Flaming Sideburns, The Notwist, The Promise Ring, Tocotronic, Zornik

• 2003 : 22-20s, Anouk, Apocalyptica, Asian Dub Foundation, Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, Björk, Blackmail, Brendan Benson, Cellophane Suckers, Coldplay, Console, Counting Crows, Danko Jones, Fu Manchu, Goldfrapp, Good Charlotte, Grandaddy, Guano Apes, Gus Gus, International Pony, Interpol, Kettcar, Massive Attack, Millencolin, Moloko, Nada Surf, NOFX, Patrice, Pinkostar, Radiohead, Röyksopp, Seeed, Sigur Rós with Amina, Skin, Slut, Starsailor, Supergrass, The Datsuns, The Hellacopters, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Roots, The Sounds, Therapy?, Tocotronic, Turbonegro, Underwater Circus, Underworld, Union Youth, Venus Hum

• 2004 : 5 Sterne Deluxe, Air, Amplifier, Anti-Flag, Ash, Backyard Babies, Beatsteaks, Beginner, Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Breed 77, Bright Eyes, Colour of Fire, Cypress Hill, Danko Jones, David Bowie, Die Fantastischen Vier, Die Happy, Donots, Dropkick Murphys, Fireball Ministry, Franz Ferdinand, Gentleman & the Far East Band, Gluecifer, Graham Coxon, I Am Kloot, Ill Ni¤o, Life of Agony, Mando Diao, Mclusky, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Monster Magnet, Pixies, P J Harvey, Placebo, Sarah Bettens, Snow Patrol, Sportfreunde Stiller, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Bones, The Cure, The Hives, Tiger Beat, Tomte, Wilco, Within Temptation

• 2005 : 3 Doors Down, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Ashton!, Audioslave, Beatsteaks, Beck, Boysetsfire, Brendan Benson, Broken Social Scene, Die Ärzte, Dinosaur Jr., Eagles of Death Metal, Fantômas, Feist, Flogging Molly, Ken, Kettcar, La Vela Puerca, Madrugada, Madsen, Millencolin, Moneybrother, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Olli Schulz, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Sarah Bettens, Ska-P, Slut, System of a Down, Team Sleep, The Dresden Dolls, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Stands, Turbonegro, Underøath (ausgefallen), Wir Sind Helden

• 2006: Announced: Adam Green, Apocalyptica, Arctic Monkeys, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Billy Talent, Death Cab For Cutie, Donavon Frankenreiter, Elbow, Element of Crime, Fettes Brot, HARD-Fi, Lagwagon, Live, Mad Caddies, Mando Diao, Manu Chao, Maxïmo Park, Pante¢n Rococ¢, Seeed, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Rós, The Cardigans, The Hives, The Strokes, Tomte, Wir Sind Helden, Within Temptation

[edit] External links

• http://www.hurricane.de/ - The Hurricane Festival's homepage (German)
• http://www.hurricane.de/index.php?lng=_englisch - The Hurricane Festival's homepage (English)
• http://www.fkpscorpio.com/ - Homepage of FKP Scorpio, the organizer