Southside Festival

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Green stage at the Southside-Festival 2005 in Neuhausen ob Eck

The Hives Singer "Howlin'" Pelle Almqvist at the Southside Festival 2004

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

1 History & Audience
2 Past lineups
3 2006 lineup
4 External links

[edit] History & Audience

After the great success of the Hurricane Festival, FKP Scorpio decided to make a similar event in the south of Germany. 1999 a former military airbase in Neubiberg, near Munich, was selected. In 2000 the festival was moved to another former military airbase, this time in Neuhausen ob Eck, which is near Freiburg and Stuttgart.

Because of the relative proximity to other countries (France, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are all less than 100km away), the audience is very multinational. In 2003, the calculated maximum capacity of around 40.000 people was first used to full.

[edit] Past lineups

(lineups partly differ from Hurricane)

2001: Ash, Backyard Babies, Blackmail, Die Happy, Donots, Faithless, Fantomas, Fink, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Fünf Sterne Deluxe, Goldfinger, Grand Theft Audio, The Hellacopters, The Hives, Iggy Pop, Incubus, JJ72, Krezip, K's Choice, Last Days of April, Manu Chao, Nashville Pussy, The Offspring, OPM, Paradise Lost, Phoenix, Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Slut, Stereo MC's, Suit Yourself, Thomas D, Tool, Die Toten Hosen, The Weakerthans, Weezer, Wheatus

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

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

2004: Air, Amplifier, Anti-Flag, Ash, Backyard Babies, Beatsteaks, Beginner, Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Bones, Breed 77, Bright Eyes, Bungalow Bang Boys, Colour of Fire, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Danko Jones, Die Happy, Dropkick Murphys, Die Fantastischen Vier, Fireball Ministry, Franz Ferdinand, Fünf Sterne Deluxe, Gentleman & The Far East Band, Gluecifer, Graham Coxon, grannysmith, The Hives, I Am Kloot, Ill Nino, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Jupiter Jones, Die Kleinen Götter, Life Of Agony, Mando Diao, Mclusky, Mogwai, Monster Magnet, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Sarah Bettens, Snow Patrol, Sportfreunde Stiller, Tomte, Wilco, Within Temptation

2005: 2raumwohnung, Amplifier, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Athlete, Audioslave, Beatsteaks, Beck, Boysetsfire, Brendan Benson, Broken Social Scene, Die Ärzte, Dinosaur Jr, Dioramic, Dresden Dolls, Eagles of Death Metal, Fantômas, Feist, Flogging Molly, Idlewild, Ken, Kettcar, La Vela Puerca, Long Jones, Madrugada, Madsen, Mando Diao, Millencolin, Moneybrother, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Sarah Bettens, Ska-P, Slut, System Of A Down, Team Sleep, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Robocop Kraus, The Stands, Turbonegro, Underøath, Wir Sind Helden

[edit] 2006 lineup

2006's lineup will feature the usual 45 to 50 bands, and currently (as of: 9 June 2006) consists of: Adam Green, The Answer, Apocalyptica, Archive, Arctic Monkeys, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Ben Jammin, Billy Talent, Blackmail, Coheed And Cambria, The Cooper Temple Clause, Death Cab For Cutie, dEUS, Delays, Donavon Frankenreiter, Duels, Elbow, Element Of Crime, Fettes Brot, HARD-Fi, Karamelo Santo, Klee, Lagwagon, Lightning Seeds, Live, Mad Caddies, Mando Diao, Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System, Maxïmo Park, Photonensurfer, The Raconteurs, Muse, Panteón Rococó, Seeed, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Rós, Skin, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Cardigans, The Feeling, The Hives, The Kooks, The Strokes, Tomte, Two Gallants, Wallis Bird, The Weepies Wir Sind Helden, Within Temptation, Wolfmother, Zebrahead

The event will take place from Friday, the 23th till Sunday, the 25th of June, 2006. Tickets cost EUR 89 + EUR 5 garbage deposit, which you will get back if you return the garbage bag given to you on entry.