Hove Festival

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Hove Festival
Location(s)	Tromøy, Arendal, Norway
Years active	2007 - present
Founded by	Toffen Gunnufsen
Date(s)	24-28 June (2008)
Genre(s)	Indie rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Metal
Website	www.hovefestival.com

Hove Festival (Norwegian: Hovefestivalen) is a music festival held on the island Tromøy outside of Arendal in southern Norway. It was held for the first time from 26th June to 30 June 2007. ^[1]

The Hove Festival is a new festival for all people believing that combining the best artists with on site camping, nature, beaches, water and idyllic surroundings for the ultimate festival experience. Hove Festival will be setting new standards for environmental awareness. Not only because they want to preserve the beautiful nature that surrounds the festival, but because they believe that a music festival can make for an interesting way to increase environmental awareness, both with their audience and their partners.^[2]

There is no age limits on any arrangements, kids under age 12 together with parent have free admittance.^[3]

Contents 1 2007 2 2008 3 External links 4 References

[edit] 2007

72,000 visitors and 53.000 sold tickets which includes 7,700 week passes making this Norway's largest music festival in 2007 ^[4]

Program 2007 ^[5]

Tuesday 26th June

• Hovescenen:
  • Queens of the Stone Age / Incubus / CSS / My Midnight Creeps / Hangface

• Amfiscenen:
  • Amy Winehouse / Clipse / Stephen Marley / Darkside of the Force

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Kaiser Chiefs / King Midas

• Teltscenen:
  • Klaxons / The Twang / 65 Days of Static / Junior Boys / Sunkissed

Wednesday 27th June

• Hovescenen:
  • The Killers / Arcade Fire / The Hold Steady / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes / X-Queen of the Astronauts

• Amfiscenen:
  • Lamb of God / Chimaira / Unearth / Gojira / Dimension F3H

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Bright Eyes / Susanne Sundfør

• Teltscenen:
  • The View / The Noisettes / The New Violators / Bite / Sunkissed

Thursday 28th June

• Hovescenen:
  • Dipset (with Jim Jones and Juelz Santana) / Chamillionaire / Ludacris / Papoose / Akala / Venom

• Amfiscenen:
  • Interpol / TV on the Radio / 120 Days / Tokyo Police Club

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Neurosis / Hatebreed / She Said Destroy

• Teltscenen:
  • Oh No Ono / The Presets / The Lionheart Brothers / Brightblack Morning Light / Sunkissed

Friday 29th June

• Hovescenen:
  • Slayer / Cynic / Keep of Kalessin

• Amfiscenen:
  • Damien Rice / Nellie McKay / Pleasure / Ingrid Olava / Mastodon

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Omar / Remy Ma

• Teltscenen:
  • The Long Blondes / 1990s / Moving Oos / Violent Years / Sunkissed

Saturday 30th June

• Hovescenen:
  • My Chemical Romance / Billy Talent / Flying Crap / Pale Kids

• Amfiscenen:
  • Sivert Høyem & The Volunteers / Modest Mouse / William Hut / Heroes & Zeroes

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Gossip / The Horrors

• Teltscenen:
  • Devastations / Patrick Wolf / Rockettothesky / Kate Hanevik / Sunkissed

Partners

• MTV
• MSN
• Fairtrade
• Bellona Foundation
• Amnesty International
• Pepsi
• Levis
• HP
• Djuice

[edit] 2008

Price: Daypass: Not available yet. 5-day Pass: 1890 NOK ^[6]

June 23-27, 2008, Lineup: ^[7]

Animal Alpha Animal Collective Audrey Horne Avenged Sevenfold Babyshambles Bad Religion Band of Horses Baroness Beck Behemoth Black Kids Black Lips Black Mountain Black Tide Bloody Beetroots Boys Noize The Brian Jonestown Massacre Bullet for My Valentine Cavalera Conspiracy Charlotte & The Co-Stars Chrome Hoof Coheed and Cambria Converge The Cool Kids The Count and Sinden Crystal Castles

Deerhunter Dengue Fever Det Er Jag Som Är Döden Dimmu Borgir Don Juan Dracula Duffy Familjen Flogging Molly Foals The Generous Days Ghostland Observatory Goldfrapp Hellacopters Hercules and Love Affair Howlin' Rain In Flames Ingrid Olava Jaguar Love Jay-Z Job For A Cowboy Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong Killswitch Engage Kim Hiorthøy The Kooks Ladyhawke

Les Savy Fav Lukestar Lupe Fiasco M.I.A Magne F Matias Tellez MGMT Midnight Juggernauts Mixhell MSTRKRFT Name The National Bank / Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation / Neon Neon Opeth Panic At The Disco Pase Rock The Pigeon Detectives Pirate Love Primordial Purified in Blood The Raconteurs Rival Schools Santogold Scaramanga Six Shape of Broad Minds

Sigh & Explode Silje Nes Simian Mobile Disco Canceled Skatebård Slagsmålsklubben St. Vincent Stars Surkin Taliban Airways The Teenagers Thom Hell The Ting Tings Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy Truls and the Trees Turdus Musicus Ungdomskulen The Used Vampire Weekend WE White Rabbits Wild Beasts The Wombats Yeasayer Zerozonic

[edit] External links

• Official website in English
• Official website in Norwegian
• Official 30 sec 2007 TV-Promo
• NRK P3 Videos from '07
• Amnesty - Make Some Noise Campaign
• Hove Festival 2007: the DiS review
• musicOMH reviews Hove Festival 2007

[edit] References

1. ^ Last FM Calendar
2. ^ Hove Festival official website
3. ^ Hove Festival official website in Norwegian
4. ^ Hove Festival official website in Norwegian
5. ^ Hove Festival official website
6. ^ Hove Festival official website
7. ^ Hove Festival official website