Hurricane Festival
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Hurricane Festival | |
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Location(s) | Scheeßel, Germany |
Years active | 1973 - present |
Founded by | |
Date(s) | June |
Genre(s) | Rock |
Website | www.hurricane.de |
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.
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[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] 2008 lineup
So far, the following musicians and bands have been announced:
Apoptygma Berzerk, Bat For Lashes, Beatsteaks, Biffy Clyro, Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blackmail, British Sea Power, Calexico, Deichkind, Die Mannequin, Digitalism, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Donots, Elbow, Enter Shikari, Flogging Molly, Foals, Foo Fighters, Jaguar Love, Jan Delay & Disko No 1, Jason Mraz, Jennifer Rostock, Kaiser Chiefs, Kettcar, Krieger, Maxïmo Park, Millencolin, Monster Magnet, Nada Surf, NoFX, Oceansize, Operator Please, Panic at the Disco, Panteón Rococó, Patrice, Radiohead, Razorlight, Rise Against, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar, Sigur Rós, Slut, Tegan and Sara, The Beautiful Girls, The Chemical Brothers, The Cribs, The Enemy, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Kooks, The Pigeon Detectives, The Notwist, The Subways, The Weakerthans, The Wombats, Tocotronic, Turbostaat and Xavier Rudd.
[edit] Past lineups
(lineups partly differ from Southside)
[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