Defqon.1 Festival

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Defqon.1 Festival is an annual music festival held in the Netherlands and Australia. It was founded in 2003 by festival organizer Q-dance. The festival plays mostly hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, jumpstyle and hard trance. Many prominent hardstyle and dubstyle artists perform there annually.

The festival was previously held in mid-June on Almeerderstrand in Almere. Since 2011 it is hosted on the event site next to Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen. Since 2009 the event has also been hosted in Sydney in mid-September, at the Sydney International Regatta Centre. The festival runs for 12 hours, from 11 a.m to 11 p.m, and ends with a firework display. Each edition also has an anthem, an official song that is played in conjunction with the festival.

As of 2010, the audience has grown to 40,000 (for the Dutch event), with tickets selling out after 39 minutes. In 2013, the Sydney event attracted 18,000 attendees.^[1] Acts performed across seven stages. The same event saw the death of a male and around 20 drug overdoses.^[1] This was despite the presence of 100 police who searched more than 430 people.

Festival History

Year	Location	Anthem	Number of visitors*	Number of performers	Date
2003	Almere	30 Minutes (DHHD)		48	14 June
2004	Almere	Demolition (Tuneboy)		79	19 June
2005	Almere	Emergency Call (The Prophet)		85	18 June
2006	Almere	The Colour of the Harder Styles (Showtek)		103	17 June
2007	Almere	Get Wasted (Brennan Heart)		124	16 June
2008	Almere	Biological Insanity (Luna & Deepack)		119	14 June
2009	Almere	Scrap Attack (Headhunterz)		104	13 June
2009	International Regatta Centre, Sydney	Maximum Force (Zany)		52	19 September
2010	Almere	No Time To Waste (Wildstylez)		115	12 June
2010	International Regatta Centre, Sydney	Save Your Scrap for Victory (Headhunterz)		72	18 September
2011	Walibi Park, Biddinghuizen	Unite (Noisecontrollers)		127	25 June
2011	International Regatta Centre, Sydney	Psychedelic Wasteland (Toneshifterz)		72	17 September
2012	Evenemententerrein, Biddinghuizen	World of Madness (Headhunterz, Wildstylez & Noisecontrollers)	55,000		23 June
2012	International Regatta Centre, Sydney	True Rebel Freedom (Wildstylez)			15 September
2013	Evenemententerrein, Biddinghuizen	Weekend Warriors (Frontliner)		312	21 June
2013	International Regatta Centre, Sydney	Scrap The System (Brennan Heart)	19.000		14 September

*On the main event day

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Emma Partridge (15 September 2013). "Man dies at Defqon.1 music festival". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 15 September 2013.

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