Hultsfred Festival

Hultsfred Festival
Genre	Pop, Alternative music, Hip Hop, Metal, Rock, World music, Electronic music, Indie music
Dates	Mid June
Location(s)	Hultsfred, Sweden
Years active	1986 - present
Founded by	Putte Svensson, Håkan Waxegård, Per Alexanderson, Kerstin Carlsson
Website
www.hultsfredsfestivalen.se

The Hultsfred Festival (Swedish: Hultsfredsfestivalen) is an annual music festival held in Hultsfred, Sweden. It takes place at the lake Hulingen during three days in the June or July, from Thursday to Saturday. Since the first festival in 1986, its attendance has increased from 7,500 visitors to approximately 32,000 people in 2005. With its five different stages, the Hultsfred Festival hosts a large number of bands per year (154 in 2007) from all over Scandinavia and the world alike.

Due to an increase of ticket pricing and what the public recognized as a poor lineup in 2007, festival attendance has been declining in recent years. The festival went bankrupt in 2010 and the whole event was cancelled that year, but it was resurrected already by 2011.

FKP Scorpio, festival organizer since 2011, announced on 20 March 2013 that they will move the festival to Stockholm, Hultsfred goes Stockholm. On 14 April 2013 a new festival association, under the name This Is Hultsfred, announced their intention to organize a festival in Hultsfred 2013 on the traditional site. Scorpio also hosts the Bråvalla festival.

Hultsfred goes Stockholm!

FKP Scorpio stages 13–15 June 2013 a festival in Sigtuna Municipality, north of Stockholm.

This is Hultsfred

This is Hultsfred are working to keep the festival in Hultsfred, planned to 14–15 June 2013.

History

At the 1999 festival, a 19-year-old woman died of suffocation during a concert with Hole.^[1]

In 2006, the festival booked Babyshambles, the band fronted by Pete Doherty. Because of Doherty's widely reported drug addiction, the arrangers of the festival were criticized even before the festival had begun, as the festival profiles itself as being anti-drugs. The arrangers defended the booking by saying that the band was booked for its music and not its members' personal lives. After being delayed for more than an hour, the concert took place with Doherty attacking photographers, throwing a guitar at the audience and finally falling off stage in a failed attempt at stage diving. Immediately after the concert Doherty was arrested by the Hultsfred police and fined for drug possession.^[2]

On 30 June 2010, Rockparty reported that due to bad ticket sales, Hultsfredsfestivalen AB would file for bankruptcy, and that the 25th annual Hultsfred festival would not be held.^[3] The festival made a come-back the next year, thanks to FPK Scorpio.^[4]

Stages

Name	Capacity	Active	Notable bands
Hawaii	25,000	1988 -	Ozzy Osbourne, The Prodigy, The Ramones, Roxette, Oasis, Marilyn Manson, System of a Down, Slipknot, Slayer, HIM, 50 Cent, Korn, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Iggy Pop, Bloodhound Gang, Pet Shop Boys, Black Sabbath, Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, Alicia Keys, In Flames, The Killers, Kings Of Leon, Franz Ferdinand
Pampas	18,000	1994 -	Rammstein, HIM, In Flames, Tori Amos, Lordi, Simple Plan, The Donnas, Ice Cube, Ludacris
Atlantis	5,000	2003 -	Moneybrother, Lamb of God, Dark Tranquillity, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, Justice, Gogol Bordello, The Embassy
Teater	1,500	1986 -	The Verve, Bullet for My Valentine, Cult of Luna, Danko Jones, Black Label Society
Stora Dans	650	1986 -
Rookie	650	2003 -	Alice in Videoland, Dead by April