Top 10 Summer Music Festivals in Europe
Saturday March 3, 2007
Strike up the band -- summer music festivals in Europe are putting out the lineups, and bands from Artcic Monkeys to Scissor Sisters are crossing the continent for huge concerts. Several-day extravaganzas with camping, food and merriment mean you can cruise to a summer music festival and have a ready-made vacation with thousands of your closest new friends. Some summer music festivals that can top your list of to-do parties in Europe, like Sweden's Hultsfred Festival, are already selling tickets and biggies like Hungary's Sziget Festival will be confirming bands by the time you're ready to ice summer backpacking travel plans. Check it out:
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Comments
Yes, Benicassim is the best!but
I see here it’s rated as 9th…
Barcelona Rooms
Offset Festival is the most promising – 30 minutes from London in a beautiful forest, with some really, really cool bands. Info at http://www.offsetfestival.co.uk
Oxegen in Ireland is full of 16-18 year old Kiddies drinking for the first time. Sziget, Pukkelpop and Pinkpop are good, and Electric Picnic in Ireland didnt even get a mention. It has a better crowd and line up.
http://www.electricpicnic.ie/flash.html
how about rock am ring in Nürburg,Germany
http://www.rock-am-ring.com/
and heineken jamming festival in italy in an enourmous park close to venice? there are always great bands liche iggy, police, linkin park…
http://www.heineken.it/heinekenjamminfestival/indexFlash.html
Roskilde kicks ass, the danes are so damn freindly, and particularly nice to look at.
Oxygen in Ireland???? Greta festival if you like burning tents and fights. Full of drunk kids. Electric Picnic in August much better. Best festival i have ever been at
hi, im coming over to europe in winter, are there any independant music festivals or events that go on at this time, what would people recommend to do for new years?
Been to benicassim the last two years 2007 was brilliant but 2008 was such disappointment. Full of seventeen year olds that had just finished school and well no offence but i may as well have been at a festival in England you would have been lucky to hear a Spanish accent in the place!
What about Paleo Festival Nyon in Switzerland…
All kind of music, artists like : Ramstein, REM, Muse, Lenny Kravitz, Bryan Adams, Yael Naïm, etc.
http://www.2008.paleo.ch/live/paleo/home/
i{m a dj and member of a electrorock band (runká)here in quito ecuador (south america., ., doea anyone know how to apply to some of the european festivals?., ., or which festivals take chances and risks on new excining acts?
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The e-mail to Roskilde, Denmark, is info@roskilde-festival.dk
Good luck!
De los mejores Festivales http://www.rockwerchter.be y http://www.vivelatino.com.mx
Saludos,