European Festivals
Never been to a festival abroad before, but me and a friend of mine are thinking of going somewhere this year. My friend mostly listens to mainstream indie/rock stuff (Foo Fighters/Biffy/Foals etc), which I do too to an extent, but am also into more DiS friendly fare. We're ideally going for somewhere cheap, but irrespective of line ups, from experience, where is nice? Any particular recommendations. Was initially considering Primavera, but he hasn't heard of barely any of the line up.
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Went to Sziget a few years ago
and, while the line-up wasn't amazing on paper, it was one of the best festivals I've been to. Lots of more mainstream bands (Killers, REM, Kaiser Chiefs and Iron Maiden) that were actually great fun to watch while drunk. Great weather, cheap beer, right near the centre of Budapest, etc.
So far they've announced that Blur are playing. https://www.sziget.hu/festival_english
i've been to Rock Werchter in Belgium twice
had an amazing time, great mix of top mainstream bands and smaller artists, plus it was cheaper than UK festivals (including travel!)
benicassim.. was great, but that was 10 years ago
primavera.. is good
rock en seine.. good city with an ok festival
none of these are cheap really though. get yourself to random parts of europes.
Denovali Swingfest - Berlin
FRIDAY - RADIALSYSTEM V
Portico Quartet (UK)
Hidden Orchestra (UK)
Bersarin Quartett (GER)
Carlos Cipa (GER)
SATURDAY - PASSIONSKIRCHE
Ulrich Schnauss (GER) + Nat Urazmetova (RUS)
Tim Hecker (CAN)
Poppy Ackroyd (UK)
Thomas Köner (FR)
The Alvaret Ensemble (NL | UK)
Field Rotation (GER)
http://www.denovali.com/swingfest/berlin/
go to Roskilde
has the mainstream/actually good line-up thing going on most years
^Agree
There was a thread knocking about last week...
Dunk Festival - Belgium
- *???????* aka [ B O L T ] (DE)
- Afformance (EL)
- Arms And Sleepers (US)
- Balmorhea (US)
- Black Heart Rebellion (BE)
- Celestial Wolves (BE)
- Dorena (SE)
- Drums Are For Parades (BE)
- Fire Walk With Us (NL)
- Have.To.Be.Distanced (CZ)
- Heirs (AUS)
- Ikebana (FR)
- I Like Trains (UK)
- Ilydaen (BE)
- Joy Wants Eternity (US)
- Kokomo (DE)
- Kwoon (FR)
- Labirinto (BR)
- Lost In Kiev (FR)
- Maserati (US)
- My Education (US)
- My Empty Phantom (US)
- pg.lost (SE)
- Stephen O'Malley (US)
- Petrels (UK)
- The Pirate Ship Quintet (UK)
- Le Seul Elément (FR)
- The Shaking Sensations (DK)
- Syndrome (BE)
- Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving (AUS)
- Toundra (ES)
- Valerinne (RO)
- We Stood Like Kings (BE)
- What The Blood Revealed (UK)
http://www.dunkfestival.be/
dunk and denovali not really mainstream though!