A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise
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A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands is, together with Pinkpop, one of the biggest and most popular music festivals in the country, with about 60,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet, apart from the Grolsch stage, named after the beer brewer Grolsch, who has been the main sponsor of the festival for the last few years. The majority of stages are inside huge tents - insurance against the Dutch climate - with the main stage's tent, Alpha, being approximately the size of a premiership football team's pitch.
The festival is held in Biddinghuizen, very close to the Walibi World amusement park.
Besides music (alternative music, pop, rock, dance, hip hop), there is also an indoor and an outdoor cinema, street theatre and theatre.
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[edit] Origins
Lowlands began as one of the very first Dutch pop festivals - A Flight to Lowlands Paradise that was organised in November 1967 by the Utrecht based artist and painter Bunk Bessel. This festival took place in the Margriethal of Jaarbeurs Utrecht. The entry fee was 10 guilders (approximately 4.50 euros), including breakfast. This 18-hour-long event had no top-acts but included experimental theatre, dancing, poetry, films, bodypainting and massage. The Utrecht municipality did not pay up their promised subsidy of 8,000 guilders after the event.
On the 28 December 1968 the festival was held a second time, postponed by a month from its original date of 23 November to try and get Jimi Hendrix to attend the event. This could not be arranged and other large acts such as Jeff Beck and Jethro Tull were cancelled. However Pink Floyd remained on the bill. But in the end they sold out their capacity of 18,000 visitors, and for many people it was a cold and disappointing experience as they were unable to get inside. Inevitably there was unrest and the police had to be involved.
In 1993, organizer Willem Venema began another festival under the name A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise and this time it has been a success.
[edit] Performances
[edit] 2000
- Blink 182
- Deftones
- De La Soul
- Green Lizard
- Guano Apes
- Heather Nova
- HIM
- K's Choice
- Limp Bizkit
- Motorpsycho
- Osdorp Posse
- Toploader
- Underworld
[edit] 2001
- Brainpower
- Dropkick Murphys
- Eels
- Hooverphonic
- Less Than Jake
- Live
- Mogwai
- Muse
- Placebo
- The Prodigy
- Reel Big Fish
- System of a Down
- Zero 7
[edit] 2002
- Danko Jones
- Face Tomorrow
- Filter
- Flogging Molly
- Hawksley Workman
- Incubus
- KoЯn
- Laidback Luke
- Millionaire
- Ozark Henry
- Röyksopp
- Speedy J
- Underworld
- Dimmu Borgir
[edit] 2003
- Admiral Freebee
- A Fire Inside (AFI)
- Eels
- Foo Fighters
- Goldfrapp
- Guano Apes
- Lamb
- Less Than Jake
- Nightwish
- Reel Big Fish
- Spearhead
- T.Raumschmiere
- Live
[edit] 2004
- Bloodhound Gang
- Chemical Brothers
- Danko Jones
- The Darkness
- Dropkick Murphys
- Faithless
- Flogging Molly
- Franz Ferdinand
- N*E*R*D
- The Offspring
- The White Stripes
- Within Temptation
[edit] 2005
- 2 Many DJs
- The Alkaline Trio
- Ane Brun
- Apocalyptica
- Arcade Fire
- Audio Bullys
- Bad Religion
- Buck 65
- Coheed and Cambria
- Dropkick Murphys
- Face Tomorrow
- Foo Fighters
- Franz Ferdinand
- Heather Nova
- Incubus
- Jawat
- Kaiser Chiefs
- KoЯn
- Kubus
- LCD Soundsystem
- Marilyn Manson
- Miss Kittin
- MXPX
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- Nightwish
- Opgezwolle & Duvelduvel
- Pete Philly and Perquisite
- Pixies
- The Polyphonic Spree
- The Prodigy
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Röyksopp
- Social Distortion
- Soulwax Nite Versions
- T.Raumschmiere
- Typhoon
- Zuco 103
[edit] 2006
- !!!
- A-Trak
- Alexander Kowalski
- Anouk
- Arctic Monkeys
- Belle and Sebastian
- Black Sun Empire & Noisia
- Bloc Party
- Blue Grass Boogiemen
- Broken Social Scene
- Cantus Buranus by Corvus Corax
- Charlie Dée
- Chico Mann
- CKY
- Cobra Killers
- Coolpolitics
- Culcha Candela
- Danko Jones
- DJ Eugene Hütz
- DJ Marky
- DJ Shadow
- The Dead 60s
- Elitechnique
- Epica
- Fink
- Fun Lovin' Criminals
- The Frames
- Gogol Bordello
- Guillemots
- HARD-Fi
- Hawthorne Heights
- HIM
- Hot Chip
- Iggy & The Stooges
- Infadels
- Jawat
- Joan as Police Woman
- José González
- Johan
- Kiddo Gee
- The Kooks
- Larrikin Love
- Lefties Soul Connection
- Less Than Jake
- Lotterboys
- Lostprophets
- Louie Austen
- Luie Hond
- Lowlands University
- Macaco
- Massive Attack
- Matisyahu
- Mew
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Mike Relm
- Ministry
- Miss Djax
- Muse
- The Magic Numbers
- Nizlopi
- Noisettes
- Ojos de Brujo
- Opeth
- The Opposites
- Orson
- Kelley Polar
- Panic! At the Disco
- Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
- Pendulum
- Pennywise
- Pete Philly & Perquisite and New Generation Big Band
- Pierre Bastien
- Placebo
- Psapp
- The Phantom Four
- Postman
- Rapid Razor Llov Bob
- Razorlight
- Scissor Sisters
- Silent Disco
- Snow Patrol
- Spinvis
- The Streets
- The Subs
- Tiefschwartz
- Tiga
- Urban Dance Squad
- Joris Voorn
- The Veils
- Wir Sind Helden
- Wolfmother
- Wudstik
- Xavier Rudd
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Zero 7
[edit] External links
- http://www.lowlands.nl/
- http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/festivals/media/index.jsp?portal=2534202&event=29080997 (dutch) Lowlands music 2006 (also previous years, but you need to browse on the site)