Hey guys  & gurls,
  Well today was the first day of The RiverFest music festival in Somerset, Wisconsin. It's a huge rock concert with a bunch of sweet bands.  Over 8,000 people.  The bands that played today (friday) were:

• L.T.D.
  
• Fighting Tongs
  
• Atomship
  
• Apartment 26
  
• Soil
  
• Cold
  
• Sevendust
  
• and DamagePlan

Are all those bands American or am I just being thick, I've never heard of any of them?

Have fun dude






PS: huge rock concert? 8000 people is considered a very small concert here... heck, we (with our youthmovent) always organise each summer a big open-air party. That takes 8000 people alone

Ever heared of Rock Werchter, a 4-day festival held in Belgium on 1st-4th of June? The biggest international artists are always queueing up to play there. The concert is known for it's quality, fun and atmosphere all over the world

The current playlist:
Admiral Freebee, Air, Arsenal, Basement Jaxx, The Bees, The Black Eyed Pees, David Bowie, Black Rebel Motorcylce Club, Broken Social Scene, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daan, Danko Jones, The Darkness, Dropkick Murphys, El Tattoo del Tigre, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Franz Ferdinand, Nelly Furtado, Girls in Hawaii, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, PJ Harvey, Heideroosjes, Korn, Kosheen, Flip Kowlier, Lenny Kravitz, Lamb,  Lostprophets, Magnus, Metallica,  Moloko, Monster Magnet, Muse, N*E*R*D, Novastar, Roy Paci & Arestuka, P!NK, Pixies, Placebo, The Rapture, The Rasmus, Sean Paul, Sioen, Sophia, Starsailor, Jasper Steverlinck, Joss Stone, Sugababes, Thou, Tortoise, T.Raumschmiere, Triggerfinger, The Von Bondies, Wilco, Within Temptation, Wu-Tang Clan, Youngblood Brass Band, Zero 7, Zornik, and maybe more...
(and that's without the supported bands; like Slipknot will support Mettalica)

(and then some people here even say this line-up isn't that good , it was better other years... go figure )

It is already sold out though (took only a few weeks), so that's the pitty. The 70000 people will have a great festival... (btw, the little town Werchter has normaly a small 15000 habitants, so during those days it will be a bit more )

During the summer-months there are always several festivals going on all over Belgium (and Netherlands also) each week. It's like a wet dream for party people

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Originally posted by deej
Are all those bands American or am I just being thick, I've never heard of any of them?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Have fun dude

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: huge rock concert? 8000 people is considered a very small concert here... heck, we (with our youthmovent) always organise each summer a big open-air party. That takes 8000 people alone

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The current playlist:
Admiral Freebee, Air, Arsenal, Basement Jaxx, The Bees, The Black Eyed Pees, David Bowie, Black Rebel Motorcylce Club, Broken Social Scene, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daan, Danko Jones, The Darkness, Dropkick Murphys, El Tattoo del Tigre, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Franz Ferdinand, Nelly Furtado, Girls in Hawaii, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, PJ Harvey, Heideroosjes, Korn, Kosheen, Flip Kowlier, Lenny Kravitz, Lamb,  Lostprophets, Magnus, Metallica,  Moloko, Monster Magnet, Muse, N*E*R*D, Novastar, Roy Paci & Arestuka, P!NK, Pixies, Placebo, The Rapture, The Rasmus, Sean Paul, Sioen, Sophia, Starsailor, Jasper Steverlinck, Joss Stone, Sugababes, Thou, Tortoise, T.Raumschmiere, Triggerfinger, The Von Bondies, Wilco, Within Temptation, Wu-Tang Clan, Youngblood Brass Band, Zero 7, Zornik, and maybe more...
(and that's without the supported bands; like Slipknot will support Metalica)

(and then some people here even say this line-up isn't that good , it was better other years... go figure )

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in britain the biggest rock/indie concert is probably the reading/leeds festival, that seriously rocks.

its over 3 days, and features loads of bands, this year the line up is.

dude thats a sweet line up, i've heard of half of them... twisted sister lmao, eighties style!!

reading is fucking gr8, leeds looks wicked, i may have to go, but i may go 2 the ozzfest, if not, i can save my ass up, and go 2 all three days!!! lol

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Originally posted by traxor
i may go 2 the ozzfest

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man i wish we had dis kinda shit in australia!
da closest we have to that iz rhumba an thatz kinda shit...
da Blink 182 concert iz commin up soon but i cant go ahh well, some ov those line ups loox fkn great! sooo jealous!

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Originally posted by azn angel
da Blink 182 concert iz commin up soon but i cant go

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Ever heared of Rock Werchter, a 4-day festival held in Belgium on 1st-4th of June? The biggest international artists are always queueing up to play there. The concert is known for it's quality, fun and atmosphere all over the world

The current playlist:
Admiral Freebee, Air, Arsenal, Basement Jaxx, The Bees, The Black Eyed Pees, David Bowiedoesnt come, he's ill :/, Black Rebel Motorcylce Club, Broken Social Scene, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daan, Danko Jones, The Darkness, Dropkick Murphys, El Tattoo del Tigre, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Franz Ferdinand, Nelly Furtado, Girls in Hawaii, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, PJ Harvey, Heideroosjes, Korn, Kosheen, Flip Kowlier, Lenny Kravitz, Lamb,  Lostprophets, Magnus, Metallica,  Moloko, Monster Magnet, Muse, N*E*R*D, Novastar, Roy Paci & Arestuka, P!NK, Pixies, Placebo, The Rapture, The Rasmus, Sean Paul, Sioen, Sophia, Starsailor, Jasper Steverlinck, Joss Stone, Sugababes, Thou, Tortoise, T.Raumschmiere, Triggerfinger, The Von Bondies, Wilco, Within Temptation, Wu-Tang Clan, Youngblood Brass Band, Zero 7, Zornik, and maybe more...
(and that's without the supported bands; like Slipknot will support Mettalica)

(and then some people here even say this line-up isn't that good , it was better other years... go figure )

It is already sold out though (took only a few weeks), so that's the pitty. The 70000 people will have a great festival... (btw, the little town Werchter has normaly a small 15000 habitants, so during those days it will be a bit more )

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The current playlist:
Admiral Freebee, Air, Arsenal, Basement Jaxx, The Bees, The Black Eyed Pees, David Bowie, Black Rebel Motorcylce Club, Broken Social Scene, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daan, Danko Jones, The Darkness, Dropkick Murphys, El Tattoo del Tigre, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Franz Ferdinand, Nelly Furtado, Girls in Hawaii, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, PJ Harvey, Heideroosjes, Korn, Kosheen, Flip Kowlier, Lenny Kravitz, Lamb,  Lostprophets, Magnus, Metallica,  Moloko, Monster Magnet, Muse, N*E*R*D, Novastar, Roy Paci & Arestuka, P!NK, Pixies, Placebo, The Rapture, The Rasmus, Sean Paul, Sioen, Sophia, Starsailor, Jasper Steverlinck, Joss Stone, Sugababes, Thou, Tortoise, T.Raumschmiere, Triggerfinger, The Von Bondies, Wilco, Within Temptation, Wu-Tang Clan, Youngblood Brass Band, Zero 7, Zornik, and maybe more...
(and that's without the supported bands; like Slipknot will support Mettalica)

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There is a huge difference between a pop-concert and a festival though....
Mostly pop-concerts only last for a few hours, not 4 days and only have 1/2 specific artists which organize the concert. And you also don't have the side-animation, drinks, bars, shops, food, camping, etc... etc... And festivals are almost always outdoors, while pop-concerts are very often indoors.

visit the website and look for the images, you'll know what I mean

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that sounds more like a pop concert to me : /

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Cookie, that Music Festival looks like it would be fun.

The one festival I REALLY wanted to go to this year was Bonnaroo.  Some drummer friends of mine went to it this year (one even skipped graduation to go) and said it was so much fun.  There is six stages, over 60 bands, and it lasts four days.  I guess it was really fun from what they told me.  I think I'll go next year. 

Anyways, I'm moving back to st.paul (my home town) for a month to live with a friend of mine, so I wont be on here as much yeah I know, its so sad, but I hope you all can go on with out me,

-peace
      pr0xy

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Originally posted by saralk
in britain the biggest rock/indie concert is probably the reading/leeds festival, that seriously rocks.

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Originally posted by traxor
reading is fucking gr8

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Originally posted by traxor
leeds looks wicked

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Blah... after countless "little"* festivals with all kinds of music (folk fests, reggea fests, blues fests, etc..) another one of the biggest rock festivals soon...

3 days of pure rock....

again go Belgium

Pukkelpop... look at the line-up...




I'm not even going to start counting all those bands


PS: Only the Netherlands can compete with all these festivals... So if you like music and the summer festival mood, move to this part of Europe Every weekend there is some big event going on (heck, even during the week there is always some big fest somewhere during the summer months)


* (well, little in Belgium festival terms = 30.000 people every day )

guess, where I'll be

How come all of the other countries apart from england get all of the good rock bands, i take it back what i said about reading, its all punk and stuff, its lame, I NEED DECENT MUSIC!

have fun

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