Sunday 20 May 2012

PinkPop Festival 2012 with The Cure, Kasabian, Linkin Park, Sound Garden, Keane Mumford & Sons and Bruce Springsteen


Event:  PinkPop Festival 2012
When: 26 May 2012
Where: Landgraaf, the Netherlands

Line-Up for PinkPop 2012 includes:

26 May
The Cure
Anouk
Kasabian
Kyuss Lives
Moss
Major Tom
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
The Ting Tings
Ben Howard
The Afghan Whigs
Will and the People

27 May
Linkin Park
Soundgarden
Babylon Circus
Kyteman’s Hiphop Orchestra
Racoon
Keane
Mastodon
The BossHoss
The Wombats
Bombay Bicycle Club
Chase & Status
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

28 May
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street band
Mumford & Sons
Gers Pardoel
Seasick Steve
The Specials
Blood Red Shoes
Herbert Gronemeyer
James Morrison
Rival Sons
The Hives
Chef’Special
Hungry Kids of Hungary
Jonathan Jeremiah
Mike Snow
Paul Kalkbrenner
Serena Pryne & The Mandevilles

Pinkpop Festival, or Pinkpop for short, is an unusual festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch, hence the name). In 1970, the first festival took place in Geleen, now part of municipality Sittard-Geleen and was held on the Monday following that weekend.

Today, Pinkpop is a 3 day festival, from Saturday to Monday, and visited by approximately 60,000 people a day with performances on 3 separate stages. In 35 years, 1.5 million people have attended Pinkpop. More than 500 musical acts have played at the festival.

In 1994 (the 25th edition), it was decided to sell only 60,000 tickets, to prevent overcrowding due to the popularity of the festival. In 1995, it was made into a 2-day festival. Two years later, in 1997, this was further expanded to three days.

2007 saw a spin-off, later in the year, on 11 August, called Pinkpop Classic, for an older rock audience, with bands that previously performed there in past decades.

In 2008 Pinkpop was for the first time in its history, not held on Pentecost weekend which fell too early that year for the convenience of fans and performers alike.


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