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
Kyteman’s Hiphop Orchestra
Racoon
Keane
Mastodon
The BossHoss
The Wombats
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
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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