Already thinking about the summer festival season as an antidote to the dreariness of winter.
Last year I desperately wanted to go to the Paleo festival, but tix were all sold out. The line-up was so amazing, I’m still bummed about that. I swore that this year it wouldn’t happen to me again. This year I’m on the ball.
Here’s bit of a round up of European festivals, not exhaustive but the ones that I would choose if I had the time, money and wherewithal to go to them all. Lots of festivals haven’t announced their line-ups or even definite dates yet, so check the websites for details.
SWITZERLAND
Paleo Festival @ Nyon, 20-25 July 2010, tickets available from Wednesday 21 April 2010, at 12pm, Line-up announced Tuesday 13 April 2010.
Gurten Festival @ Bern, 15-18 July 2010, presale tix til 31 January, all category tix from 1 February 2010, Line-up announced April 2010.
Open Air St Gallen @ St Gallen, 24-27 June 2010, tickets, special presale prices 18 January – 28 February 2010, Line-up announced MARCH.
Montreux Jazz Festival @ Montreux, 2-17 July 2010,
Moon & Stars Festival @ Locarno, July 2010
WIDER EUROPE
Primavera Sound – Barcelona, Spain May 27-29 2010, This one looks especially good – Pixies, pavement, The XX, The New Pornographers, Spoon, The Big Pink, Shellac, Low, and more.
Pinkpop – Landgraaf, The Netherlands, May 28-30 2010
Rock am Ring – June 4-6 2010, Muse, Gossip, Editors, Gogol Bordello, Kasabian
Glastonbury – June 23-27 2010, Vampire Weekend and U2 to headline
Roskilde – Denmark, July 1-4 2010, Pavement, Muse, and assorted Danish delights
T in the Park – Balado, Scotland, July 8-11 2010
Pukkelpop – Belgium, August 19-21 2010
Reading & Leeds - August 28-30
Bestival – Isle of Wight, September 9-12 2010
London Airwaves – London, September 19, sister festival to Iceland Airwaves
Iceland Airwaves – Rejkavik, October 14-18
Other festival linkage
Spacelab
Pitchfork
I heard a rumour that Placebo might be playing this year’s Open Air Gampel (19-22 August 2010) festival…that would be very nice. The cebo boys have played on average 2 festivals a year in Switzerland (excepting 2008), so with one already confirmed (RockOzArenes), perhaps they will treat us to another summer show. The Gampel site is apparently a lovely one, deep in the mountains near Leukerbad and Visp. But I don’t expect to hear any confirmations anytime soon, so guess I’ll just be waiting with fingers crossed.
