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THE NETHERLANDS - PINKPOP, Landgraaf
Date 2010
28 May - 30 May
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Festivals Limburg BV / Buro Pinkpop |
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| Contact: |
Jan Smeets |
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0031 46 475 2500 |
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0031 46 475 2520 |
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Country:
The Netherlands
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City:
Landgraaf
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Established:
1970 |
Camping facilities:
yes |
Site:
Megaland
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Festivaltype:
Openair
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Capacity:
60.000 per day
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Musical direction:
Rock, Dance, Pop, Alternative
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Stages:
3 stages, (2 openair 1 tent)
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Description:
This year the Pinkpopfestival is having it's 41st edition! The most famous festival of the Netherlands has been visited by more than 1.8 million visitors in its 40 editions and sold-out 20 times. The first Pinkpop Festival took place in 1970. This makes the festival the longest running un-interrupted annual open air popfestival in Europe (this fact owed the festival a place in the Guinness Book of Records). The famous rock festival has since 1988 taken place on the splendid festival site of MEGALAND in Landgraaf. The community of Landgraaf is in the south of the Netherlands and situtated in the county of Limburg, 135 miles from Amsterdam.The music is performed on three stages on the site, which also include a vast festival market as well as a huge camping area. The Pinkpop Festival normally takes place in Whitsun weekend **(accept for very early Whitsunweekends)** and presents a wide range of contemporary music. The successful festival has an extensive collaboration with several national media and is being broadcast live on TV and radio.
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Program references:
A total of 568 unique acts played Pinkpop once or more times since 1970, acts like ZZ Top, The Police, UB40, Tool, Smashing Pumpkings, Status Quo, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Simple Minds, Shinead O'Conner, R.E.M, Pearl Jam, Oasis, The Cure, Metallica, Linkin Park, Arctic Monkeys, Iggy Pop, Muse, Snow Patrol, Marilyn Manson, Within Temptation, Undeclinable Ambuscade, Faithless, Rammstein, Chemical Brothers, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead to name a few. Last year the 40th anniversary edition had a notable headliner in Bruce Springsteen & The E-street Band, doing his first headline show on a European festival ever.
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