HURRICANE FESTIVAL - Schedule almost complete

The schedule for the festival is almost complete with just a little fine-tuning lying ahead of us. In the meantime 2/3 of all available tickets have been sold and with this interim’s result we can relate to the successes of the last few years. Besides the challenge to put up a diverse and interesting musical program, we’re constantly working on organisational improvements. An actual focus of the work is the ongoing Anti-Garbage campaign. In collaboration with our partners of Gastro Team Bremen cooled beverages + deposit cam be offered this year at much cheaper prices on the camping grounds. On several easily accessible corners of the area you can buy 0.5 litres of beer for just 1 EUR. For the same price you’ll get 1.5 litres of water + deposit of course. Within the scopes of the above mentioned campaign we’re also aiming to reduce the amount of garbage. Statistically speaking every attendee of the Hurricane festival leaves about 5 kilos of garbage. Not just a little part of the garbage consists of drink packaging.

That’s why we’ll take back every tin we sell for the purpose of recycling. There are also soft drinks, juices and 5-litre barrels. The entire offering including prices will be put online soon. Another effect we hope for would be the increased use of trains and the offering of Rainbow Tours to get to the festival with a travelling bus. You might want to use public transports as well if you’re no t in the mood of carrying your barrels to the camping grounds and it spares the environment. We’ll see!!! Furthermore there will be a ban of megaphones on the camping grounds. With that we’re not aiming for perfect night’s rest; that’s not the point of this ban anyway but it’s going to soothe many nerves and makes a neighbourly cooperation a lot easier. Regarding a question we’re getting quite often these days: Car trailers are allowed for transporting camping material but have to be intercepted at the parking grounds.

More than 69 bands will perform at the Hurricane Festival 2009. The current line-up reads as follows:
DIE ÄRZTE * THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET * LILY ALLEN * ANTI–FLAG * THE ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR * AULETTA * BLOOD RED SHOES * BOSSE * BRAND NEW * NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS * CLUESO * CULCHA CANDELA * DATAROCK * DENDEMANN * DISTURBED * DUFFY * EAGLES OF DEATH METAL * EDITORS * ESKIMO JOE * FAITH NO MORE * FETTES BROT * FLEET FOXES * FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE * FRANZ FERDINAND * FRIENDLY FIRES * THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM * GET WELL SOON * GLASVEGAS * GOGOL BORDELLO * BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7 * THE HORRORS * HOWLING BELLS * JOHNOSSI * JUST JACK * KARAMELO SANTO * KEANE * KINGS OF LEON * KRAFTWERK * LADYHAWKE * LESS THAN JAKE * THE LIVING END * LOVEDRUG * LYKKE LI * THE MARS VOLTA * MOBY * NINE INCH NAILS * NNEKA * NO USE FOR A NAME * PAOLO NUTINI * KATY PERRY * PIXIES * PORTUGAL. THE MAN * JOSHUA RADIN * THE RAKES * SKA-P * SOCIAL DISTORTION * THE SOUNDS * SILVERSUN PICKUPS * THE TING TINGS * TOMTE * FRANK TURNER * THE WHIP * THE WOMBATS