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Palladium, Cologne, Germany
29th August 2011
The Offspring, Sondaschule
Founded as early as 1984 THE OFFSPRING, back then named MANIC SUBSIDAL, became an icon of punk music in the following. The four-piece consisting of Bryan „Dexter“ Holland, Kevin „Noodles“ Wasserman, Pete Parada and Greg Kriesel made their breakthrough with the album ‘Smash’, including all-time hits like ‘Self-Esteem’ or ‘Gotta Get Away’. It made them worldwide popular overnight and sold over 11 million copies.
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Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany
23rd August 2011
Foo Fighters
Founded in 1995, the FOO FIGHTERS rose to fame and three of their albums actually were rewarded with a Grammy Award. It’s almost redundant to say that FOO FIGHTERS which initially consisted of DAVE GROHL only and grew to a band in the following time, have acquired a loyal and international fan base.
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Flugplatz Borkenberge, Lüdinghausen, Germany
19th – 21st August 2011
Area4 Festival 2011: 30 Seconds to Mars, Airship, Blood Red Shoes, Danko Jones, Deftones, Disco Ensemble, Dropkick Murphys, Face To Face, Feeder, Friska Viljor, Hot Water Music, Ignite, Jimmy Eat World, Johnossi, Jupiter Jones and many more…
The Area4 Festival has come a long way from being initially a 1-day event in Oberhausen to one of Germany’s biggest rock festivals. 2010’s edition already saw about 20.000 attendees travelling from near and far to Borkenberge airfield in Lüdinghausen to celebrate three days of rock music and good weather. Well, most times good weather but the little rain shower last year was an exception in a tradition of sunny festivals. This year’s Area4 will introduce a second stage on long-time demand of many festival fans, so there will be even more acts to enjoy at the festival which apparently makes it even harder to decide for you. In the following you’ll get a little breakdown of what’s to come:
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Flughafen Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
13th & 14th August 2011
M’era Luna 2011: Within Temptation, Hurts, ASP, VNV Nation, Apocalyptica, Project Pitchfork, Blutengel, Tanzwut, My Dying Bride, Patrick Wolf, End Of Green, Mono Inc., Atari Teenage Riot, Tiamat, Funker Vogt, Equilibrium, Mesh, Klutæ, Leaves´ Eyes, Nachtmahr, Gothminister, Qntal, Tying Tiffany, Tyske Ludder, Coppelius and many more…
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Palladium, Cologne, Germany
6th August 2011
Empire of the Sun
EMPIRE OF THE SUN laid down quite some hits with songs such as ‘We Are The People’ familiar to Germans mostly by the advertising campaign of mobile provider Vodafone, or the title track to their debut album ‘Walking On A Dream’.
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