Dinkelsbühl, Germany
13th to 15th August 2009
Summer Breeze Open Air Festival
The German festival Summer Breeze Open Air is after 'Wacken Open Air' one of the more metal orientated festivals and very well known among bands and audience. Every year the festival manages to come with a diverse and interesting line-up. In compare with WAO there are more new bands to discover, what makes it very interesting.
Many people come together on Thursday 13th August till Sunday 15th August. It’s already the twelfth edition of Summerbreeze. For the fourth time in Dinkelsbühl, East Germany. With bands like AMON AMARTH, DEATHSTARS, EPICA, KATHRA, KREATOR, LIFE OF AGONY, OPETH , VOIVOD and CORVUS CORAX will perform their CANTUS BURANUS part II.
Aditional festival information
Tickets
A 3-days ticket costs 70 euros and you can order it online very easily on:
http://silverdust-shop.de/v2/ international
For German people there are selling-points. List: http://www.summer-breeze.de/site.php?name=Tickets also one in Wien, Austria.
Also there is a German online service: http://www.extratix.de/assets/s2dmain.html?http://www.extratix.de/
Remember when you book an online ticket, it will be switched into a hardticket at the entrance, so that will take some extra time.
There are daily tickets available; more information about the price will be announced a month before the festival starts.
LocationIt’s on the airfield of Aeroclub Dinkelsbühl between Sinbronn and Illenschwang. Dinkelsbuehl itself has numerous attractions and opportunities to offer. You can do some shopping in the picturesque medieval Old Town, check out a few of the countless cafes, restaurants and bars or visit the indoor swimming pool as well as one of the last river open air swimming pools, the Woernitz beach bath!
Train
Special service is the bus you can book to travel to the festival ground, only active in Germany. (http://www.bock-tours.de/1.0.html)
The nearest stations are Ellwangen, Ansbach, Crailsheim, Dombuehl and Noerdlingen. Being there you can easily take a bus to Dinkelsbühl. For detailed train information please check: www.die-bahn.de
More on: http://www.summer-breeze.de/site.php?name=Anfahrt
As the festival site is about 5 km far from Dinkelsbühl city there is a bus shuttle to Dinkelsbuehl and back.
Parking
Daily parking open from 9 am. The camping site, parking lots and the festival site will be signposted across the entire Dinkelsbuehl area extensively! PLEASE NOTE: To not strain the high traffic additionally it will be impossible to leave the camping ground by car once you have entered it. This goes for the entire Wednesday until Thursday afternoon. The free of charge shuttle bus will lift you to the centre of Dinkelsbühl.
There will be enough parking and camping space available. You can park your car right next to your tent. Camping without buying a festival ticket is not permitted. Parking and camping will be included in the festival ticket price. Therefore please do use the advised parking and camping areas! Reservations for camping spaces cannot be made. The daily parking area can be found just across the street of the camping site entrance. Of course you can also park your car there while camping on the camping ground. This is especially comfortable if you intend to leave the festival early and need to make sure you can move your car any time. Please note: only vehicles not heavier than 3,5 tons will have access to the camping ground. Camping outside the official camping area is prohibited. Doing so will be ticketed! The police will have an eye on that! ( source website summerbreeze).
Camping
The camping ground open on: Wednesday 12th August on 10 am.
Cleared on: Sunday until 2 pm
Line-up
Summerbreeze has a very detailed description of every band on their website in German, English, French and Italian.
AMON AMARTH – AMORPHIS - BURY ME DEEP – BACKYARD BABIES – BATTLELORE – BEFORE THE DAWN - BENEATH THE MASCARE – BLACK MESSIAH – BORN FROM PAIN – BRAINSTORM - CALLEJON – CORVUS CORAX CANTUS BURANUS II – CATARACT - DAATH – DAGOBA – DEADLOCK – DEATHSTARS – ELVENKING – EPICA – ENTOMBED – EQUILIBRIUM – EVOCATION - FIREWIND – GHOST BRIGADE – GOD DETHRONED – GRAND MAGUS - GRAVE – HACKNEYED – HAGGARD – HATE – HATE ETERNAL – JBO - JACK SLATER – KATATONIA – KATRA – KOLDBRANN – KREATOR LEGION OF THE DAMNED – LIFE OF AGONY - MISSERY INDEX – MOONSPELL – NARZISS – NEGROPHAGIST – NIM VID - OBSCURA - ONE WAY MIRROR – OPETH - POWERWOLF - PROTEST THE HERO – PSYCHOPUNCH – PSYGOCROPTIC - SCHANDMAUL – SECRETS OF THE MOON – SKYFORGER – SUFFOCATION - SUICIDE SILENCE – SYLOSIS – THE FACELESS – THE HAUNTED - THE NEW BLACK – THE OTHER – THE SORROW – STORM – UNLIGHT - UNHEILIG – UNSUN - Unearth cancelled - URGEAL – VADER – VOIVOD - VOLBEAT – VOMITORY – VREID - WAYLANDER
More information
Website http://www.summer-breeze.de/site.php
Myspace http://www.myspace.com/summerbreeze
Detailed festival info in PDF: http://www.summer-breeze.de/allinone_e.pdf
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