Posts Tagged ‘Festivals in France’

FIRST BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR 2012! Taking place from the 24th – 26th August this year, Rock en Seine organisers have revealed the first 7 bands – The Black Keys, Placebo, Green Day, Noel Gallagher, Foster The People, Sigur Ros & Mark Lanegan Expect more great bands to be announced soon… For more ROCK EN SEINE [...]

SONISPHERE FRANCE NAMES 4 NEW BANDS FOR 2012 Joining Faith No More & Evanescence this year will be Dagoba, Headcharger, Armored Saint and Porn Queen! For more SONISPHERE FESTIVAL FRANCE 2012 information and line up – click here >>>

SONISPHERE FRANCE REVEALS 6 MORE NAMES FOR 2012! Joining the already announced Faith No More and Evanescence today are Meshuggah, Combichrist, I Killed The Prom Queen, The Darkness, Lacuna Coil and Ghost! For more SONISPHERE FESTIVAL FRANCE 2012 information and line up – click here >>>

SONISPHERE FRANCE MAKES FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 2012! Created in 2009, Sonisphere festival visited for the first time in France last year in Amnéville.  The second edition will be held on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July at Snowhall Park of Amnéville and we have the first bands announcement today: Saturday, July 7th  – Faith No [...]

EUROPAVOX FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIRST NAMES FOR 2012 Topped by The Hives the first band announcement includes 1995, Amadou et Mariam, Imany, Agoria, Dionysos, Mirel Wagner, Baloji, Benga Live, Django Django, Shaka Ponk, Ewert and The Two Dragons! For more EUROPAVOX FESTIVAL 2012 information and news – click here >>>

THE FINAL HELLFEST LINE UP ANNOUNCEMENT IS HERE! The D day has come, all the soldiers are now gathered for the final assault that will at last able us to conquer the new territory in which Hellfest will take place for several years to come. Victory is a foregone conclusion with over 60 new bands [...]

FIRST ACTS REVEALED FOR FESTIVAL DES VIEILLES CHARRUES 2012 Continuing their headlining tour of European festivals in 2012 THE CURE will add Festival des Vieilles Charrues to the ever growing list!  Joining them are JUSTICE, METRONOMY, THIEFAINE, SELAH SUE, CHINESE MAN, COEUR DE PIRATE, BRIGITTE, HOLLIE COOK, 1995 with more to be announced soon… For [...]

CHECK OUT THE FIRST BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR FESTIVAL GAROROCK 2012! Taking place from the 8th – 10th June in Marmande, France Festival Garorock has announced their first bands for 2012 – check them out: David Guetta, The Specials, Orelsan, Metronomy, Izia, Foreign Beggars, 1995, Dionysos,  Puppetmastaz, Charlie Winston, Modeselektor, The Bloody Beetroots, Skip The Use, [...]

KING DIAMOND CONFIRMED FOR HELLFEST 2012 Following an earlier announcement that one of the most iconic heavy metal-musicians in Scandinavian history is Danish vocalist King Diamond will be playing this year’s Sweden Rock Festival Hellfest organisers have now confirmed there will only be 2 exclusive European shows in 2012 the 2nd being at Hellfest! For [...]

ROCK EN SEINE ADDS 7 MORE ACTS & LOCAL FRENCH TALENT The American trio BLONDE REDHEAD, the swedish queen of folk LYKKE LI, the young talents  GROUPLOVE, SMITH WESTERNS and CAGE THE ELEPHANT, the bresilian girls of CSS, the french flokband HERMAN DUNE will be at Rock en Seine this summer. Tickets are still on [...]

HELLFEST FRANCE LINE UP CHANGES Hellfest organisers have announced today that there have been a number of changes to this year’s line up as follows: – Disturbed will be replaced by The Answer (Alter Bridge will play at the place of Disturbed) – Buzov En will be replaced by Ghost – The Gates Of Slumber [...]

DIAMOND HEAD & RISE TO REMAIN ADDED TO SONISPHERE FRANCE DIAMOND HEAD – History is littered with heavy metal groups “cults” or “legendary, “which never really know a runaway success has still managed to stamp their mark on the history of this music … DIAMOND HEAD is one of those … RISE TO REMAIN – [...]

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE TO 2011 EUROCKÉENNES Organisers have just announced the arrival of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE  to the Eurockéennes festival on Saturday 2nd July – A concert that promises to be … Volcanic. For more EUROCKÉENNES FESTIVAL information – click here >>>

ROCK EN SEINE ANNOUNCES FIRST BANDS FOR THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL The first bands who have confirmed they’ll be there at Rock en Seine on 26, 27 and 28 August 2011 are : FOO FIGTHERS, ARCTIC MONKEYS, THE KILLS, INTERPOL, DEFTONES, COCOROSIE, BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE, KEREN ANN, ANNA CALVI, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, PAUL KALKBRENNER. A new [...]

MAIN SQUARE FESTIVAL ADDS 7 MORE BANDS FOR 2011 French Main Square festival has added seven more bands to this year’s line up including LIMP BIZKIT back in its original formation. The singer Fred Durst and his buddies will be playing in Arras on Friday, July 1st! The other 6 bands announced today are MOBY, [...]

SIX MORE ADDITIONS T0 THE EUROCKEENNES DE BELFORT FESTIVAL Eurockéennes de Belfort festival has announced via their Facebook page this morning that BEADY EYE, BETH DITTO, BIRDY NAM NAM, TRYO, Carte blanche à KATERINE, PAUL KALKBRENNER and ANNA CALVI have all been confirmed for this year’s festival that takes place from the 1st – 3rd [...]

SYMFONIA AND TARJA JOIN SONISPHERE FRANCE LINE UP! Proudly claiming the legacy of Stratovarius, Angra, Helloween and Sonata Arctica, SYMFONIA will no doubt delight fans of those four teams, but we bet that musicians of this caliber will also quickly win new legions of fans! “In Paradisum” The first album SYMFONIA, released in France on [...]

THIN LIZZY JOIN HELLFEST LINE UP The full line up was announced on the 14th February, but sometimes you have to know when to jump on an opportunity – the legendary Irish hard rock band THIN LIZZY will be performing at HELLFEST on Saturday 19th June along with SCORPIONS, UFO and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Formed [...]

DREAM THEATER, VOLBEAT & LOUDBLAST COMING TO SONISPHERE FRANCE DREAM THEATER – Founded in the ’80s, Dream Theater is the flagship of the progressive metal scene and melodic. Heavily influenced by Joe Satriani, Marillion, Queensryche or Iron Maiden, alumni of Berklee managed to modernize a Heavy Metal nourished references to fantasy literature or fantasy, while [...]

FIVE BANDS ADDED AND TWO CANCEL FOR THIS YEAR’S HELLFEST The first cancellation is TRUST. Here is the band’s official statement : “Unfortunately Trust will not be playing on the 18th of June 2011 at Hellfest festival. The band will not be performing any concerts for an indefined period of time. We would like to [...]