Area4 Festival

News - 19th December - FIRST ACTS RELEASED FOR GERMANY’S AREA 4 FESTIVAL 2012!

Festival organisers have announced the first bands that will be playing Area 4 festival from the 17th – 19th August 2012 – Beatsteaks, Sportfreunde Stiller, Donots, The Wombats, Me First, The Gimme Gimmes!

 

HISTORY

The premiere of AREA4 in 2005 at the OpenAir-Area of the König-Pilsener-ARENA in Oberhausen was celebrated by more than 10.000 people who rocked to fantastic Bands like System Of A Down, Nine Inch Nails, Beatsteaks and Madsen. In 2006 The AREA4 Festival took a creative break, to come back in 2007 with a big bang. Three days of rock’n’ roll in the beautiful surroundings of the airport Borkenberge in Lüdinghausen (Lüdinghausen is located between Dortmund and Münster) TOOL, BILLY TALENT, SILVERCHAIR , NOFX , EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, JULIETTE AND THE LICKS, …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, THE 69 EYES and MANDO DIAO are just some of the bands, who already rocked the stage!

Area4 Festival - Line Up 2010
Placebo, Blink 182, The Gaslight Anthem, Billy Talent, Caliban, Parkway Drive, Donots, Queens of the Stone Age, Monster Magnet, Gogol Bordello, The Sounds

TRAVELLING BY CAR

If your coming on the A43

On the A 43 Dülmen to exit.
There, her first double-lane change to the B 474 towards new Lüdinghausen / Seppenrade and follows it. After several miles you see the sign "Borkenberge airbase hidden", then turn right and follow the county road. A few kilometers further is the next signpost. Turn right again there. Now you are just a few hundred yards from your goal.

If your coming on the A1

On the A1 and exit at Mountain Ash. Uses from there the B 58 towards Lüdinghausen / Seppenrade. After her Lüdinghausen Seppenrade happens and you drive around, switch to the B 474 in direction Dülmen. After a short drive you reach the turnoff to the airport Borkenberge. Turn left there. A few kilometers further is the next signpost. Turn right there. Now you are just a few hundred yards from your goal.

TRAVELLING BY TRAIN

Travelling by train can save you money, protects our environment and you help us to avoid traffic jams. We recommend using a rail ticket: check out possible discounts for early booking, for groups, weekend tickets and regional offers like the Nord-Rhein-Westfalen-ticket.

Visit www.bahn.de for special offers, schedules and tickets.

You can use many trains and public transport for free with your valid area4 tickets during the festival weekend in the surrounding area. Please ask the conductors or bus drivers whether they accept the festival ticket.

Get off the train at Dülmen Hauptbahnhof (main station) and take the shuttle bus to the festival grounds.