HISTORY
The Southside Festival, also just Southside, is a music festival that takes place near Tuttlingen, southern Germany, usually every June. It is promoted by German private music television channel VIVA, which belongs to Viacom, the MTV Network's parent company, since the end of 2004. The festival and its guests are generally associated with the alternative part of mainstream music, although the festival has been becoming more and more mainstream over the years.
After the great success of the Hurricane Festival, FKP Scorpio decided to make a similar event in the south of Germany. In 1999, a former military airbase (Neubiberg bei München) in Neubiberg, near Munich, was selected. In 2000 the festival was moved to another former military airbase, this time in Neuhausen ob Eck, which is near Freiburg and Stuttgart.
Because of the relative proximity to other countries (France, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are all less than 100km away), the audience is very multinational. In 2003, the calculated maximum capacity of around 40.000 people was reached and the festival has been sold out well in advance since.
Southside Festival - Line Up 2011
Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Arctic Monkeys, The Hives, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, Elbow, The Wombats, The Sounds, Two Door Cinema Club, Sick Of It All, Parkway Drive, William Fitzsimmons, Friendly Fires, Darwin Deez, Converge, Comeback Kid, Kvelertak, Frittenbude, Egotronic, Sublime With Rome, Boysetsfire, You Me At Six, Brother, Cloud Control, The Subways, Klaxons, Eels, MSTRKRFT, Portugal. The Man, I Am Kloot, Band Of Horses and Clueso, Kaiser Chiefs, Suede, Kasabian, Bright Eyes, All Time Low, Blood Red Shoes, Jupiter Jones, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Warpaint, Crookers, Trentemøller and Hercules, Love Affair, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Monster Magnet, The Kills, Lykke Li, Kashmir, Glasvegas, Sum 41, I Blame Coco, Irie Révoltés, Young Rebel Set, The Vaccines, An Horse, Pulled Apart By Horses, Tame Impala, Miles Kane, Yoav, Digitalism Live, MSTRKRFT, A-Trak, Chase & Status and Crystal Fighters
Southside Festival - Line Up 2010
The Prodigy, Faithless, Stone Temple Pilots, Massive Attack, Skunk Anansie, Dendemann, Donots, Moneybrother, Beatsteaks, Boys Noize, Deichkind, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Enter Shikari, Florence and the Machine, Frittenbude, Horse the Band, Hot Water Music, Ignite, K's Choice, Katzenjammer, LaBrassBanda, Madsen, Porcupine Tree, The XX, White Lies, The Strokes, Dropkick Murphys, LCD Soundsystem, The Gaslight Anthem, Archive, Element Of Crime, Shout Out Louds plus many many more.....