Arvika Festival, Arvika, Sweden.

Arvika Festival

 
Date:
14th - 16th July 2011
Location:
Arvika, Sweden (click for map)
Website:
Cost:
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NEWS - 16th March - EXCLUSIVE SHOW IN SWEDEN THIS SUMMER FOR APHEX TWIN!

The pioneer, hero, legend that is known as APHEX TWIN will be coming to Sweden for the summer's hottest event, exclusively to Arvika!

NEWS - 8th March - FIRST BANDS ANNOUNCED

Festival organisers ahve announced the following bands for this year's festival - Alex Di Stefano (It), Alice In Videoland (Se), Code 64 (Se), Covenant (Se), Day Din (De), Digitalism (De), Ell-Er (Se), Emmon (Se), F.O.O.L. (Se), Front 242 (Be), Hocico (Mx), Iamx (Uk), Icona Pop (Se), Karl Johan (Se), Kite (Se), Lissi Dancefloor Disaster (Se), Men (Us), Norbert Davenport (It), Popof (Fr), Russ Chimes (Uk), Spark! (Se), Style Of Eye (Se), The Girl & The Robot (Se), Those Dancing Days (Se)

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2011 LINE UP

Alex Di Stefano [It]
Alice In Videoland [Se]
Aphex Twin [Uk]
Austra [Ca]
Code 64 [Se]
Covenant [Se]
Day Din [De]
Digitalism [De]
Ell-Er [Se]
Emmon [Se]
F.O.O.L. [Se]
First Aid Kit [Se]
Front 242 [Be]
Hocico [Mx]
Iamx [Uk]
Icona Pop [Se]
I´M A Lion [Se]
Karl Johan [Se]
Kite [Se]
Lctrisc [Se]
Lissi Dancefloor Disaster [Se]
Men [Us]
Mf/Mb/ [Se]
Necro Facility [Se]
Niki & The Dove [Se]
Norbert Davenport [It]
Popof [Fr]
Rebecca & Fiona [Se]
Röyksopp [No]
Russ Chimes [Uk]
Sandra Kolstad [No]
Söderut [Se]
Spark! [Se]
Spetsnaz [Se]
Style Of Eye [Se]
The Concretes [Se]
The Deer Tracks [Se]
The Girl & The Robot [Se]
Those Dancing Days [Se]
Tyske Ludder [De]

HISTORY

Arvika Festival (Swedish: Arvikafestivalen) is an annual music festival held in Arvika, Sweden. It takes place during three days in the middle of July, from Thursday to Saturday, with camping available from the beginning of the week. The non-profit association "Galaxen" (Swedish for "The Galaxy") arranges the festival.

Since the nineties, the festival has built up a tradition of booking many big synth-pop bands. This was initially an unintended side effect: for the first festival in 1992 the arrangers had booked Cat Rapes Dog, Pouppée Fabrikk and S.P.O.C.K. and about 50% of the audience that showed up was actually mostly interested in these bands since no other festival booked many synth acts. However, along with the synth bands, internationally and nationally famous rock and pop acts visit the festival every year, attracting people not only interested in synth pop.

In 2006, somewhere between 15000 and 16000 people visited the festival, breaking a new record in ticket sales, and confirming the festival's spot as one of the big ones in Sweden. In 2009 the total number of tickets sold were 22500 including all three-day and one-day passes.

Arvika Festival - Line Up 2010
Timo Räisänen, Regina Spektor, Kent, Khoma, Yeasayer, Johnossi, [ingenting], Robyn, Chromeo, Markus Krunegård,
Takida, VNV Nation, In Flames, Deportees, Amporhis, Hästpojken, Maskinen, Familjen, Miike Snow, Alice In Videoland, Shout Out Louds, Volbeat, Babyshambles, Oskar Linnros, Hypocrisy, Combichrist, Nitzer Ebb, Teddybears, Simian Mobile Disco [live], Corroded plus many many more.....
GETTING TO THE ARVIKA FESTIVAL

Arvika is located in the forests of Värmland, 6 mil north of Karlstad.

You can travel by both bus and train, for example - From Stockholm it takes about 4 hours, from Gothenburg, about 3 hours from Oslo about 2 hours.

For trains, check out: www.sj.se or www.kollplatsen.com
For buses, check out: www.swebusexpress.se or www.kollplatsen.com

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