Arvika Festival

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