Hultsfred Festival

Hultsfred Festival

 
Date:
7th - 9th July 2010

Location:
Hultsfred, Sweden (click for map)

Cost:
3 Day tickets 1290 SEK + booking fee
1 Day Tickets 590 SEK + booking fee
Camping Tickets 150 SEK





NEWS - DUE TO POOR TICKET SALES HULTSFRED 2010 HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Today organisers of the 25th Anniversary Hultsfred Festival have been forced to cancel this year's festival and file for bankruptcy

A message from the orgnaisers :

As ticket sales look like a week before the festival would have taken place, we can not arrange this year's festival, but we as organizers are forced to throw in the towel. Hultsfred X will not be implemented.

To set this year's festival has been a very hard decision to make. But it is the most responsible, we can do in this situation.

Although it feels very sad that this year's anniversary festival takes place, so we still look back over the past 24 festivals with pride. We look back at legendary concerts as well as the joy and the collective love of music, which over the years has driven us as well as organizing our visitors.

We also feel proud that we repeatedly have carried out the impossible. But this year it became impossible really impossible. We do not throw in the towel because we want it. We throw it because we need it. We can no longer offer all visitors and all the volunteers the experience of the officers deserve to be part of.

We want to thank all those who have ever visited the festival and all those who helped and worked with the festival. At the same time, we would ask all those who had planned to visit this year's festival to have an understanding of our situation


NEWS - 6th June 2010
Eleven new acts have been added to the Rookie new artists stage - IDA LUCID (Gothenburg), YOU SAY FRANCE & I WHISTLE (STOCKHOLM), Dove (Gothenburg), EYE TRAVEL (GÖTEBORG), HANNA Turi (FALUN), MOZZARELLA cheese AF (VÄSTERÅS), ELECTRIC ALICE (KALMAR), WHITE COAT (MALMÖ), Yersinia (UPPSALA), SANDRA MUUKKI (Målilla),Tantrum TO BLIND (LONDON)

NEWS - 3rd June 2010
The TING TINGS have been announced for this year's Hultsfred festival along with JOHNOSSI who will be replacing Wolfmother who cancelled last month due to illness

Also announced today are 10 of the 30 Rookie bands - Aim For The Sunrise (ÖREBRO), Dolly Daggers (MALMÖ), From This Moment (VIMMERBY), Koala (KALMAR), Last View (STOCKHOLM), Madamm (GÖTEBORG), Meadows Ever Bleeding (ÖREBRO), Sandra Sofie (FÅGELFORS), TB Flapjacks (KALMAR), The Masses (ESKILSTUNA]

NEWS - 29th May 2010
Due to illness WOLFMOTHER have been forced to cancel their Hultsfred 2010 appearance, organisers hope to announce a replacement soon

NEWS - 19th May 2010
Organisers have annonced more bands for this year's festival - DEFTONES, PETTER, TIMO RAISANEN, THE INVASION, BLACK MOUNTAIN, CARPARK NORTH, WAR

NEWS - 22nd April 2010
More bands announced today - FRIGHTENED RABBIT (UK) , JANELLE MONA (US) , WE ARE SCIENTISTS (US) , SCISSOR SISTERS (US)

NEWS - 13th April 2010
More additions to this year's festival - ERYKAH BADU, TEDDYBEARS, ELI "PAPERBOY" REED, MAYER HAWTHORNE & THE COUNTRY, THE MIDDLE EAST, JAMAICA, MONARK X

NEWS - 23rd March 2010
Organisers have announced THE ARK and 5 more bands - MIIKE SNOW, MARKUS KRUNEGÅRD, KHOMA, MIXTAPES & CELLMATES, OLA JOYCE

NEWS - 15th March 2010
US rapper NAS and Jamaican reggae star DAMIAN MARLEY will be joining forces at this year's Hultsfred Festival in support of their upcoming collaboration album

More Swedish artists have also been added to the festival bill - Hoffmaestro, Chraa, Melissa Horn, Birgit Bidder

NEWS - 2nd March 2010
30 SECONDS TO MARS and 3 more bands announced for this year's Hultsfred 2010 festival - KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MIDLAKE and THE DIRTY YOUTH

NEWS - 25th February 2010
Currently working on a new album THE HIVES have been added to this summer's Hultsfred bill!

NEWS - 22nd February 2010
Organisers have announced that Australian band EMPIRE OF THE SUN and Swedish act BOB HUND will both be playing at this year's Hultsfred festival.

Along with them will be ANNIE from Norway and Sweden's BABOON and STESO SONGS

NEWS - 2nd February 2010
After their stunning appearance in 2007 WOLFMOTHER are coming back to Hultsfred in 2010!

Organisers have also announced EVERLAST, YUKSEK and TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB

NEWS - 26th January 2010
More bands announced - HÄSTPOJKEN (S), DANIEL GILBERT (S), JOEL ALME (S), MAKE THE GIRL DANCE (FR), FENECH-SOLER (UK), FIBES, OH FIBES! (S), VERONICA MAGGIO (S), YACHT (US), SISTA SEKUNDEN (S), ROYAL REPUBLIC (S)

NEWS - First bands announced

KENT, SHOUT OUT LOUDS, FAMILJEN, MASKINEN

Tickets go on sale 18th January - Biljetterna till Hultsfred 010 släpps 18 januari

Three-day passes are now available for 1290 SEK with free camping thrown in until 17 February.
Day passes will go on sale on 18 February with bosses slashing the price of a ticket to just 590 SEK

The first 25 festival-goers to purchase a ticket will also receive a pair of Vasuma Rattlesnake sunglasses for their troubles

Hultsfred Festival 2010 will take place in the town of Hultsfred in Sweden from 7-9 July.
LINE UP

WEDNESDAY 7th JULY
Scissor Sisters
Empire Of The Sun
Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley
Kent
30 Seconds To Mars
Midlake
Everlast
Make The Girl Dance
Mayer Hawthorne & The Country
Frightened Rabbit
The Middle East
The Dirty Youth

THURSDAY 8th JULY
The Hives
The Ark
Shout Out Louds
Maskinen
We Are Scientists
Two Door Cinema Club
Khoma
Veronica Maggio
Jamaica
Fenech-Soler
Eli "Paperboy" Reed

SATURDAY 9th JULY
Erykah Badu
Teddybears
bob hund
Killswitch Engage
Familjen
Hästpojken
Bad Lieutenant
Annie
Yuksek
YACHT
Sista Sekunden
Daniel Gilbert
Mixtapes & Cellmates
Royal Republic
Steso Songs
HISTORY

The Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfredsfestivalen in Swedish) is an annual music festival held in Hultsfred, Sweden. It takes place at the lake Hulingen during three days in the middle of June, from Thursday to Saturday. Since the first festival in 1986, its attendance has increased from 7,500 visitors to approximately 32,000 people in 2005.

Due to an increase of ticket pricing and what the public recognized as a poor lineup in 2007 (with headliners Ozzy Osbourne, 50 Cent, KoRn and Pet Shop Boys), the festival only succeeded in getting 23,339 paying visitors in 2007 which in comparison with the successful previous years of 2005 and 2006 was considered a failure by media. Since then the festival has struggled economically. In 2008 the festival had 23,383 paying visitors and in 2009 there was 23,543 paying visitors.

With its five different stages, the Hultsfred Festival hosts a large number of bands per year (154 in 2007) from all over Scandinavia and the world alike.

Some of the bands that have played at Hultsfred festival over the years :

Hultsfred Festival 1986 - Line Up
Nils Lofgren - New Model Army - Erasure - Reeperbahn - The Triffids

Hultsfred Festival 1987 - Line Up
Public Image Ltd - Screamin Jay Hawkins - Dr Feelgood - Latin Quarter - The Jesus and Mary Chain

Hultsfred Festival 1988 - Line Up
Joe Strummer and the Latino Rocakabilly War - Eldkvarn - Tone Norum - Stonefunkers - Big Country

Hultsfred Festival 1989 - Line Up
Van Morrison - Motörhead - D.A.D - Katrina and the Waves - Chris Bailey - Jacob Hellman - Candlemass

Hultsfred Festival 1990 - Line Up
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Nick Lowe - Jungle Brothers - Buzzcocks - Wilmer X - Soul Asylum - The Charlatans - Sator - The Sinners

Hultsfred Festival 1991 - Line Up
The Black Crowes - Thåström - Sven Ingvars - Staus Quo (cancelled) - PJ Harvey (cancelled) - Stereo MC's (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 1992 - Line Up
Gary Moore - The Pretenders - Primal Scream - Blur - The Creeps - Candlemass - Meshuggah - The Ramones (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 1993 - Line Up
The Ramones - Iggy Pop - Rollins Band - Stero MC's - Manic Street Preachers - Sick of it All - Ulf Lundell - Wilmer X - Bob Hund

Hultsfred Festival 1994 - Line Up
Motörhead - Oasis - Blur - Midnight Oil - Die Totenhosen - The Prodigy - Primal Scream - The Verve - Refused - Meshuggah - Bob Hund

Hultsfred Festival 1995 - Line Up
Pantera - Slayer - Nationalteatern - Chemical Brothers - Supergrass - the Cardigans - Kent - Millencolin - Beastie Boys (cancelled) - Chris Isaak (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 1996 - Line Up
Blur - Björk - Ministry - The Cure - Iggy Pop - Pulp - Bad Religion - The Prodigy - Bruce Dickinson] - Fear Factory - Emmylou Harris - Frank Black - Skunk Anansie (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 1997 - Line Up
The Prodigy - Suede - Rage Against the Machine - Wu Tang Clan - Daft Punk - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Cardigans - Placebo - The Hellacopters - Millencolin - Marilyn Manson (cancelled) - Supergrass (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 1998 - Line Up
Black Sabbath - garbage - Eagle Eye Cherry - Bob Hund - Wilmer X - Rancid - Kent - NOFX - Turbonegro - The Soundtrack of our Lives

Hultsfred Festival 1999 - Line Up
Hole - Suede - Marilyn Manson - Joe Strummer - Monster Magnet - Goo Goo Dolls - Fu Manchu - Bloodhound Gang - Hammerfall - Manic Street Prachers - Meshuggah - Orgy (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 2000 - Line Up
Oasis - Rage Against the Machine - Primal Scream - Thåström - Mikael Wiehe - Suicidal Tendencies - Kelis - Deftones - Lars Winnerbäck - Asian Dub Foundation - Muse - Travis (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 2001 - Line Up
Iggy Pop - Manic Street Preachers - Weezer - TOOL - Faithless - Limp Bizkit - Jello Biafra - The Hives - The Nomads (20th anniversary) - Godsmack - Håkan Hellström - Outkast (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 2002 - Line Up
Suede - Rammstein - New Order- Chemical Brothers - Slayer - Sonic Youth - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Bob Hund - Agnostic Front - Arch Enemy - Starsailor - Ed Hacourt

Hultsfred Festival 2003 - Line Up
Radiohead - Audioslave - Queens of the Stoneage - Massive Attack - Stereophonics - The Dandy Warhols - The Streets - Counting Crows - Badly Drawn Boy - The Datsuns - Strapping Young Lad

Hultsfred Festival 2004 - Line Up
Morrissey - Alica Keys - Mary J Blige - Kris Kristofferson - Hatebreed - 3 Doors Down - Pixies - PJ Harvey - Soulfly - Scissor Sisters - Weeping Willows - Danko Jones

Hultsfred Festival 2005 - Line Up
Marilyn Manson - Snoop Dogg - System of a Down - Nine Inch Nails - Slipknot - Slayer - The Hives - The Mars Volta - Millencolin - Tori Amos - The Hellacopters - Turbonegro

Hultsfred Festival 2006 - Line Up
The Strokes - Kent - Lou Reed - Deftones - Pharrel - The Cardigans - In Flames - Gnarls Barkley - Soundtrack of our Lives - The Sounds - Alice in Chains - Blindside - Backyard Babies - KoRn (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 2007 - Line Up
Ozzy Osbourne - KoRn - 50 Cent - Petshop Boys - Velvet Revolver - Black Label Society - Turbonegro - The Ark - Manic Street Preachers - Wolfmother - Evanescence - Amy Winehouse - Sahara Hotnights

Hultsfred Festival 2008 - Line Up
Rage Against the Machine - Serj Tankian - Babyshambles - Blood Red Shoes - Håkan Hellström - The Hives - Danko Jones - Robyn - HIM -The Donnas - Mustasch - Paramore - The Haunted - Linkin Park (cancelled)

Hultsfred Festival 2009 - Line Up
Madness - The Killers - Regina Spektor - Lenka - Lars Winnerbäck (x4) - Maia Hirasawa - Timbuktu - Takida - Anna Ternheim - Kings of Leon - Franz Ferdinand - Dropkick Murphys - Ice Cube - Ludacris - Shotgun crackers