Way Out West

News - 23rd January - FLORENCE & THE MACHINE JOIN SWEDEN'S WAY OUT WEST LINE UP!
Florence writes her best songs when she’s drunk or has a hangover, because that’s when the freedom, the feral music comes, creating itself wildly from the fragments gathered in her notebooks and in her head. “You’re lucid,” she explains, “but you’re not really there. You’re floating through your own thoughts, and you can pick out what you need. I like those weird connections in the universe. I feel that life’s like a consistent acid trip, those times when things keep coming back.”

Well you lucky people in Gothenburg this summer will get to experience all of Florence + The Machines best songs!

News - 18th January - MORE ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR SWEDEN'S WAY OUT WEST FESTIVAL
Joining the already announced Bon Iver, the reformed Refused and more, festival organisers have revealed today that BILLY BRAGG and ICEAGE will be coming to Gothenburg this summer!

News - 12th January - THIRD ARTIST CONFIRMED FOR WAY OUT WEST 2012!
Hot on the heels of Tuesday's announcement that the reformed Refused were confirmed for Way Out West organizers have today revealed their 3rd artist announcement - FEIST!  aka Leslie Feist!

News - 10th January - NEW ACT ANNOUNCED FOR SWEDEN'S WAY OUT WEST FESTIVAL
Festival organisers have today announced that REFUSED will be joining Bon Iver at this year's Way Out West Festival that takes place in Gothenburg from the 9th - 11th August

News - 29th November - BON IVER CONFIRMED FOR GOTHENBURG'S WAY OUT WEST FESTIVAL
Way Out West organisers have just released the first band for next year’s festival – BON IVER! Next year’s festival takes place at Slottsskogen Park, Gothenburg, Sweden from the 9th to 12th August

LINE UP

Refused
Bon Iver
Feist
Azealia Banks
ASAP Rocky
YelaWolf
Iceage
Billy Bragg
Florence & The Machine

HISTORY

Way Out West is a three-day music festival held in Gothenburg, Sweden, during August that plays host to a variety of popular music artists mainly from the Rock, Electronic and Hip-hop genres.

The main festival takes place in the 137 hectare park of Slottsskogen in Gothenburg on the Friday and Saturday of the festival weekend. Additionally many other artists perform at various venues in and around central Gothenburg on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

Way Out West Festival 2011 - Line Up
PRINCE, PULP, 2 Steg Från Håkan, About Group, Adam Tensta & The Black Power Mixtape Experience, Apflickorna, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, The Avett Brothers, Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right – Revisited, Butch, D/R/U/G/S, Dasha Rush, Deathcrush, Destroyer, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Empire Of The Sun, Explosions In The Sky, Fake Blood (Live), Fleet Foxes, Glasser, Guilty Guilty Gerilla Streetart Cinema , Happy End , Iamamiwhoami, Jag Saknar Dig, James Blake, Jamie Woon, Janelle Monáe, The Jayhawks, Kanye West, Kid Below Aka Anastasia Ax, Koreless, Low, Man Ooman, Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Matthew Dear – Live Band, Noah And The Whale, Off!, Oni Ayhun, Puro Instinct, Q-Tip, Robyn, Säkert!, Santigold, Thåström, Tiësto, Timber Timbre, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Twin Shadow, Warpaint, Who Took The Bomp – Le Tigre On Tour, Wiz Khalifa, Wu Lyf, Yuck, Zola Jesus

Way Out West Festival 2010 - Line Up
Pavement, Paul Weller, M.I.A, The Chemical Brothers, Jonsi, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Surfer Blood, La Roux, The XX, Håkan Hellström, The Radio Dept, Girls, Real Estate, Samling, LCD Soundsystem, Local Natives, Marina and The Diamonds, The National, Beach, House, Miike Snow, Basia, Bulat, Tune-Yards, Sleigh Bells, Tallest Man on Earth, Junip, Konono N ° 1, Rango Rangos, Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program, Sher Ali & Meher, Mutamassik, DJ/Rupture, Nettle, CIAfrica, Lykke Li, Jens Lekman, The Drums, Panda Bear, Iggy & The Stooges, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Imperial State Electric, Mumford & Sons, Broken Bells, The Low Anthem, Laura Marling, Caribou, Rye Rye, Fake Blood, Chapel Club, Field Music, Shearwater, Bear In Heaven, jj, Villagers, Vit Päls, Andreas Söderlund, Sleepy Sun, ceo, Die Antwoord, I Blame Coco, Fool's Gold, Taken By Trees, Harlem, Slow Club, Wild Nothing