The Eurockéennes de Belfort is one of France's largest rock music festivals. The Eurockéennes, a play on words involving the words rock and européennes (Europeans), is a festival based in a nature reserve in Malsaucy. The most recent festival took place 3, 4 and 5 July 2009.
Eurockéennes festival at the Malsaucy site
[edit] History
1989 marked the first time round for the festival, when it went under the name Le Ballon - Territoire de musiques, named after the nearby Ballon d'Alsace. The festival was organised to take place on the Ballon d'Alsace, but the peninsula on the Malsaucy lake was chosen in the end. It was the brainchild of the Conseil général of the Territoire de Belfort, who wanted to dynamise their département with a big cultural event for its youths.
In 1990 the festival was renamed les Eurockéennes de Belfort.
Statistics:
- 10,000 revellers in 1989
- 70,000 revellers in 1993
- 80,000 revellers in 2002
- 95,000 revellers in 2004
- 100,000 revellers in 2006
- 100,000 revellers in 2008
Les Eurockéennes takes place on the peninsula of Lake Malsaucy, 10 kilometres from Belfort. A number of different stages are present – la Grande Scène, le Chapiteau, la Loggia and la Plage. Most of the time there are simultaneous concerts on different stages; altogether in 2005 there were about 70.
A campsite, 3 km from the main site, is the free temporary home to 15000 festival-goers, with a free shuttle bus running between the campsite and the entrance to the main area.
[edit] Les tremplins
Tremplins (stepping stones) are organised to allow youth groups to get to know one another. These are organised in Alsace, Bourgogne, Franche-Comté (Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort), Lorraine, Germany and Switzerland.
[edit] Billing
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[edit] Saturday 30 June
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[edit] Friday June 30
[edit] Saturday July 1
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EBands present:
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On Friday, bad weather halted action, and consequently My Vitriol, Alec Empire, Roni Size et Deftones (among others) had to cancel.
Incomplete list:
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Incomplete list
[edit] Friday 7
[edit] Saturday 8
[edit] Sunday 9
Performers by stage:
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[edit] Chapiteau
[edit] Scène Territoire de musiques
By stage:
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[edit] Chapiteau
[edit] Scène Territoire de musiques
Performers by day:
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Performers by stage:
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[edit] Chapiteau
[edit] Scène Territoire de musiques
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[edit] Scène C
[edit] Scène A
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Due to a storm, many performances had to be cut out, including Davy Spillane Band - Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Les Garçons Bouchers - P.V.O. - Stephan Eicher - Stéphane Riva).
The first time round for the festival
[edit] Scène Savoureuse
[edit] Scène Malsaucy
[edit] Scène Evette
[edit] Scène Salbert
[edit] External links
[edit] French
[edit] References
Translated from French Wikipedia version of the page
