mercredi 4 Jui 2008, 11h40m
200 bands, 6 stages, 4 days!
Only 42 days left before the next Dour Festival in Belgium opens its gates. It will be held from July 17th until the 20th. Like every year, the 3rd weekend of July will see thousands of young music lovers gather on the Plaine de La Machine A Feu, by the coal heaps in the small village of Dour. The festival will welcome 200 bands (that's over 300 hours of live music) over 4 days!
The Dour Festival offers you the best of compromises: musical diversity, quality, maximum choice but for a tiny weeny price!
New bands confirmed:
DJ Krush
Ratatat
Chuck Dukowski Sextet
Flat Earth Society meets Jimi Tenor
Tim Vanhamel (Millionaire)
The Germans
General Mindy
Casey
Didier Super et son groupe
Sierra Sam & Marcus Vector live
The Heliocentrics
After last year's amazing performance Otto Von Schirach didn't intend to come back to Dour on his own this time around. He wants to bring his mates along to share the fun: Esperanza (Miami based singer) and Dj Urine (France).
Unfortunately Do Make Say Think have cancelled their summer European tour and won't therefore be at Dour.
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04.06.2008
BUY YOUR TICKET FOR THE FESTIVAL (only 85 Euros for the whole festival if you book in advance)
Once again we have made the festival site bigger and we've also expended some of the congested roads to make it easier to walk around the site. We have also rethought the whole organisation of the huge camping site situated next to the festival site. This year it will be separated in different zones.
Despite all this, we do not intend on selling more tickets but we will limit the site's capacity to 36 000 people per day (144 000 on the duration of the festival)the same as last year.
Don't believe the rumours, we are indeed selling faster than ever but there are still some 4-day tickets left (with or without camping) and you can also buy one-day tickets.
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ATTENTION: We would like to strongly advise you to book your combi tickets now (incl. camping) in order to minimise the queues at the entrance. Last year, after 4:00 pm, you were 23.000 to arrive in the small town of Dour on the 1st day. If you already have you Combi ticket, things will go much smoothly! With your combi ticket you also get access to the shuttle between the train station in St Ghislain and the festival site OR free access to the parking. This should also minimise queues and waiting time.
For all info: http://tickets.dourfestival.be
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04.06.2008
OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE DURING THE FESTIVAL
We do no plan on changing the concept of your Dour but we'd like to make it even better.
In addition to the new location of the campsite and the new measures taken to improve traffic and files on the grounds of the festival, we are announcing today the creation of two new large areas of relaxation where you can chill quietly.
Within one of these areas, you will also find an entirely new stand with special beers where you will have the opportunity to peacefully try some Belgian specialties! Drink responsibly!
For your comfort:
* we're adding a lot more bins and toilets on the ground
* we're setting up a new system of waste collection as well ad a new easy sorting system
* we're setting up a new cleaning team that will be on the site 24h a day
There'll be more new actions to make your stay at Dour nicer. We'll tell you more soon.
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We're working hard towards making this 20th Dour Festival a resounding success.