Aerodrome (music festival)
The Aerodrome was a music festival in Austria .
In January 2004 the "Wiesen Festivals & Concerts GmbH" (former managing director: Ewald Tatar) decided to implement the Aerodrome 04. They wanted to establish a music festival that was unique in Austria and comparable in size to the Rock am Ring or Reading Festival festivals . The 2-day festival took place on Thursday, June 10th, 2004 and Friday, June 11th, 2004 on the Civitas Nova airfield in Wiener Neustadt ( Lower Austria ) on an area of 400,000 m² using two stages. Headliners were the bands Metallica , Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Pixies . The smaller stage ( FM4 stage) was in the Arena Nova event hall , which could hold up to 10,000 visitors, while the main stage for around 50,000 festival guests was set up in the open air. In addition, a campsite was built. The festival was sold out on both days with an average attendance of 65,000 people per day.
After Wiesens separated from his bookers and the resulting founding of Nova Music, the Aerodrome was organized in 2005 by “Artist Marketing Entertainment” on May 26th and 27th. The festival was set up much smaller than the year before. A total of 35,000 visitors came to the Civitas Nova site on the two days.
The 2006 Aerodrome was originally postponed to late summer due to the World Cup and numerous other planned festivals. In April 2006 the cancellation of the festival was finally announced. The reason given was the large number of festivals in 2006 and various cancellations of tours in late summer.
A continuation of the event is not planned.
program
2004
The following bands performed at the “Aerodrome 04” on June 10th and 11th, 2004:
- 3 Doors Down , Amorphis , Beginner , Blackalicious , Cromit , Die Toten Hosen ( eat or die tour ), Dilated Peoples , Dover , garish , Hatebreed , H-Blockx , Ill Niño , In Extremo , Kick Down , Korn , Life of Agony , Lostprophets , Metallica , MIA. , Mnemic , Motörhead , Pixies , Pungent Stench , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Slipknot , Soilwork , Sophia , Soulfly , Static-X , The Stands , The Weakerthans and Within Temptation .
Another festival day took place on Saturday, June 12, 2004, but no longer under the name “Aerodrome 04”, but under the title “Grönemeyer and Friends”. On this day Herbert Grönemeyer and the Black Eyed Peas as well as Avril Lavigne came as headliners ; in addition, the sons of Mannheims and Christina Stürmer (in their first live concert) could be seen live.
2005
The following bands took part in the "Aerodrome 05" on May 26 and 27, 2005:
- 3 Feet Smaller , 3 Inches of Blood , Asian Dub Foundation , Blind Petition , Clawfinger , Dog Eat Dog , Edo Maajka , Ektomorf , Flyswatter , Guadalajara , Heinz from Vienna , Incorporated , Incubus , JBO , Les Babacools , Monomania , Motörhead , Naca 7 , Naked Lunch , Paradise Lost , Petsch Moser , Rammstein , Randy , Shantel , Sick of It All , Slipknot , Still Remains , The Hives , The Prodigy , Trivium , The Servant , The Soundtrack of Our Lives , Thirteen Senses , Turbonegro , Tyler , Waxolutionists , ...
Individual evidence
- ↑ aereodrome.at: 150,000 fans rock Wiener Neustadt! ( Memento from July 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ aerodrome.at: Aerodrome_05 is history ( Memento from June 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ aerodrome.at: Aerodrome 2006 - Postponement ( Memento of March 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ aerodrome.at: Aerodrome 2006 - Rejection ( Memento of April 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive )