Alive Festival

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Alive Festival
General information
place Belgium , Liege Province , Sankt Vith
genre Rock , pop , alternative rock , electronic dance music
Visitor numbers
1995 about 500
1996 about 500
1997 approx. 1100
1998 about 3000
1999 approx. 4500 (Sundays)
2000 about 10,000
2001 about 10,000-12,000
2002 approx. 20,000
2003 approx. 20,000
2004 approx. 15,000
2005 about 10,000
Previous venues
1995-1998 Meyerode

The Alive Festival was a music festival that took place once a year in the summer from 1995 to 2005 in the Belgian Eifel . The open-air event has been leading internationally known musicians and bands to the German-speaking community of Belgium for many years .

history

Performed at the Alive Festival in 2000: Heather Nova
Were seen in Sankt Vith in 2002: The Finnish cello rockers from Apocalyptica
The H-Blockx around singer Henning Wehland were guests at the Alive Festival three times (1998, 1999 and 2005)

The Alive Festival was initially held from 1995 to 1998 at the Schützenhalle in Meyerode . From 1999 it took place in various locations in the municipality of Sankt Vith . From a contemplative one-day event in the early years that only attracted a few hundred spectators, the festival quickly developed into a regional size that attracted many thousands of people every year. In terms of style, the organizers made a change over the years from a more hardcore and grunge-oriented program to a significantly greater variety and mass suitability, so that ultimately pop , rock and electro acts can be seen and heard on the festival stages were heard. The first big name was presented at the fourth edition of the Alive Festival in 1998 with the band H-Blockx . Numerous other stars, especially in German-speaking countries, but also some world-famous stars, followed. B. Heather Nova , Die Toten Hosen , the Guano Apes or Iggy Pop . After its eleventh edition in 2005, according to the organizers, the festival should initially only have a one-year break. The reason given for this was the massive increase in artist fees, which would make the festival virtually impossible in its previous form. Ultimately, however, the festival was not revived in 2007 or in subsequent years.

  • Festival poster from 2003

  • Announcement of advance sales for the last edition of the festival (2005)

  • Partly used festival logo

  • The festival meadow at the Meyeroder Schützenhalle

Overview

year date Participating bands (excerpt)
1995 20th of August Roger Lee Rose & the MAD Club
1996 September 8th Deviate
1997 August 22nd to 24th Welder
1998 August 21-23 H-Blockx
1999 August 20-22 Arid , Guano Apes , H-Blockx, Liquido
2000 August 18th to 20th Clawfinger , Crematory , JBO , Heather Nova , HIM , Such a Surge
2001 August 17th to 19th Brings , Die Happy , Dog Eat Dog , Echt , Front 242 , JBO, Iggy Pop , Oomph! , Sub7even
2002 July 26-28 Apocalyptica , Die Toten Hosen , Son Goku feat. Thomas D , Sub7even, The Sisters of Mercy
2003 July 25-27 4Lyn , Anouk , Donots , Guano Apes, Krezip , Nena
2004 July 30th to August 1st Girls in Hawaii , Jeanette , Krezip, Martin Kesici , MIA. , Oomph !, Reamonn , Sarah Bettens , Silbermond , Söhne Mannheims , Sub7even, Therapy?
2005 July 29th to 31st Culcha Candela , Dog Eat Dog, H-Blockx, In Extremo , July , Silbermond, We are heroes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ grenzecho.be: From the village stage in a steep flight upwards
  2. ↑ grenzecho.be: Probably not Alive 2006
  3. ↑ germanrock.de: coverage of the 2002 festival
  4. ↑ germanrock.de: reporting on the 2003 festival
  5. ↑ germanrock.de: reporting on the 2004 festival
  6. ↑ germanrock.de: reporting on the 2005 festival