Bizarre Festival
The Bizarre Festival (unique under the name Terremoto ) was a music festival in an alternative environment that took place between 1987 and 2003.
history
The first Bizarre Festival took place on July 10th and 11th, 1987 on a small scale on the Berlin Waldbühne and the Loreley open-air theater in St. Goarshausen . The initiators were Ernst-Ludwig Hartz and Peter Rieger . Bands that performed at this time came from the broad independent spectrum, which originally included the Gothic genre. There were u. a. Siouxsie and the Banshees , The Mission , Cassandra Complex , New Model Army and Iggy Pop . The festival grew and, with acts such as Einstürzende Neubauten , The Pogues and Fury in the Slaughterhouse, it gained the reputation of being the first alternative festival in Germany, even if the media and sponsors were initially reserved. Other well-known acts followed until the 1990s, such as Phillip Boa & The Vodooclub , Fields of the Nephilim , The Cure , The The , the Ramones , the Pixies and The Sugarcubes .
In 1991 the one-day festival was extended to two days. The Waldstadion in Giessen was chosen as the venue . Saturday and Sunday were planned as event days. For the approximately 28,000 tickets in advance, there was only space for around 5,000 tents. Most of the visitors arrived on Friday evening, which resulted in very chaotic conditions in Giessen. For this reason, the police confiscated meadows from local farmers for festival visitors and designated them as campsites. Some tents have even been spotted on traffic islands and in front gardens.
In 1992 the festival took place again over a day near Aachen, namely in the leisure park of Alsdorf . After several moves in search of the most suitable location, the Bizarre Festival took place, with a longer stay in Cologne (four years of which at the former Cologne-Butzweilerhof airport ) and in recent years at Niederrhein Airport ( Kleve district ).
When the TV music program WDR-Rockpalast recorded the open air at the 1996 Bizarre Festival , the Swabian punk band WIZO demolished the TV cameras of the West German Radio and attacked the cameramen because, in their opinion, the TV cameras gave the audience the view of the stage blocked. Thereupon the security service broke off the performance of the band. This was followed by a lawsuit for property damage.
On August 15, 1997, at the Bizarre Festival, a few hours after the open air, a visitor who was under the influence of drugs died in the crowd of the audience in front of the side stage in the hangar .
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The festival took place for the last time in 2002 under the name Bizarre. Stagnating numbers of participants, which do not fully utilize the relatively large and expensive festival site in Weeze, but also follow-up costs after riots and vandalism, lead to financial difficulties and the organizer has to file for bankruptcy. The festival was continued in 2003 under the name Terremoto without the participation of the founder. Since the closed Niederrhein airport was flown to again by Ryanair in 2003, the festival area was completely restructured in 2003. The branched out area of the airport with walk-in hangars had contributed greatly to the atmosphere of the Bizarre Festival, which is why the Terremoto was not accepted as the successor by many festival goers. In the years after 2003 the dates announced were always canceled.
Name dispute
In the course of the festival's history, disputes arose over the name of the festival and the rights to the Bizarre brand. The Bizarre Festival, launched in 1987 by the Peter Rieger Concert Agency in cooperation with the concert organizer Ernst-Ludwig Hartz, Bonn, was carried out a little later in cooperation with the Concert Cooperation Bonn. In 2003 the Concert Cooperation Bonn filed for bankruptcy and the Peter Rieger concert agency joined forces with Scorpio Konzertproduktionen and renamed the festival Terremoto (earthquake) until the legal situation was clarified. The Peter Rieger concert agency had already obtained an injunction against the Concert Cooperation Bonn in relation to the Bizarre Festival in 2003, whereby the latter was prohibited from using the name Bizarre in connection with a festival.
Genre and classification
The Bizarre Festival was considered one of the largest, if not the largest, alternative festivals in Germany. In addition to a line-up that is usually wide-ranging in the context of alternative music as a mixture of top-class bands and promising newcomers from home and abroad, the organizers of the festival presented an extra tent for (alternative) electronic music in the last few years of the event , the famous Fat Stage with bands from the American label Fat Wreck Chords as well as a skate park and / or ramp. There was also a Speakers' Corner where everyone had the opportunity to perform.
The festival had a reputation for offering new exciting music. There were always bands that were still at the beginning of their careers as superstars of the 90s, such as Therapy? , which appeared in 1993, or Monster Magnet (1995), Limp Bizkit (1997) and Blink-182 (1997). Nickelback played their later million-dollar hit How You Remind Me on August 18, 2001 as a single before it was released. Designed as a three-day event, with countless music acts, camping and a festival atmosphere, the bizarre quickly found many loyal followers and fans.
Previous dates, locations & bands
10-11 July 1987, Berlin, Waldbühne and St. Goarshausen, Loreley
July 9, 1988, St. Goarshausen, Loreley
May 19, 1989 and June 24, 1989, St. Goarshausen, Loreley
- u. a. The Cure , Pixies , New Model Army , The Mission
June 23, 1990, St. Goarshausen, Loreley
- u. a. The The , Ramones , Phillip Boa , Fields of the Nephilim , Bond , Ride
29-30 June 1991, Gießen, Waldstadion and August 24, 1991 Berlin, open-air stage
- u. a. The Alarm , Pixies , Bad Religion , New Model Army , Stiff Little Fingers , Stereo MCs , Iggy Pop , Rausch , Plan B
June 27, 1992 Alsdorf, leisure park
- u. a. Ramones , The Pogues , Carter USM
August 29, 1992 Berlin, Wuhlheide open-air theater
July 10, 1993 St. Goarshausen, Loreley
- u. a. Sonic Youth , The Levellers , Therapy? , Porno for Pyros , Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy , NOFX , Helmet , New Order , Hole
August 20, 1994 Cologne, youth park
- u. a. Doctors , Bad Religion , Biohazard , Therapy? , Such a surge
August 19, 1995 Cologne-Deutz
- u. a. Clawfinger , NOFX , Monster Magnet , Kyuss , Social Distortion , Spermbirds , White Zombie , Paradise Lost , H-Blockx
17.-18. August 1996, Cologne, Butzweilerhof
- u. a. Die Toten Hosen , WIZO , Rammstein , Garbage , NOFX , New Model Army , Iggy Pop , Tocotronic , Such a Surge , Selig , Weezer , Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun
15-17 August 1997, Cologne, Butzweilerhof
- u. a. Faith No More , Rammstein , Die Fantastischen Vier , Fettes Brot , Beck , Bloodhound Gang , Marilyn Manson , Limp Bizkit , blink-182 , Dinosaur Jr. , Skunk Anansie , Silverchair , Foo Fighters , Die Krupps , Fischmob , Paradise Lost , Bush , Marquee Moon
21-23 August 1998, Cologne, Butzweilerhof
- u. a. Portishead , Page & Plant , Oomph! , Queens of the Stone Age , Fear Factory , The Cure , Monster Magnet , Goldie , Green Day , Guano Apes , Deftones , Headcrash , The Notwist
20.-22. August 1999, Cologne, Butzweilerhof
- u. a. The Offspring , Die Fantastischen Vier , Knorkator , Muse , Beatsteaks , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Tocotronic , Faithless , HIM , Type O Negative , Bloodhound Gang , Deine Lakaien , Wolfsheim , The Cardigans , Paradise Lost , Catatonia
18.-20. August 2000, Weeze, Niederrhein Airport
- u. a. Coldplay , Muse , Placebo , Moby , The Gathering , Sportfreunde Stiller , Clawfinger , Foo Fighters , Underworld , Deftones , Donots , Mr. Bungle , Jimmy Eat World , Rollins Band , Ween
17th-19th August 2001, Weeze, Niederrhein Airport
- u. a. Stone Temple Pilots , Green Day , Die Ärzte , Queens of the Stone Age , Papa Roach , Nickelback , Foo Fighters , The Prodigy , Fear Factory , Xzibit
16.-18. August 2002, Weeze, Niederrhein Airport
- u. a. Die Toten Hosen , Incubus , Korn , Fettes Brot , Nickelback , Farin Urlaub Racing Team , Beatsteaks , Tocotronic , Chemical Brothers , Sneaker Pimps
29.-31. August 2003, Weeze, Niederrhein Airport
under the name Terremoto
- u. a. Foo Fighters , The Doctors , Placebo , Linkin Park , Die Fantastischen Vier , Limp Bizkit , HIM , Turbonegro , The Chemical Brothers
Web links
- The bizarre is dead, long live Terremoto! accessed on October 9, 2015
- Former official web radio of the Bizarre Festival
- Archive for the Bizarre Festival
- A bizarre story: The history of Atlantis among the German festivals festivalguide.de, June 4, 2010; accessed on October 9, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Setlist. Rockpalast Archive; accessed on October 9, 2015.
- ↑ a b c A bizarre story: The story of Atlantis among German festivals . festivalguide.de, June 4, 2010; accessed on October 9, 2015
- ↑ Stefan Scholz: Looking back: When Gießen still offered a stage for world stars , Gießener Anzeiger, September 9, 2015, gießener-anzeiger.de
- ↑ Christian Hoffmann: Interview with singer Axel Kurth of the Swabian punk band Wizo. wormser-zeitung.de, November 7, 2016
- ↑ Bizarre Festival Giessen 1991 Setlists
- ↑ NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 242
- ↑ NOFX: The hepatitis bathtub and other stories . Autobiography of the punk rock band NOFX written with co-author Jeff Alulis, Verlag Edel (Optimal Media GmbH), Röbel / Müritz , 1st edition, February 2017. p. 242