Bråvalla Festival

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Rammstein at the Bråvalla Festival 2013

The Bråvalla Festival was Sweden's largest and most popular music festival . It took place annually on four (initially three) days at the end of June at Bråvalla flygflottilj outside Norrköping .

The festival was organized by the German FKP Scorpio , which also organizes the Hultsfredfestival (2011-2013) and the Getaway Rock Festival (2012-2015) in Sweden .

In 2014 several people were injured by a lightning strike and the festival was interrupted for two hours.

On July 1, 2017, FKP Scorpio announced that the festival would no longer take place in 2018 due to sexual assault.

Dates and bands

# year date Guests Main act Other acts (selection)
1 2013 27.-29. June 51,590 Avicii , Green Day and Rammstein Macklemore & Ryan Lewis , In Flames , A Day to Remember , Volbeat , Armin van Buuren , Paramore , The Gaslight Anthem , Mando Diao , Ghost , Bad Religion , Bullet for My Valentine
2 2014 26.-28. June 56,071 Iron Maiden , Kanye West and Kings of Leon Imagine Dragons , Lana Del Rey , Axwell , Ingrosso , MIA , The Offspring , Alesso , Bring Me the Horizon , Jake Bugg , Bastille , Belle & Sebastian , Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman
3 2015 25-27 June 50,703 Calvin Harris , Muse and Robbie Williams In Flames , Kent , Sabaton , Deadmau5 , Faith No More , All Time Low , Lars Winnerbäck , Wu-Tang Clan , A Day to Remember , Rise Against , Lamb of God , Major Lazer , Zara Larsson
4th 2016 June 30th – 2nd July 52,317 Rammstein , Mumford & Sons and Volbeat Tenacious D , Zara Larsson , Macklemore & Ryan Lewis , Hardwell , Veronica Maggio , Nightwish , Biffy Clyro , Bring Me the Horizon , Wiz Khalifa , Bullet for My Valentine , Afrojack , Lukas Graham , Editors , Five Finger Death Punch , The 1975 , At the drive-in , Bastille , August Burns Red
5 2017 June 28–1. July 45 162 Håkan Hellström , Martin Garrix and Linkin Park Alesso , The Chainsmokers , Danzig , Die Antwoord , Ellie Goulding , Fritz Kalkbrenner , Halsey , The Killers , Laleh , Otto Knows , Prophets of Rage , Sabaton , Scooter , System of a Down

Web links

Commons : Bråvalla Festival  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ 6 people struck by lightning at the Bravalla music festival in Sweden. In: vde.de. June 27, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Swedish Music Festival canceled due to rape. In: spiegel.de. July 4, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .