Groezrock
The Groezrock is a place held annually music festival in Belgium Meerhout (Gestel). It usually takes place on the last weekend in April.
The first Groezrock ( big rock ) took place in 1992 as a small rock and pop festival with almost 400 visitors. It was not until 1997 that the number of visitors increased slowly but steadily, up to the record in 2009 with over 30,000 visitors. From 2003 there will be two tents, each with a stage, the "Main Stage" and the "Core Stage" sponsored by Eastpak .
In 2006 the festival celebrated its 15th anniversary and has taken place on two days since then.
2009 was a third stage, from Etnies sponsored Etnies "Back to Basics Stage", was introduced. Mostly bands of the hardcore genre play here .
In 2015 there was a fifth stage for the first time, the so-called "The Revenge Stage". This stage is alternated with the "Back to Basics Stage".
Previous dates and bands
- May 1, 1992
- Grandma's Toy, Buckle Juice, Dinky Toys , Pitti Polak
- April 24, 1993
- Give Buzze , The Establishment , Ashbury Faith , The Scabs
- April 30, 1994
- One Hes , Inna Nip , Rusk , Groggy's Crawl , Thermos , Burma Shave , Metal Molly , Jack of Hearts , Soapstone , BJ Scott
- April 29, 1995
- Oxid , Cesspool , Quip , Dildo Warheads , Mutilated , Deeper , Brotherhood Foundation , LA Doors
- April 27, 1996
- Small Yellow Fish , Protest , Underdog !? , Cooper , Def Real , The Romans , Brotherhood Foundation , Deviate
- April 26, 1997
- Ryker’s , De Heideroosjes , Brotherhood Foundation , Gwyllions , Instructions for Use , Igor's Record Shop , Cornflames , Flee Bag
- April 25, 1998
- Millencolin , Good Riddance , Intensity , AFI , Hard Resistance , Undeclinable Ambuscade , Pancake , Instructions For Use , Sixpack Joe , Cooperate , Plan 9
- April 24, 1999
- No Fun at All , Ten Foot Pole , 59 Times the Pain , Good Riddance , 88 Fingers Louie , Buck Wild , Bombshell Rocks , Void Section , Jane's Detd , 2 Late , Access Denied , Nevergreen , PN
- April 29, 2000
- No Fun at All , De Heideroosjes , Down by Law , Liberator , The Bouncing Souls , Within Reach , Facedown , Vision , 5 Days Off , I Against I , Skin of Tears , Apeshit , Delate , Figure It Out
- April 28, 2001
- Square One , Buckle Up , Powerhouse , Deviates , Venerea , Burning Heads , Adhesive , Stoned , Randy , Undeclinable , 59 Times the Pain , Snuff , SNFU , Ignite , Voodoo Glow Skulls , union 13
- April 27, 2002
- Bad Religion , Sick of It All , Guttermouth , Down by Law , Satanic Surfers , Circle , .Caliber , Kill Your Idols , Horace Pinker , Flatcat
- April 26, 2003
- Dropkick Murphys , Biohazard , Glassjaw , Ten Foot Pole , Hot Water Music , dredg , Flogging Molly , Gameface , Randy , The Shandon , Face Tomorrow , Skool's Out , Severance , Between the Lines , Support , Terror , Caliban , Give Up the Ghost , Stairland , Poison the Well
- April 24, 2004
- Millencolin, Sick of It All, De Heideroosjes , Mad Caddies , Madball , Pulley , Strung Out , Ten Foot Pole , Midtown , The Almighty Trigger Happy , Travoltas , Belvedere , Beatsteaks , E. Town Concrete , Stretch Arm Strong , Liar , The Bronx , The Promise , Cornflames , Rise and Fall , Champion
- April 30, 2005
- Lagwagon , Hatebreed , Mad Caddies , Flogging Molly , 7 Seconds , boysetsfire , Rise Against , Tsunami Bomb , Strike Anywhere , Only Crime , Capdown , Pepper , SFP Coheed and Cambria , Ringworm , Hopesfall , Alexisonfire , Street Dogs , From Autumn to Ashes , Modern Life Is War , Maroon , The Setup , Malkovich
- 28/29 April 2006
- Taking Back Sunday , Thrice , Goldfinger , Underoath , Silverstein , Aiden , Say Anything , Bad Religion , Dropkick Murphys , Sick of It All, Anti-Flag , Me First and the Gimme Gimmes , Less Than Jake , No Use for a Name , Death by Stereo , Peter Pan Speedrock , A Wilhelm Scream , The Lawrence Arms , Latterman , The Banner , Path of Resistance , Born from Pain , All Out War , Raised Fist , Comeback Kid , Himsa , The Maple Room , Bold , The Spirit That Guides Us , Officer Jones & HPCP
- 27./28. April 2007
- Big D and the Kids Table , Caliban , Death by Stereo , Enter Shikari , Gallows , Motion City Soundtrack , New Found Glory , No Turning Back , Saosin , Senses Fail , Stretch Armstrong , The All-American Rejects , Aiden , Cancer Bats , Converge , Deadline , Death Before Disco , Full Blown Chaos , Hatebreed , Hit the Lights , Ignite , Jimmy Eat World , Lagwagon , Lostprophets , Mad Caddies , MxPx , Rise Against, Sparta , Street Dogs , Strung Out , Terror, The Ataris , The Bronx , MewithoutYou , Tiger Army
- 9/10 May 2008
- Alkaline Trio , All Time Low , Anti-Flag , Billy Talent , Finch , Hot Water Music , Mayday Parade , Set Your Goals , Silverstein , Strike Anywhere , The Audition , The Blackout , The Planet Smashers , 59 Times the Pain , A Wilhelm Scream , Agnostic Front , Bad Religion , The Bouncing Souls , Bury Your Dead , Cursed , Do or Die , El Guapo Stuntteam , Face to Face , Heaven Shall Burn , Horse the Band , No Fun at All , Parkway Drive , Sick of It All, Story of the Year , Suicide Silence , The Bones , The Flatliners , The Loved Ones , The Setup , The Toasters , This Is Hell
- 17./18. April 2009
- NOFX , Walls of Jericho , Comeback Kid , Misery Signals , Architects , Bane , Outbreak , Bullet for My Valentine , The Get Up Kids , The Aquabats , Poison the Well , The Living End , Street Dogs , United Nations , Underoath , Taking Back Sunday , Bleeding Through , Escape the Fate , Gino's Eyeball , Emery , POBox , Senses Fail , The Unseen , Darkest Hour , Backfire! , Mad Sin , Rise Against, Nuns Go Riot , True Colors , Death Before Dishonor , Mid Air Collision , The Sedan Vault , Innerpartysystem , Nations Afire , Thursday , Kid Down , Bring Me the Horizon , VersaEmerge , Campus , The Flatliners , Tackleberry , This Is a Standoff , Amenra , Catch 22 , MxPx , Tenement Kids , The Vandals , You Me at Six , Sounds Like Violence , Beneath the Massacre , The Academy Is ... , No Fun at All , The Ghost of a Thousand , First Blood , Billy the Kill
- 23/24 April 2010
- Sum 41 , AFI , Bad Religion , Pennywise , Funeral for a Friend , Zebrahead , Lit , The Bouncing Souls , Alesana , Millencolin, Haste the Day , Parkway Drive , Strike Anywhere , Face to Face , Agnostic Front , A Skylit Drive , Mustard Plug , Dance Gavin Dance , H2O , A Wilhelm Scream , The Real McKenzies , Despised Icon , Caliban , In Fear and Faith , Winds of Plague , MC Lars , 88 Fingers Louie , The Aggrolites , Holding Onto Hope , The Ghost of a Thousand , This Is Hell , Good Clean Fun , Born from Pain , The Warriors , Fake Problems , The Swellers , The Friday Night Boys , Rise and Fall , Asking Alexandria , Defeater , Banner Pilot , 50 Lions , Mute , Mariachi El Bronx , Young Guns , Pour Habit , Static Radio NJ , Steak Number Eight
- 22./23. April 2011
- NOFX , Dropkick Murphys , Flogging Molly , Hatebreed , Sick of It All, Danko Jones , Further Seems Forever , Millencolin, Whitechapel , The Blackout , Underoath , The Used , Every Time I Die , Circa Survive , Thursday , Twin Atlantic , Dashboard Confessional , Descendents , Goldfinger , Blood for Blood , Madball , Street Dogs , No Friends , boysetsfire , The Black Pacific , Craig's Brother , Army of Freshmen , Rufio , Cute Is What We Aim For , We Came as Romans , Bleed from Within , Impending Doom , Miss May I , The Acacia Strain , Blade , Veara , Gray Area , Devil's Brigade , Shai Hulud , Sugarcult , Piebald , Streetlight Manifesto , Teenage Bottlerocket , Dead to Me , Saves the Day , Snapcase , Comeback Kid , Street Dogs, Homer , Asking Alexandria , Old Man Markley , Blacklist Royals , Social Suicide , H₂O , CIV , Brotherhood Foundation , The Ghost Inside , Hoods , Dear Landlord , Grave Maker , Cruel Hand
- 28/29 April 2012
- Rancid , Refused , Lagwagon , Face to Face , Simple Plan , Yellowcard , Good Riddance , Thrice , Lifetime , Alkaline Trio , De Heideroosjes , Unearth , Parkway Drive , Gorilla Biscuits , Hazen Street , Terror, The Dillinger Escape Plan , Anti-Flag , Heaven Shall Burn , 7 Seconds , The Bouncing Souls , Hot Water Music , Reel Big Fish , Motion City Soundtrack , Evergreen Terrace , The Bronx , Set Your Goals , MxPx , Verse , Slapshot , The Ghost Inside , Architects , Cobra Skulls , The Wonder Years , Your Demise , Bigwig , Zebrahead , For Today , DYS , Belvedere , The Dangerous Summer , Gallows , Such Gold , Off with Their Heads , Old Firm Casuals , I Am the Avalanche , Make Do and Mend , Miss May I , Trigger Effect , Chixdiggit , Billy the Kill , Royal Republic , Red City Radio , The Menzingers , Junius , Authority Zero , Versus the World , Bear , Sunpower , Banquets , Wolves Like Us , Confession , Laura Jane Grace , We Are the In Crowd , Jonah Matranga , The Copyrights , Dave Home , Co unterpunch , Kevin Seconds , Paceshifters , Mike Herrera , Vienna , Chuck Ragan , Garret Klahn , Hostage Calm , Face Tomorrow
- 27./28. April 2013
- Rise Against, Bad Religion , Billy Talent , Rocket from the Crypt , Pennywise , AC4 , Flag , Hatebreed , Turbonegro , Texas Is the Reason , ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead , Frank Turner , The Aquabats , Pulley , The Used , The Starting Line , Less Than Jake , Strung Out , The Ataris , The Flatliners , Smoke or Fire , The Dopamines , Nothington , Killswitch Engage , Bring Me the Horizon , August Burns Red , Sparta , Attack Attack! , A Wilhelm Scream , Streetlight Manifesto , The Riverboat Gamblers , Far from Finished , The Rocket , Grade , Emmure , The Kids , Samiam , Joey Cape's Bad Loud , Chelsea Grin , Crossfaith , Crushing Caspars , Comeback Kid , Kid Dynamite , Title Fight , Implants , Trapped Under Ice , The Story So Far , Obey the Brave , John Coffey , Six Ft Ditch , Attila , Buried in Verona , Dave HOME , Jonny Two Bags , Walter Schreifels , Scorpios , Kristopher Roe , Russ Rankin , Miracles , Min , Narrows , Adept , Stick to Your Guns , While She Sleeps , Bastions , Into Another , Strife , Polar Bear Club , First Blood , Old Man Markley , Pure Love , Iron Chic , Midnight Souls , Masked Intruder , The Front Bottoms , Geoff Rickly , Vinnie Caruana , Rocky Votolato , Tim Vantol , Rob Lynch , Into It. Over It. , PJ Bond , Arizona & Gray Like Masquerade
- 2nd / 3rd May 2014
- NOFX, The Offspring, The Hives, Alkaline Trio, ALL, All Pigs Must Die, Apologies, Astpai , Atlas Losing Grip, Bayside, Biohazard, Blitz Kids, Bodyjar, Boysetsfire, Brand New, Bury Tomorrow, Caliban, Chunk! No Captain Chunk !, Crazy Arm, Cro-Mags, Deez Nuts, Devil In Me, Done Dying, Doomriders, Drug Church, Edward In Venice, Elway, Everlast, Fabulous Disaster, Falling In Reverse, Fathoms, Funeral Dress, Gameface, Get Dead, H2O, I Am The Avalanche, Ignite, I Have None, I Killed The Prom Queen, INVSN, Iron Chic, Judge, Kids Insane, La Dispute, Larry And His Flask, Liferuiner, Madball, Moments, Monder Life Is War, My Extraordinary, New Found Glory, NOFX, Norma Jean, Paint It Black, PUP, Quicksand, Red City Radio, Restorations, River Jumpers, Saves The Day, Screeching Weasel, Shell Beach, Snuff, Still Bust, Taking Back Sunday, Terror, The Casualties, The Charm The Fury, The Descendents, The Devil Wears Prada, The Ghost Inside, The Hives, The Ignored, The Lawrence Arms, The Menzingers, The Offspring, The Priceduifkes, The Setup, The Smith Street Band, The Toasters, The Tramps, The Wonder Years, Tim Barry, Touche Amore, Wisdom In Chains
- 1./2. May 2015
- Social Distortion, Refused, Against Me !, Agnostic Front, American Nightmare, Angel Du $ t, As Friends Rust, Atreyu, Bane, Banner Pilot, Basement, Beach Slang, Broilers, Brutus, Call It Off, Cancer Bats, Carnifex, Ceremony , Cold World, Comeback Kid, Counterpunch, Dave HOME, Deez Nuts, Defeater, Diesel Boy, Direct Hit !, FOD, Feed The Rhino, Forus, Frenzal Rhomb, Frnkiero And The Cellebration, Gnarwolves, Good Riddance, Iron Reagan, Joyce Manor , Knapsack, Lagwagon, Love Zombies, Make Do & Mend, Masked Intruder, Millencolin, Mineral, Motion City Soundtrack, Nasty, No Turning Back, Obey The Brave, Obliterations, OFF !, Off With Their Heads, Pennywise, Psycho 44, Raised Fist, Reign Supreme, Satanic Surfers, Set It Off, Set Things Right, Social Distortion, Stick To Your Guns, Such Gold, Suicide Silence, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Acacia Strain, The Deaf, The Early November, The Ghost Inside, The Hell , The Holy Mess, The Hotelier, The Interrupters , The Loved Ones, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Th e Real McKenzies, The Smith Street Band, The Swellers, Timeshares, Title Fight, Toxic Shock, Transit, Trash Talk , Turbowolf, Turnstile, Under The Influence, Unearth, While She Sleeps, Whitechapel, You Blew It, Your Highness
- 29./30. April 2016
- Bad Cop / Bad Cop, Blessthefall, Broken Teeth, Burn, Bury Your Dead, Caliban, Clowns, Coma Commander, Dag Nasty, Despised Icon, Dillinger Four, Double Veterans, Emmure, Face To Face, Flatcat, Four Year Strong, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Hatebreed, Hellions, Iron Chic, Juliette & The Licks, Knockout Kid, Less Than Jake, Letlive, Mad Caddies, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Modern Baseball, Moose Blood, Much the Same, Muncie Girls, Night Birds, No Fun At All, No Use For A Name, Northlane, Not On Tour, Off The Cross, Pears, PUP, Rancid, Rozwell Kid, Saosin, Siberian Meat Grinder, Sick Of It All, SNFU , Sum 41, Tangled Horns, Teen Agers, Terror, The Aggrolites, The Bennies, The Dirty Nil, The Falcon, The Movielife, Venerea, Walls of Jericho, We'rewolves, Youth of Today
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Official website (German)
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 35.2 " N , 5 ° 6 ′ 16.5" E