I-day festival
The I-Day Festival or Independent Days Festival is a multi-day music festival that has been held annually in Bologna in September 1999 (exceptional cases were 2006 and 2008 when no festival was held). Mainly bands from the metal , rock , punk and alternative scenes appear at the I-Day Festival .
The festival is part of the Festa de L'Unità, which is known in Italy . At the first edition in 1999, 20,000 festival visitors were counted. In the following years 2000 and 2001 there were already 40,000. The bands appear on two stages, the Arena Parco Nord (main stage) and Tenda Estragon. At the beginning, a festival of its own was held here, the Tenda Festival , which was originally known within the punk scene.
Several well-known bands have already played at this festival, including the Arctic Monkeys , Kasabian , Taking Back Sunday , No Use for a Name , Adam Kills Eve , All Time Low , Sum 41 , Blink-182 , Deep Purple , Nine Inch Nails , Billy Talent , Limp Bizkit and Deftones .
Bands
1999
The Offspring , Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros , Silverchair , Sick of It All , Hepcat , Lit , Punkreas , Verdena , Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti
2000
Tenda Festival
- Saturday September 2, 2000: Mr Bungle , Boss Hog , Andre Williams , Slim , Titan
Arena Parco Nord
- Sunday, September 3, 2000: Blink-182 , Limp Bizkit , Deftones , Millencolin , Verdena , Punkreas , No Use for a Name , Muse
2001
Man or Astro-man? , Mogwai , Eels , Turin Brakes , Ed Harcourt , I Am Kloot , The (International) Noise Conspiracy , Micevice , Boy Hits Cart , Cut , Scarlet , The Valentines , Manu Chao , Muse , Africa Unite , Ska-P , Modena City Ramblers , Rocket from the Crypt , Mad Caddies , Reel Big Fish , Banda Bassotti , Meganoidi , Persiana Jones , Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti , Backyard Babies
2002
Subsonica , NOFX , The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , Modena City Ramblers , Sick of It All , No Use for a Name , Punkreas , Meganoidi , The Music , Something Corporate , Pulley , Bouncing Souls , Ikara Colt , D4
2003
Rancid , The Cramps , The Mars Volta , Radio Birdman , Nashville Pussy , Lagwagon , AFI , Alkaline Trio , The Ataris , Mad Caddies , Fratelli Di Soledad , Thrice , The Hormonauts , Los Fastidios , Immortal Lee County Killers , Bigoz Quartet , All American Rejects , Punx Crew , The Peawees , Forty Winks Motorama , Thee STP , Kim's Teddy Bears , Moravagine , Le Braghe Corte , Marsh Mallows , Karnea , Coffee Shower
2004
Sonic Youth , Franz Ferdinand , The Libertines , Mark Lanegan , Mondo Generator , Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti , Color of Fire , Blueskins , Julie's Haircut , Raydaytona , The Darkness , Velvet Revolver , MC 5 , Lars Frederiksen , Melissa Auf der Maur , The Dirtbombs , New Found Glory , Thee STP , Persiana Jones , Derozer , Radio 4 , Everlast , Feist , Madbones , Friday Star , Morticia Lovers , Flogging Molly , Yellowcard , Vanilla Sky , Coheed and Cambria , Young Heart Attack , Ghetto Ways , Forty Winks , The No One , Wet Tones
2005
Bad Religion , Queens of the Stone Age , The Blood Brothers , The Bravery , Editors , The Futureheads , Maxïmo Park , Meganoidi , Skin , Social Distortion , Forty Winks , Marsh Mallows , The Peawees , Sikitikis
2006
hiatus
2007
Nine Inch Nails , Tool , Maxïmo Park , Hot Hot Heat , ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead , Billy Talent , Petrol
2008
did not take place
2009
Deep Purple , The Kooks , Kasabian , Twisted Wheel , Expatriate , The Hacienda
2010
The Leeches , All Time Low , Simple Plan , Sum 41 , Blink-182
2011
Arctic Monkeys , Kasabian , The Wombats , The Offspring , No Use for a Name , Face to Face , Adam Kills Eve , Taking Back Sunday
Web links
- Official Facebook presence (Italian)
- Former official homepage ( Memento of December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)