The vapors of revelry and revelry, the sheer amount of light and the thundering sounds of guitar-based beats all tell you that you’re at a rock festival. The event some people have been waiting for years, and when they wait, they celebrate it with a celebration of life, which is significant for the city or region where it is held, and first of all, because of its mass character.
After all, there are millions of fans of rock and its ideology of freedom, which means that people from all over the world will come to the biggest party. The most massive and iconic rock festivals, in our selection right now.
Sziget (“island”) festival
In fact, this festival represents a whole mix of festivals. Started with 43,000, this festival now draws over 400,000 people as a standard, and attracts more and more people, both with its diverse music and incredible comfort conditions. Besides the main stage with all kinds of classic rock, there are also ethno-rock and heavy rock stages.
European level of infrastructure is evident in everything here. After sending your kids to the “kids room” where they are looked after you can go to the hairdresser’s with a free Wi-Fi, where they make you a colourful mohawk for a cup of coffee and you go to party at the stage, and afterwards you can wash sweaty and smoky clothes in the local laundry. Such monsters as Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Iggy Pop, The Prodigy come to these comfortable conditions with pleasure.
“Rock im Park” and “Rock am Ring”.
The biggest rock festivals in Germany, one of which takes place at Zeppelinfield in Nuremberg and the other at the race track in Nürburg. The main thing about these festivals is the quality of their performances and the star names of their headliners, just read these names: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Machine Head, Muse, Nickelback, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Korn, Metallica.
The quality of the festival doesn’t differ much from the first one – all the services are also available to you, such as cash machine, Internet, medical assistance and “the children’s room”. The practical Germans create hectares of land for comfortable camping, so tent and caravan lovers will find no shortage of room here.
“Glastonbury
This festival in the old British town proudly holds the title of Europe’s biggest and most versatile. Of course his main component – rock concerts to which flows up to 500 thousand people. Listen to such famous bands as Coldplay, U2, Morrissey, Veuonce, Queens of the stone age, BB King, the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim.
However, it would be unfair not to tell that getting out to this holiday of art, in addition to the rock you have the opportunity to enjoy almost all kinds of creativity, ranging from art exhibitions and theatrical performances and ending with crazy competitions such as motorcycle races. There are no restrictions on alcohol, the only thing you won’t be sold in glass bottles, so all the ingredients for a real rock festival are met.