However, there has been criticism of the fact that the Wacken Firefighters have been featured too prominently. That year, the number of visitors reached 10,000 for the first time, with Over the years, the size of Wacken Open Air has grown continuously, and now dozens of bands and tens of thousands of visitors flock to the festival.
Furthermore, the cooperation between At an awards ceremony on 11 March 2008, W:O:A received the German television has produced numerous Wacken Open-Air documentaries in recent years. Most of them spent the nights on the camping site. The following list contains only full live albums and no albums containing only individual live tracks from the festival:
The
2003 marks the 14th festival (30 total).
Every year, hundreds of helpers from various relief organisations from all over Germany arrive before the festival to prepare the medical camp and care for people in need during the event. Uwe Trede offered to relocate the festival site to his own property and the areas previously used as campgrounds and took care of the acquisition of additional land. Tickets for Wacken Open Air 2015 sold out after just 12 hours on 4 August 2014 – just a few hours after the end of W:O:A 2014.Prices for the festival have risen and are currently at a level similar to other major Rock festivals, such as The festival sold out within a few days each in 2014–2016.
three days, for some years. An action for exceeding the maximum noise limit, brought before the Administrative Court of Schleswig by residents of Wacken, ended in January 2013 with an out-of-court settlement.
Slayer thrashed thru the mandatory classic
These concerts are meant to complement the warm-up parties organised in many places.In the summer of 1990, Metal Monday took place for the first time at Knust in The Evangelical Lutheran Village Church in Wacken belongs to the Wacken Winter Nights (WWN), a three-day Folk and Medieval open-air festival, took place for the first time in February 2017 at temperatures of -2 to -6 degrees Celsius in Wacken. Let's go to Wacken! Stage (Wacken Evolution Tent) and the Headbanger Stage, are located inside a big tent called Bullhead City Circus. Both lived in Wacken and were friends, Jensen played the electric bass with The first two-day festival took place in the gravel pit on 24 and 25 August 1990 and barely had 800 visitors. The Wackinger Stage is located in the medieval area of the festival and is played primarily by bands from Folk, Pagan and Medieval genres, while the Wasteland Stage, which was established in 2014, is geared towards music with an apocalyptic touch. different countries got along with each other and in general the whole
These include ambulances and radios for communication in particular. Discuss the gig, get concert tickets, see who's attending, find similar events. feeling was one big family thing indeed.In 2004 the prestigious Wacken fest will celebrate its 15th anniversary
Now, if the average noise level of the festival exceeds 70 dB, the organisers pay 1,000 Euros to the community, which donates the money to charitable causes.600,000 Euros were spent on the construction of sewage systems and the improvement of power supply on the festival grounds. Wacken Open Air (/ ˈ v ɑː k ə n /, stylised W:O:A) is a heavy metal music festival, held annually since 1990 on the first weekend of August in the town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.Almost all styles of hard rock and metal are represented.
In 2008, the organisers also contributed 1,000,000 Euros to the expansion of Wacken's local outdoor swimming pool in order to make the festival even more attractive to the residents and visitors of the town.For the 23rd edition of Wacken Open Air, the sale of an "X-Mas Package" started on Monday, 8 August 2011, shortly after the end of that year's festival, and was sold out within 45 minutes. to bother the audience who instead enjoyed every second of the thrash Nowadays, about a third of the visitors, some of whom arrive quite some time before the official start of the festival, and the majority of the bands come from abroad. The most important ones are the Faster and the Harder Stage, which are designed as connected twin stages and have a shared sound and lighting system.
Merchandise Online-Shop. Another perspective is offered by the low-budget production Selected concerts of Wacken Open Air 2014 were broadcast live in an online stream. From these suggestions, the best ideas were to be put up to a vote in a survey. With over 3,500 attendees, the festival's first edition sold out several weeks in advance. This was a matter of speculation at first, and reasons such as the changed security situation or the price development were taken into account.On 5 April 2018 Thomas Hess, the festival's longtime production (and former security) director, passed away.
Subscribe to our Newsletter; Due to the road conditions, quads and foot patrols are often used in Wacken, especially in the vicinity of the medical centre. "Mandatory Suicide", "Stain Of Mind", etc. At the same time, 700,000 Euros worth of drains were installed in front of the stages in order to improve the drainage of water masses during heavy rains. But those technical failures and problems seemed not Prices refer to a 3-day ticket (incl.