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The Lollapalooza festival comes to Berlin
05. November 2014 @ 14:16 clock

Berlin gets a new Music Festival: The Lollapalooza moves to the capital. In September 2015, the first European branch of the US festival goes on the grounds of Tempelhof Airport at the start.

The Berlin Festival is just moved from Tempelhof disused airport in the Treptower Park Arena. This does not mean that no more live music will be heard in the temple. On the contrary: It will be even louder. The grounds are used instead of the Lollapalooza festival on 12 and 13 September 2015.

1991 by Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell founded in the United States, the Lollapalooza will be held in Chicago every year now. Number of visitors: 160,000. Past Acts: including Eminem , Beastie Boys , Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Lady Gaga . After first branches in Chile, Brazil and Argentina, the first European version of the festival will go live now in Berlin. From the rather low numbers of similar events in and around the German capital, Farrell can not deter it. "Lollapalooza is a big party," he said of the music week. With the huge success of the branch in Chile had previously no one expected. "We now hope that this happens also in Berlin."

Fruzsina Szep, new director of Lollapalooza and Berlin festivals promised in an interview with the industry magazine a "completely new festival experience" with special emphasis on sustainability and good food. "In addition to the music stages we also have art, design, theater and fashion projects." The first confirmed acts will be announced in late November. The Berlin Festival 2015 is not the beginning of September, but 29 to 31 May on the stage, and while again in Treptower Park Arena.

Lollapalooza expands to Europe with Berlin festival

New York (AFP) - Lollapalooza, the Chicago-based festival that grew out of the US alternative rock scene, on Thursday announced an expansion to Europe with a first edition next year in Berlin.

The move comes amid rapid growth in the world's music festivals and marks the fourth international edition for Lollapalooza, which also has versions in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Lollapalooza's founder Perry Farrell, the lead singer of Jane's Addiction, said that he had long wanted to bring the festival to Europe and pointed to Berlin's reputation as a hub for up-and-coming artists.

"Berlin's energy, vibrant art, fashion and music scenes are a mirror reflection of what Lollapalooza is all about and I can't wait to share in this cultural exchange," Farrell said in a statement.

Jane's Addiction launched Lollapalooza in 1991 as a traveling festival around the United States that seized on an expanding appetite for non-mainstream acts, although the event declined as critics charged that it commercialized underground culture.

Lollapalooza returned in 2005 as an annual event in Chicago's Grant Park. The city is also home to an annual festival run by the music site Pitchfork, which has already expanded to Europe with an edition in Paris.

Lollapalooza Berlin will take place on September 12-13 at Tempelhof Airport, which has closed to commercial traffic but remains architecturally intact.

The airport was earlier the site of the Berlin Festival which brought acts including Bjork, Pet Shop Boys and The Killers to stages within view of disused runways, along with all-night performances from the German capital's well-known electronic scene.

The Berlin Festival, held in the past in early September, moved last year to the city's Arena Park and is next scheduled for May 2015, not clashing with Lollapalooza Berlin.

Summer music festivals, which have a particularly long tradition in Britain, have soared in popularity in recent years in the United States and become financially vital to touring artists.

Brazilian-based Rock in Rio is expanding to the United States by building a permanent festival grounds in Las Vegas, with mega-stars including Taylor Swift set to play the inaugural edition in May.