1. Hultsfred goes Stockholm!

2. This is Hultsfred

3. History

4. Stages

5. Lineups

6. References

7. External links

The Hultsfred Festival ({{lang-sv|Hultsfredsfestivalen}}) is an annual music festival held in Hultsfred, Sweden. It takes place at the lake Hulingen during three days in the June or July, from Thursday to Saturday. Since the first festival in 1986, its attendance has increased from 7,500 visitors to approximately 32,000 people in 2005. With its five different stages, the Hultsfred Festival hosts a large number of bands per year (154 in 2007) from all over Scandinavia and the world alike.

Due to an increase of ticket pricing and what the public recognized as a poor lineup{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} in 2007, festival attendance has been declining in recent years. The festival went bankrupt in 2010 and the whole event was cancelled that year, but it was resurrected already by 2011.

FKP Scorpio, festival organizer since 2011, announced on 20 March 2013 that they will move the festival to Stockholm, Hultsfred goes Stockholm. On 14 April 2013 a new festival association, under the name This Is Hultsfred, announced their intention to organize a festival in Hultsfred 2013 on the traditional site. Scorpio also hosts the Bråvalla festival.

Hultsfred goes Stockholm!

FKP Scorpio stages 13–15 June 2013 a festival in Sigtuna Municipality, north of Stockholm.

This is Hultsfred

This is Hultsfred are working to keep the festival in Hultsfred, planned to 14–15 June 2013.

History

At the 1999 festival, a 19-year-old woman died of suffocation during a concert with Hole.^[1]

In 2006, the festival booked Babyshambles, the band fronted by Pete Doherty. Because of Doherty's widely reported drug addiction, the arrangers of the festival were criticized even before the festival had begun, as the festival profiles itself as being anti-drugs. The arrangers defended the booking by saying that the band was booked for its music and not its members' personal lives. After being delayed for more than an hour, the concert took place with Doherty attacking photographers, throwing a guitar at the audience and finally falling off stage in a failed attempt at stage diving. Immediately after the concert Doherty was arrested by the Hultsfred police and fined for drug possession.^[2]

On 30 June 2010, Rockparty reported that due to bad ticket sales, Hultsfredsfestivalen AB would file for bankruptcy, and that the 25th annual Hultsfred festival would not be held.^[3] The festival made a comeback the next year, thanks to FPK Scorpio.^[4]

Stages

Lineups

Confirmed as of 31 January. Arctic Monkeys - Portishead - Fatboy Slim - Band of Horses - Phoenix - The Flaming Lips - Imagine Dragons - Mew - SBTRKT - John Talabot - Modest Mouse - Adrian Lux - Lorentz & Sakarias

Radiohead - Audioslave - Queens of the Stone Age - Massive Attack - Stereophonics - The Dandy Warhols - The Streets - Ladytron - Counting Crows - Badly Drawn Boy - The Datsuns - Strapping Young Lad - Linkin Park (cancelled In Flames acted instead)

Suede - Rammstein - New Order- Chemical Brothers - Slayer - Sonic Youth - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Bob Hund - Agnostic Front - Arch Enemy - Starsailor - Ed Hacourt

Iggy Pop - Manic Street Preachers - Weezer - TOOL - Faithless - Limp Bizkit - Jello Biafra - The Hives - The Nomads (20th anniversary) - Godsmack - Håkan Hellström - Outkast - Queens of the Stone Age (cancelled)

Oasis - Rage Against the Machine - Primal Scream - Thåström - Mikael Wiehe - Suicidal Tendencies - Kelis - Deftones - Lars Winnerbäck - Asian Dub Foundation - Muse - Travis (cancelled)

Hole - Suede - Marilyn Manson - Joe Strummer - Monster Magnet - Goo Goo Dolls - Fu Manchu - Bloodhound Gang - HammerFall - Manic Street Prachers - Meshuggah - Orgy (cancelled)

Black Sabbath - garbage - Eagle Eye Cherry - Bob Hund - Wilmer X - Rancid - Kent - NOFX - Turbonegro - The Soundtrack of our Lives

Blur - Björk - Ministry - The Cure - Iggy Pop - Pulp - Bad Religion - The Prodigy - Bruce Dickinson - Fear Factory - Emmylou Harris - Frank Black - Skunk Anansie (cancelled)

Pantera - Slayer - Nationalteatern - Chemical Brothers - Supergrass - the Cardigans - Kent - Millencolin - Beastie Boys (cancelled) - Chris Isaak (cancelled)

Gary Moore - The Pretenders - Primal Scream - Blur - The Creeps - Candlemass - Meshuggah - The Ramones (cancelled)

The Black Crowes - Thåström - Sven Ingvars - Status Quo (cancelled) - PJ Harvey (cancelled) - Stereo MC's (cancelled) - Fisherman

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Nick Lowe - Jungle Brothers - Buzzcocks - Wilmer X - Soul Asylum - The Charlatans - Sator - The Sinners

Public Image Ltd - Screamin Jay Hawkins - Dr. Feelgood - Latin Quarter - The Jesus and Mary Chain

References

External links

• {{Official|http://www.rockparty.se}}
• This is Hultsfred
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100701181135/http://www.hultsfredsfestivalen.se/ Hultsfredsfestivalen goes Stockholm!]

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