Pinkpop Festival
30th of May 2008 - 1st of June 2008
Pinkpop Festival or Pinkpop in short, is an annual rock festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. Along with Ruisrock and Glastonbury, it is the oldest open air festival in the world. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch, hence the name).
The three headline acts have been confirmed for 2008 Metallica, Foo Fighters and Rage Against the Machine.
Past performers of Pinkpop Festival
The festival's history has seen the likes of Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Radiohead, Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck, Uriah Heep, The Kinks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Thin Lizzy, Elvis Costello, Dire Straits, The Police, The Jam, Van Halen, Joe Jackson, U2, UB40, ZZ Top, Simple Minds, TC Matic, Gary Moore, Big Country, John Hiatt, Marillion, The Stranglers, The Waterboys, The Cure, The Cult, The Pretenders, Echo and the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, Hüsker Dü, Lou Reed, The Pogues, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kula Shaker, Herman Brood, R.E.M., Pixies, Rammstein, Lenny Kravitz, Smashing Pumpkins, Therapy?, The Prodigy, Soundgarden, Rage against the machine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Levellers, The Black Crowes, Mano Negra, Pearl Jam, Urban Dance Squad, David Byrne, Living Colour, Björk, Faith No More, Dave Matthews Band, dEUS, Sepultura, Alanis Morissette, Skunk Anansie, Moby, Tool, Ko?n, Queens Of The Stone Age, Counting Crows, System of a down, Zwan, NERD and many more.
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| Location: | Landgraaf, Limburg, Netherlands. | |
| Website: | http://www.pinkpop.nl/page.php?pagID=419 |
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