Hove Festival

Hove Festival
Genre	Indie rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Metal
Dates	24-28 June (2008)
Location(s)	Tromøy, Arendal, Norway
Years active	2007 - present
Founders	Toffen Gunnufsen
Website	www.hovefestival.com

Hove Festival (Norwegian name: Hovefestivalen) is a music festival held on the island Tromøy outside of Arendal in southern Norway. It was held for the first time from 26th June to the 30th June 2007.

The Hove Festival is a new festival for all people believing that combining the best artists with on site camping, nature, beaches, water and idyllic surroundings for the ultimate festival experience. Hove Festival will be setting new standards for environmental awareness. Not only because they want to preserve the beautiful nature that surrounds the festival, but because they believe that a music festival can make for an interesting way to increase environmental awareness, both with their audience and their partners.

There is no age limits on any arrangements, kids under age 12 together with parent have free admittance.

Hove area

Main stage

Hatebreed circlepit 2007

2007

72,000 visitors and 53.000 sold tickets which includes 7,700 week passes making this Norway's largest music festival in 2007

Program 2007

Tuesday 26th June

• Hovescenen:
  • Queens of the Stone Age / Incubus / CSS / My Midnight Creeps / Hangface

• Amfiscenen:
  • Amy Winehouse / Clipse / Stephen Marley / Darkside of the Force

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Kaiser Chiefs / King Midas

• Teltscenen:
  • Klaxons / The Twang / 65 Days of Static / Junior Boys / Sunkissed

Wednesday 27th June

• Hovescenen:
  • The Killers / Arcade Fire / The Hold Steady / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes / X-Queen of the Astronauts

• Amfiscenen:
  • Lamb of God / Chimaira / Unearth / Gojira / Dimension F3H

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Bright Eyes / Susanne Sundfør

• Teltscenen:
  • The View / The Noisettes / The New Violators / Bite / Sunkissed

Thursday 28th June

• Hovescenen:
  • Dipset (with Jim Jones and Juelz Santana) / Chamillionaire / Ludacris / Papoose / Akala / Venom

• Amfiscenen:
  • Interpol / TV on the Radio / 120 Days / Tokyo Police Club

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Neurosis / Hatebreed / She Said Destroy

• Teltscenen:
  • Oh No Ono / The Presets / The Lionheart Brothers / Brightblack Morning Light / Sunkissed

Friday 29th June

• Hovescenen:
  • Slayer / Cynic / Keep of Kalessin

• Amfiscenen:
  • Damien Rice / Nellie McKay / Pleasure / Ingrid Olava / Mastodon

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Omar / Remy Ma

• Teltscenen:
  • The Long Blondes / 1990s / Moving Oos / Violent Years / Sunkissed

Saturday 30th June

• Hovescenen:
  • My Chemical Romance / Billy Talent / Flying Crap / Pale Kids

• Amfiscenen:
  • Sivert Høyem & The Volunteers / Modest Mouse / William Hut / Heroes & Zeroes

• Amfiscenen, klubb:
  • Gossip / The Horrors

• Teltscenen:
  • Devastations / Patrick Wolf / Rockettothesky / Kate Hanevik / Sunkissed

Partners

• MTV
• MSN
• Fairtrade
• Bellona Foundation
• Amnesty International
• Pepsi
• Levis
• HP
• Djuice

2008

Price: Daypass: Not available yet. 5-day Pass: 1890 NOK

June 23-27, 2008, Lineup:

Jay-Z Beck Panic At The Disco Vampire Weekend The Raconteurs MGMT Black Lips Bad Religion Yeasayer St. Vincent Avenged Sevenfold Les Savy Fav Shape of Broad Minds The Cool Kids Killswitch Engage Converge Band of Horses Animal Collective Howlin' Rain Deerhunter The Brian Jonestown Massacre Coheed and Cambria Black Kids Flogging Molly Baroness Jaguar Love Santogold Dengue Fever Job For A Cowboy Rival Schools (band) Hercules and Love Affair White Rabbits The Used

Babyshambles The Wombats Bullet for My Valentine Wild Beasts The Kooks M.I.A Chrome Hoof Duffy Scaramanga Six The Pigeon Detectives The Count & Sinden Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong Simian Mobile Disco Canceled Foals Goldfrapp The Ting Tings Opeth Familjen In Flames Slagsmålsklubben Hellacopters Crystal Castles Stars Black Mountain MSTRKRFT

Dimmu Borgir Matias Tellez Ingrid Olava Animal Alpha WE Kim Hiorthøy Ungdomskulen Lukestar The National Bank Audrey Horne Pirate Love Tommy Tokyo Truls and the Trees Turdus musicus Thom Hell Silje Nes Sigh & Explode Purified In Blood Behemoth Boys Noize The Teenagers Surkin Primordial Cavalera Conspiracy Bloody Beetroots Ladyhawke

+ more to come

External links

• Official website in English
• Official website in Norwegian
• Official 30 sec 2007 TV-Promo
• NRK P3 Videos from '07
• Amnesty - Make Some Noise Campaign
• Hove Festival 2007: the DiS review
• musicOMH reviews Hove Festival 2007