PINKPOP

'Pinkpop Festival' or 'Pinkpop' in short, is an annual rock festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest annual festival in the world. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend (''Pinksteren'' in Dutch, hence the name). In 1970, the first festival took place in Geleen, now part of municipality Sittard-Geleen and was held on the Monday following that weekend.
These days, it's a 3 day festival, from Saturday to Monday, and visited by approximately 60,000 people with performances on 3 separate stages. In 35 years, 1.5 million people have attended Pinkpop. More than 400 musical acts have played at the festival.
In 1994 (the 25th edition), it was decided to sell only 60,000 tickets, to prevent overcrowding due to the popularity of the festival. In 1995, it was made into a 2-day festival. Two years later, in 1997, this was further expanded to three days.
2007 will see a spin-off, later in the year, on 11 August, called Pinkpop Classic, for an older rock audience, with bands that previously performed on Pinkpop.

Contents

Past performers

Pinkpop 2007

Line-Up

Name and logo

External links

Past performers

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, Peter Tosh, The Police, Pearl Jam, Crowded House The Jam, Van Halen, Joe Jackson, U2, UB40, ZZ Top, Semisonic, 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, Pete Murray, Living Colour, Björk, Faith No More, Dave Matthews Band, dEUS, Sepultura, Alanis Morissette, Skunk Anansie, Moby, Tool, KoЯn, Queens of the Stone Age, Counting Crows, System of a Down, Zwan, Placebo Goldfrapp and many more.
Notable performers from 2004 included Muse, Moloko, Starsailor, Pixies, N.E.R.D., and Franz Ferdinand.
Pinkpop 2005 took place from May 14 to 16. The Presidents of the United States of America, Di-rect, Faithless, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Feeder, Mercury Rev, The Polyphonic Spree, Cake, Bloc Party, and The Bravery were among the performers.

Pinkpop 2007

This year's edition was the 38th in row. The festival was held from May 26 to May 28.

Line-Up

	Mainstage	3FM Stage	BUMA / John Peel Stage
Saturday 26 May	- Goose - Juliette and the Licks - Within Temptation - Marilyn Manson	- The Noisettes - Wir Sind Helden - Good Charlotte	- Viberider - Stevie Ann - C-mon & Kypski
Sunday 27 May	- Gabriel Rios - Razorlight - Iggy & the Stooges - Snow Patrol - Muse	- Ozark Henry - Gogol Bordello - Ilse Delange - Lostprophets	- The Nightwatchman - Paolo Nutini - Maxïmo Park - Amy Winehouse
Monday 28 May	- The Fratellis - Wolfmother - Scissor Sisters - Arctic Monkeys - Linkin Park - The Smashing Pumpkins	- 30 Seconds to Mars - Stone Sour - Dave Matthews Band - Korn - Evanescence	- Five O'Clock Heroes - Maria Mena - Macy Gray - The Magic Numbers - The Kooks

★ The Confirmed Timetable

Name and logo

The name is half Dutch, half English, in two possible combinations. Originally, 'pink' comes from the Dutch word for pentecost, 'pinksteren' and 'pop' comes from pop music (or 'popular music'). But another interpretation is a combination of the English word pink and the Dutch word 'pop', which means doll, which is the origin for the logo, a doll in a pink dress.
The precursor to Pinkpop, which was held in 1969, was called Pinknick because people were supposed to bring their own food.

External links

★ Official site (Dutch)

★ Myspace page for Pinkpop - myspace site (Dutch)

★ 3Voor12 Articles, Audio, Video and more about Pinkpop 2007