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About the Tomorrowland
(festival)
Tomorrowland is a large Belgian electronic music carnival planned
by ID&T,
pursuit and Media Enterprise.[1] Tomorrowland
occurs in the town of Boom, close to Antwerp, in Belgium,
and has been ordered since 2005. It has since become one of the most prominent
global music festivals.[2]
The first
edition took place on August 14, 2005 and consisted of performer such as Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin Van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy and Coone.[3]
The
second-to-latest event, which was the eighth edition of the celebration, was
held flanked by July 27 and 29, 2012. Artists in attendance included Afrojack,
DeeJaay Boris, Above & Beyond, Basto, Marco Carola, Marco Bailey, Carl Cox, Ferry Corsten, Jahreecellex,Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Hardwell, Nicky Romero, Laidback Luke, David Guetta, Joachim Garraud, Steve Aoki, Knife Party and LMFAO.
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History[edit]
The first
edition of the festival took place in 2005 on August 14 as program of two
Belgian brothers, Manu and Michiel Beers. Performers built-in Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy,
and Coone.[citation
needed]
The
second festival, on July 30, 2006, hosted Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Fred Baker, DJ Zany,
Ruthless,and Marco Bailey.[citation
needed] The DJ
and producer Paul Oakenfold was also announce on the poster, but given up
for lost at the last moment, as he was on tour with Madonna at the time.
The third
year, the festival lasted two days for the first time in its history, taking
place on July 28 and 29, 2007.
In 2008,
the do took place on July 26 and 27. For the first time, more than 100 DJs
participated. The number of visitors exceeded 50,000 for the first time.[citation
needed]
Carl Cox
at Tomorrowland 2008
For the fifth event, ID&T led to even more venue, one ski, and much
more. Sun[who?] has included an "I Love the 90's"
stage, where musicians such as Push, Natural Born Deejays and SASH from the dance
scene were present. La Rocca performed live at the event for the first time.
The special act on the main stage was Moby.
Tomorrowland 2009 took place on July 25 and 26 and fascinated 8,000 people.[citation
needed]
Tomorrowland
sold out days earlier than the event, with a record attendance of 120,000
visitors over two days.
2010 Like
Mike, Dimitri Vegas, Dada Life & Tara McDonald wrote the official anthem "Tomorrow/Give
Into The Night" performing the song twice on the main point after Swedish House Mafia.
The track was made by Like Mike, Dada Life and
Dimitri Vegas and the vocal melody and lyrics were written and recorded by Tara McDonald. The song reached number 5 in the
Belgian commercial charts and is the biggest selling anthem for Tomorrowlands
to date.
2011
marked the festival's expansion to three days. Only a few days after the
official pre-sale of tickets kicked off, Tomorrowland was completely sold out
and had over 180,000 visitors. David Guetta, Nervo, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Tiësto,
2ManyDJ's, Carl Cox,Paul van Dyk, Tensnake, Laidback Luke, Brodinski, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig,
and dozens of others performed. It was voted the best festival of its kind in
the world at the International Dance Music
Awards in 2012.[4]
Tomorrowland
2012 took place between from July 27–29, 2012, at the De Schorre, a provincial
recreation area in Boom, Belgium. The line-up consisted of 400 DJs, such as Skrillex, Avicii, Marco Bailey, Skazi, David Guetta, Nervo (duo), Hardwell, Swedish House Mafia,Afrojack, Steve Aoki, Carl Cox, The Bloody Beetroots, Paul van Dyk, Martin Solveig, Chuckie, Fatboy Slim, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Pendulum playing on fifteen stages each day. 185,000
people from over 75 countries around the world were in attendance, with 35,000
of them staying in Dreamville. since of the enormous success of Tomorrowland
and the fact that it is a Belgian festival, ID&T decided to give Belgians
an exclusive chance with a pre-sale (80,000 of the 185,000 tickets) on March
24. In less than one day, all of the ticket sold out and at some moments there
were 2,000,000 people on the online waiting list. The worldwide sale started
April 7. Within 43 minutes, the other 100,000 tickets sold out. In addition to
regular tickets, Tomorrowland partnered with Brussels Airlines to provide private
travel packages from over 15 cities around the world. Other highlights of the
festival were the obscure
Rider, the highest mobile Ferris wheel in Europe,[5] and the
fact that 25 airlines were organised to bring spectators to the fiesta from all
over the world.[6]
Tomorrowland
2013 takes place on July 26–28 at De Schorre in Boom, Belgium. Full psychosis
passes sold out in 35 minutes, and the remainder of tickets sold out within an
hour.
List of
events[edit]
|
Year
|
Attendance
|
Date
|
Headliner
|
|
2013
|
180,000
|
July 26–28
|
Tiësto, Jahreecellex, Carl Cox, Sebastian
Ingrosso, Fedde le Grand, Avicii, Steve Aoki, Hardwell,
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Nervo Twins, Arty, Markus Schulz, Zedd, Afrojack, Laidback Luke, David Guetta, Nicky Romero
|
|
2012
|
180,000
|
July 27–29
|
David Guetta, Swedish House
Mafia, Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, Avicii, Afrojack, Steve Aoki, Skrillex,
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Nervo Twins, Hardwell Avicii, Nicky Romero
|
|
2011
|
180,000
|
July 22–24
|
Skrillex, 2
Many DJ's, David Guetta, Swedish House
Mafia, DJ Tiesto, Avicii, Paul van Dyk, Carl CoxDimitri Vegas & Like Mike
|
|
2010
|
120,000
|
July 24–25
|
|
|
2009
|
90,000
|
July 25–26
|
Push, Natural Born Deejays, Sash!, Moby, Felix Da
Housecat, David Guetta, Paul van Dyk
|
|
2008
|
50,000
|
July 26– 27
|
|
|
2007
|
50,000
|
July 28–29
|
|
|
2006
|
15,000
|
July 20
|
Armin Van Buuren, David Guetta, Fred Baker, Zany,
DJ Ruthless, Marco Bailey
|
|
2005
|
10,000
|
August 14
|
References[edit]
4.
^ "27th Annual International Dance Music
Awards Nominees and Winners". 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
6.
^ "Brussels Airlines welcomes 25 flights
with visitors for Tomorrowland". Brussels Airlines. 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
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