Roadburn Festival - Europe's leading festival for stonerrock & beyond. Thursday April 23rd to Sunday April 26th, 2009, 013 Popcenter, Tilburg, Holland.
Roadburn presents:
Influences
Hello friends, welcome to the Roadburn Festival.
This is a gathering of like minded bands and fans from
around the world, joined together by a love of music. This is
a celebration of tube-driven distortion and crackling electric
guitars, a raising of musical consciousness and brotherly and
sisterly love, a communion with THEE MIGHTY RIFF, a time
and place to get high en mass and bask in the heaviness.
The Roadburn Festival is a gut level understanding of the
heavy rock rock underground for people who crave
the rebellious release of rock and roll. People who love
being a misfit in a misfit family. People like you and me.
Since 1999 we at Roadburn have emphasized the cutting
edge, honored the forefathers, and worshipped the riff.
The 2008 Festival will be a perfect reflection of what we have
always been about.
Sounds Like
Music: stoner rock & beyond!
For those who didn't get to take part in the Roadburn festivals, and for those who did, but want to relive it -we have put up on-demand AUDIO WEBCASTS for your listening pleasure.
Sunday night's fullmoon brought the Roadburn Festival 2008 to a close, a fitting omen for the weekend, given the amount of uncertainty swirling around the lineup until the last minute. Putting the lineup together was especially difficult this year, with several huge cancellations that had to be filled. We were all feeling some nervous energy on Thursday before the show got started, but when Capricorns went on and played a great set despite having two brand new band members, and we all felt a big sigh of relief that it would turn out to be a great weekend -- and it was. We want to thank everyone involved -- fans, bands, 013 employees, guest dj's, and everyone involved.
It was incredible to see how the bands all responded to each other, one great performance spurred on another, with each successive band increasing the energy. The snowball effect kept going from early thursday right through saturday night, culminating in the incredible Acid Mother's Guru set. Sunday was brand new ground for Roadburn, with David Tibet curating the main stage and bringing a lot of new sounds to the festival. Baby Dee held the main stage totally enraptured during her performance and Current 93 played a majestic, enthralling set. Meanwhile, next door the Roadburn afterburner was buzzing away with the kind of energy that made it seem like Friday night all over again.
One of the special things about Roadburn that we really noticed this year was the amount of time the bands spent hanging out in the crowd and watching other bands. It really felt like a comfortable, familiar scene even though there were bands and fans from all over the world there. The warm atmosphere led to many great exchanges of energy and inspiration, including moments when members of the younger bands met their heroes and used that excitement (along with the great crowd energy) to play some of their best shows ever.
Again, as for the past 4 years, the 013 venue itself was one of the big stars. If you want to see (and hear!) great rock and roll, there aren't many better places to do it in the entire world. It's easy to enjoy a show when you have plenty of access to food, drink and facilities and the sound quality is excellent.
We recorded most of the bands again this year and will be putting them online for you to hear over the month or two. Keep checking in for updates about the live recordings, and also for news about the 2009 Roadburn Festival set to be held April 23 to April 26 at the 013 in Tilburg, Holland.
PICS OF ROADBURN 2008
Down
Taint
Baby Woodrose
Black Shape of Nexus
Gentleman's Pistols
Scott Kelly
Jesu
Boris
Cult of Luna
Wolves In The Throne Room
Acid Mothers Guru
Out now on Roadburn Records [limited edition vinyl runs]:
White Darkness - "Nothing"
The Angelic Process - "Weighing Souls With Sand"
Nadja - "Guilted by the Sun"
Mos Generator - "Songs for Future Gods"
TERORRIZER, THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE MAGAZINE FOR EXTREME MUSIC OF ANY KIND JOINS FORCES WITH ROADBURN FESTIVAL.
HAIL TO THEE,
O acolytes of The Riff!
The festival season is upon us.
Cause for celebration, no?
Well it should be. Be the unfortunate truth is that few music events these days are organised by music lovers for music lovers; music, as we all know, is big business, and in the rush to make money, or preserve a market share, something inevitably gets losts. Events become impersonal, ticket prices become astronomical, the line-ups start to look as though they were motivated by cynicism rather than a true love of the music itself.
Roadburn is different. For the past 13 editions, the festival has been run by canny individuals who are utterly obsessed with music, whose integrity is impeccable, who have an instict for what you, the discerning Riff-lover, would like to hear and see.
That, my friends, is why you are here. Because you recognise not only quality, but inspiration and enthusiasm, two fuels without which Roadburn would not be road-worthy.
So, it is with grat pleasure that Terrorizer Magazine accompanies Roadburn on this years adventure, as a media partner.
It's a relationship which cannot help but prosper, as both parties are driven by the same love and enthusiasm for music. And there are already plans afoot for a rather special collaboration between Terrorizer and Roadburn in 2009... but that's another stonry for another time.
Instead of a Roadburn Forum, we created a Roadburn Yahoo Group! Please subscribe here, and use the mailinglist to discuss all things Roadburn. i.e. the festival, the website, the current state of the stoner / doom / heavy psych community etc...
Pleased to virtually meet you!! Thank you for joining my circle of cyber friends, for excepting the add and for introducing me to New Music/Artists. Great Page!! Take care, have yourself an inspiring day/Friday and a relaxing weekend. Warmest Regards from Toronto, Canada.
Walter, what a time we had at your show. Thanks for the friendship and everything you did for us at the fest! Top notch all of the way. Hope to see ya again soon! Peace, Ty
Hey Walter, thank you and the rest of your crew for this well organized Festival and the unique relaxed and tremendous atmosphere..! Gezellig! It was great to be a little part of it.. Greetz from Bielefeld Martin (Vibra/Dixie Witch)
thank you very much walter for the opportunity to turn the afterburner into another saturday night party! and thank you for the most enjoyable dutch hospitality as well as the first chance to play in europe and meet a lot of people. we will come back for you whenever you want. thank you again and tell the 013 staff they are the best people we have ever worked with! sincerely, dirty and the glasspack
