Hove Festival

Hove Festival
Genre	Indie, pop, metal, hip hop, electronic music
Dates	2 – 5 July (2013)
Location(s)	Tromøya, Arendal, Norway
Coordinates	58°26′33″N 8°50′50″E / 58.4426°N 8.8471°E / 58.4426; 8.8471
Years active	2007 – 2014
Founded by	Toffen Gunnufsen (2007 – 2008) Melvin Benn 2009 –
Website	www.hovefestival.com

The Hove Festival (Norwegian: Hovefestivalen) was a music festival held on the island Tromøya outside of Arendal in southern Norway.^[1] It was held for the first time from 26 to 30 June 2007. Running for eight years and at one time the largest music festival in Norway,^[2] Hove Festival was discontinued after its 2014 show due to negative profits.^[3] Hove Festival was acquired by Festival Republic in 2008 after going bankrupt. As with other Festival Republic events, there were no age restrictions, and children under the age of 12 were admitted free of charge.^[4]

Hove strove to be an environmentally neutral festival,^[5] both buying carbon offset quotes for all power and transportation used during and prior to the festival, and sorting and recycling all trash produced by the event. Preparation for the festival relied heavily on volunteer work. In 2010 there were a total of 2,500 people volunteering for security, stage hand, drivers, kitchen duty and post-festival cleanup.

Hove consisted of several different areas such as the camp area, festival area and "zero" area. The camp held up to 10,000 campers and was open throughout the festival. The festival area, including the shopping street, was open to everyone who had a day bracelet or festival bracelet. The zero area, which has several fast-food shops, was open to everyone with or without bracelet.

The festival had three main performance stages: Hovescenen, Amfiscenen and Teltscenen (tent stage), with Hovescenen being the largest. One of the more prominent acts at Hovescenen was Muse in 2010.

2007

In 2007 there were 72,000 visitors and 53,000 sold tickets, which included 7,700 week passes, making this Norway's largest music festival of the year.^[6]

Program 2007 ^[7]

Tuesday 26 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 / 65daysofstatic / Junior Boys / Sunkissed

Wednesday 27 June

"In southern Norway the sun only sets for two hours," noted Brandon Flowers of The Killers. "We headlined and we came off just as it was getting dark. We dried off and I sent to see Bright Eyes at 1am, just as it was getting light. That was incredibly moving."^[8]

• 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 28 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 29 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 30 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

2008

^[9]

23 – 27 June 2008, lineup:^[10]

• * Ended prematurely due to safety reasons. The venue was overloaded, leaving the floor severely damaged.

2009

22 – 25 June 2008, lineup:^[10]

2010

29 June – 2 July lineup

2011

28 June – 1 July lineup

References

External links

• Official website in English
• Official website in Norwegian
• Feature about Hove and Travel Information from Norway Direct
• Official 30 sec 2007 TV-Promo 
• NRK P3 Videos from '07
• Amnesty - Make Some Noise Campaign
• musicOMH reviews Hove Festival 2007
• Thrash Hits photo gallery from Hove Festival 2008

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