Rock am Ring as the beginning of the season: It is so dangerous about German pageant organizers | EUROtoday

At the premiere, 75,000 spectators got here to the Nürburgring. On two days, a complete of 17 bands performed on a stage there on the finish of May 1985, as highlights Chris de Burgh, Foreigner and the U2, which had been already widespread on the time.

Due to the nice success, it was not the case, not like deliberate. At the anniversary version of “Rock am Ring” this weekend, round 100 bands on 4 phases began. The organizers have been counting on considerably more durable tones for years – ideally from outdated acquaintances. The headliner Slipknot (in 2025 for the sixth time since 2000), The Prodigy (seventh time since 1998), deliver me the Horizon (seventh time since 2008) and Korn (tenth occasions since 2000) are a part of the stock.

The 90,000 tickets for the Open Air within the Eifel had been already bought out firstly of March, and there have been no tickets for the sister pageant “Rock im Park”, which has been going down since 1995 in Nuremberg.

That appears like a powerful success. In reality, the variety of live performance goers in Germany in 2024 after the entire crash within the meantime reached the pre-corona stage. Nevertheless, the organizers are below stress as uncommon.

One indication of this: The admission costs for the 2 “rock” festivals are in 2025 under these from final yr, through which the open air, in addition to in 2023, was not bought out. One purpose for the reluctance was the tickets, which had been considerably dearer in 2022. The organizers justified the prize jumps with considerably elevated prices. Obviously, nonetheless, they might solely partially move them on to the viewers.

For his favor, the festivals not solely compete with one another, but in addition with the excursions of particular person megastars, which name for 200 euros and extra for admission to a live performance. Last yr, amongst different issues, the bands Coldplay, Metallica and particularly US celebrity Taylor Swift had been touring within the large arenas, this yr Linkin Park, Bruce Springsteen and Kendrick Lamar play a number of stadium live shows in Germany.

Some organizers have already drawn the final consequence from the tightened competitors: Last yr, the lights went out for the final time for the final time of 27 years of “Melt” in Saxony-Anhalt. With the “sea rush” on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom, the “HipHop Open” in Stuttgart and the “Night of the ProG” on the Loreley 2024, different main festivals.

A couple of days in the past, the “Maifeld Derby” happened in Mannheim for the final time. There is outwardly house for brand new issues. The “Feelings” pageant organized by former soccer participant Lukas Podolski, amongst different issues, desires to lure a complete of 200,000 guests to the Hockenheimring with mainstream artists similar to Apache 207, Scooter and the Black Eyed Peas on September.

The similar organizer is often behind the very large festivals in Germany at present. The ticket vendor CTS Eventim has constructed up an enormously robust place since 2000 with the takeover of the beforehand impartial firms FKP Scorpio, Dreamhaus, Peter Rieger and Marek Lieberberg.

The Live Nation is the Worldwide primary, which is organized by the Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin and the pink pop within the Dutch Landgraaf.

Cornelius Welp is an financial correspondent in Frankfurt. From there he stories about Bank, Insurance and Financial traders and firm.