Summercase was a two-day music festival held simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid. The schedules were the same but reverted. The line up mainly consists of indie rock, electronic music and indie pop. Hence, the festival tries to blend indie pop, rock music and dance music into one. The first edition of the festival was organized in July 2006, with a total public of over 60,000, and the second edition was celebrated on 13 & 14 July 2007, attracting over 109,000. In only one year, the festival has become one of the most important ones of Europe and falls into the category of world-famous music festivals such as the Denmark's Roskilde Festival, the Dutch Pinkpop, Ireland's Oxegen, the Spanish International Music Festival of Benicàssim or the major festivals in the UK: T in the Park, Reading Festival, Leeds Festival, the V Festival and Glastonbury Festival and may be compared to California's Coachella Festival or Chicago's Lollapalooza.
2006 Line-up
Adam Green Astrud Bell Orchestre Belle & Sebastian The Boyfriends The Brakes The Cardigans Carl Cox Captain The Chemical Brothers The Concretes Cut Copy Daft Punk The Dandy Warhols David Kitt Director Dirty Pretty Things The Divine Comedy Fatboy Slim The Feeling Happy Mondays Hope of the States James Murphy Keane Larry Tee The Long Blondes Maxïmo Park Massive Attack Midlake New Order My Latest Novel Mystery Jets The Paddingtons Primal Scream Razorlight Rufus Wainwright Shout Out Louds Sigur Rós Soulsavers Sparks The Spinto Band Starsailor Super Furry Animals Trabant The Twilight Singers Two Gallants
2007 Line-up
!!! 1990s 2manydjs Air Arcade Fire Alex Torío Astrud Badly Drawn Boy Belle & Sebastian Bloc Party Bromheads Jacket The Chemical Brothers DJ Shadow Dragonette Editors Electrelane Felix Da Housecat Fionn Regan The Flaming Lips The Glimmers The Gossip Guillemots The Hidden Cameras The Hours James Jarvis Cocker The Jesus and Mary Chain Kaiser Chiefs LCD Soundsystem Lily Allen The Maccabees Mika My Brightest Diamond OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) Perry Blake Phoenix The Pigeon Detectives PJ Harvey Ratatat Scissor Sisters Soulsavers & Mark Lanegan The Sunday Drivers The Twang The View The Whitest Boy Alive
2008 Line-up
Blondie Grinderman Interpol Maxïmo Park Primal Scream The Verve 2manydjs Cornelius Edwyn Collins Etienne de Crécy Ian Brown We Are Scientists Cadence Weapon Hidrogenesse Juan Maclean One Night Only Patrice Santogold (cancelled) Sons and Daughters The Breeders Kaiser Chiefs Kings of Leon Mogwai Los Planetas Sex Pistols CSS Foals The Kooks The Raveonettes The Stranglers Tiga Biffy Clyro Los Campesinos! Mystery Jets Pete and the Pirates Shout Out Louds The Magnetic Fields Bloc Party
Incidents On Saturday July 19, 2008, following an incident at Summercase in Barcelona, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke claimed that he was verbally insulted by Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon and physically attacked by his "entourage". Okereke said that he was "set upon" by three members of Lydon's crew after praising Lydon's musical past and inquiring on the future of Lydon's group Public Image Ltd. One of Lydon's friends then told Okereke: "Your problem is your black attitude", and Lydon and members of his security detail attacked Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs and Yannis Philippakis of Foals when they attempted to aid Okereke. Philippakis informed the crowd at Latitude Festival the next day that the incident was so bad that he had been handcuffed and nearly didn't make it. Whilst the incident was witnessed by more than 50 people, including members of Mystery Jets, Kaiser Chiefs, Foals, Mogwai and The Raveonettes, Okereke's version of the events are disputed by Lydon. However Neon Neon and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, who also witnessed the incident, backed Okereke, describing it as "horrific". Rhys stated Kele was "a very brave man" and told MTV News that "the statements Kele has said are absolutely true. What he said is exactly what happened."
End of the festival In 2009, the festival wasn't reconducted for economic reasons.
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