The Hove Festival () was a music festival held on the island Tromøya outside of Arendal in southern Norway. "Review: Hove Festival (Norway)" Crack In The Road 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,Last FM Calendar Hove Festival was discontinued after its 2014 show due to running a loss. 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.Hove Festival official website in Norwegian
Hove strove to be an environmentally neutral festival,Hove Festival 2007: the DiS review . Drowned in Sound. 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.Hove Festival official website in Norwegian
Program 2007 Hove Festival official website
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." 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 Hove Festival official website
2327 June 2008, lineup:Hove Festival official website
Animal Collective Avenged Sevenfold Bad Religion Band of Horses Baroness Beck Black Kids Black Lips Black Tide The Brian Jonestown Massacre Coheed and Cambria Converge The Cool Kids Deerhunter Dengue Fever Flogging Molly Ghostland Observatory Hercules and Love Affair Howlin' Rain Jaguar Love Jay-Z Job For A Cowboy The Raconteurs Rival Schools Saigon Santogold cancelled Killswitch Engage Panic! at the Disco Pase Rock Lupe Fiasco Les Savy Fav MGMT Shape of Broad Minds St. Vincent The Used Vampire Weekend White Rabbits Yeasayer The Pigeon Detectives Scaramanga Six Simian Mobile Disco cancelled The Ting Tings* Wild Beasts The Wombats Blood Red Shoes Goldfrapp Chrome Hoof The Count & Sinden Bullet for My Valentine Babyshambles cancelled Duffy Foals Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong The Kooks M.I.A cancelled Neon Neon Crystal Castles cancelled Black Mountain MSTRKRFT Stars Opeth cancelled In Flames Hellacopters Slagsmålsklubben Familjen Cavalera Conspiracy Mixhell Surkin The Teenagers Boys Noize Midnight Juggernauts Primordial Det Er Jag Som Är Döden Dimmu Borgir Don Juan Dracula Animal Alpha Audrey Horne Charlotte & The Co-Stars Name The National Bank Necessary Intergalactic Cooperation Sigh & Explode Silje Nes Skatebård Taliban Airways Thom Hell Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy The Generous Days Ida Maria (replacement for M.I.A) Ingrid Olava Lukestar Magne F Matias Tellez Pirate Love Purified in Blood Satyricon (replacement for Opeth) Kim Hiorthøy cancelled Truls and the Trees Turdus Musicus Ungdomskulen We Zerozonic Ladyhawke Behemoth Bloody Beetroots
* Ended prematurely due to safety reasons. The venue was overloaded, leaving the floor severely damaged.
2009 2225 June 2008, lineup:
Parkway Drive Montée Fjorden Baby! I Was A King Casiokids The New Wine Benea Reach Crookers M83 Yuksek The Prodigy Bring Me the Horizon Esser Metronomy Fujiya & Miyagi Franz Ferdinand (headliner) White Lies The Ting Tings Our Fold Black Dahlia Murder Hockey Q-Tip Slipknot (headliner) Disturbed The Killers (headliner) The Gaslight Anthem All That Remains Fleet Foxes Eagles of Death Metal Faith No More (headliner)
2010 29 June2 July lineup
Empire of the Sun Pendulum Muse (headliner) Gallows Massive Attack (headliner) Ellie Goulding Dizzee Rascal Florence and the Machine Kvelertak Kråkesølv Serena Maneesh Anne Marie Almedal Navigators Fuck Buttons Moddi Social Suicide Shot At Dawn JJ Brodinski Biffy Clyro Heaven Shall Burn Arcade Fire (headliner) Japandroids Alexisonfire Them Crooked Vultures (headliner) The Antlers The Drums Paramore As I Lay Dying Every Time I Die Atreyu A Day to Remember Kendrick Lamar Snoop Dogg Skrillex Knife party Vampire Weekend Nas & Damian Marley Our Fold Two Door Cinema Club Julian Casablancas
2011 28 June1 July lineup
The Strokes - (headliner) deadmau5 Linkin Park - (headliner) Thirty Seconds to Mars Robyn - (headliner) The Vaccines Carte Blanche Kasabian Big Boi Honningbarna The Mars Volta Gold Panda Jesse Jones Kylesa Anna Calvi All Time Low Turns Tinie Tempah John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen Bright Eyes Jimmy Eat World Young Dreams Razika Jenny & Johnny Classixx Toro Y Moi Salvador Sánchez Tame Impala Brandon Flowers Kaizers Orchestra - (headliner)
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