The Sea You Festival (formerly Sea of Love) is a techno music festival that has taken place at Tunisee in Freiburg im Breisgau since 2002.
History Sea of Love In 2002, the Sea of Love Festival, which was initially organised by the company Endless Event, garnered an audience of over 2,500 people. Sven Väth was the headline act. It ran as a one-day festival, however after 2004 one of the organisers, Bela Gurath, came up with the idea of making it a festival run across several days. In 2005 the artists Monika Kruse and DJ Rush headlined.stadtleben.de: 19. Juni 2005 – SEA of LOVE Open-Air-Festival am SEE, Tunisee, Freiburg im Breisgauretrieved 1 July 2012. The latter also headlined when the festival was still held over only one day (along with Felix da Housecat, Tiefschwarz and Turntablerocker).technobilder.de: . retrieved 1 July 2012.
In 2007 there was a stage that towered over the lake and another one set up in a tent. The headliners that year were The Disco Boys, Moguai and Moonbootica. After that the festival was confined to a Sunday.stylecharts.de: 24. Juni 2007, Sea of Love 2007 @ Tunisee (Freiburg-Hochdorf). retrieved 1 July 2012. Furthermore, in 2008 when the headliners Felix da Housecat and Lexy (of Lexy & K-Paul) had to cancel due to illness,fudder.de: Freiburg: Foto-Galerie: Sea of Love 2008 . retrieved 1 July 2012. Monika Kruse and Tiefschwarz were then again called upon to headline.housezeit.de: 13. Juli 2008 – Sea of Love (Freiburg). retrieved 1 July 2012. In 2009 a few previous headliners played for a crowd of over 6,000 people.technoguide.de: Sea Of Love 2009 – 6.000 Besucher feiern friedlich. retrieved 1 July 2012. In 2010 the festival ran, for the first time, over two days. On Saturday 2raumwohnung, Paul Kalkbrenner, Chris Liebing and Die Fantastischen Vier,fudder.de: Freiburg: Sea of Love 2010: So war der erste Tag . retrieved 1 July 2012. played and on the Sunday 2Many DJs, Tiga, Karotte, Lexy & K-Paul, Marco Petralia and many more played. The number of festival goers rose to 15,000 in 2010.fudder.de: Freiburg: Fotos: Sea of Love 2010 am Sonntag . retrieved 1 July 2012.
At the end of 2010 well known artists such as Moby, Tiësto, Paul Kalkbrenner, Robyn und DJ Rush were named as headliners to celebrate the festival's ten-year run in 2011. For the first time the festival was spread across three days musikmarkt.de: , 30 December 2010, retrieved 1 July 2012. and was therefore the second biggest music festival in Baden Wuerttemberg (after the Southside Festival).Thomas Steiner: Party: Elektro-Event: "Unser Publikum ist international". In: Badische Zeitung. 18 June 2011, retrieved 1 July 2012. The audience numbers for the festival "Rock am See" fell from 23,000 to 13,000 Michael Lünstroth: Konstanz: 13 000 Fans feiern friedliches Rock am See, Südkurier, 29 August 2011, retrieved 6 July 2012. but stabilised again in the years following to 25,000.rock-am-see.de: Rock am See: Klasse Bands und 25.000 Besucher rockten die Regenwolken weg , Pressemeldung, 1 September 2012, retrieved 19 October 2012.
However, during the festival in 2011 the organisers were faced with huge problems: the event held on Friday evening in the Rothaus Arena of the Messe Freiburg was almost full with 6,500 spectators and as a result further 2,000 spectators were refused entry. According to data from the police, who later evacuated the Messe, the organisers hadn't complied with health and safety regulations. The camping grounds were also already overcrowded. At the time, parking places in front of various retail stores were blocked and the site for the papal visit "Baustelle für den Papstbesuch" was also damaged.Joachim Röderer und andere: Freiburg: Festival: Chaos bei der Sea of Love – Situation drohte zu eskalieren. In: Badische Zeitung. 16 July 2011, retrieved 1 July 2012.
On Saturday evening there was confusion among festival goers over the rules of entry into the Messe, as an additional ticket was necessary. While the festival grounds had 25,000 spectators, the arena only permitted 13,000. The shuttlebus to the festival travelled through a tunnel, which reminded a lot of people of the incident at the Loveparade in 2010. This resulted in a lot of people travelling on foot to the Messe and roughly 40 of those people crossed the A5 motorway.Alexandra Sillgitt und Sebastian Wolfrum: Südwest: Nicht nur Liebe für die Sea of Love. In: Badische Zeitung. 18 July 2011, retrieved 1 July 2012. The city council explained after the festival that they would have nothing more to do with the organiser as they couldn't, in their opinion, keep the event under control.Joachim Röderer und andere: Freiburg: Techno-Festival: "Sea of Love" auf der Kippe – Stadt kritisiert Veranstalter. In: Badische Zeitung. 18 July 2011, retrieved 1 July 2012.
Sea of Love (New Management) By the end of 2011 it was common knowledge that the previous organisers had sold the rights to the event to the concert group KOKO &DTK Entertainment and had even been threatened with a fine which was later set at 100,000 euros.Joachim Röderer: Freiburg: Finanzielle Folgen: Sea of Love: Veranstalter sollen 100.000 Euro zahlen. In: Badische Zeitung. 15 February 2012, retrieved 1 July 2012. Koko announced that they wanted to stage the festival exclusively at Tunisee.Joachim Röderer: Freiburg: Veranstalterwechsel: Sea of Love: Koko übernimmt Technofestival. In: Badische Zeitung. 21 December 2011, retrieved 1 July 2012. In 2012 20,000 visitors were expected at the festival Pia Grättinger: Reute: Konzept: "Sea of Love": Koko sieht kein Problem. In: Badische Zeitung. 23 June 2012, retrieved 1 July 2012. which ran between 14 and 15 July, in reality 15,000 people attended over the two days to see artists such as Deichkind or Gorillaz Sound System.Yvonne Weik: Freiburg: Das Konzept am See geht voll auf. In: Badische Zeitung. 16 July 2012, retrieved 28 July 2012. In December 2012 it was revealed that KOKO & DTK Entertainment wouldn't be organizing any more Sea of Love festivals on the same scale.Carolin Buchheim: Interview mit Marc Oßwald zur Sea of Love: "Der Imageverlust war groß" , fudder.de, 14 December 2012, retrieved 13 June 2013.
At the end of 2012, as a result of the circumstances in 2011, the Freiburg city council decided on how to organise future events and also came up with the idea of establishing an event management office in the first few months of 2013.Gemeinderatsdrucksache G-13/037 zur 1. Sitzung des Gemeinderates, Ratsinfosystem Freiburg, 29 January 2013, retrieved 3 March 2013. This was approved at the municipal council meeting of 16 April 2013 for the Public Order Office.Gemeinderatsdrucksache G-13/053 zur 4. Sitzung des Gemeinderates, Ratsinfosystem Freiburg, 16 April 2013, retrieved 25 May 2013.
Sea You In July 2014 the Sea of Love festival was held on a smaller scale under the new name 'Sea You' and was restricted to around 10,000 visitors. The organisers were the events group "Cosmopop". On 18 and 19 July 2015 the festival was held for the second time under the new name and management, attracting over 15,000 spectators.
Line-up YearHeadliner Date Audience numbers Name/Organiser of the event 2002 Sven Väth 2.500 Sea of LoveEndless Event 2003 DJ Rush, Marco Carola, Mas Ricardo, Tom Novy 27 July 2003 2004 Chris Liebing, Tom Novy, Turntablerocker 13 June 2004 2005 DJ Rush, Monika Kruse, Karotte, Moguai, Mr. Mike 19 June 2005 2006 Felix da Housecat, DJ Rush, Turntablerocker, Tiefschwarz, Marco Bailey, Milk & Sugar 16 July 2006 2007 DJ Hell, Tiefschwarz, Moguai, The Disco Boys, Moonbootica, Monika Kruse, DJ Murphy 24 June 2007 2008 Felix da Housecat (abgesagt), Tiefschwarz, Lexy (abgesagt) & K-Paul, Monika Kruse, DJ Murphy 13 July 2008 2009 Digitalism, Turntablerocker, Lexy & K-Paul, Tiefschwarz, Anthony Rother, Monika Kruse, The Disco Boys, Guru Josh Project, Marco Petralia 28 June 2009 6,000 2010 Die Fantastischen Vier, 2manydjs, Paul Kalkbrenner, DJ Hell, Boys Noize, Fedde le Grand, Chris Liebing, Stromae, 2raumwohnung, Tiga, Turntablerocker 17 & 18 July 2010 15,000 2011 Moby, Paul Kalkbrenner, David Guetta, Tiësto 15, 16 & 17 July 2011 25,000 2012 Gorillaz, Deichkind 14 & 15 July 2012 15,000 Sea of LoveKOKO & DTK Entertainment 2013 Event not held 2014 z. B. Ben Klock, Chris Liebing, Extrawelt, Lexy & K-Paul, Loco Dice, Luciano, Moonbootica, Nina Kraviz, Oliver Schories, Richie Hawtin, Robin Schulz 18, 19 & 20 July 2014 10,000 Sea You FestivalCosmopop 2015 Carl Cox, Joseph Capriati, Len Faki, Maceo Plex, Nina Kraviz, Robin Schulz, Sven Väth 18 & 19 July 2015 14,00014.000 Liebhaber der elektronischen Musik aus insgesamt ... auf seayou-festival.de, retrieved 26 April 2017. 2016 Chris Liebing, Jamie Jones, Joris Voorn, Len Faki, Luciano, Monika Kruse, Nina Kraviz, Robin Schulz, Sven Väth, Tale Of Us 16 & 17 July 2016 20,000Pressemitteilung Sea You Festival "Beach Republic" 2016 auf seayou-festival.de, retrieved 26 April 2017. 2017 z. B. Adam Beyer, Alle Farben, Boris Brejcha, Gestört aber GeiL, Klaudia Gawlas, Len Faki, Lexy & K-Paul, Loco Dice, Monika Kruse, Paul Kalkbrenner 15 & 16 July 2017 27,000 2018 z. B. Adam Beyer, Alle Farben, Boris Brejcha, Charlotte de Witte, Klaudia Gawlas, Len Faki, Lexy & K-Paul, Marco Carola, Monika Kruse, Vini Vici 14 & 15 July 2018
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