's parent company, as of 2004. The festival and its
guests are generally associated with the alternative part of
mainstream music, although the festival has been becoming more and
more mainstream over the years.
Together they're a twin festival, since they are on the same days
and usually have the same lineup with only few exceptions.
) and was attended by 52,000 people.
At the "First Rider Open Air" in 1977, fans caused damage of more
than a million
when riots broke
out, because only five of the announced 23 bands could perform—a
huge scandal was uncovered few days later. The organizer was forced
to make a long pause.
returned to Scheeßel in the
form of the Hurricane Festival, with numerous bands performing in
front of 20,000 guests. It has taken place on the Eichenring, a
sand racetrack, ever since.
Audience size peaked in 2008 with about 75,000 guests; from 2002 to
2006 between 40,000 and 60,000 people came. By this time (2007 and
2008) about 75.000 (young) people watched the gigs.
Year |
Acts |
1973 |
Argent, Buddy Miles, Chicago, Chuck
Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, East of Eden, Epitaph, Ian Carr with
Nucleus Osibisa, Karthago, Lou Reed, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Odin
Bronco, Richie Havens, Soft Machine, Ten
Years After, Vinegar Joe,
Wishbone Ash |
1997 |
16 Horsepower, 311, Ani DiFranco,
Armageddon Dildos, Bad Religion, Chumbawamba, Cucumber Men, Daft Punk, Deine
Lakaien, Element of Crime,
Fischmob, Hip Young Things, INXS, L 7, Lamb, Lecker Fischbrät, The Levellers, Manbreak, Mansun, Neneh Cherry,
Peter Bruntnell, Phish, Primus, Rammstein,
Rekord, Sharon Stoned, Sheryl Crow,
Son Volt, The
Cardigans, The
Inchtabokatables, The Jinxs, The
Lightning Seeds, The Men
They Couldn't Hang, Thumb, Tiamat, Weltempfänger |
1998 |
Alaska feat. Bobo, Apocalyptica,
Asian Dub Foundation, Beastie Boys, Bell, Book & Candle,
Björk, Chumbawamba, Dave
Matthews Band, Del Amitri, Die
Sterne, Garbage, Guano Apes, Hazeldine, Heather
Nova, Iggy Pop, Madonna Hip Hop
Massaker, Matchbox Twenty, Megaherz, Money Mark,
Oomph!, Oysterband,
Pop Tarts, Pulp, Rancid,
Readymade, Sonic Youth, Such A Surge,
The Bates, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones,
The Notwist, Tito & Tarantula, Tocotronic, Torn!, trieb, Two, Vivid, Ween, Widespread
Panic |
1999 |
Blumfeld, Blur, Built to
Spill, Bush, Calexico, Catatonia, dEUS,
Die Fantastischen Vier, Eat
No Fish, Everlast, Faithless, Guano Apes,
HIM, Hole,
Ich-Zwerg, Kashmir, Liquido, Live, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Miles, Molotov,
Motorpsycho, Muse |
2000 |
A, Ani
DiFranco, Blind Passengers, Bomfunk
MC's, Bush, Die Firma, Eat No Fish,
Element of Crime, Emiliana Torrini, Fink, FM Einheit feat. Gry, Fu Manchu, Gentleman, Giant
Sand, Gomez, Groove Armada, HIM,
Laika, Live, Lotte Ohm, Macy Gray, Madrugada,
Missing Link, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Project Pitchfork, Rico, Rollins Band, Sandy Dillon, Skunk Anansie, Station 17, Surrogat, The Cranberries, The Tea Party, Therapy?, Tonic, Uncle
Ho |
2001 |
Fünf Sterne deluxe,
American Hi-Fi, Ash, Backyard
Babies, Blackmail, Blumfeld, Deftones,
Die Toten Hosen, Donots, Faithless, Fantômas, Fink, Goldfinger, Grand Theft Audio, H-Blockx, Iggy Pop,
Incubus, Jan
Delay und die Sam Ragga Band, Jimmy
Eat World, JJ72, Krezip, K's Choice, Last
Days of April, Nashville Pussy,
OPM, Paradise Lost, Phoenix, Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Stereo MCs, Superpunk, The Hellacopters, The
Hives, The Offspring, The Weakerthans, Thomas
D, Tool, Weezer, Wheatus |
2002 |
…And You Will
Know Us by the Trail of Dead, 4Lyn, A,
Beatsteaks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Die Happy, Die
Ärzte, Dover, Emil Bulls, Fettes
Brot, Garbage, Gluecifer, Heyday, Jasmin Tabatabai, Kane, Lambretta, Less
Than Jake, Lostprophets, Madrugada, Mercury Rev,
Nelly Furtado, New Order, No Doubt,
Queens of the Stone Age,
Readymade, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Rival Schools,
Simple Plan, Soulfly, Sportfreunde Stiller, Such A Surge,
Television, The Noise Conspiracy,
The Breeders, The Flaming Sideburns, The Notwist, The
Promise Ring, Tocotronic, Zornik |
2003 |
22-20s, Anouk, Apocalyptica,
Asian Dub Foundation, Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, Björk, Blackmail,
Brendan Benson, Cellophane Suckers,
Coldplay, Console, Counting Crows, Danko
Jones, Fu Manchu, Goldfrapp, Good
Charlotte, Grandaddy, Guano Apes, GusGus,
International Pony, Interpol,
Kettcar, Massive
Attack, Millencolin, Moloko, Nada Surf, NOFX, Patrice,
Pinkostar, Radiohead, Röyksopp, Seeed, Sigur Rós with Amina, Skin, Slut,
Starsailor, Supergrass, The
Datsuns, The Hellacopters,
The Mighty Mighty
Bosstones, The Roots, The Sounds, Therapy?,
Tocotronic, Turbonegro, Underwater Circus, Underworld, Union Youth, Venus Hum |
2004 |
Fünf Sterne deluxe,
Air, Amplifier, Anti-Flag, Ash, Backyard Babies, Beatsteaks, Beginner,
Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Breed 77, Bright Eyes, Colour of Fire, Cypress Hill, Danko
Jones, David Bowie, Die Fantastischen Vier, Die Happy, Donots, Dropkick Murphys, Fireball Ministry, Franz Ferdinand, Gentleman & the Far East Band,
Gluecifer, Graham
Coxon, I Am Kloot, Ill Niño, Life of
Agony, Mando Diao, Mclusky, Modest Mouse,
Mogwai, Monster
Magnet, Pixies, P J
Harvey, Placebo, Sarah Bettens, Snow
Patrol, Sportfreunde
Stiller, The
Noise Conspiracy, The Bones, The Cure,
The Hives, Tiger Beat, Tomte, Wilco, Within Temptation |
2005 |
3 Doors Down, …And You Will
Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Ashton!, Audioslave, Beatsteaks,
Beck, Boysetsfire, Brendan
Benson, Broken Social Scene,
Die Ärzte, Dinosaur Jr., Eagles of Death Metal, Fantômas, Feist, Flogging
Molly, Ken, Kettcar, La Vela Puerca, Madrugada, Madsen,
Millencolin, Moneybrother, New
Order, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Olli Schulz, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Sarah
Bettens, Ska-P, Slut, System of a
Down, Team Sleep, The Dresden Dolls, The Eighties Matchbox
B-Line Disaster, The Stands, Turbonegro, Underøath
(ausgefallen), Wir sind Helden |
2006 |
Adam Green, Apocalyptica, Archive,
Arctic Monkeys, Backyard Babies, Ben
Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Billy Talent, Blackmail, Boozed, Collective Soul, Death Cab for Cutie, dEUS, Donavon
Frankenreiter, Duels, Eagles of Death Metal, Elbow, Element of
Crime, Everlaunch, Fettes Brot,
Gnarls Barkley (Cancelled due to bad
weather), Gods of Blitz, Gogol Bordello, Hard-Fi, Karamelo
Santo, Klee, Lagwagon, Live, Mad Caddies, Mando
Diao, Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound
System, Maxïmo Park, Nada Surf, Muse
(Cancelled due to bad weather), Ohrbooten, The Weepies, The
Pale, Panteón Rococó,
Pete Blume, Photonensurfer, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Scissors
For Lefty, Serena Maneesh, Seeed, She-Male Trouble, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Rós, Skin, Smoke
Blow, The Brian Jonestown
Massacre, The Cardigans, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Feeling, The
Gossip, The Answer, The Hives, The Kooks,
The Raconteurs, The Sounds, The
Strokes, Tomte, Two Gallants, Voltaire, Wir sind Helden, Within Temptation (Cancelled due to bad
weather), Zebrahead |
2007 |
Aereogramme, The Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Bloc
Party, The Blood
Brothers, The Bravery, Bright Eyes, Bromheads Jacket, Cold War Kids, Deichkind, Dropkick
Murphys, Editors, Five O’Clock Heroes,
Frank Black, Dendemann, Die
Fantastischen Vier, The Films, Fotos, The Good, The Bad & The
Queen, The Hold Steady, Howling Bells, Incubus, Interpol, Isis,
Johnossi, Juliette and the Licks, Karpatenhund,
Kings of Leon, La Vela Puerca, Less Than Jake, Manic Street Preachers, Marilyn Manson, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes,
Mutemath, Modest
Mouse, Mogwai, Ohrbooten, Pearl Jam, Placebo,
Porcupine Tree, Queens of the Stone Age, Snow Patrol, Sonic
Youth, State Radio, Sugarplum Fairy, Super 700, Tokyo Police Club, Virginia Jetzt! |
2008 |
Apoptygma Berzerk, Bat For Lashes, Beatsteaks, Biffy
Clyro, Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Blackmail, British Sea Power, Calexico, Deichkind,
Die Mannequin, Digitalism, Does It Offend You, Yeah?,
Donots, Elbow, Enter Shikari, Flogging Molly, Foals,
Foo Fighters, Jaguar Love, Jan Delay
& Disko No 1, Jason Mraz, Jennifer Rostock, Kaiser Chiefs, Kettcar,
Krieger, Maxïmo Park, Millencolin, Monster
Magnet, Nada Surf, NoFX, Oceansize, Operator Please, Panic at the Disco, Panteón Rococó, Patrice, Radiohead, Razorlight,
Rise Against, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar, Sigur Rós, Slut,
Tegan and Sara, The Beautiful Girls, The Chemical Brothers, The Cribs, The
Enemy, The
Noise Conspiracy, The Kooks, The Pigeon Detectives, The Notwist, The
Subways, The Weakerthans,
The Wombats, Tocotronic, Turbostaat and Xavier Rudd. |