Festivaltime: Nova Rock

The festival season is over, well at least in Europe it is. It's just too cold here too sleep in a tent ... drunk. One of the finest rock festivals in Austria is the Nova Rock Festival in Nickelsdorf near Vienna. Existing since 2005 it's also one of the youngest festivals in central Europe. Compared to bigger ones such as Rock am Ring or Southside it has a quite intimate atmosphere. But that doesn't hinder top bands to play there. Among the headliner were names such as The Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, Placebo or Metallica. 

But today I'd like to list some lesser known (but also famous ;-)) acts' setlists:

• Rise Against from Chicago in June
• Cavalera Conspiracy with members from Brazil, France and the United States also in June
• one of Vienna's best rock bands Julia last year
• there are plenty more Nova rock setlists!

Thanks to TheDom for adding the setlists on setlist.fm! Feel like adding a setlist of a concert you've been to? Rock ahead!

rock and roll!

relevant links:

Julia - Official Homepage

Cavalera Conspiracy - Official Homepage

Rise Against - Official Homepage

Lollapolooza setlist highlights

Today I'm gonna show you some setlists of the finest acts of the famous Lollapolooza festival in Chicago of the last years

• Jack White's Raconteurs rocked back in 2006
• Iggy & The Stooges last year
• Nine Inch Nails this year
• Iron and Wine, also in this year
• and last but not least the never aging Pearl Jam in 2007!

That's only a selection, checkout setlist.fm to find a whole bunch more Lollapolooza setlists!

rock and roll!

Depeche Mode announces tour

With a title that raises high expectations (Tour of the universe) Depeche Mode announces a stadium-tour through Europe in 2009. They didn't tell much about the upcoming tour on their press conference in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. They didn't even answer questions about the setlist :-) so here's what they played on their last tour ... some really fine tunes!

• Depeche Mode at Bowery Ballroom in New York 2005
• Depeche Mode at LTU-Arena in Düsseldorf 2006
• ... some more Depeche Mode setlists

your own, personal, setlists ;-)

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Free setlists of free concerts

Every once in a while some artists decide to do a free concert ... or some, mostly governential, institutions decide to organise a free event featuring a famous artist. Here's a selection of some nice and free concerts over the years. 

• 500,000 people attended the Metallica concert in Moscow back in 1991
  
• more than 500,000 saw Paul McCartney performing outside the Colisseum in Rome in 2003
  
• 100,000 people were at Bob Dylan's Concert for Peace in the Basque Country in 2006
• more than 400,000 people saw Manu Chao at Rock al Parque in Bogota in 2006
• some 50,000 people were at R.E.M.'s free concert in Athens yesterday!

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We're on! Setlists as far as the eye can see!

Now it's official, setlist.fm is online. We not only filled the database with recent events such as

• R.E.M. in Munich
• Madonna in Vienna
• Coldplay in Budapest
• and many more!

but also with real classics such as

• The Beatles at Shea Stadium, NY
• The Rolling Stones at Marquee Club, London
• Frank Sinatra in Melbourne
• and many more!

As setlist.fm is completely free and wiki-like, you're warmly welcome to add setlists of concerts you like, review existing setlists and discuss about them!

Rock and roll!