AMPHI FESTIVAL 2011
The Amphi Festival is a music festival that has been taking place since 2005 featuring a wide-ranging program for a heterogeneous audience, albeit primarily fans of alternative, electronic music, and dark music. The number of visitors to the most recent event in 2010 was 16,000 per festival day.
The first Amphi Festival took place in its namesake at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, but since 2006 the Tanzbrunnen in Cologne has been the site of the two-day festival. Several bands perform both on the covered open-air stage as well as on an indoor stage. The range of artists ranges from electro and future pop to medieval rock and gothic rock. There is also a disco program in the evening as well as readings and theater productions. The theater was used as the indoor stage until 2009 when it was changed to only being used for showing movies and band DVDs or as a disco.
Orkus magazine is the official sponsor of the festival and releases DVDs of the event in their issues at the end of the year.
This year’s line-up consists of the following artists:
SATURDAY, 16th of JULY:
Deine Lakaien
Die Krupps
Diorama
Frozen Plasma
Grendel
Hocico
In Strict Confidence
Klangstabil
Leæther Strip
mind.in.a.box
Persephone
Rome
Samsas Traum
Staubkind
Suicide Commando
Tanzwut
Winterkälte
[X]-RX
Zeraphine
SUNDAY, 17th of JULY:
Agonoize
Clan of Xymox
Covenant
Das Ich
De/Vision
Der Fluch
Dreadful Shadows
Feindflug
Funkhausgruppe
In the Nursery
Kirlian Camera
Nitzer Ebb
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
Saltatio Mortis
She's All That
Subway to Sally
Tickets cost 62,00 EUR cand can be purchased on-line directly from here