Hurricane Festival - Germany

Mr Rivers · 26-03-2006 04:07AM #1

www.hurricane.de

I've decided to sell my Bob Dylan w/ Flaming Lips tickets to go to this instead. Anyone been before? What's it like? Good atmosphere? Well run?

p.pete · 27-03-2006 07:29AM

It's a German festival - of course it's well run

My main recommendation would be to try get there a little early - we did the whole arrive late and have to be told by everyone you can't pitch here (and then it started raining

).
We spent some time in the local bars and everyone was really friendly - old lads at the bar in small village pub

. They practiced their bad English, we practiced bad German.
Campsite was quite friendly, had a few drinks with our neighbours in several directions.
Lineup is generally quite good, haven't looked at this years but I presume it's more of the same.

To get there we flew Ryanair to Luebeck (then get a train to Hamburg and a train to Schlesel or whatever it's called). Potentially it could be easier to get a flight to Hanover (through expedia). Both those options would be through London Stansted.
Have fun

pcorry · 27-03-2006 08:01AM

any idea of the line up ? (cant access link)

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 27-03-2006 08:39AM

Adam Green · Apocalyptica · Arctic Monkeys · B-52's · Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals · Billy Talent · Blackmail · Coheed And Cambria · Death Cab For Cutie · Delays · dEUS · Donavon Frankenreiter · Duels · Elbow · Element of Crime · Fettes Brot · Hard-Fi · Karamelo Santo · Lagwagon · Live · Mad Caddies · Mando Diao · Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System · Maximo Park · Muse · Panteón Rococó · Seeed · Shout Out Louds · Sigur Rós · Skin · The Ark · The Brian Jonestown Massacre · The Cardigans · The Feeling · The Hives · The Kooks · The Strokes · Tomte · Two Gallants · Voltaire · Wir Sind Helden · Within Temptation · Wolfmother ·

p.pete · 27-03-2006 09:01AM

wow, 3 day camping for €79!
not bad

Civilian_Target · 27-03-2006 01:59PM

Yeah - was there last year, it was superb. Flew AerLingus to Hamburg and got a direct train from there to Scheesl, which runs hourly and takes about 40 mins. All very efficient, well run and easy.

As for the festival: http://blogs.boards.ie/civiliantarget/2005/06/18/bestweekendever/

That said, the lineup's not so great this year.

honru · 27-03-2006 03:49PM

Yeah, I was considering going to this one, but the lineup this year is weak. 2005 looked fantastic.

Mr Rivers · 27-03-2006 04:09PM

I wouulda lovin to be at the last one but I seen Rammstein in London that year so I'm happy! This year is cool, totally different scene

Sounds good by all accounts and €79, should be a great start to the summer!

lordgoat · 28-03-2006 12:31PM

Don't forget the world cup is on in germany, i'm not sure when the final is but it'll prob be around that wknd,

p.pete · 28-03-2006 12:41PM

Nope - that's closer to the 2nd round matches - the final is in July (10th I think).

Mr Rivers · 22-05-2006 08:48PM

http://hurricane.de/bands/index.php

Sigur Rós til 2am

:D:D

memaeve · 23-05-2006 01:34AM

I'm going!
Need to sort out flights, etc.
xm

memaeve · 26-05-2006 08:27PM

p.pete wrote:

It's a German festival - of course it's well run
My main recommendation would be to try get there a little early - we did the whole arrive late and have to be told by everyone you can't pitch here (and then it started raining ).
We spent some time in the local bars and everyone was really friendly - old lads at the bar in small village pub . They practiced their bad English, we practiced bad German.
Campsite was quite friendly, had a few drinks with our neighbours in several directions.
Lineup is generally quite good, haven't looked at this years but I presume it's more of the same.

To get there we flew Ryanair to Luebeck (then get a train to Hamburg and a train to Schlesel or whatever it's called). Potentially it could be easier to get a flight to Hanover (through expedia). Both those options would be through London Stansted.
Have fun

Heya, just wondering how much your train tickets cost? Trying to work out the cheapest option here with regards which airport to fly to!
xm

Civilian_Target · 26-05-2006 08:46PM

Hamburg. €20 return. Aer Lingus is your friend. Great festival BTW.

memaeve · 26-05-2006 09:54PM

Civilian_Target wrote:

Hamburg. €20 return. Aer Lingus is your friend. Great festival BTW.

Aer Lingus flights to Bremen are super expensive though. And RyanAir to Hamburg is dirt cheap but then how do I get from there to the festival without paying E60 for a train?! Kinda defeats the purpose of cheap flights when the train ends up costing more!
xm

Civilian_Target · 26-05-2006 10:19PM

It's not even remotely near a train, as far as I remember from when I checked it out, and it's closer to the Danish border than Hamburg!

HLX also fly to Hamburg, might be cheaper. IIRC, Dortmund is also a possibility

Mr Rivers · 27-05-2006 04:15AM

I'm flyin to Hamburg a few days before it cos I'm staying with friends, I've no idea on gettin to the festival yet, leave that part to them :P

memaeve · 27-05-2006 09:36AM

Well let me know if you figure it out in advance.
xm

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