Lowlands 2012
What a weekend it was!! The Dutch version of GlastonBury, Roskilde, Coachella and Rock Werchter called Lowlands ended last night. Lowlands is a 3-day outdoor festival which focuses on alternative music, as well as a complete programme of stand-up comedy, film, visual arts, literature and (street) theatre. It took place from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August and goes under the longer title of A Camping Flight To Lowlands Paradise. It is situated in Biddinghuizen, which is a town in the Dutch province of Flevoland (1.5 hr. drive from Amsterdam). The festival plays host to 55,000 attendees (sold out in 2-hours) and has several hundred performances divided over three areas and eight stages, many bars and global restaurants, a market, hippie hangouts, campsites with showers, a radio station, a daily newspaper, and a unique currency. The majority of stages are inside huge tents this for insurance against the Dutch maritime climate. The main stage’s tent is Alpha: being approximately the size of a premiership football team’s pitch. Some of the acts this year: The Black Keys, Graveyard, The Maccabees, Hot chip, Zulu Winter, Sleigh Bells, Wilco, The Gaslight Anthem, Foo Figthers, Feist, Alt-J, Moss, Modeselektor, Enter Shikari, Skrillex, Kasabian, Django Django, The xx, Ben Howard, Alborosie & Shengen Clan + Ikaya, Mark Lanegan Band, Miike Snow, Krema Kawa, Refused, SMOD, tUnE-yArDs, James Vincent McMorrow, Ane Brun, Innervisions presents: Henrik Schwarz, Dixon en Âme (live & DJ), La Pegatina, Letlive, Movits!, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs and many others. Good friend and Spotify Account Director Sietze Rademaker created some unique Spotify Playlists for y’all!!! This per tent (in chronological order) of the artists that perform their: Lowlands – Alfa, Lowlands – Grolsh, Lowlands – India, Lowlands – Bravo, Lowlands – X-ray and Lowlands – Charlie. What’s the Lowlands feeling? Well let me take you back to 2007 LCD Soundsystem, 2008 Sigur Rós, 2010 Mumford & Sons, 2011 Elbow and 2011 James Blake.