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The Amphi Festival is a music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

that has been taking place since 2005 featuring a wide-ranging program for a heterogeneous audience, albeit primarily fans of alternative, electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

, and dark music

Dark music

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. The number of visitors to the most recent event in 2009 was 13,000 per festival day.

The first Amphi Festival took place in its namesake at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen

Gelsenkirchen

Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000....

, Germany

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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

Medieval rock

Medieval metal or medieval rock is a subgenre of folk metal that blends hard rock or heavy metal music with medieval folk music. Medieval metal is mostly restricted to Germany where it is known as Mittelalter-Metal or Mittelalter-Rock. The genre emerged from the middle of the 1990s with...

and gothic rock

Gothic rock

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. There is also a disco

Disco

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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 and the Rheinparkhalle took over the role of the indoor stage for one day until a two-square-meter portion of the ceiling collapsed during the performance by Feindflug. There were no injuries but Laibach's performance was delayed and moved back to the theater.

Orkus magazine is the official sponsor of the festival and releases DVDs of the event in their issues at the end of the year.

2005

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2006

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2007

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2008

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2009

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Mono Inc. is a German gothic rock band. The band's influences are Sisters Of Mercy, Depeche Mode, Unheilig, The Cure, The Smiths, Placebo, New Order and even Metallica.- Current members :* Martin Engler – lead vocals...

, Nachtmahr, Project Pitchfork

Project Pitchfork

, Rabia Sorda

Rabia Sorda

Rabia Sorda is the side project of Erk Aicrag, lead singer of the Mexican aggrotech band Hocico. Rabia Sorda, like Hocico, is electronic music, though it is somewhat less aggressive and noisy than Hocico....

, Samsas Traum

Samsas Traum

, Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....

, Solitary Experiments, The Crüxshadows

The Crüxshadows

The Crüxshadows is an Dark Electro group from Florida. Their sound is made up of a combination of male vocals, electric violin, guitar, and synth...

, VNV Nation

VNV Nation

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External links

Amphi Festival Website - Official festival website
Amphi Festival 2012 Information - English
Amphi Festival 2012 Information - Russian
Amphi Festival 2011 Photo Reports

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