The
Wacken Open Air in its anniversary year – Sold out and still rocking
on!
The Wacken Open Air is going to be broadcast live on
the Web via live stream again in 2009 – A joint project between ICS
Festivalservice, CTS EVENTIM AG, Tempodome.com and rockalarm.de
Wacken/Hamburg, 4 May 2009
– The 20th Wacken Open Air metal festival has been sold
out for months already. But fans who couldn't get a ticket shouldn't
despair, because the Wacken summer begins in May in Berlin at the "Wacken
Rocks Berlin" festival, reaches its climax at the end of July with
the legendary Open Air in Wacken and its live stream broadcast from
the rock fan's Mecca, and doesn't finish until late in August with
the twin festival "Wacken Rocks Seaside" and "Wacken Rocks South" in
Aurich and Rieden/Kreuth respectively.
So the good news is that there are still tickets available for all
three "Wacken Rocks" festivals! The warm-up for the legendary Wacken
metal festival kicks off on 30 May in Berlin's Spandau Citadel with
the first of three "Wacken Rocks" festivals. "Wacken Rocks Berlin"
offers fans acts and artists like Der W, Volbeat, Heaven Shall Burn
and D.A.D.
Then,
at the end of July, the metal world divides up into two camps: the
more than 70,000 lucky ones who will rock the earth on site at the
20th Wacken Open Air in Wacken, and the global metal
community who will be attending remote via the biggest online metal
live stream ever. Because the second piece of good news is that just
as in 2008, the music portal rockalarm.de will be broadcasting the
festival exclusively on the Internet in collaboration with Tempodome.
The transmission begins in the morning and goes on until the early
morning. Gigs happening simultaneously on two separate stages will
be filmed and broadcast one after the other. In addition to
experiencing the concerts in top sound and picture quality, online
fans will also be able to chat, vote and headbang in their own four
walls. And the virtual road to the festival is well paved too:
Tickets for the big weekend are on sale for various prices at
www.eventim.de/wacken.
The three-day pass guarantees at least 40 hours of live programme
and costs EUR 6.90 until 15 May ("Early Metalheadz" ticket), EUR
10.90 from 15 May to 15 July ("Wacken Rulez" ticket) and EUR 15.90
from then on ("Headbangers Heaven" ticket).
Fans
who still have the energy to rock on will then be served the
ultimate heavy metal deal at the end of August: The double festival
"Wacken Rocks Seaside" and "Wacken Rocks South" will be on almost
simultaneously and with identical line-ups in Aurich (28-30 August)
and in Rieden-Kreuth (27-29 August). Here, metal fans who couldn't
get a ticket for Wacken, or who simply can't get enough, can finish
off the festival year with acts like In Extremo, Der W, Edguy, Doro,
Heaven Shall Burn, U.D.O, Stratovarius and many many more.
The organisers of the Wacken Open Air have joined forces again as
they did last year to offer the live stream of the festival
together: CTS Eventim AG, Europe's ticketing market leader, is
handling the live stream tickets; the interactive live stream
specialist Tempodome.com is responsible for the Internet broadcast;
and Rockalarm.com, the portal for all fans of hard rock, will be
presenting the stream exclusively on its website.
"We are very happy that the organisers of the Wacken Open Air have
entrusted us with the live Internet broadcast of the festival
together with Tempodome and Rockalarm. We invite all metal fans
around the world to jump into the biggest virtual mosh pit the world
has ever seen!" says Malte Blumenthal, New Media vice president at
CTS Eventim AG and CEO of Tempodome.com.
"In 2009 we'll be everywhere and online with the entire world," adds
Holger Hübner, partner in the Wacken organiser ICS Festival Service.
"The Wacken Rocks festivals and the Wacken Online live stream will
be rocking the Web again this year!"
The programme of the Wacken Online live
stream will be published in the weeks to come (updates at
www.eventim.de/wacken
and www.rockalarm.com)