The next Dour Festival is getting closer every day. In a month about 36.000 people will gather in Dour to take part in one hell of a party. Those who miss out will spend another year wondering why they didn’t make it!

THERE ARE 4-DAY PASSES and 1-DAY PASSES LEFT

First of all we would like to thank you for all your message, sounds like you enjoy the line-up and it fills us with pleasure and pride!

This is translated in the ticket sales which are up 10% compared to this time last year. The festival site is huge and we always try to find ways to make it bigger so you can all have the space to breathe but we will not accept more people than planned even if it means leaving quite a few of you on the curb. So we would like to advise you to get your tickets asap if you don’t want to regret missing out on this year’s festival.

ATTENTION: credit crunch or not the Dour Festival is affordable to all: 85 Euros for 4 days or 40 Euros per day. For your money you get 6 stages, 200 bands and loads of good music. Don’t wait until it’s too late!

DOUR FESTIVAL AS SEEN BY LES INROCKS

French Music Bible Les Inrockuptibles have this to say about Dour: " If you can’t find any music that makes you happy at Dour, you’re either dead or deaf"
That says it all!

DOUR FESTIVAL CARES ABOUT YOUR HEARING [Especially if you want to come to the festival for many years to come]

The info centre DEXIA will be handing out FREE earplugs [from leading brand BLOX] for your comfort. If you’re afraid to loose some sound quality head to your nearest pharmacist. Blox have created special earplugs targeted to festivals.
You can fully enjoy the music without loosing your hearing.

More info: www.blox.info

6 EXTRA BANDS CONFIRMED AND 2 CHANGES IN THE LINE-UP

• You know us, we always have one extra trick up our sleeves and today we’re happy to let you know that both Debout sur le Zinc, Marnie Stern and ThE bEwItChEd HaNdS oN tHe ToP oF oUr HeAdS have been added to the bill.
• We’ve checked our partner VI.be’s website and found 2 flemish bands that have everything going for them and we’re happy to add them to our line-up: Drums Are For Parades and Sound Of Stereo.
• The Dour Festival likes to encourage local talents and this year we’re proud to welcome Milk to the festival.
• Sebastien Tellier’s backing band won’t be around in July. He therefore had to cancel his summer tour but we are looking for a suitable replacement.
• Rapper Hamé won’t be able to join Zone Libre and Casey on stage but another rapper will make it instead.

If you want more information about the festival, the bands, the tickets, check www.dourfestival.be