5th of May

Sounds good, I'll definitely be there!

i tried to figure out what kind of festival that is but didn't understand everything that is written on the website... what kind of festival is it? is it outdoors, only one day with a few bands? and how much is the entrance?

Hi,

Just been on the BevrijdingsPop website, but not speaking any Dutch I have no idea whether / where you can buy tickets for this event? Can anyone help?

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Originally posted by MorrisonHotel:
Can anyone help?

Yes, me. I found out that this festival takes place in the oldest public park in the Netherlands, south of the city of Haarlem. The Bevrijdingspop website doesn't mention anything about tickets so it looks like this is a free festival.

Yes it's free!
It is a festival tot celebrate the liberation (bevrijding) of the Netherlands on the 5th of may 1945. Trough the whole country there are a couple of free festivities on that day.

so far:-

BevrijdingsPop, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 5th May
Parkpop, The Hague, The Netherlands, last weekend in June
Guilfest, Guildford, UK, 5th July

is it only one stage on one evening with a few bands playing?

2 stages

Dommelsch Podium 12:30 - 13:45: William Wixley
13:30 - 13:50: Area023 Rapbattle
14:00 - 14:45: CoolPolitics debat
15:00 - 16:00: Electric Eel Shock
16:30 - 17:30: TBA
18:00 - 19:00: Claw Boys Claw
19:30 - 20:15: Heist
20:45 - 21:30: This Will Destroy You
22:00 - 23:00: JohnLordFonda

Houtpodium 12:30 - 12:55: Schizoid Lloyd (Winnaar Rob Acda Award 2008)
13:15 - 13:55: Eva de Roovere
14:15 - 14:50: Kubus & Bang Bang
15:15 - 15:45: Matt & Kim
16:10 - 16:50: TBA
17:15 - 18:05: Juliette & The Licks
18:30 - 19:10: Alphabeat
19:35 - 20:20: Kula Shaker
20:45 - 21:15: Pete Philly & Perquisite
21:40 - 22:30: TBA
22:50 - 23:40: Alain Clark

Thanks to you all for that !

hmm don't know any of the other bands... (except Juliette and the Licks) And KS only get to play less than an hour?

Thought I'd make the Haarlem festival but looks like I can't get back in time for work on Tuesday, Sh**. Waiting patiently for more announcements.

Hi,
I found out about this thread through a Google-alert.
I'm one of the organisers of Bevrijdingspop and willing to answer your questions. (I think we're going to make an english section on our website next year)
Anyway, It's a free festival indeed, and somebody already mentioned the program (we're announcing the other three bands (which are still tba) in the following week(s).
You're free to e-mail me at pepijn [at] bevrijdingspop [dot] nl.
Kind Regards,
Pepijn.

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Originally posted by raagy girl:
hmm don't know any of the other bands... (except Juliette and the Licks) And KS only get to play less than an hour?

I don't know Juliette and the Licks but I know Claw Boys Claw (= excellent Dutch band) and Eva de Roovere (= boring Belgian singer). Anyway, a 45 minutes Kula gig is indeed disappointing.

Juliette and the Licks is the band featuring Juliette Lewis (probably better known as the Hollywood actress from Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear and way too many other movies to mention.) They're not bad in a sub-PJ Harvey kind of way (and certainly a whole lot better than Keanu Reeve's terrible old band Dogstar.) But you still get the impression that a lot of their success is down to the singer's name...