News & updates
All the latest festival news and updates, as well as info about eufest.
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Hideout announce heavyweight beach party line-up
Today much loved Croatian festival Hideout announce the return of their sun soaked beach party on the idyllic Adriatic coastline, with an all star line up to match. Adding to the already impressive programme, Hideout are pulling out all the stops for 2019 and are welcoming FISHER, Danny Howard, Melé, Dom Dolla and Franky Wah to kick off the week long festivities straight from the beach.
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Suede announce Croatian debut at INmusic festival #14
One of Britpop’s "big four", the heroes of the Britpop revolution, Suede will join the massive INmusic festival #14 line-up!
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Kings of Leon to headline Benicassim 2019
Festival Internacionale de Benicassim (FIB) have announced another clutch of acts for the 2019 edition of the festival.
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The first names are in for Outlook 2019
Outlook has revealed the first wave of artists locked in for its final instalment at Fort Punta Cristo.
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Foals set to headline INmusic
One of the UK’s best live acts, indie heroes Foals, are set to return to the main stage of Croatia's biggest open air festival in June 2019.
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Hideout announce first acts for 2019
Hideout Festival, one of the biggest international music events to take place annually on Pag island, have announced their line up for 2019.
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New Novalja festivals on the eufest line-up
eufest has added two new festivals in Novalja, Croatia, to its offering for 2019.
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Chase & Status to hit Benicassim
Benicassim Festival made sneakily added a few names to the line up for this years festival when we weren't paying attention.
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Outlook going underground
This summer, Outlook are set to take the party deeper, darker and more exciting than ever with a brand new addition for 2018 – a series of mind-blowing parties where there’s more than meets the eye.
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The xx and Florence confirmed headliners for Melt!
The xx, Florence & The Machine and Tyler, The Creator have all been announced for the 21st edition of Germany’s Melt! Festival in July 2018.
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Hideout announces first wave of artists
Hideout Festival, Croatia’s craziest beach party, returns to Zrce Beach on the island of Pag in June 2018.
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Queens Of The Stone Age set to headline INmusic festival #13!
The uncompromising and always true to themselves, Queens of the Stone are the first headliners announced for the upcoming 13th edition of Croatia's largest music festival – INmusic festival!
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First line-up release for Dimensions
Fresh from a milestone five years last summer, Dimensions Festival can now reveal plans for it’s 2017 outing, with it’s heaviest bill of live acts and selectors to date.
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Hideout 2017 line-up revealed
The first wave of names on the line-up for Hideout, one of Croatia's leading dance music festivals, has just been announced. The festival is set to return to party beach Zrce next summer for its seventh year.
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INmusic presents a unique tribute to Bowie and Tesla
A one-of-a-kind festival stage at this year's INmusic Festival will be the world's first replica of the historic Tesla Tower
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Festival of the week - Dimensions
Dimensions is the smaller, more intimate, sister festival of Outlook. It takes place in the same stunning location - the abandoned Fort Punta Christo, outside the Croatia city of Pula. The beach side location, the incredible DJ’s and the array of weird and wonderful venues makes Dimensions one of Europe’s finest electronic festivals.
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Festival of the week - Outlook
Outlook festival takes place in the stunning ruins of the abandoned Fort Punta Christo. Each year, Outlook boasts a consistently superb line-up in a surreal, yet beautiful location. This is definitely one for the festival bucket list!
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Festival of the week - Sziget
There’s not long to go until Europe’s biggest party – Sziget! Here’s a quick profile to give you a taste of what to expect from this glorious week long festival.
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Hideout 2014 Rep Review
Forget what you think you know about festivals…
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Festival of the week - Benicassim
There's only a few days to go, so this week we're looking at the beloved Benicassim Festival.
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INmusic Festival 2014 Rep Review
Nestled on the outskirts of Croatia's gorgeous capital Zagrab, lies INmusic Festival.
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Festival of the week - Balaton Sound
This week we’re focusing on the beautiful Balaton Sound!
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Festival of the week - Bilbao BBK Live
Bilbao BBK Live mixes the best of contemporary rock and electronica in a mountainside festival extravaganza. With beautiful rolling hills, an incredible line-up and the delights of city life nearby, Bilbao BBK Live is one of Spain’s most beloved festivals.
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Review: Hideout Festival
Hideout is a blissful 24 hour party atmosphere with a gorgeous location and delicious weather. So its easy to understand why this blogger is a totally smitten kitten.
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Festival of the week - Hideout
Hideout smashed onto the festival scene in 2010 and has consistently sold out every year since. The potent mix of beach, sea, incredible location and an inspired line-up mean that Hideout is undoubtedly one of Europe’s most renowned electronic festivals.
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Festival of the week - Umbria Rock
Italy's newest festival Umbria Rock is this week's Festival of the week. Here's a short profile to whet your musical taste buds for this summers up-coming event.
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Festival of the week - Soundwave
This week all eyes are on Croatia's stunning Soundwave Festival. With a capacity of just 3000 people, Soundwave has an unique and all encompassing atmosphere. Couple this with its glorious location and unbeatable line-up and its not difficult to see why we've chosen it as our festival of the week.
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Rock for People Review
One of the biggest - and greenest - music festivals in the country, Rock for People, returns to Hradec Králové for four days of rock, rap, folk and environmental consciousness.
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Festival of the week - Rock for People
eufest profile Rock for People festival. A gorgeous festival in the Czech Republic with a fantastic line-up, lake swimming and delicious locally brewed beer!
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Stop Drop Robot to play Croatia's INmusic Festival!
Last Friday 5 of the UK’s finest unsigned bands descended upon the Leamington Zephyr Lounge for the live final of All About The Music 2014.
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Festival of the week - Pohoda
Here's a quick profile of one of our favourite festivals - Pohoda!
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Festival of the week - INmusic
INmusic Festival is a beautiful event with a gorgeous island location in Croatia’s capital city Zagreb. Each year INmusic boasts an incredible line-up with some of the best rock and indie acts of the moment.
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Festival of the week - Positivus
Once again the eufest team have put their heads together and chosen a festival of the week. This week we have picked Latvia’s most successful music and arts festival – Positivus!
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Hip-hop’s most controversial rapper DMX arrives at New Yorker Fresh Island Festival
NEW YORKER FRESH ISLAND FESTIVAL held on Zrce beach announces the advent of hip-hop's most controversial rapper: DMX, who makes his first return to Europe in over a decade.
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Festival of the week - Electric Castle
Each week the eufest team are going to choose a festival of the week. This week all eyes are on Romania's Electric Castle.
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Romania's hottest new festival Electric Castle
Electric Castle Festival is an electronic music festival, taking place at the end of June in Bánffy's Castle, Romania.
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Digitalism to play at INmusic 2014!
The German electronic duo Digitalism are confirmed to play INmusic Festival this summer.
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VIP and one day tickets go on sale
eufest are waiting to launch a new range of fabulous Positivus tickets.
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Crystal Fighters to play at INmusic 2014.
Croatia’s INmusic Festival have announced that alternative dance band, Crystal Fighters, will be playing at this year’s event.
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Benicassim Festival's twentieth anniversary line-up.
In honour of its twentieth anniversary, Benicassim festival have announced a corking line-up.
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Foster the people and many more for Bilbao BBK Live 2014
Bilbao BBK Live has announced another fantastic selection of artists for this year’s festival
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Fratellis for INmusic 2014
Scottish rockers The Fratellis have joined INmusic’s 2014 summer line-up.
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Positivus Festival Announce New Acts.
Bastille, Laura Mvula, The 1975 and Kid Karate have been added to this year’s Positivus festival programme.
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Dimensions Initial Line-up.
Dimensions festival have announced an awe inspiring line-up for 2014.
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All About The Music launch 2014.
As well as being the UK’s original festival travel company, here at eufest we’re huge music fans and advocates of real and authentic music.
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Outlook Festival announce an incredible initial line-up!
Outlook festival is back for its seventh year and this celebration of soundsystem culture just keeps on getting better!
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Who wouldn't Melt! for this line-up?
Festival sites are not what they used to be. Gone are the days of muddy fields, smelly tents and burger vans.
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The European Festival Awards Winners.
The best music festivals, artists and promoters of 2013 were revealed at the 5th annual European Festival Awards, which took place at Groningen’s De Oosterport in The Netherlands, marking the opening night of Eurosonic Noorderslag
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Frequency Festival announces line-up.
Coming straight from Austria’s Green Park, Frequency Festival has announced a jaw dropping initial line-up for 2014’s event.
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Pixies to rock Zagreb
Croatia’s rocking INmusic Festival has announced the first headliner for the ninth edition of the festival in 2014. And it’s the legendary, iconic, Pixies.
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Positivus confirms headliner schedule
Positivus festival one day tickets are purchasable starting today - April 25th. Along with the tickets, Positivus has also announced the headliner schedules for both of the festival’s main stages – the Tele2 and the Nordea stages.
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New acts announced for Sziget Festival
Biffy Clyro, Mika, The Cribs, and Regina Spektor are just some of the latest additions to the line-up for Hungary's Sziget Festival, 5-12 August 2013.
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A$AP Rocky joins Snoop at Croatian Hip Hip Festival
Situated on the party beach of Zrce, Croatia - and now in its second year - Fresh Island Festival is the newcomer on the circuit which has impressed not just hip hop fans across Europe but also some of the world's biggest rap stars.
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Put your hands in the air - Fatboy Slim is back!
Continuing the R:Evolution, EXIT proudly announces one more name to join the line-up, alongside the already-announced Atoms for Peace, the reincarnated Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion) and Bloc Party. Ladies and gentleman, put your hands up in the air and prepare yourself for another crazy Fatboy Slim experience as the dance scene legend returns to EXIT festival, Eastern Europe's greatest summer adventure serving up five days of music, entertainment and adventure from 10–14 July.
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All About the Music
Competition launched for unsigned UK band to play at top European festival
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2013 Festival line-up announcements
Outlook, Benicassim, Sziget and BBK announce new acts.
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Keeping it covered
ABTA – the UK’s largest consumer body for the travel industry – has revealed that thousands of festivalgoers are putting themselves at risk of sky-high medical bills.
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2013 European festival dates released
It seems that festival organisers are being super prepared this year, with many of the popular European festivals already releasing their 2013 dates.
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Dates confirmed for INmusic 2013
Unfortunately, the “great British summer” is definitely over, and the festival season has come to an end. However, for those of you who are already planning your next festival expedition, INmusic organisers have just announced their dates for summer 2013.
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B’ESTFEST – twice the fun, half the price
eufest has secured an exclusive deal with Romania’s biggest music festival, B’ESTFEST Summer Camp, so for a limited time only we are able to offer two festival tickets for the price of one!
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EXIT festival announces twinning with Bestival
EXIT is delighted to announce that it will be teaming up with Bestival to take part in the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) Twin Festivals Initiative, for the first time in 2012.
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Keane - feeling Positivus
The British band Keane is one of the headliners who will be playing at the Positivus Festival 2012 on July 20th and 21st in Salacgriva, Latvia. Latvian band Instrumenti, who will be the only local band performing on the main stage - Tele 2 stage, has been added to the festival line-up. The other three acts that have been added to the festival line-up are The Vaccines, King Charles and the swedish band Niki & The Dove.
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Just the ticket
Festival travel company eufest has unveiled the latest addition to its new website – the eufest Ticket Shop.
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Festivals - now with added protection
eufest has taken the momentous step (well for us, anyway) of joining ABTA – the Association of British Travel Agents.
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eufest launches new website
Specialist travel company eufest today unveiled its spanking new website at www.eufest.com. The company is the UK’s leading travel company dedicated to the European festival scene, and provides transport, tickets and accommodation for some of the biggest festivals in Europe.
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New festivals for Summer 2012
For summer 2012 we thought we’d like to offer you even more, and try out some exiting new European festivals. After doing a bit of research about the festivals that you want to get to, we have chosen Bilbao BBK Live in Spain, Hurricane and Southside in Germany, Frequency in Austria and B’est Fest in Romania. But that’s just the start of our list, so watch this space for even more new festivals on our website in the New Year......
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Sun, sea and sounds…Bench speak to eufest at the end of a crazy summer
Eufest is a specialist travel company dedicated to the festival scene – almost as much as we are here at Bench – and this year they helped almost 10,000 people get to their favourite festivals all over Europe (even helping Bench get over to Melt! Festival in July). At the end of a crazy summer, we caught up with Director Dermot O’Flynn, who started the company with his wife Anna-Maria in 2003, and Project Manager Lauren Rawlings to find out what’s hot, what’s cool, and where we should all be going in 2012…