PinkPop Festival 2012 With The Cure, Kasabian, Linkin Park And Keane

When: 26 May 2012

Where: Landgraaf, the Netherlands

Line-Up for PinkPop 2012 includes:

26 May

The Cure

Anouk

Kasabian

Kyuss Lives

Moss

Major Tom

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

The Ting Tings

Ben Howard

The Afghan Whigs

Will and the People

27 May

Linkin Park

Soundgarden

Babylon Circus

Kyteman’s Hiphop Orchestra

Racoon

Keane

Mastodon

The BossHoss

The Wombats

Bombay Bicycle Club

Chase & Status

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

28 May 
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street band

Mumford & Sons

Gers Pardoel

Seasick Steve

The Specials

Blood Red Shoes

Herbert Gronemeyer

James Morrison

Rival Sons

The Hives

Chef’Special

Hungry Kids of Hungary

Jonathan Jeremiah

Mike Snow

Paul Kalkbrenner

Serena Pryne & The Mandevilles

Pinkpop Festival, or Pinkpop for short, is an unusual festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch, hence the name). In 1970, the first festival took place in Geleen, now part of municipality Sittard-Geleen and was held on the Monday following that weekend.

Today, Pinkpop is a 3 day festival, from Saturday to Monday, and visited by approximately 60,000 people a day with performances on 3 separate stages. In 35 years, 1.5 million people have attended Pinkpop. More than 500 musical acts have played at the festival.

In 1994 (the 25th edition), it was decided to sell only 60,000 tickets, to prevent overcrowding due to the popularity of the festival. In 1995, it was made into a 2-day festival. Two years later, in 1997, this was further expanded to three days.

2007 saw a spin-off, later in the year, on 11 August, called Pinkpop Classic, for an older rock audience, with bands that previously performed there in past decades.In 2008 Pinkpop was for the first time in its history, not held on Pentecost weekend which fell too early that year for the convenience of fans and performers alike.