Festival in Europe: Traffic - Torino Free Festival
Turin, Italy
from Monday 07/07/2008
to Saturday 12/07/2008
to Saturday 12/07/2008
The Traffic Torino Free Festival has grown a lot from its first version in 1994. During the years on its stage the likes of Massive Attack, Iggy Pop, Aphex Twin or Manu Chao have been playing. Now it still around, alive and kicking, and, most importantly, still free.
Info from organizers:
Traffic is main summer music event in Turin. After just four editions it has become the most important music festival in Italy (last year it reached around 200,000 spectators), taking as well a remarkable place between the biggest live events on the European scene.
Key characteristics are its being totally free, the aim to offer events that are somehow unique, the idea of making of the whole metropolitan area the scene of an intense varied program (live gigs, nightclubbing, happening, reading, cinema, art galleries), and the will to establish a tight relationship between music and other artistic forms.
From this point of view the partnership with some local institutions, as the National Cinema Museum, and the Reading Society, is fundamental.
Sites of the Festival are some of the most representative places in Turin: the Pellerina Park (the biggest green area in town), Murazzi del Po (the animated city riverbank ), the post industrial area named OGR, the Isozaki Olympic Palace, the courts of Carignano Palace and of Rettorato.
In its past editions Traffic saw the first Italian gig from Iggy Pop and The Stooges, a special event named Manchester in Turin (guests: New Order, Shaun Ryder, Tony Wilson and 808 State), a Warp Night animated by Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham, the Third World rights' icon Manu Chao with his project Radio Bemba International, Lou Reed's rock opera Berlin, appearances from some of biggest national music stars (Franco Battiato, Subsonica, Vinicio Capossela, Carmen Consoli), and gigs from artists such as Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys.
Price:
every day for free
Line-up 2008:
Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, Justice, Tricky, Soulwax/2 Many DJs, Wire, Battles, Hercules and Love Affair, Alter Ego, Matthew Dear/Audion, Afterhours, Baustelle, Massimo Volume, Marco Passarani, LNRipley, Plastination
European bands suggested by ListenToEurope in this festival:
Baustelle // 2008, Amen [ info ]
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