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Rock am Ring
Location(s)	Nürburgring, Germany
Years active	1985 - present
Founded by
Date(s)	usually Pentecost weekend, but may vary from year to year, simultaneously with Rock in Park next: 6-8 June 2008
Genre(s)	Rock Metal Punk Indie Alternative Rock
Website	www.rock-am-ring.com

Rock im Park
Location(s)	Vienna, Austria (1993) Munich, Germany (1994-1996) Nürnberg, Germany (1997-present)
Years active	1993 - present
Founded by
Date(s)	usually Pentecost weekend, but may vary from year to year, simultaneously with Rock am Ring next: 6-8 June 2008
Genre(s)	Rock Metal
Website	www.rock-im-park.com

The Rock am Ring (Rock at the Ring) and Rock im Park festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually in Germany. While Rock am Ring takes place at the Nürburgring racetrack in the west of Germany, Rock im Park takes place in and around the Frankenstadion in Nürnberg, in the south east of Germany.

Both festivals are usually regarded one event with an identical Lineup for both festivals. All artists perform one day at Nürburgring and another day at Nürnberg during the three day event. The split locations serve to minimize the distance and therefore maximize the audience.

Rock im Park and Rock am Ring are together the largest music festival in Germany and one of the largest in the world with a combined attendance of 150,000 people in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 2008 festival 2 2007 festival 3 History 4 Past Dates & Headliners 5 References 6 External links

The 2008 festival will take place on 6-8 June 2008.

First batch of released bands (December 6, 2007):

Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, Die Toten Hosen, Motorhead, Bullet For My Valentine, In Flames, Nightwish, Babyshambles, Dimmu Borgir, Sportfreunde Stiller, and The Hellacopters.^[1]

Rock am Ring/Rock im Park 2007 took place from the 1-3 June 2007 with the following lineup:

Headlining: Linkin Park, Smashing Pumpkins, Die Ärzte

First batch of released bands:

Slayer, The White Stripes, Korn, Evanescence, Good Charlotte, Velvet Revolver, Muse, Beatsteaks, Billy Talent, Mando Diao, Wir sind Helden, Down, Dave Matthews Band, The Hives, Arctic Monkeys, My Chemical Romance, Kaiser Chiefs, Jan Delay & Disko No. 1, MIA., The Kooks, Wolfmother, Stone Sour, 30 Seconds to Mars,The Bloodhound Gang.

Second batch of released bands:

Amy Winehouse (withdrew from the event), As I Lay Dying, Bloodsimple, Breed 77, The Cat Empire, Chimaira, The Cribs, Fair to Midland, Disco Ensemble, Enter Shikari, The Fratellis, Funeral for a Friend, Ghosts, Gogol Bordello, Good Charlotte, The Higher, Hinder, Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God, Little Man Tate, Machine Head, Maxïmo Park, McQueen, Megadeth, Mr Hudson & The Library, Paolo Nutini, Papa Roach, Razorlight, Scissor Sisters, Silverstein, The Sounds, Sugarplum Fairy, Tele, Type O Negative, Under the Influence of Giants, The Used, Zoot Woman

Third batch of released bands:

Aiden, Miasma, Charlotte Hatherley, DevilDriver, Down Below, DragonForce, Fair to Midland, Finley, Gallows, Groove Armada, Head Automatica, In This Moment, Kilian, Lez Zeppelin, The Long Blondes (Rock im Park only), Lost Alone, Mute Math, Ohrbooten, One Fine Day, Paramore, Pohlmann, Revolverheld, Saosin, Smoke Blow, Sunrise Avenue, Turbostaat, The Last Exit to Anywhere

Rock am Ring was originally planned as a one-time festival celebrating the inauguration of a newer, shorter version of the track in 1985, but due to its commercial success (with 75,000 audience members), it was decided to make the concert an annual event. However, after a dip in attendance for the 1988 event, the festival was put on hiatus for two years.

In 1991, the festival returned with a new concept: as well as featuring well-known artists, event organizers present lesser known up-and-coming bands to the public. Some of the little-known artists who got their start at Rock am Ring and have gone on to achieve commercial success include INXS and Alanis Morissette.

In 1993, Rock im Park took place for the first time in Vienna. For the 1994 event, Rock im Park moved to the disused Munich-Riem airport, and the following year to Munich's Olympiastadion, where it found a home for the 1995 and 1996 event. Since 1997, Rock im Park is held at the Frankenstadion or the surrounding area in Nürnberg.

The 2007 festival was used in a science experiment to test the effects of large bodies of people simultaneously jumping. The experiment data was used to calculate the result if the entire Chinese population were to jump in unison. The experiment concluded no significant results would come from the theoretical event.^[2]

• 25. – 26. May 1985
  • with U2, Joe Cocker, Foreigner, Marius Müller-Westernhagen
• 14. – 15. May 1986
  • with INXS, Simply Red, Talk Talk, The Bangles
• 6. – 7. June 1987
  • with Udo Lindenberg, UB40, David Bowie, Eurythmics
• 6. – 7. June 1988
  • with Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Fleetwood Mac, Chris Rea
• 28. – 30. June 1991
  • with Toto, INXS, Sting, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jeremy Days
• 5. – 7. June 1992
  • with Marillion, Saga, Bryan Adams, Elton John, Pearl Jam
• 29. – 30. May 1993
  • with Faith No More, Brian May, Ugly Kid Joe
• 21. – 23. May 1994
  • with Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel, Clawfinger, Nina Hagen, Rage Against the Machine, The Smashing Pumpkins
• 3. – 4. June 1995
  • with Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Megadeth, Otto Waalkes, The Pretenders
• 24. – 26. May 1996
  • with KISS, Bryan Adams, Herbert Grönemeyer, Die Toten Hosen, Sting, The Fugees, Alanis Morissette, Héroes del Silencio, Bush, Mike & the Mechanics, Sepultura, Rancid, Paradise Lost
• 16. – 18. May 1997
  • with KISS, Aerosmith, Die Ärzte, Supertramp, Texas, Neneh Cherry, Faith No More
• 29. – 31. May 1998
  • with Bob Dylan, Genesis, Ozzy Osbourne, Rammstein, BAP, The Prodigy, Bad Religion, The Smashing Pumpkins
• 21. – 23. May 1999
  • with Metallica, Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette, Xavier Naidoo, Robbie Williams, Faithless, Skunk Anansie
• 9. – 11. June 2000
  • with Pearl Jam, Die Toten Hosen, Sting, Oasis, Eurythmics, Korn, Rage Against the Machine
• 1. – 3. June 2001
  • with blackmail, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Radiohead, Alanis Morissette, Kid Rock, OutKast, Reamonn, HIM, (həd) p.e.
• 17. – 19. May 2002
  • with Lenny Kravitz, Carlos Santana, Faithless, Neil Young, Jamiroquai, Wyclef Jean, P.O.D., Ozzy Osbourne, Alien Ant Farm, System of a Down, Bad Religion
• 6. – 8. June 2003 (data from Rockpalast - Rock am Ring 2003)
  • Friday, 06 June 2003, Nürburgring, Line-Up:
    • Centerstage: Iron Maiden, Zwan, The Cardigans, Maná, Lifehouse, The Donnas, Murderdolls
    • Alternastage: Reamonn, Silverchair, The Hives, The Dandy Warhols, Die Happy, blackmail, Mia, Joachim Deutschland, Whyte Seeds
  • Saturday, 07 June 2003, Nürburgring, Line-Up:
    • Centerstage: Placebo (substituting for Linkin Park who had a member of their band hospitalized and unable to attend), Audioslave, Evanescence, Apocalyptica, Stone Sour, Clawfinger, Emil Bulls
    • Alternastage: Dave Gahan, Stereophonics, Badly Drawn Boy, Turin Brakes, Tomte, The Ark, Saybia, Surrogat
  • Sunday, 08 June 2003, Nürburgring, Line-Up:
    • Centerstage: Metallica, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Queens of the Stone Age, Disturbed, Boysetsfire
    • Alternastage: Moby, Beginner, ASD (Afrob & Samy Deluxe), Patrice, Saian Supa Crew, Deichkind, Kool Savas, Creutzfeld & Jakob, Rolf Stahlhofen
• 4. – 6. June 2004
  • with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse , Evanescence, Die Toten Hosen, Faithless, Bad Religion, The International Ninja Demolition Squad, Avril Lavigne, Wir sind Helden, Linkin Park, Lostprophets, Motörhead, Sportfreunde Stiller, The Rasmus, Seeed, Korn, 3 Doors Down, Lagwagon, H-Blockx

• 3. - 5. June 2005
  • with Iron Maiden, R.E.M., Melody Club, HIM, Green Day, Incubus, The Hives, Slayer, Marilyn Manson, 3 Doors Down, Helmet, Billy Idol, Velvet Revolver, Feeder, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Slipknot, Mötley Crüe, Fettes Brot, Mando Diao, Subway To Sally, Apocalyptica, Wir sind Helden, Die Toten Hosen, Wednesday 13, Dir en grey, Kagerou, Maroon 5, Lostprophets, Papa Roach
• 2. - 4. June 2006
  • with Kaizers Orchestra, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Angels & Airwaves, Trivium, Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold, Cradle of Filth, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Korn, Deftones, Editors, Bela B., Nelly Furtado, Sportfreunde Stiller, Kaiser Chiefs, Tool, Jamiroquai, Dir en grey, Atreyu, In Flames, Opeth, The Bloodhound Gang, Kagerou, Danko Jones, Bullet for My Valentine, Alice in Chains, Stone Sour, PointBlank, The Zutons

The Darkness

• Official Rock am Ring site
• Official Rock im Park site
• Ringrocker.com
• Parkrocker.net
• Rockpalast - Rock am Ring 2007
• Rock am Ring live sets audio files archive, Rockpalast broadcast

v • d • e Notable rock concerts
Woodstock	Woodstock Festival (1969) • Woodstock '79 • Woodstock '89 • Woodstock '94 • Woodstock 1999
Other early festivals	Monterey Pop Festival (1967) • Schaefer Music Festival (1967-1976) • Atlanta International Pop Festival (1969) • Atlantic City Pop Festival (1969) • Isle of Wight Festival 1969 • Altamont Free Concert (1969) • Festival Express (1970) • Bath Festival (1970) • Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970) • Isle of Wight Festival 1970 • Wattstax (1972) • Summer Jam at Watkins Glen (1973) • California Jam (1974) • World Series of Rock (1974-1979) Rock Concert at Poconos raceway, July 8, 1972 (1972) •
Benefit concerts	The Concert for Bangladesh (1971) • Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (1979) • Party in the Park (annual from 1982) • Live Aid (1985) • Farm Aid (1985) • Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (1988) • The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992) • NetAid (1999) • The Concert for New York City/America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) • Party at the Palace (2002) • Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto (2003) • Tsunami Aid/WaveAid (2005) • Live 8 (2005) • A Concert for Hurricane Relief / Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast / From the Big Apple to the Big Easy (2005) • Concert for Diana (2007) • Live Earth (2007) • World Peace One (2007)
Benefit/political tours	No Nukes (1979) • A Conspiracy of Hope (1986) • Human Rights Now! (1988) • Vote for Change (2004)
Other festivals and tours	All Tomorrow's Parties • The Bamboozle • Big Day Out • Bonnaroo • Coachella • Download • Edgefest • Electric Picnic • Eurockéennes • EXIT • Family Values • Festival Internacional de Benicàssim • Festival Sudoeste • Fuji Rock • G3 (tour) • Glastonbury • Graspop Metal Meeting • H.O.R.D.E • Hellfest Summer Open Air • Hurricane Festival • Isle of Wight • Le Zénith • Lilith Fair • Lollapalooza • Lowlands • Metal Camp • Monsters of Rock • Montreux Jazz Festival • NEARfest • Open'er Festival • Oxegen • Ozzfest • Paléo Festival • Pentaport Rock Festival • Pinkpop • Projekt Revolution • Przystanek Woodstock • Pukkelpop • Radio 1's Big Weekend • Reading and Leeds Festivals • Rock am Ring • Knebworth Festival • Rock in Rio • Rock Werchter • Roskilde Festival • Sasquatch! Music Festival • Slane • Summer Sonic Festival • Sziget • T in the Park • T On The Fringe • US Festival • V Festival (UK, Australia) • Virgin Festival • Voodoo Music Experience • Vive Latino • Wacken Open Air • Warped Tour • Wave-Gotik-Treffen • Witnness • WOMAD