PUKKELPOP 25!

The year is 1985. Boys Noize turned three years old. Bloc Party’s Kele blew out four candles. Selah Sue, Uffie and Ellie Goulding were not even born yet.

That same year a few young people from the town of Leopoldsburg in Limburg came up with the idea to organize a music festival. This marked the birth of Pukkelpop, which took place for the very first time on a football field in Heppen. Front 242 and Anne Clark headlined, attracting 3.000 visitors. Pukkelpop was an instant success.

A quarter of a century later, Pukkelpop is more popular and alive than ever before: for the first time there will be a ‘SOLD OUT’ sign at the festival gates. After 25 editions the same ‘young people’ from back then still run the show, together with some fresh blood added over the years. Thousands of visitors have experienced wonderful moments standing in front of the various Pukkelpop stages: they witnessed the rise of grunge music, moved to the beats of dance artists for the first time, pogo danced their hearts out at the skate stage or made a unique discovery at one of the smaller stages. Also add camping, making friends, laughing, dancing, ... to the mix, all in that typical casual Pukkelpop atmosphere.

You have to admit that all this is simply too good to pass up.