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MELT! FESTIVAL
Music Party under the Heavy Metal at German "Iron City"

Laser lights, pounding music rhythms and heavy machinery. What better place to have a rock music festival than in a rock quarry. One of the hottest European music shows and more unique open air alternative music events festivals gaining popularity in Germany the Melt! Festival has been happening in a former industrial site at Ferropolis (iron city) at the town of Grafenhainichen in the former east, about an hour south from Berlin for the past ten years. The music show takes place over a three day weekend in July when the night is filled with high energy techo light shows and high energy music bouncing off the hulking metal of arms of heavy monster equipment. More than 80 live acts, 6 stages and dance floors with DJs under the massive machinery of this open pit iron mine.

For 2008 July 18th-20th the Festival will headline that most iconoclastic and extraordinary of European artists Bjork. She of the notorious swan dress at the Academy Awards and unforgettable music style, Bjork makes very few appearances with her highly visual show and seeing her underneath the arching cranes of mining equipment accompanied by her all girl Icelandic brass band seems well worth the trip to Germany for a one of a kind experience. Franz Ferdinand, the band of Scottish lads with name of the Austrian Archduke reinvigorating the guitar pop of the British Invasion will be making their exclusive German appearance at the Melt! and festival favorites The Editors will be making a return. Other scheduled acts include: Turbostaat, Booka Shade, Alter Ego, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Boys Noize, Uffie & Feadz, Kissy Sell Out, The Mitchell Brothers, Efdemin, Len Faki, The Teenagers, Die Türen Kompakt Label-Special: Supermayer, Burger/Voigt, Gui Boratt. The music starts at 5 pm and goes until almost midnight.

Tickets can be purchased online and printed at home, validated on site. Sunday the 20th will be devoted to Bjork and can be purchased as a one day ticket. Admissions will be limited to 12,000 and expected to sell out. Prices range from 48 Euro for a one day ticket to 91 Euro for three days. To find your way to the festival head to Berlin’s Tegel airport. Take the A9 toward Leipzig. Tours with hotel accommodation transportation and flights from London can also be arranged through Cool Tours who will also arrange for shuttle bus transportation. The websites are being upgraded as new acts commit. In the months preceding the festival Melt! Clubs, little mini shows will be set up in Berlin and other cities for a preview taste. © Bargain Travel Europe

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