Vampire Weekend and Swedish House Mafia Headline Open’er Festival 2019
Once again, one of the most iconic festivals of Europe returns for another edition. The Open’er’s Festival, which occurs yearly in the colourful city of Gdynia, in northern Poland, has announced its lineup for 2019. It features artist like Travis Scott, The 1975, Vampire Weekend, Greta Van Fleet, Robyn, Anna Calvi and many more. More artists are still to be announced and passes already on sale, with price starting from 140€.
The eclectic festival will take place, as usual, this summer, between the 3rd and the 6th of July at the Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport. Don’t worry, there won’t be planes landing on the festival area. This is a military airport and the event takes place in an airfield nearby.
This festival is one of the most popular ones in Poland and central Europe, and this year it will celebrate its 17th edition. Last year brought together artists like Bruno Mars, Depeche Mode, Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys. And in previous years The Weeknd, LCD Soundsystem, ALT-J, Queens of the Stone Age and James Blake also visited the Polish venue.
Versing on the hip-hop and electronic sub-genres, this year’s edition will see the likes of Diplo, Rudimental, Travis Scott, Sheck Wes and Lil Uzi Vert coming across the lineup, setting additional entertainment to the four days of festivities.
Robyn, one of the recent announcements of the names of the lineup for this year, has released her much-anticipated album Honey. The new album was already described as “cathartic anthems for the dancefloor”, giving her the singer the title of “diva of dance pop”. Honey will take the Swedish performer into a tour through Europe, being announced also in Finland’s Flow Festival, alongside Father John Misty, The Cure and Tame Impala.
Vampire Weekend is another artist who will also have a full schedule for the summer season. The New York indie-rock band will be present in Delaware’s Firefly music festival, Alabama’s Hangout Music Festival, but also in Europe, where they will hit Spain’s Mad Cool Festival and Portugal’s NOS Alive. Expect them to play songs from their new album, Father of the Bride, which is set to be released in May.
As for Anna Calvi, another confirmed artist, she also released an album this year entitled Hunter. It is described as “a liberating mantra for all”, erasing the socially-constructed line between feminine and masculine. The British singer will go on Gdynia’s stage in the 6th of July, warming up the stage for the long-waited return of Swedish House Mafia.
The iconic house trio, formed by Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell and Steve Angello announced last year that they were closing their six year hiatus from the stages – they stopped working together in 2012. Besides performing at the Polish festival, they will also be in Mexico and South Korea, after making their tour through Europe, performing at many festivals, stopping in Denmark, Croatia and Switzerland and taking the party to Ibiza too, one of their favourite crowds. The concert will make the fans nostalgic and eager to see more work coming from the artists, who haven’t still released any new hits since their reunion.
Swedish House Mafia are just one of the attractions of the Open’er Festival, who has music for all tastes. The legendary Smashing Pumpkins are also confirmed, as well as Kodaline, Idles, Rosalia and much more.
Among Poland’s biggest popular music festivals, Open’er is best qualified for reserving a massive campsite, so be prepared for four days of partying in the sun, as some of the world’s biggest touring acts perform on several stages. The festival takes place in a massive former military airfield and so to walk between people, you must pass through what was once a runway.
The attendance of the party is said to be around 70,000 people during the whole festival and the weather is likely to be pleasant to the visitors. The area is filled with places to eat and drink and some rules regarding to the drinking policy must be followed, so better hold your horses since alcohol is not allowed in the main area. There is also the option of getting to know better the Polish culture, in this case the fashion trends. The Fashion Stage as been a usual presence at the festival, presenting to the visitors a different side of what is expected in a music event.
For the comfort of the people that come from all over the world to be in the festival, the organization provides a campsite next to the event are, with toilets, showers and charging rooms for electrical devices. Since the year of 2016, all purchases and transactions must be carried out by touchless devices only. It is possible to use credit card, a phone with payment chip or a special wristband method.
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