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Roadburn Festival
The Roadburn Festival is an annual music festival held each April in Tilburg, Netherlands. It was founded by Walter Hoeijmakers and Jurgen van den Brand in 1999, who ran a stoner rock blog of the same name.
The festival has been held at Tilburg's 013 concert hall since 2005. In the earliest years before that, multiple events were organised in a year throughout various cities in the Netherlands, such as Nijmegen and Eindhoven. It evolved into a multi-day event beginning in 2006, and shortly after, tickets began to sell out for the festival in under an hour as its audience grew internationally. The festival estimates that around 75% of its attendees come from outside the Netherlands.
The festival has grown since its stoner rock origins and is now focused on various forms of experimental and extreme music: its motto in recent years has been "redefining heaviness."
Van den Brand, who runs affiliated record labels Burning World Records and Roadburn Records, parted ways with the festival in 2016. The current key staff involved with organising the festival are Hoeijmakers (artistic director), Becky Laverty (press and communication, booker), Mijndert Rodolf (business director), and Joel Heijda (booker).
The first edition of the festival was a series of three shows held from 11 to 13 February 1999, with performances in Amsterdam, Tilburg, and Sneek, respectively. Its line-up featured Cathedral, Orange Goblin, Beaver, Celestial Season, Terra Firma, and 35007.
In 2000, a one-day event was held on 24 November, as Spirit Caravan, Beaver, and 35007 performed in Nijmegen at the Doornroosje venue.
Three events occurred in 2001. Nebula, On Trial, and Rotor performed on 22 March in Nijmegen. Five Horse Johnson played in Den Bosch's W2 on 16 September (Leadfoot and Raging Slab were forced to cancel as all flights were shut down following the September 11 attacks). Lastly, Masters of Reality, supported by The Atomic Bitchwax and Terra Firma, played Tilburg's 013 on 4 December. The booking was made possible by founder Walter Hoeijmakers' relationship with Josh Homme, who had lived in Amsterdam for a brief period between the breakup of Kyuss and the start of Queens of the Stone Age. Homme and Nick Oliveri both performed with Masters of Reality in the final show of Roadburn 2001.
The Masters of Reality performance was broadcast live on 3voor12, which spread globally throughout the internet. Hoeijmakers, who is "still grateful to Homme for that," credits the show for being the moment when "people started to see Roadburn as a festival, while until then we were mainly a website about the thriving stoner, doom, and psychedelic rock scene."
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Roadburn Festival
The Roadburn Festival is an annual music festival held each April in Tilburg, Netherlands. It was founded by Walter Hoeijmakers and Jurgen van den Brand in 1999, who ran a stoner rock blog of the same name.
The festival has been held at Tilburg's 013 concert hall since 2005. In the earliest years before that, multiple events were organised in a year throughout various cities in the Netherlands, such as Nijmegen and Eindhoven. It evolved into a multi-day event beginning in 2006, and shortly after, tickets began to sell out for the festival in under an hour as its audience grew internationally. The festival estimates that around 75% of its attendees come from outside the Netherlands.
The festival has grown since its stoner rock origins and is now focused on various forms of experimental and extreme music: its motto in recent years has been "redefining heaviness."
Van den Brand, who runs affiliated record labels Burning World Records and Roadburn Records, parted ways with the festival in 2016. The current key staff involved with organising the festival are Hoeijmakers (artistic director), Becky Laverty (press and communication, booker), Mijndert Rodolf (business director), and Joel Heijda (booker).
The first edition of the festival was a series of three shows held from 11 to 13 February 1999, with performances in Amsterdam, Tilburg, and Sneek, respectively. Its line-up featured Cathedral, Orange Goblin, Beaver, Celestial Season, Terra Firma, and 35007.
In 2000, a one-day event was held on 24 November, as Spirit Caravan, Beaver, and 35007 performed in Nijmegen at the Doornroosje venue.
Three events occurred in 2001. Nebula, On Trial, and Rotor performed on 22 March in Nijmegen. Five Horse Johnson played in Den Bosch's W2 on 16 September (Leadfoot and Raging Slab were forced to cancel as all flights were shut down following the September 11 attacks). Lastly, Masters of Reality, supported by The Atomic Bitchwax and Terra Firma, played Tilburg's 013 on 4 December. The booking was made possible by founder Walter Hoeijmakers' relationship with Josh Homme, who had lived in Amsterdam for a brief period between the breakup of Kyuss and the start of Queens of the Stone Age. Homme and Nick Oliveri both performed with Masters of Reality in the final show of Roadburn 2001.
The Masters of Reality performance was broadcast live on 3voor12, which spread globally throughout the internet. Hoeijmakers, who is "still grateful to Homme for that," credits the show for being the moment when "people started to see Roadburn as a festival, while until then we were mainly a website about the thriving stoner, doom, and psychedelic rock scene."
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