Check out http://www.bukta.no
The festival has so far released for July 15th - 17 th 2010 artists like Mew (DK), Dinosaur Jr. (US) Clutch (US), Danko Jones (CAN), Datarock (N), The Sonics (US) and BigBang (N).
In 2009 the festival staged artists like Kaiser Chiefs (UK), Eagles of Death Metal (US), The Wombats (UK), Moneybrother (SE), Bob Hund (SE), Motorpsycho (N) and Sham 69 (UK).
The most major artists to have played at Bukta since its start must be said to be (feel free to disagree): Kaiser Chiefs (UK), The Hives (SE), Motörhead (UK), Kent (SE), Phoenix (FR), Mew (DK) and Calexico (US).
We've made a tag at last.fm called "Bukta" where you can have a listen to artists who has, or will, played at Bukta.
Neil Perry in The Guardian wrote: "If Glastonbury has become the Bluewater shopping centre of live music events, then Norway's Bukta festival is the funky little boutique tucked into a side street that you discover by happy accident. Bukta takes place 300 miles inside the arctic circle in Tromsø, frequently described as "a sleepy little town" - except for one weekend in July when the whole place goes endearingly nuts."
SOME HISTORY:
The festival was first staged in 2004, but its history can be tracked back a further two years. In 2002 and 2003 the North of Nowhere festival was arranged in a field near Åsgård, Tromsø.
At the very first Bukta Festival in 2004 roughly 5.000 attendees got to se Norwegian acts such as Sondre Lerche, Madrugada, Span and BigBang at what was considered the greatest festival success in Tromsø in more than a decade.
2005 dawned with a higher level of ambition, with international acts such as Phoenix (FR), Supersuckers (US) and The Soundtrack of Our Lives (SE) grazing the festival stage. Along with higher profile artists, attendance soared to 11.000 visitors. The very same year, Bukta Tromsø Open Air Festival picked up the gauntlet from North of Nowhere, and was awarded the "Festival Of The Year" award.
2006 saw further progression, and the festival was completely sold out a forthnight before the first concert. Some 13.000 attendees got to see among others Motörhead (UK), Danko Jones (CAN), Håkan Hellstrøm (SE), Mew (DK), Kaizers Orchestra, DumDum Boys and Seigmen.
For 2007, the festival was expanded from two to three days, something which enabled the festival directors to book even more acts and further expand the artistic palette of the festival. Many of the attendees will probably remember 2007 as the year Iggy & The Stooges visited Tromsø.
In 2008 the festival added an additional stage, and a total of 28 bands playd for a record crowd. With The festival being sold out all three days, more than 20.000 people got to se amongst others Patti Smith (US), Woven Hand (US), Leningrad Cowboys (FI), Kent (SE) and Raga Rockers.
The festival area has a daily capacity of 6000 people, and consists of two stages.
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The Sonics (US) will play at Bukta '10! The Sonics are a garage rock band formed 1960 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. The band’s loud, powerful sound is often considered to be extremely influential on the later psychedelic and punk genres. In 2007, The Sonics reunited again, this time for the Cavestomp garage rock festival in Brooklyn.
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