Amphi Festival 2016

Keep talking.

Moderators: Morphic, Blue Angel, The Fallen Ones

Post Reply
Ritti
Moonchild
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ritti » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:29 pm

Image


Dear Amphi Fans,

after the festival is before the festival. Today we launch again with the first set of confirmed artists and the official pre-sale start for the XII. AMPHI FESTIVAL. Even in 2016 all remains Amphi – with optimised organisation and more than ever!

At the lastest after watching the Amphi 2015 Aftermovie ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wRAqhxoVxs ) aspiration rises: can´t we already be in July again?

+++ FIRST ARTISTS CONFIRMED FOR 2016 +++

Always highly anticipated: the festival line-up! With this first set of confirmations you may already look forward to the following artists playing at Amphi in 2016.:

SUICIDE COMMANDO | PETER HEPPNER | JOACHIM WITT
STAHLZEIT “A TRIBUTE TO RAMMSTEIN” | NEUROTICFISH | AESTHETIC PERFECTION
SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS | SOLAR FAKE | UNZUCHT | COPPELIUS | [X]-RX
DER FLUCH | WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW | XOTOX | THE DEVIL & THE UNIVERSE
XMH

After the weather-based cancellations of 2015 it is on NEUROTICFISH, DER FLUCH and THE DEVIL & THE UNIVERSE to catch up on their missed shows. Even [X]-RX, who were forced to play a notably shortened set under the given circumstances, will return 2016 to continue where they had to stop so abruptly.

For a decent electro-storm, we start off into the new season with SUICIDE COMMANDO, AESTHETIC PERFECTION, SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS, SOLAR FAKE, XOTOX and XMH this time. Harsh industrial edge meets mandatory electro-pop. Let´s put on the dancing shoes and rock all over the place!

After the storm comes the flood. In that respect we are happy to announce the participation of two declared experts on that subject matter and at the same time two individually unique artists by the names of PETER HEPPNER and JOACHIM WITT. True masters of their craft. Or like we say in Germany: there will be „ein GeWITTer!“ ;).

Loud, honest and a little naughty are the manners of our first batch of rock based acts. With the shooting stars from UNZUCHT, our steampunk-lords COPPELIUS and the occult-rockers WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW we already cover a large stylistic variety, accompanied by another intriguing highlight with the boys from STAHLZEIT. We bet it´s going to get hot under the roof, as soon as Europe´s biggest Rammstein-Tribute prepares to transform the Lanxess Arena into an impressive fortress of flames. God knows we don´t want to be angels – fire away!

+++ PRE-SALE STARTED / EARLY-BIRD-TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW +++

The pre-sale for the 12. Amphi Festival has begun! The highly requested early-bird-tickets are now available exclusively at the Amphi Shop - www.amphi-shop.de - actually for the same price as 2015 (60,00 € plus charges).

As soon as all the early-birds have flown out, the Amphi Festival Frühbuchertickets (early-season-tickets) will follow next. Frühbuchertickets will only be available as original hardtickets for a limited time. Order them at Amphi Shop for 72,00 € plus charges.

+++ OFFICIAL AMPHI CAMP AT JUGENDPARK 2016 +++

2016 you will get to put up your tent at Jugendpark Cologne again. The official Amphi Camp, initiated by the „Pollerwiesen“-team, will once more provide romantic campfire atmosphere through summer-nights with a convenient infrastructure. Like the festival itself, the camp offers a set of early-bird-tickets as well, now available at https://amphi.ticketio.de/. General information regarding the camp can also be found at www.facebook.com/amphicamp.

For further information about Amphi Festival check out our homepage at www.amphi-festival.de or facebook at www.facebook.com/amphifestival.

Kind regards
Your Amphi Festival team!


XII. AMPHI FESTIVAL 2016
23. – 24. July 2016 Cologne | Amphi Eventpark
SUICIDE COMMANDO | PETER HEPPNER | JOACHIM WITT
STAHLZEIT “A TRIBUTE TO RAMMSTEIN” | NEUROTICFISH | AESTHETIC PERFECTION
SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS | SOLAR FAKE | UNZUCHT | COPPELIUS | [X]-RX
DER FLUCH | WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW | XOTOX | THE DEVIL & THE UNIVERSE
XMH + many other artists + supporting programme soon

Info at: www.amphi-festival.de or www.facebook.com/amphifestival
Festival tickets: www.amphi-shop.de (worldwide shipping)
Camping tickets: https://amphi.ticketio.de
User avatar
ThomasB
Nephilim
Posts: 2654
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by ThomasB » Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:12 am

What's that "cancellation due to wheather" thingie ? Anyone here went ? (Obviously I could not afford it this year… :cry: )
Fundraiser. You know, it's like Hellraiser, but without the Cenobites, the blood and all that.
IN NOMINE NEMO !
User avatar
NorthernNephilim
Nephilim
Posts: 2042
Joined: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:57 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by NorthernNephilim » Sat Aug 22, 2015 12:02 pm

There was a Storm warning at this weekend so the city of Cologne forbid Open Air events due to the storm warning and thus the live shows from The Devil & The Universe, Aeon Sable & co which were planned for the open air stage were cancelled.
User avatar
ThomasB
Nephilim
Posts: 2654
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by ThomasB » Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:42 am

Danke ! But wasn't the whole shebam transferred to a new indoor venue ?
Fundraiser. You know, it's like Hellraiser, but without the Cenobites, the blood and all that.
IN NOMINE NEMO !
User avatar
NorthernNephilim
Nephilim
Posts: 2042
Joined: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:57 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by NorthernNephilim » Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:47 am

Noipe there were 3 stage 2 of them outdoor and main stage indoor at the lanxess arena.

Sad point was in fact that TDATU and all the classic goth rock events for saturday ran into cancelllation and indoors the usual EBM suspects which play every year... so all the goth rock stuff was cancelled lucky i didnt Book anything.

aeon sable jumped in for this gig https://www.facebook.com/GothicCastleSatzvey for the fans around cologne / Ruhrpott.
User avatar
ThomasB
Nephilim
Posts: 2654
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by ThomasB » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:46 am

Oh. If I went as I wanted to (but could not afford it) and QNTAL had been cancelled, I would have been mightily pissed indeedy…
Fundraiser. You know, it's like Hellraiser, but without the Cenobites, the blood and all that.
IN NOMINE NEMO !
Ritti
Moonchild
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ritti » Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:29 pm

Some minor news that might interest one or the other... :)



FIRST HEADLINER: EDITORS & MORE NEW ARTISTS CONFIRMED

Dear Amphi Fans,

finally here we go with line-up round number two. Time to raise the bar with more amazing artists. New stuff, true stuff and a brilliant first headliner - ready to rock you lock, stock and barrel in an “All is Amphi”-pack, filled with lots of anticipation for next summer. Let´s think big, friends and get the party started with...

EDITORS
TARJA | FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY | FADERHEAD
SPETSNAZ | ESCAPE WITH ROMEO | CRYO | MANTUS

With their new album “In Dream“ EDITORS created an outstanding masterpiece. Their show in Cologne, as part of the European tour, got already sold out in advance. EDITORS - a big band for a big stage and the first headliner at the Amphi Festival 2016. A mandatory date for indies, goths, waver and everybody to become – with „Papillon“ in the ears and butterflies in the stomach.

Only few artist in the world leave footsteps in musical history as a true original – influencing countless others without ever being matched. TARJA TURUNEN is a formidable example of becoming such a unique landmark. Gifted with an enchanting powerful soprano the Finnish symphonic-rock-queen is about to make her first appearance at Amphi next year. Way overdue, we think!

With FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY we salute another legendary electro-warhorse. Resilient, adaptable but always one hundred percent FLA, Bill Leeb and his band return to “dis”-assemble Amphi again with due emphasis. Cranking it to eleven without remorse is also a specialty of Mr. Sami Mark Yahya a.k.a. FADERHEAD, who perfected the interplay of delivering uncompromising wrecking balls along with modern electro-pop-hymns conquering the dancefloor. The Swedish two-piece SPETSNAZ again grabbed EBM by its roots to nail a strong appearance on the stage. Reliable, relentless and somewhat delightfully oldschool – bodymusic, the way it´s meant to be played!

If you prefer it more progressive, Cologne wave-legends ESCAPE WITH ROMEO will be your partner of choice. On the latest long-player „After The Future“ mastermind Thomas Elbern surprises with unexpected electronic sounds on a trans-global journey through a post-apocalyptic vision of tomorrow. Talking progressive electronics, it also doesn´t get any cooler than CRYO, where Martin Rudefelt combines memorable vintage-sounds and retro-references with astounding ingenuity and a golden hand, creating demanding but rewarding tracks that wind deeper into your synapses with every single play, like a steam-roller with a grade!

Rounding up today´s package we bring on a further institution from Cologne, who actually didn´t play at Amphi since 2009: please welcome the gothic metal band MANTUS!


OPENING EVENT CALL THE SHIP TO PORT 2016

Along with all the new bands for the Amphi Festival itself, this week also the pre-selling began for our (usually) strictly limited opening event CALL THE SHIP TO PORT at MS RheinEnergie. As always it comes in a cool premium box and this time with a double-headliner bill featuring the magnificent APOPTYGMA BERZERK and OOMPH!
Check out more info about the special event now at www.amphi-festival.de/2016/calltheshiptoport.html.


TICKETS

Amphi Festival early season tickets (original hardtickets) and the premium boxes for CALL THE SHIP TO PORT are exclusively available at Amphi Shop at www.amphi-shop.de – while stock lasts!

Furthermore you can purchase tickets for the early season price at all CTS/EVENTIM and TICKETMASTER box-offices as well as online at www.eventim.de, www.oeticket.com, www.ticketcorner.ch and www.eventim.nl.
Ritti
Moonchild
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ritti » Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:16 pm

Dear Amphi Fans,
the ink of the recent EDITORS headliner-announcement hasn´t completely dried, as we return to announce the next batch of bands already. Eight in number, today´s update adds an exciting mix of beloved Amphi veterans and five extraordinary artists to perform on our stages for the first time next year. Please welcome:

° PROJECT PITCHFORK
° COVENANT
° MEGAHERZ
° THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA
° BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE
° EWIGHEIM
° LAURA CARBONE
° ONE I CINEMA

In terms of wide screen electro you don´t get past PROJECT PITCHFORK. After more than twentyfive years they still kick any ass who´s brave enough to enter their lion´s den. Sometimes up to three drummers simultaneously lash the rhythm into the masses, relentlessly pushing the beat forward with irrestible force. Spectacular – smart – style-defining Peter Spilles and his men will plow the soil beneath your feet without remorse.
.
COVENANT-shows engrave into the mind equally impressive. The Swedish electro-flagship, which actually became an inextricable part of our festival history with their hit “Call the ships to port”, returns to Amphi in 2016 after a four-year hiatus. On their agenda: first class electro-pop with innovative sounds and timeless hymns.
.
Earthward in Zombieland, Neue Deutsche Härte old-hands MEGAHERZ open the hunting season, ready for the heart shot. Take care at the forest glade as they prefer to bring down the finest bitches Munich style, all along with „mega-heartly“ regards from Lex & co., who finally are to play their first Amphi show in the twelfth year.
.
Another exceptional band to adorn the 2016 line-up are THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA. Their brilliant blend of darkwave-, folk- and indie-rock elements always fascinates with unconventional harmonies and the charismatically sonorous voice of Michael Sele. No matter if they play acoustic or in the full rock monty, the Swiss are always precise like a clockwork and an absolute delight!
.
Ever since 2015 the horrorbilly genre arrived at Amphi. From the hairdo to the double-bass the BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE are locked and loaded for a full throttle ride into the land of the living dead. An insane rock´n´roll blast from Austria you should not miss. Instead EWIGHEIM consider themselves masters of the macabre, as nobody less than Allen B. Konstanz (The Vision Bleak) and Yantit (Eisregen) hide behind this doom-bearing dark-metal gem, which will play one of its rare festival shows for us.
.
Elegant, scintilliating and little banshee it wasn´t until short that LAURA CARBONE provided us with an offer we couldn´t refuse by coming up with her debut album „Sirens“. The sicilian-rooted lady from Mannheim (Germany) recently stirred up the new-wave scene like nobody else. Modern, uncompromised sound, paired-up with her mesmerizing voice combines with traces of The Cure, Kate Bush und Siouxie. Be honest...who wouldn´t find a soft spot for such intriguing offerings?!
.
Hand-picked by Eisbrecher captain Alex Wesselsky to support their upcoming „Volle Kraft Voraus“-tour in early 2016, Osnabrück based ONE I CINEMA are in for a full-grown storm. Young, handsome and extremely talented, multi-instrumentalist Marco Meyer and his men blast your ears with passionately edged modern dark-metal that crawls deep under your skin and beyond – precisely straight forward into your neck, opening the moshpit! ONE I CINEMA – more than an insiders’ tip for all who like it hearty!
.
.
TICKETS
.
Amphi Festival early season tickets (original hardtickets) and the premium boxes for CALL THE SHIP TO PORT are exclusively available at Amphi Shop at www.amphi-shop.de – while stock lasts! Furthermore you can purchase tickets for the early season price at all CTS/EVENTIM and TICKETMASTER box-offices as well as online at www.eventim.de, www.oeticket.com, www.ticketcorner.ch and www.eventim.nl.
.
Kind regards
Your Amphi Festival team!
User avatar
ThomasB
Nephilim
Posts: 2654
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by ThomasB » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:04 am

Escape with Romeo and The Beauty of Gemima ? Tempting, despite all this metal thingie out there. (As if they did not have enough festivals to play every day of the year…)
Fundraiser. You know, it's like Hellraiser, but without the Cenobites, the blood and all that.
IN NOMINE NEMO !
Ritti
Moonchild
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ritti » Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:02 pm

The lines are filling up...ony by one...

4 ADDITIONAL BANDS & X-MAS SPECIAL AT AMPHI-SHOP

Dear Amphi Fans,

after yesterday’s St. Nicholas’ Day we prepared a little surprise for you in the shape of four additional Amphi bands!

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s go wild together with BLUTENGEL, MOONSPELL, OST+FRONT and ANGELS & AGONY, who will expand the confirmed Amphi 2016 line-up.

Of course a lot of other great artist have been confirmed so far, like Editors, Project Pitchfork, Covenant, Tarja, Frontline Assembly, Suicide Commando, Peter Heppner, Joachim Witt and many more who are going to turn the Amphi Festival on 23. & 24.07. in Cologne to a memorable and unique experience again.

With the proceeding advent season we would like to remind you of our AMPHI X-MAS SPECIAL. From 6. til 20.12. you have the opportunity to buy festival tickets, concert tickets and merchandise at the Amphi Shop without delivery charges!!!

Especially the strictly limited AMPHI PREMIUM BOXES are an insane Christmas gift – incl. the festival ticket, the opening event CALL THE SHIP TO PORT, an exclusive t-shirt (sizes up to 5 xl), a metal charm and much more. This is how to make an impression under the Christmas tree! Come and have a look at www.amphi-shop.de .

Furthermore Amphi-Tickets are also available at all associated CTS/EVENTIM and TICKETMASTER box offices as well as online at www.eventim.de, www.oeticket.com, www.ticketcorner.ch and www.eventim.nl. At EVENTIM we now also offer a print@home option, that allows you to easily print festival tickets from your own PC at home.

Kind regards
Your Amphi Festival Team
User avatar
Ngie
Leviathan
Posts: 1371
Joined: Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:01 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ngie » Wed Dec 09, 2015 12:23 pm

Blutengel, Moonspell, Angels & Agony, Editors, Project Pitchfork, Covenant, Tarja, Frontline Assembly, Suicide Commando, for those I know! Waow what a playlist! Time for summer plans :D
Ritti
Moonchild
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ritti » Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:06 pm

MONO INC., L’ÂME IMMORTELLE & FOUR ADDITIONAL BANDS CONFIRMED

Dear Amphi Fans,

next July we ring in again the 5th season for the dark-music scene at Amphi Eventpark. Alongside already announced highlights like EDITORS, PROJECT PITCHFORK, COVENANT, BLUTENGEL and TARJA we´re back today with six additional artists, ready to pull you out of everyday´s life and to create memorable moments with their concerts. Let us salute new to the Amphi Line-up:

MONO INC.
L’ÂME IMMORTELLE
LEBANON HANOVER | NOSFERATU
SPIRITUAL FRONT | DIVE


Sometimes it is just a puddle jump from Hamburg to the Rio Grande. Deeply impressed by the infinite vastness of the texan prairie, MONO INC. summarily decided on returning to the US to produce their 8th album „Terlingua“ on an original texan ranch. Inspired by this distinct surrounding they created an unusual dark-rock album, which Martin Engler & co. will perform live at Amphi Festival 2016, of course along with many of their beloved blockbuster tunes.

It is the first time since 2008 that L’ÂME IMMORTELLE are about to play at Amphi Festival together, celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary of their band. On this special occasion Sonja Kraushofer and Thomas Rainer musically put on their finest garments and re-recorded a selection of their greatest hits for the album „Unsterblich“ (rel. 26.02.2016). Epic – electronic - eternal, L’ÂME IMMORTELLE span the bridge past to present, summing up the many facets of their career in a modern-day livery that interweaves state of the art production with their current live arrangements and the spark of their typical inventiveness.

LEBANON HANOVER will return to Amphi Festival. 2015 a lot of you were especially looking foward to watch Larissa Iceglass, William Maybelline perform their atmospheric coldwave sound. To everyones misfortune literally „gone with the wind“ at that time, the sensation is perfect now: dark - minimal – art!, the duo will play their lost show in 2016, which is something we´re extremely happy about.

Next up we welcome a genuine cult band from the second wave of goth rock: NOSFERATU! The British band, formed in the late 80s around guitarist Damien DeVille meanwhile looks back on over 300 show in 14 countries worldwide and more than 100.000 records sold. As headliner of the orbit stage NOSFERATU conjure the origins of gothrock for oldschool enthusiasts and everyone loving to discover!

From the british island our trail continues southward with our next stop in Rome, where mastermind Simone Salvatori confirmed us a reencounter with SPIRITUAL FRONT. Already in 2012 this Italian exceptional formation enchanted with their nihilist suicide pop at Amphi. High time for an encore of their deep, handmade music, tangled up with a hint of meridional temperament!

Concluding today´s musical journey we look at Belgium where Industrial/EBM-Icon Dirk Ivens (The Klinik / Absolute Body Control) currently prepares to crack the whip at Amphi 2016 with his project DIVE. Cool, minimal electro meets icy industrial – full of images, hypnotic, relentless – like music taken directly from a factory assembly line! Don´t miss it!

TICKETS

As the line-up progresses you can buy Amphi Festival early season tickets (original hardtickets) and the premium boxes for CALL THE SHIP TO PORT exclusively at Amphi Shop at www.amphi-shop.de – while stock lasts!

Furthermore Amphi-Tickets are also available at all associated CTS/EVENTIM and TICKETMASTER box offices as well as online at www.eventim.de, www.oeticket.com, www.ticketcorner.ch and www.eventim.nl. At EVENTIM we now also offer a print@home option, that allows you to easily print festival tickets from your own PC at home.

Kind regards
Your Amphi Festival Team
Ritti
Moonchild
Posts: 88
Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Re: Amphi Festival 2016

Post by Ritti » Thu May 26, 2016 5:10 pm

TÜSN & BEYOND OBSESSION COMPLETE THE LINE-UP

Dear Amphi Fans,

in less than 2 months, it will be time again for the Amphi Festival 2016. Thus we take the opportunity today to complete the programme with the final missing bands TÜSN and Beyond Obsession!

TÜSN are Berlin-based Snöt, Tomas and Daniel. They are synthesizer, bass and drums - no guitars but a lot of poetry. Their lyrics originate from their innermost. Raw and archaic they explore the abysmal sides of human existence, destined for the lost and the other. TÜSN are like Depeche Mode, only heavier and like Rammstein, just with a danceable touch. In this they are incredibly intense, unifyng their ability of drawing the audience into hypnotic darkness.

BEYOND OBSESSION, the 2012 founded synthpop-duo from Hamburg/Potsdam, enchanted the scene and critics with their unique sound. They recently collected stage experience by supporting considerable major scene-act, like Camouflage, And One and Solar Fake. Currently the boys are working on their third studio album and gearing up to step on stage again in summer at our Amphi Festival 2016.

THE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCERS

Meanwhile also this year´s announcers are confirmed. @Dr. Mark Benecke and Oliver Klein will once more to guide you through the programme, accompanied by Jens Puppekopp (X-Divide).

TICKET ORDER

Since Amphi Festival at Tanzbrunnen has been sold out in advance every time from 2010 till 2014, the capacity reduction to 12.000 visitors goes along with an even stronger recommendation to get your tickets before it´s too late!

Original weekend- & day tickets are available online at the official festival shop at www.amphi-shop.de.

Furthermore you can purchase tickets at all CTS/EVENTIM and TICKETMASTER box-offices as well as online at www.eventim.de, www.oeticket.com, www.ticketcorner.ch and www.eventim.nl. Also available now at Eventim: print@home tickets!
Post Reply