Some decent acts at Rümlang in late August
(Placebo, Maximo Park, Faithless, etc. etc...)

http://www.zürichopenair.ch/

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http://www.zurichopenair.ch/

Weird, I copy-pasted straight from starticket.ch and I have the page open right here with the umlaut in the address bar

Is this the first edition?

If you are going what are you looking forward to see?

belle and sebastian and thats it.

(groove armada, underworld n faithless would be cool, but...if you buy 2 days you can buy 3 and that would man i would waste too much money anyway...)

I would have just liked to go on the friday and the sunday but like you say it's the same price as the 3 days.

Probably the best line up of all the open-airs this year. Gurten rocked, but this tops it mainly due to the fact that every night you've a top dance act too.

GROOVE ARMADA
FAITHLESS followed by UNDERWORLD
PRODIGY!

Chirpy music from Belle & Sebastian and Kate Nash and then Hole, Placebo, Maximo Park and the Stereophonics to Rock the joint!

Big Scandinavian influence too, The Hives, Mando Diao, Soundtrack of our lives, Shout out louds, Jonsi.

Respect to the organisers, put on a great product and I'd defo be going for the 3 days if i was here. Funny, it0' one of the least known and as far as I know youngest of the Swiss Openair festivals.

Awesome, bit gutted I'm flying to Thailand on Thursday (Not really but you know what I mean!)

I have 3 day tickets, couldn't resist.

Quite looking forward to I am Kloot and of course Faithless....will be the 4th time I have seen them at an openair and they are always amazing.

A lot might think I am lucky but I have to look after the sound system and backline on the MTV stage..... it's gonna be a lot of work.... We start building it up on Wed.
Still, hopefully 3 days of at least dry weather will be nice and if anyone has time to come and say hello I will try to be social if I have time...

Seems like there are a lot of Faithless fans on here. Strangely it's a band I've never really taken an interest in. Will try to check them out.

I am looking forward to seeing Placebo (though I haven't listened to any of their recent stuff), the XX and of course The Prodigy.

How comes? Did you volunteer?
Good luck with it

As an Album band they aren't all that much but live they are fantastic, best band I have seen at an openair.

I am going, but really only bought the tickets to see The XX, an awesome band that have been around the UK for over a year and still widely unkown, but guess this will change after they win the Mecury Music Prize this year. This is one of their very few concerts.

I would definitely recommend checking them out on youtube.

They are also followed by underworld, so looks to be a great Saturday night

Just doing the Fri and Sat. Being out in Opfikon late on a Sunday night doesn't tickle my fancy.

It's unfortunate that so many other street festivals, etc are the same weekend. Why not spread the fun around.

Thanks.... no it is my job... I am forced to do it....
I actually love my job, done it for 30 years already and I don't ever want to have to do another... even though the pay could be better...

i'm going on friday and saturday!

going basically to see vive la fete! on friday (check them out if you realy want to have fun) and dEUS on saturday.
also looking forward to placebo, the xx, and get well soon (i saw the latter one at for noise last weekend. very cool)

I have already seen dEUS (a long long time ago at Montreux) and thought they were good.

Thanks for the tips will check out vive la fête! and get well soon.

you are welcome!
i've seen dEUS too, love them!
just a warning about vive la fete. don't go expecting deep, complicated music. it's music simply to hav fun and dance around like an idiot. which i plan to do!

Yes the band's name made me think of stereotypical popular french bands (with an accordion that play at "bals populaires") but checking out their music on Youtube they sound more like the belgian punk movement bands that were popular at the beginning of the 80s (like Elli et Jacno for example). I like their style...and the singer looks pretty hot too

haha, els is hot indeed! i prefer the keyboarder, though!
glad you seem to like them! let me know if you had fun!

Interesting news....maybe....
The MTV and Skyliner stages were stopped at the border and it took Swiss customs about 36 hours before they even let the stage material into Switzerland...
The main stage crossed the border with similar paperwork 1 day earlier without any problem....
This means there is a lot of late shifts for the guys building the other 2 stages but it will still be ready on time...

Good old Swiss customs officers..... maybe they couldn't get tickets...