Opening act on center stage, The Murderdolls, rock the crowd at the Rock am Ring Festival in Nurburgring, Germany, on Saturday. About 100 bands will be playing the three day festival and 130,000 people are expected to attend. (Raymond T. Conway / S&S)
Opening act on center stage, The Murderdolls, rock the crowd at the Rock am Ring Festival in Nurburgring, Germany, on Saturday. About 100 bands will be playing the three day festival and 130,000 people are expected to attend. (Raymond T. Conway / S&S)
06 June 03 Raymond T. Conway/Stars and Stripes Fans gather in front of center stage to hear The Donnas, an all-female band, on opening day of the Rock am Ring Festival in Nurburgring, Germany, on Saturday. (Raymond T. Conway / S&S)
Donna A, (born Brett Anderson), lead singer of The Donnas performs on center stage on the opening day of the Rock am Ring Festival in Nurburgring, Germany, on Saturday. (Raymond T. Conway / S&S)
NURBURGRING, Germany —– Abdominal pains, delayed production of a new studio album and ruptured vocal cords, have the likes of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Sum 41, respectively, dropping like flies off the bill of the Rock am Ring Festival, which kicked off here Friday. But as they say, the show must go on, and there are still plenty of top-name acts among the almost 100 bands to satisfy the approximately 130,000 music lovers expected to gather this weekend at this Formula One race track turned giant party and its sister festival, Rock im Park in Nürnberg.
Friday’s action got off to a great start with metal/punk act The Murderdolls kicking off the festival at Centerstage. The Donnas, an all-girl rock band followed and kept things moving. Former Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan was scheduled to play Friday night with his new band, Zwan, and veteran British rockers Iron Maiden will close out Friday’s bill.
Headlining Centerstage on Saturday will be Placebo and Audioslave with Dave Gahan, Stereophonics and Badly Drawn Boy performing on the Alternastage.
It’ll be metal mania on Sunday with a hard-rocking lineup of Disturbed, Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, Marilyn Manson and, finally, Metallica tearing up Centerstage. Moby, Absolute Beginner, ASD and Patrice will hold court on the Alternastage.
There are still plenty of tickets available for 120 euros for the whole weekend, which includes parking, and camping or 99 euros without a campsite.
Single-day tickets will be available for Sunday only with ticket prices set at 60 euros on sale Sunday at the festival site. See www.rockamring.de for more information.
