The Rocket Festival is a three day festival of music, circus, performance art and sculpture set in Andalucia in southern Spain.
The aim of the festival is to bring together as diverse a range of entertainment as possible with artists, crew and festival goers from all over Europe with a style and atmosphere born from the free festival movement in the UK and inspired by events such as Glastonbury Festival and Shambala Festival.
The organisers have a long history in the UK festival and free party scene from Stonehenge to Glastonbury. The greatest creative outlet of the underground culture of free parties in squats and in the countryside that emerged in Britain in the 1980s was the free festival scene which has been commercialised and largely lost in the UK through right wing laws introduced by the conservative government of the 1990s. The Rocket was conceived as a melting-pot of this alternative festival culture with the Spanish fiesta spirit set in a beautiful rural location near Granada in the heart of Andalucia.
The Rocket is unique because it is a festival with the anarchic, euphoric atmosphere a free festivals but with internationally renowned acts and the latest equipment and installations. Much more than just a concert, the festival is a three day multi-faceted experience celebrating life and alternative ways of living.
Previous Rocket Festivals:
29/04/2005 - 31/04/2005 in a rugged valley in the Sierra de Camorolos near Antequera, 50 km north of Málaga featuring Amparanoia and The Freestylers 18/05/2006 - 20/05/2006 at the Finca de Los Morales, near Alhama de Granada, Granada, Spain featuring Eskorzo and Dreadzone
The next Rocket is:
16/05/2008 - 10/05/2008 at the same site as 2006 near Alhama de Granada, Granada, Spain featuring Coldcut, Pendulum, Evil Nine, The Nextmen, Muchachito Bombo Infierno, and Los Delinqüentes
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