Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Summer Music Festivals: Dates & Festival Outfits

Make some noise!

For many music fans, they’re the highlight of the year: summer music festivals! It’s no wonder, lately every genre puts on at least one huge event that’s bound to have your favorite band in the line-up. We’ve put together the most important dates in Europe for the most popular music genres AND we’ve got some tips on which festival costumes and accessories to wear to get extra credit among your fellow visitors. Leave your everyday clothes at home and put on something special for the festival.

Festival Costumes for Rock am Ring

June 5 – 8, 2014 in Nürburgring, Germany

A big one among music festivals is Rock am Ring (German: Rock at the Ring). Since 1985, tens of thousands have made the trek to the Nürburgring racetrack every year to listen, celebrate and camp around the stages. A cool 100 bands on three stages await you this year from June 5 – 8. The same goes for all open airs: if you don’t stand out, you lose! Especially popular among festival goers are comfortable, funny festival costumes such as our animal jumpsuits and Morphsuits as well as accessories such as Napoleon’s Hat or our novelty Hell-mets.

Festival Outfits for Roskilde

June 29 – July 6, 2014 in Roskilde, Denmark

The Roskilde Festival in Denmark is a real institution. Since 1971 an international audience has been enjoying a thrilling mix of acts from rock, pop, heavy metal, techno, hip hop and R&B. And the outfits at the festival are just as diverse: from light and summery leggings and colorful stockings to retro hippie styles and wacky glasses, whatever you like IS the dress code.

Steampunk & American Indian Costumes for Glastonbury

June 25 – 29, 2014 in Glastonbury, England

Rocking since 1970, the Glastonbury Festival is also known as the English Woodstock – and that pretty much says it all. With 200,000 visitors over three days, it’s not only one of the largest open air events in the world, it’s also one of the most diverse: practically all contemporary music genres are represented from jazz and drum & bass to hip hop and folk. It comes as no surprise that visitors wear a vast array of festival costumes and outfits from steampunk to Native American headdresses.

Sziget – The Island of Freedom

August 11 – 18, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary

When 400,000 visitors swoop down on the island, Óbudai (a.k.a. Hajógyári-Sziget, or Old Buda Island), in the Danube River, all hell breaks loose. In 2011, Sziget was ranked among the ten best major European festivals. It is located on the northern outskirts of Budapest, and people can come and go as they please. Alongside music of every genre, there are numerous tattoo shops, open air movie theaters, sports and most importantly, fun, fun, and more fun! Put on your chimpanzee costume, get out the old welding goggles or cover yourself in body paint. Diversity is celebrated here like nowhere else – let your imagination run wild!

Tomorrowland

July 18 – 20 & July 25 – 27 in Boom, Belgium

If you’re into electronic music and want to see crazy big stages, then don’t miss out on Tomorrowland. And when we say crazy big we really mean it: the organizers are famous for their exceptionally imaginative, gigantic stage costructions. That’s an invitation to dress up in plenty of color. There’ll be at least 360,000 other festival goers, so get creative! Transform yourself into an Orchid Fairy, Mr. Flower Inferno, a Sexy Hippie Queen or a mad Mosher and float through the Tomorrowland universe.