Open'er Festival

Open'er Festival
	Open'er Festival logo;
Genre	Rock, pop, alternative, indie rock, dance, electronic, world
Dates	End of June / first week of July, Wednesday–Saturday (4 days)
Location(s)	Gdynia, Poland
Years active	2002–present
Founded by	Alter Art
Website
	www.opener.pl

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The Open'er Festival (formerly as Heineken Open'er Festival from its principal sponsor, Heineken International) is a music festival which takes place on the North coast of Poland, in Gdynia. The first edition of the festival was organized in Warsaw in 2002 as Open Air Festival. The main organizer of the festival is the concert agency Alter Art. Open’er Festival was given the Best Major Festival prize at the European Festival Awards ceremony in 2009 and 2010.^[1] The 2015 edition of Open'er was held from 1 to 4 July 2015.

Organization of Festival

Tickets and festival area

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Main Stage at Open'er 2006

Since 2006, the festival takes place in Kosakowo Airport (Babie Doły Military Airport) in Gdynia.

There are three kinds of ticket available for sale: four-day tickets for the whole festival, three-day tickets (which do not entitle the holder to attend the opening day), and one-day tickets. As for previous Open'er performances, tickets are changed into wristbands at special points: one placed on the main train station in the center of Gdynia, and the other one right before the entrance to the Festival. Wristbands prove that the owner is a ticket holder and thus allow the festival's security guards to easily and conveniently ensure that individuals are entitled to attend the festival.

For the comfort of participants, the festival organisers provide room for campers next to the festival area proper. Space on this campsite is not included in the price of the ticket. There is an additional fee, currently PLN 20. Within the festival proper, a coupon system is in force. Under this system, one coupon costs PLN 4; these are available to purchase at exchange points and to spend in merchandising areas. Attendees are not allowed to carry in sharp items; professional video recording cameras; digital cameras with more than 5 m pixels; alcohol; or drugs.

Stages

The first concerts begin at 4 pm, but the festival area will be opened from 3 pm until 5am (the last concerts start at 2am). In 2008 and 2009 there were 7 stages, which were the most stages in Open'er's history: Main Stage, World Stage, Tent Stage, Young Talents Stage, Beat Stage, Alter Space and Alter Space Theatres. There was also a chillout zone located in a military hangar and a Red Pulse Tent filled with drum&bass rhythm. 2010 edition of festival also had 7 stages.

Artists

2016

Gdynia, Babie Doły Military Airport^[2]

Wednesday 29 June:
Main Stage: Florence and the Machine, Tame Impala, The Last Shadow Puppets
Tent Stage: PJ Harvey
Alter Stage: Mac DeMarco, Savages
Mac Miller

Thursday 30 June:
Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foals, M83
Beirut

Friday 1 July:
Main Stage: LCD Soundsystem, Wiz Khalifa, Sigur Rós, Paul Kalkbrenner
Tent Stage: Nothing but Thieves, Rysy
Alter Stage: Vince Staples, Kurt Vile & The Violators

Saturday 2 July:
Main Stage: Terrific Sunday, Bastille, The 1975, Kygo
Tent Stage: Chvrches, At the Drive-In, Grimes

Unscheduled: Dawid Podsiadło, Coldair, Kortez, Kroki, Łona and Webber, Małpa, Rebeka, Stara Rzeka, T'ien Lai, Shy Albatross, Sonar, Nagrobki

2015

Gdynia, Babie Doły Military Airport^[3]

Wednesday 1 July:
Main Stage: Kodaline, Alt-J, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Modest Mouse
Tent Stage: Natalia Przybysz, W.E.N.A., Alabama Shakes, Chet Faker, Die Antwoord
Alter Stage: Milky Wishlake, Dakh Daughters, Two Gallants, Father John Misty, HV/NOON
Beat Stage: Klaves

Thursday 2 July:
Main Stage: Marmozets, Tom Odell, Enter Shikari, ~~Kendrick Lamar~~, The Libertines, Major Lazer, Faithless
Tent Stage: Curly Heads, Eagles of Death Metal, Fisz Emade, Django Django
Alter Stage: Oxford Drama, RYSY, Mary Komasa, Małe Miasta, Of Montreal, Refused, Fismoll

Friday 3 July:
Main Stage: The Vaccines, Of Monsters and Men, Mumford and Sons, D'Angelo & the Vanguard, The Prodigy
Tent Stage: Rebel Babel Ensemble, The Dumplings, Julia Marcell, José González, Jonny Greenwood & London Contemporary Orchestra
Alter Stage: Agyness B. Mary, NERVY, Thurston Moore, Swans
Beat Stage: Min. T

Saturday 4 July:
Main Stage: Skubas, Lao Che, Hozier, Kasabian, Disclosure
Tent Stage: Domowe Melodie, Elliphant, Years & Years, St. Vincent, Flume
Alter Stage: The Feral Trees, Ratking, ~~Kaytranada~~ Hudson Mohawke
Beat Stage: George Fitzgerald

2014

Gdynia, Babie Doły Military Airport
(Headliners written in bold)^[4]

Wednesday 2 July:
Open'er Stage: Foster the People, Interpol, The Black Keys
Here and Now Stage: Hanimal, Eldo, Pablopavo i Ludziki, Earl Sweatshirt
Tent Stage: Eric Shoves Them in His Pockets, Fair Weather Friends, Night Marks Electric Trio & Archeo, Haim, Metronomy
Beat Stage: Jamie xx
Alter Stage: Coldair, Mooryc, Niewidzialna Nerka na Żywo
Scena Dworcowa: Oxford Drama

Thursday 3 July:
Open'er Stage: MGMT, Pearl Jam
Here and Now Stage: Call the Sun, MØ, Rudimental
Tent Stage: Pink Freud Plays Autechre, Bokka, Pustki, Darkside, The Afghan Whigs
Beat Stage: Maya Jane Coles
Alter Stage: Jagwar Ma, Jerz Igor, Kuroma

Friday 4 July:
Open'er Stage: Lykke Li, Foals, Jack White
Here and Now Stage: Bulbwires, Mela Koteluk, Carnival Youth, Ben Howard
Tent Stage: Kamp!, Misia FF, Banks, Wild Beasts
Beat Stage: Tourist
Alter Stage: Hatti Vatti, Hello Mark, Royal Blood

Saturday 5 July:
Open'er Stage: The Horrors, Phoenix, Faith No More
Here and Now Stage: Daniel Spaleniak, Domowe Melodie, Bastille, Pusha T
Tent Stage: Plastic, Kari, Rojek, Daughter, Warpaint
Beat Stage: Julio Bashmore
Alter Stage: Kaseciarz, Król

Unscheduled:
The Dumplings

2013

Gdynia, Babie Doły Military Airport
(Headliners written in bold)^[5]

Wednesday 3 July:
Open'er Stage: Editors, Blur, Kendrick Lamar
Tent Stage: Dawid Podsiadło, Mikromusic, Savages, Alt-J, Crystal Castles
AlterKlub Stage: Patrick the Pan, Vavamuffin, Vienio / Profil Pokoleń, Fox
Alter Space: Hipiersonik, Semantik Punk, Plum, Stroon, Domowe Melodie
Beat Stage: Pol_On, Marcin Krupa, SLG, Marcin Czubala

Thursday 4 July:
Open'er Stage: Kim Nowak, Tame Impala, Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tent Stage: Xxanaxx, Sorry Boys, Junip, Maria Peszek
AlterKlub Stage: Miss God, Please the Trees, Ras Luta, Matisyahu, Łąki Łan
Alter Space: Ptaki, Lilly Hates Roses, Pianohooligan, Drekoty, Fuka Lata
Beat Stage: Chloe Martini, Seb Skalski, Miko Czajkowski, Adam Zasada

Friday 5 July:
Open'er Stage: Kaliber 44, Skunk Anansie, Queens of the Stone Age, The National
Tent Stage: Rebeka, Skubas, These New Puritans, Hey, Disclosure
AlterKlub Stage: Bobby the Unicorn, Palma Violets, Őszibarack, Nas, L.U.C & Motion Trio
Alter Space: Teielte, Ifi Ude, The &, Kixnare, Rykarda Parasol
Beat Stage: Naphta, Klaves, Patryk Niedziela, Envee

Saturday 6 July:
Open'er Stage: Everything Everything, Miguel, Kings of Leon, Jonny Greenwood, Steve Reich & Ensemble Modern
Tent Stage: Magnificent Muttley, Novika, Mount Kimbie, Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective
AlterKlub Stage: Sambor, Hot Casandra, Crystal Fighters, Transmisja, Lao Che, Harotnica + N.R.M.
Alter Space: Stendek, Fismoll, Peter J. Birch & the River Boat Band, Ballady i Romanse / Igor Boxx, UL/KR
Beat Stage: The Phantom, Chmara Winter, BLCKSHP, Catz'n Dogz

Sunday 7 July:
Open'er Stage: Dizzie Rascal, Rihanna
(special concert after Heineken Open'er Festival – owners of 4-day tickets to Open’er Festival could attend the concert at no additional cost)^[6]

2012

Open'er Festival (2012)

Gdynia, Babie Doły Military Airport
(Headliners written in bold)^[7]

Wednesday 4 July:
Open'er Stage: Fisz Emade Tworzywo, The Kills, Björk, New Order
Tent Stage: June, très.b, Yeasayer, The Ting Tings, Orbital
World Stage: Soldiers of Jah Army, Gogol Bordello, Wiz Khalifa
Alter Space: Frozen Bird, Mela Koteluk, Jacaszek, Chłopcy Kontra Basia
Beat Stage (live acts): Galus, Sobura, TEIELTE, En2ak
Beat Stage (DJ sets): Ment XXL, Praktik, Groh + Eltron John, Sonar Soul
Talents Stage: BEZSENSU, Sjøn, Enchanted Hunters, Dva

Thursday 5 July:
Open'er Stage: Warsaw Village Band, Penderecki/Greenwood, Bon Iver, Justice
Tent Stage: Iza Lach, Dry The River, Jamie Woon, The Maccabees, Jessie Ware
World Stage: Pablopavo & Praczas, Major Lazer, Paula i Karol
Alter Space: The Stubs, KROJC, Kari Amirian, Napszykłat
Beat Stage: Good Paul, Axmusique, Ros, Twin Prix
Talents Stage: Little White Lies, Miąższ, Minerals, Pipes & Pints

Friday 6 July:
Open'er Stage: L.Stadt, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans play "Gran Turismo"
Tent Stage: UL/KR, Toro Y Moi, Kasia Nosowska, M83, Julia Marcell
World Stage: Łona/Webber & The Pimps, Public Enemy, Klezmafour
Alter Space: Yula, Trupa Trupa, The Saintbox, Profesjonalizm
Beat Stage: The Phantom, Bueno Bros, Viadrina, Bshosa
Talents Stage: Camero Cat, Crab Invasion, Sinusoidal, Kerekes Band

Saturday 7 July:
Open'er Stage: Cool Kids of Death, Mumford & Sons, The Mars Volta, The xx
Tent Stage: The KDMS, Świetliki, Bat For Lashes, Friendly Fires, SBTRKT
World Stage: Maja Kleszcz & incarNations, Janelle Monáe, Brygada Kryzys
Alter Space: Psychocukier, kIRk, Volume, Coldair
Beat Stage: Spox, Maximilian Skiba, L.A.N.S., Kamp! (DJ set)
Talents Stage: Vermones, Fair Weather Friends, Keira Is You, Instrumenti