Paredes de Coura Festival

Paredes de Coura Festival is a rock festival that is held every year in August at Praia do Taboão in Paredes de Coura, Portugal. It is one of the three largest music summer festivals in Portugal, together with Sudoeste Festival and Optimus Alive. The first edition was held in 1993. In 2005, the Spanish edition of Rolling Stone named it as one of the five best summer festivals in Europe.

Bands that have performed in the Paredes de Coura Festival in the past

• Breed 77
• Blasted Mechanism
• Bauhaus
• Blind Zero
• Foo Fighters
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• P.J. Harvey
• Electrelane
• Placebo
• Pixies
• Queens of the Stone Age
• Capibara
• Morrissey
• Bloc Party
• dEUS
• Scissor Sisters
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• The Kills
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• The Arcade Fire
• LCD Soundsystem
• !!!
• Broken Social Scene
• Babyshambles
• The Cramps
• Suede
• Incubus
• Sonic Youth
• Gogol Bordello
• Blood Red Shoes
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
• The Horrors
• Nine Inch Nails
• Franz Ferdinand
• The Temper Trap
• Howling Bells
• The Hives
• Peaches
• Jarvis Cocker
• Foge Foge Bandido
• Sizo
• Kap Bambino
• Sean Riley & The Slowriders
• Patrick Wolf
• The Strange Boys
• Portugal. The Man
• The Right Ons
• Supergrass
• Punks Jump Up
• Sparta
• Cansei de Ser Sexy
• Crystal Castles
• Dinosaur Jr.
• New York Dolls
• Stone Temple Pilots
• White Rose Movement
• Motörhead
• Rollins Band
• Guano Apes
• M.I.A
• Korn
• The Divine Comedy
• Tindersticks
• Mr. Bungle
• The Flaming Lips
• Gotan Project
• Morcheeba
• Lamb
• Mão Morta
• Terrakota
• X-Wife
• Fischerspooner
• Dorian
• We Are Standard
• Sex Pistols
• Here We Go Magic
• No Age
• Marina and the Diamonds
• Pnau
• Two Door Cinema Club

External links

• Official Paredes de Coura Festival Web Site