OFF Festival 2012

Now in its seventh year, the OFF Festival is held in Dolina Trzech Stawow, 'Three Lake Valley', Katowice, Poland on Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th August 2012. Growing in prominence year on year with this year's event promising one of the strongest line-ups to date in line with organiser Artur Rojek's forward-thinking, eclectic music policy. From the alternative music acts from around the world to the increasingly strong Polish scene, OFF festival will showcase for 15,000 attendees over one hundred acts across four stages.

Line-up

Africa HiTech, AfroKolektyw, Akron/Family, Alva Noto, annb: alva noto & blixa bargeld, Andy Scott, Apteka, Atari Teenage Riot, Bardo Pond, Baroness, Battles, Baxter Dury, Beneficjenci Splendoru, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, Chromatics, Chrome Hoof – 'Hydrozagadka', Coldair, Colin Stetson, Connan Mockasin, Container, Converge, Cool Kids of Death, Dam FunK, Daughn Gibson, Death in Vegas, Demdike Stare, Dominique Young Unique, DOOM, Fanfarlo, Fennesz & Lillevan, Forest Swords, Group Doueh, Hanimal, Henry Rollins, High Places, Iceage, Iggy and The Stooges, Jacaszek, Josh T. Pearson, Kanal Audytywny, Kiera Is You, Kim Gordon & Ikue Mori, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, kIRk, Kobiety, Kobiety, Kuedo, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Laureat konkursu Zrob Glosniej! na OFF Festivalu, Levity, Lona & Webber, Matthew Herbert, Mazzy Star, Megafaun, Metronomy, Mikolaj Trzaska gra 'Roze', Minerals, Mordy, Napszyklat, Nerwowe Wakacje, Nils Frahm, Nosowska, Obscure Sphinx, Other Lives, Papa M, Paula and Karol, Pietnastka, Pissed Jeans, Profesjonalizm, Purity Ring, Retro Stefson, Savages, Shabazz Palaces, Shangaan Electro, Sleep Party People, Snowman, Spectrum, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Swans, The Antlers, The Band of Endless Noise, The House of Love, The Shipyard, The Stubs, The Twilight Sad, The Wedding Present – 'Seamonsters', Thurston Moore, Tides from Nebula & Blinded, Ty Segall.

OFF Festival is about more than just music. It also features a number of accompanying events: film, art, performance and poetry. It's also an event which keeps the environment in mind - all food and drinks come in environmentally-friendly packaging and there is a big emphasis on recycling. It's a completely safe place, an event where diverse tastes and appearances are welcomed and where everyone is the same because everyone is different.

Tickets

Early bird tickets are priced at 50 euros (approx £41) for a 3-day ticket with camping included, entitles admission to all the pre festival events on 2 August, and three days festival and allows overnight at the campsite from 2 to 6 August. A non camping ticket is priced at 40 euros, and a pre party pass is 23 euros. To buy tickets, click here.

Camping

Please note that camping, at the Festival Village which offers sanitation, food, and drink, will not be sold this year separately - unless there is space available when the festival starts.

Getting there

There are regular cheap flights to from the UK and Europe to Katowice. Arriving at Katowice/Pyrzowice airport - take the bus marked "Lotnisko" to the Katowice train station (Dworzec PKP) and then transfer to one of the below lines.

Buses from Katowice train station (Dworzec PKP):
- to the Muchowiec airport (OFF Festival grounds) - lines 0 and 50.
- to the Trzy Stawy bus stop (shopping center, 500 meters from the festival grounds) - lines 10, 110, 672, 674, and 910.

More information will be here when available.

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