Paleo Festival 2012

Paleo Festival is an annual rock festival held in Nyon, Switzerland, between Geneva and Lausanne, with the Jura mountains as a backdrop. The 37th Paléo Festival Nyon will be held from Tuesday 17th to Sunday 22nd July 2012.

The festival offers six days and nights of festivities over 84 hecatres, 230,000 spectators expected, over 170 concerts and shows taking place on six stages, and a total of 180 food, drink and craft stalls on site, Paléo Festival Nyon is easily the biggest open-air festival in Switzerland and one of Europe's major musical events.

Line-up

Tuesday: Foreign Beggars, Manu Chao, Franz Ferdinand, M83, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Hanni El Khatib, Gablé, Peter Kernel, 7 Dollar Taxi, The Sound Of Fridge, Shake It Maschine, Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Camille, Brigitte, Omar Souleyman, The Alaev Family, Baba Zula.

Wednesday: The Cure, Justice, Dionysos, Bon Iver, Dominique A, Miles Kane, Warpaint, Other Lives, Boy, Givers, Christine, Buvette, The Deadline Experience, Francis Francis, Natacha Atlas, The Alaev Family, Broukar.

Thursday: Sting, Stephan Eicher, Caravan Palace, Chinese Man, Nadeah, Xewin feat. Yarah Bravo & Bobby Johnson, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Groundation, Raggasonic, Hollie Cook, A State Of Mind, Blitz The Ambassador, Hamelmal Abaté & Imperial Tiger Orchestra, Aya Waska, Trio Joubran, Mashrou' Leila, Broukar.

Friday: Lenny Kravitz, Rodrigo Y Gabriela and C.U.B.A., Imany, Irma, C2C, Skip The Use, Da Cruz, Schnautzi, Kaltehand / Natasha Waters, OrelSan, 1995, Theophilus London, Dope D.O.D., La Gale, Ibrahim Maalouf, DAM, Niyaz.

Saturday: Garbage, Bloc Party, The Kooks, The Kills, Agoria presents "Forms", Honey For Petzi, Great Mountain Fire, Monoski, Widdershins, Oxsa, Bénabar, Thomas Dutronc, Charlotte Parfois, GiedRé, Avishai Cohen, Balkan Beat Box, Yemen Blues, Airnadette.

Sunday: David Guetta, Roger Hodgson, 77 Bombay Street, Addictive TV, Rover, Anna Aaron, Ladylike Lily, mmmh!, The Rebels Of Tijuana, The Phat Crew, Balkan Beat Box, Egyptian Project, Jack is Dead & son Orchestre Iranien, Maxim Vengerov & Camerata Menuhin, Kev Adams, Les Tistics in "Les Franglaises".

Tickets

Tickets have sold out. Tickets were priced at 333CHF (approx £230) for a full six day pass.

Facilities

As it is Switzerland then there are the clean, flushing loos and highly organised camping.

Camping

The campsite is open from midday on Monday 16th until midday on Monday 23rd. Access is limited to festival ticket and pass holders. 4, 5 and 6-day passes is also valid as an access pass to the Camping. Children and young people under the age of 16 who are not accompanied by an adult are not admitted to the campsite.

Getting there

The Festival is situated in Nyon, Switzerland, between Geneva and Lausanne. The site is close to the motorway exits of Nyon (11) if you are travelling from Geneva and Gland (12) if coming from Lausanne. The site is also served by decent bus transport and the railway station (L 'Asse stop) which is situated very near the main entrance (train Nyon – St-Cergue – La Cure).

More information will be here when available.

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