Pohoda Festival 2013

The 30,000 capacity Pohoda festival is held annually at Trencin Airport, Trencin, Slovakia and in 2013 will run from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th July. The festival features alternative music, rock, pop, dance music, world music, house, techno, drum and bass, hip hop, but also theatre, discussions, chamber music, dance and literature workshops.

Line-up

Atoms For Peace, Bloc Party, Bonobo, SBTRKT, Tony Allen, Ondatrópica, Sam Lee and Friends, The Bots, Karin Park, Erol Alkan, Justice (DJ Set), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Smashing Pumpkins, BEAK>, Django Django, Amon Tobin, Kaiser Chiefs, Buena Vista Social Club, Bonga, Maia Vidal, Cafe Aman Istanbul, Dubioza Kollectiv, ZRNI, Kubo Ursiny Provisorium, Para, Malalata, O.Children, Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band, Cathy Davey, Mixhell, Race Horses, Prazsky Vyber, Prago Union, Vec, Zlokot, and Davova Psychoza, Kouyate-Neerman, Skip & Die, and Batida, for the line-up across 7 main stages.

Tickets

Early bird tickets are priced at 69 euros for a 3 day ticket, 25 euros for a campervan, and 9 euros for parking. To buy tickets, click here.

More info

The word Pohoda means 'well-being' and 'coziness' in Slovakian and the festival offers a 'Relax Centre' which incorporates massage, lots of holistic delights, and huge chill-out tents. Other delights include bungee jumping, an art wall where artists paint a section at each year's festival and a captivating family-friendly children's area for the little ones. The festival has a campsite on site.

Getting there

The site itself is Trencin airfield 120km from the country's capital Bratislava. Festival goers can fly into Bratislava Airport and get connecting services to Trencin. Another option is to fly to Vienna and drive 30 minutes to Bratislava before picking a connecting service.

Trains from Bratislava to Trencin:
In general, all express trains from Bratislava to Kosice (via Zilina) stop at Trencin. The journey time is approximately 1 hour 35 minutes. Trencin is one of the main stops of both inter-city and local trains on the route from Bratislava to Kosice.

From Trencin railway station visitors can use the shuttle service, timetables are the bus stops at the railway station, and by the Festival's north gate, where the bus stops.

Tickets for shuttle service cost around 15,- SKK. The service will run during the festival non-stop but the intervals will differ from four times an hour during the rush hours to once an hour during the night.

More information will be here when available.

Latest Updates