Lineup Roundup: Superbloom & Hideaway Premiere, Electronic Family Ends

In this week’s lineup roundup, we take a look at festivals across the European continent, including the U.K.

Miley Cyrus , AnnenMayKantereit, David Guetta, DJ Snake, Alice Merton, and many more have been confirmed to perform at the first edition of Munich’s brand-new Superbloom festival, Sept. 5-6.

Promoters Goodlive promise to transform Munich’s Olympiapark into “enchanted, enlivened” grounds, which could easily be interpreted as a platitude, if the woman behind Superbloom wasn’t Fruzsina Szép, who’ also the festival director of Lollapalooza Berlin. 

Liam Payne, Jonas Blue, Sophie Hunger, Bishop Briggs, as well as German class acts Scooter, AnnenMayKantereit, Alli Neumann, Alligatoah, Drunken Masters, Fatoni, Max Herre, and many more are also on the bill.

Meanwhile, Lollapalooza Berlin, which takes place Sept.  5-6 at Berlin’s Olympic Park and Stadium on the same weekend as Superbloom, has confirmed Rage Against The Machine, Miley Cyrus, Die Antwoord, Run The Jewels, DJ Snake, Timmy Trumpet, Lost Frequencies, Alle Farben, and more.

Staying in Germany, there’s a new FKP Scorpio festival premiering near Munich, called Limestone Festival.

Post Malone has already been announced as headliner for the premiere at

Now, FKP Scorpio has announced a wave of artist that include international stars Joey Badass, Rita Ora, Action Bronson, French Montana and Skepta, as well as local heroes Seeed and Kontra K.

The fourt lineup update by Germany’s largest electronic music festival Parookaville includes Marshmello, W&W and Felix Jaehn.

They reinforce roster of headliners, which also includes Afrojack, Amelie Lens, Armin van Buuren, and more, who will perform at the sixth edition of Parookaville at Weeze airport, July 17-19.

Another huge EDM even in Germany is BigCityBeats’ World Club Dome, which takes over Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena, Jun 5-7.

Armin van Buuren, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, DJ Snake and Steve Aoki, Mike Williams, James Hype, Tchami, Robin Schulz are just a few of the names already confirmed. Since last year, World Club Dome comes up with a theme each year, which will be Las Vegas in 2020.

Electronic Family festival in The Netherlands celebrates it 10th and final edition this summer, July 25, in Den Bosch.

Taking place in Den Bosch and focused on Trance, some 20,000 visitors can look forward to Allen Watts, Ben Gold, Cosmic Gate, Jorn van Deynhoven, Markus Schulz, Rank1, and Ruben de Ronde.

Pollstar had reached out to promoter ALDA to find out more details about why the event is being discontinued, but was met with silence.

Another ALDA event is debuting this year: Saga is set to celebrate its premiere June 5-7 in Bucharest, Romania.

The festival is staged with Insomniac, which acquired a 50-percent stake in Amsterdam-based music promotion and production company ALDA.

Tiësto, Zara Larsson, Alan Walker, Disclosure, Don Diablo, Marshmello, Timmy Trumpet, Vini Vici, Meduza, and many more are going to take one of five stages at Izvor Park this summer.

Also celebrating an anniversary, albeit a smaller one, is Transition Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands, which turns five this year.

For the first time the festival will expand to two days at the city’s TivoliVredenburg, April 3-4. The confirmed bill includes Jacob Collier, ALA.NI, Anna Serierse Quartet, Melanie Charles, Jan Garbarek Group, John Scofield & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Avishai Cohen Big Vicious, New Cool Collective feat. Alma Quartet Beethoven Opus 127, Kandace Springs, and more.

Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Kings of Leon, Major Lazer, The Strokes, ASAP Rocky, Khalid, Stormzy, Foals, Lewis Capaldi, Giant Rooks and more are among the first names confirmed for the next edition of Sziget, which takes place in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 5-11.

Looking to neighboring Serbia, where Exit Festival has unveiled the second wave of artists that will perform at its 20th anniversary, July 9-12. 

The selection includes DJ Snake, Sheck Wes, Metronomy, Marky Ramone, Agnostic Front and 25 more representing all sorts of styles and genres. They join already announced acts like David Guetta, Fatboy Slim, James Arthur, Tyga, Boris Brejcha, ARTBAT, Sepultura, Meduza, ZHU, and more.

Also part of the Exit family of events is Sea Star, which goes down May 22-23 in the Coratian seaside town of Umag.

Cypress Hill have been confirmed as headliners alongside Amelie Lens, Dubioza Kolektiv, Meduza, Umek and others. 

Premiering in 2020 is Hideaway Festival at Hylands Park in Essex, England. The first edition, Aug. 14-16, welcomes Tom Jones, Grace Jones, Beverly Knight, Macy Gray, Sinead Harnett, and many more.

Nozstock The Hidden Valley, the epitome of the boutique music festival, confirmed Sistter sledge, Andy C, Bill Bailey, Gentleman;s Dub Club, Submotion Orchestra, and many more for its 22nd edition in Herefordshire, England, July 23-26.

Last year, U.K. electronic music event promoter Cream launchd a new even bringing together a classical orchestra performing club tracks and DJs at Sefton Park.

Cream Classical In The Park returns this year, July 19, with a lineup that features the 50-piece Kaleidoscope Orchestra, which is going to close out the show performing some of the biggest tracks in Cream history.

DJs joining the bill include Basement Jaxx (DJ Set), Faithless (DJ Set), Leftfield (DJ Set),  David Morales, Roger Sanchez, Danny Rampling, Seb Fontaine, Tall Paul, Paul Bleasdale, Andy Carroll, John Kelly, and more.

All Points East, which takes over London’s Victoria Park for the week May 22-31, added The Kooks, The Wombats, Tom Walker, Jake Bugg, The Lathums, Bloxx, Lauran Hubberd, Lapsley, The Avalanches, and more to its lineup.

AEG’s other big part event in London, BST Hyde Park, meanwhile added Post Malone to the bill on July 2. He joins already announced Little Mix (July 4), Kendrick Lamar (July 5), Pearl Jam (July 10) and Taylor Swift (July 11).

The Who and comedian John Bishop have joined The Royal Albert Hall’s lineup for this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust 20th anniversary gigs, March 23-29.

Other headliners previously announced so far are Stereophonics featuring very special guest Paul Weller (March 25), Groove Armada (March 26), Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (March 27) and Nile Rodgers & Chic (March 29).

TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, is gearing up for another huge edition with the addition of AJ Tracey, Loyle Carner, Dermont Kennedy, Amy MacDonald, Jimmy Eat World, Declan McKenna, Beabadoobee, Georgia, Sewa Girls, Ms Banks, Yxng Bane and more.

They join headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and Courteeners, who are set to take the stage at TRSNMT, July 10-12.

Rock en Seine, which goes down Aug. 29-Sept. 1 at the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud in Paris, France, will welcome Rage Against The Machine for a “France Festival Exclusive,” according to the announcement.

The only other act confirmed so far is Run The Jewels.

In the tenth year of the now-synonymous Slam Dunk and Jägermeister pairing, the festival had added Counterparts and Blood Youth to the bill. 

The Jägermeister stage will also play host to Refused, Your Demise, Stray From The Path, Comeback Kid, Deez Nuts and While She Sleeps.

The northern edition of Slam Dunk Festival takes place May 23 at Temple Newsam Park in Leeds, the southern event takes place May 24 at Hatfield Park in Hatfield.

Belgium’s biggest festival Rock Werchter meanwhile added Apparat, Inhaler, Oh Wonder, Worakls Orchestra, Lianne La Havas, The Dead South, and 22 more artists to its already impressive lineup.

Showcase Festival Iceland Airwaves has announced the first wave of international and domestic up-and-comers that are going to perform in Downtown Reykjavik, Iceland, Nov. 4-7.

The international list includes Black Pumas (U.K.), Courtney Barnett (solo) (AU), Dorian Electra (U.S.), Dry Cleaning (U.K.), Metronomy (U.K.), The Murder Capital (IE), and more. Acts from Iceland that are going to perform include ADHD, Daughters of Reykjavik, Gugusar, Halldór Eldjárn, Krummi, Myrkvi, Sólveig Matthildur, S.hel, Sin Fang, and many more.