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The Quart Festival was an annual popular music festival that took place in Kristiansand, Norway in the beginning of July. It was the most visited music festival in Norway.
It was first named Qvadradurmusivalen in 1991, but changed into the more ear-catching Quart Festival the following year. For several years Quart was the largest music festival in Norway, but went bankrupt in 2008 in part due to tough competition from the Hovefestivalen in Arendal and some Oslo-based festivals.
There have been some scandals during the years.
- A local band Flying Crap fired a shotgun from the stage in 1995.
- Covenant burned the bible on stage in 2000.
- Mayhem threw pigs' heads at the audience in 2001.
- Eight musicians from hiphop group Equicez were arrested for drug offences in 2003.
- Kristopher Schau attached an engine to a dead pig and used it as a boat in 2003.
- Two persons from rainforest charity group Fuck For Forest had live sex on stage during a concert with The Cumshots in 2004.
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2008 cancelling and bankruptcy
- On the evening of June 6, citing low ticket sales (14 000 against a budget of 30 000), the festival management officially decided to cancel the 2008 festival (supposed to start on July 1) and as well file the managing company for bankruptcy. Following the 2007 festival, the company had a deficiency of roughly 16 million kroner.
2009 – The festival returns
The Quart Festival has been revived by one of the original organisers and will commence on 30 June to 4 July 2009. They are still in the process of signing bands, but Placebo, Marilyn Manson and Slash from Guns and Roses are currently in the lineup.[dated info]
The festival was an economic disaster with low attendances and slow revenues. The festival was by mid-September 2009 still not able to pay their employees and is now threatened by bankruptcy.
Key performers
1992: Spiritualized, The Boo Radleys, Tom Russell, Bel Canto, Pogo Pops
1993: Motorpsycho, Seigmen, 808 State
1994: Elvis Costello, The Orb, Blur, Elastica
1995: The Black Crowes, Weezer, Lisa Germano, Morphine
1996: Motorpsycho, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pulp, Ministry, Orbital, Underworld, Beck, Massive Attack, Black Grape
1997: Rage Against the Machine, Suede, Einstürzende Neubauten, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, Charlatans UK
1998: Beastie Boys, Portishead, Björk, Iggy Pop, Teenage Fanclub, Wyclef Jean
1999: The Roots, Fatboy Slim, Happy Mondays, Garbage, Marilyn Manson, Blur, Massive Attack, The Cardigans
2000: Sonic Youth, Oasis, Leftfield, Moby, Death in Vegas, Morten Abel, Madrugada, Nine Inch Nails, Counting Crows, Macy Gray
2001: Manic Street Preachers, Deftones, Daft Punk, Beck, Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, The Dandy Warhols, Motörhead, Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Mayhem
2002: David Bowie, Travis, Rammstein, No Doubt, Morten Abel, Belle & Sebastian, Turbonegro, Kent, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Kaizers Orchestra, Muse, White Stripes
2003: Massive Attack, Nas, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Röyksopp, The Cardigans, Immortal, Mew
2004: Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Sean Paul, The Darkness, Morrissey, Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, !!!, Phoenix, Pleasure, The Cumshots, Slipknot, N.E.R.D.
2005: Audioslave, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, Snoop Dogg, Thomas Dybdahl, The Game, Porcupine Tree, Stonegard, Fantômas
2006: Depeche Mode, Tool, Kanye West, Muse, Pharrell, Arctic Monkeys, Damian Marley, Devin the Dude, Placebo, Rufus Wainwright, Opeth, The Raconteurs, Wolfmother, Richard Hawley, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, The Cat Empire, Death Cab for Cutie
2007: Turbonegro, The Who, Scissor Sisters, 50 Cent, Bigbang, Chris Cornell, Motorpsycho, Black Debbath, The Roots, Mew, Talib Kweli
2009: Marilyn Manson, John 5, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Young Jeezy, Black Eyed Peas, Placebo, Korn, Chris Cornell
External links
- Official site (mostly in Norwegian)
- Official Site: English (Limited pages)
- Latest festival news (English)
- fastest festival news (English)
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