B’ESTFEST 2009 SET BUCHAREST ON FIRE WITH FLAMBOYANT LIVE SHOWS FROM SOME OF THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
The Killers, Moby, Franz Ferdinand, Orbital, Santana, Motorhead, Manowar and many more artists set a new record for the festival scene in Romania, by gathering over 70,000 people during its 5 days in the centre of Bucharest at B’ESTFEST 2009!
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"We thought Romania was great and it was a pleasure to play there, I only wish we'd come there sooner!" Lemmy, Motorhead As one of the newest festivals in Eastern Europe, the third edition of B’ESTFEST took place over 5 days and offered visitors a complete festival experience, with over 30 artists performing almost 500 songs during 30 hours of music and 10 hours of Silent Disco. B’ESTFEST also thrilled the audience with some extra-goodies: Dukes Box, the human juke box; Poles Apart, the 10 feet tall orchestra; Miniscule of Sound, the world's smallest nightclub; as well as the Heineken Ice Truck experience, Discovery’s LA Ink temporary tattoos tent, the autographs booth, a nice cozy beach area, good beer & food (both traditional and international) at the festival’s 200 meters of bars and 5 restaurants and the “B’ESTFEST IARMAROCK” fair for the shopping fans. The festival also showed some new “eco-friendly” initiatives, resulting in over 50,000 plastic beer glasses being recycled and offering more than 500 bicycle parking spaces! B’ESTFEST 2009 couldn’t have happened without the constant team effort and enthusiasm of over 1500 people, members of the production team, artists and musicians. Romania’s biggest festival also broke a new record for the backstage area parties, with over 600 litres of beer, 100 litres of wine and champagne, 150 litres of vodka, whisky and different cocktails, as well as over 800 litres of water, 500 litres of soft drinks, 250 litres of fresh orange juice, and 150 litres of vitamin water being consumed! The show must and will go on... and after just a couple of weeks since B’ESTFEST came to a close, the festival organisers are already on the job making plans for the 2010. Expect more top international artists and lots of nice surprises. Keep all eyes and ears on B’ESTFEST 2010 and www.bestfest.ro. More news coming soon and if you want to relive some of your favourite B’ESTFEST 2009 moments check out B’ESTFEST TV channel on YouTube and on the festival’s website.
Artist Quotes: “The Charlatans were really well looked after by all concerned at the festival and we would very much love to come back and play again. The crowd were Awesome and encouraged a passionate performance! B'ESTFEST was a BLAST!” Tim Burgess, The Charlatans “We were thrilled to come to the great city of Bucharest and play for a fantastic audience who stayed to watch our set even after one of the most intense thunderstorms we had ever been in. We look forward to coming back in the future and perform” White Lies "B’ESTFEST was the festival that brought us to Romania for the very first time. We had a great show and everybody working it was helpful and professional!" Katie and Jules, The Ting Tings “It was great being able to FINALLY play in Romania and meet some of you guys who'd supported me since my record was released last year. B'ESTFEST was awesome and It was cool hearing Franz Ferdinand write a new track in the dressing room next door.” Gabriella Cilmi “It’s been quite some time since we performed together as LTR and we were looking forward to the show at B'ESTFEST. The show was good and I was surprised to see so many people knowing the lyrics to our songs! A lot of people showed up for the meet & greet after the show.. We signed autographs and took photos for almost two hours! Thank you all for the support!” Looptroop Rockers “I really enjoyed the B’ESTFEST festival in Bucharest!!! It was a wonderful sunny day, so hot like in the Caribbean... Everybody was really friendly the crowd was really cool!!! The sound on stage was amazing! We all had a big smile on our face, everything was just perfect :)! Can’t wait for the next one! I love B’ESTFEST!!!” Oceana “We wanted to thank for supporting our concert at B’ESTFEST. we never played a concert that far from home. But the audience made us forget that we were 1500 km away from Dresden. We also enjoyed talking to some people after the concert. It was nice to find out that even our first album and old stuff is known in Romania. And playing on one stage with Motörhead... wonderful! We hope to come back soon.” Polarkreis 18 “It was our first time in Romania and B'ESTFEST was a beautiful and interesting experience for us. The Romanian audience showed such love and we didn't want to finish our performance. The event organisers really looked after us and it was awesome being backstage with such big artists like: Orbital, Santana and The Charlatans. We think that B'ESTFEST really deserves its name and we hope to play in Romania again soon.” Gravity Co
