Mayday (music festival)

Mayday, like the former Love Parade, is one of the oldest and most reputed electronic music festivals in Germany, having its debut on 1991 and Katowice, Poland, having its debut on 2000. Despite the name, Mayday festivals date oscillates between April and December (these being called Winter Mayday). Currently, the festival takes place only in around 30 April in Dortmund and 10 November in Katowice.

Mayday
GenreElectronic music
DatesApril and December
Location(s)Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia
Years active1991-present
Founded byFabian Lenz
WebsiteMayday

Mayday reflects and determines actual trends in techno music within present year.

Each Mayday has a theme. Until 2013 it was composed by Members of Mayday, DJs WestBam and Klaus Jankuhn.[1]

Since 1998 Mayday (Germany) is supported by eve&rave Münster e.V. with drug-information-desks.

List of Mayday events

Attendance figures are estimated.

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  • Best Of House And Techno `91
    • Anthem: No Anthem, Only Radio-Jingle by Marusha
    • Berlin, Halle Weissensee
    • 14 December 1991
    • Attendance: 5000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 18
    • DJs: Frank de Wulf, WestBam, Sven Väth, Dick, Rok, Tanith, Dave Angel, Moneypenny, Sascha, Marusha, Mate Galic, Neutron 9000, Pure Energy
    • Live Acts: Ravesignal, Speedy J, Mental Overdrive, The Hypnotist
  • A New Chapter Of House And Techno '92
    • Anthem: The Mayday Anthem, by WestBam, featuring Marusha
    • Köln, Eis- und Schwimmstadion
    • 30.04.1992
    • Attendance: 12000
  • Forward Ever, Backward Never
    • Berlin, Halle Weissensee
    • 12 December 1992
    • Attendance: 7000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 21
  • The Judgement Day
  • The Religion
    • Berlin, Halle Weissensee
    • 11 December 1993
    • Attendance: 6000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 21
  • Rave Olympia
  • The Raving Society (We Are Different)
    • only "Twin-Mayday" ever
    • Berlin, Deutschlandhalle
    • 25. & 26. November 1994
    • Attendance: 32000 (figures indicate the sum of both days)
    • Live Acts and DJs: 22
  • Reformation
  • The Great Coalition
  • The Day X
  • Life On Mars
    • Berlin, Arena
    • 14 December 1996
    • Attendance: 8000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 26
  • Sonic Empire
  • Save The Robots
  • Soundtropolis
  • Datapop
  • Mayday Polska
    • Katowice
    • 10 November 2000
    • Attendance: 9000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 19
  • 10 in 01
  • Culture Flash
  • Troopa Of Tomorrow
  • Team X-Treme
  • Prototypes
  • Mayday comes to Budapest
  • Password Europe
    • Budapest, Hungexpo
    • 29 March 2003
    • Attendance: near 9000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 50
  • Future Downloaded
    • Budapest
    • 3 April 2004
    • Attendance: more than 10000
    • Live Acts and DJs: 70
  • U Make The Rules, We Make The Noise
    • (Anthem by Collins & Behnam)
    • Budapest, Hungexpo F-F2
    • 26.03.2005
    • Attendance: more than 11000
    • Live Acts and DJs: ?
  • Worldclub
  • Power Recycling
    • (Anthem by Collins & Behnam)
    • Budapest
    • 18.03.2006
    • Attendance: ?
    • Live Acts and DJs: ?
  • New Euphoria
  • Reflect Yourself
  • Massive Moments
  • Massive Moments
    • Budapest, Óbuda Island
    • 13 June 2009
    • Attendance: ?
    • Live Acts and DJs: 80
  • Mayday 2009
  • Tom Novy at Mayday 2009
  • Sven Väth at Mayday 2009
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See also

References
  1. Westbam steigt bei der Mayday in Dortmund aus, derwesten.de, retrieved 5 February 2014
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