Flow Festival releases first acts and 2012 dates
Flow has announced the first artists on the 2012 line up. Icelandic superstar Björk (Björk.com, Facebook) will make one of her rare “Biophilia” tour appearances at Flow on Sunday, the closing day of the festival. Festival proceedings kick off on Wednesday 8 August when Bon Iver (Boniver.org, Facebook) performs at the Opening Concert organised on site at the Blue Tent venue.
Flow tickets go on sale at the Tiketti outlets on Wednesday 7 December at 9 am. First released on sale are the Wednesday and Sunday single day tickets, the three day festival ticket, and the full festival pass including the Flow weekend plus the Opening Concert. Flow Festival will take place in Helsinki’s Suvilahti on 8–12 2012.
As the ticket touting at the 2011 event was excessive, Flow and Tiketti will introduce new guidelines for ticket purchases, namely requiring ticket holders to be identified upon ticket purchase. This new practice aims at enabling the availability of as many Flow Festival 2012 tickets as possible at the standard retail price at the official ticket outlets.
Tickets: Tiketti, tel. +358 (0) 600-1-1616
4 days: FRI – SUN + Opening Concert/ 160 €
3 days: FRI – SUN / 130 €
1 day: SUN 12 Aug / 70 € (other single day tickets will be released for sale at a later date)
Opening Concert WED 8 Aug / 49 €
+ additional sellers fees. Baltic Sea ticket + 2 € available to all ticket types. If you decide to purchase a Baltic Sea ticket, a €2 supplement will be added to your ticket price and will be donated in full to the WWF.
Ticket purchases limited to 6 per person. Identifying of ticket holders by name is required upon purchase, photo ID required upon wristband change. Inquiries related to the updated ticketing policy: boxoffice(at)flowfestival.com.
Wasteland stage competition winners selected
The Stage design competition organised by Flow Festival and Wastelands has ended. The winning proposition came from Slovenia, courtesy of Larisa Kazic, Tea Kogovsek, Nejc Lebar and Alja Koši.
Tracking the sonic essence of Turkey and Africa
The Flow Festival 2012 program features two different musical themes, the sounds of Turkey and Africa.
New acts, design and art features
New additions to our line up include the Swedish artist Lykke Li, Bola, the Ghanaian kologo artist on the Awesome Tapes From Africa label, the Turkish artists BaBa Zula, Kolektif Istanbul and DJ Murat Meric and the Detroit techno scene stalwart Theo Parrish plus a selection of design, art and documentary movies, that will be showcased first time in Finland.
Flow Festival Menu
Flow is known for its wide variety of quality festival cuisine. Once again, we’ve invited some of our favourite Helsinki establishments to offer their take on the festival menu.
Application period for volunteers starts
The Application period for volunteer workers of this year’s Flow Festival has started.
Death Grips cancels their Flow gig
Death Grips have now confirmed, that they will not be performing at Flow Festival 2012.
New acts added
International additions include the Swedish pop innovators Miike Snow, American indie pop act Friends, the “national treasure” of British pop, Saint Etienne, US “thrash hop” act Death Grips, and the Russian-born rising star of underground house music, Nina Kraviz.
New artists announced
New acts in this year’s festival line-up include soul legend Bobby Womack, the rising star of contemporary R’n'B, Frank Ocean, trail blazing techno artist Richie Hawtin, New York’s post-punk heroes, Swans, the mastermind of far-reaching Berlin techno, Monolake, and the seminal DJ-producer Hudson Mohawke, amongst others.
New partnerships
We are very happy to announce new partnerships with telecommunications company Sonera, outdoor marketing company JCDecaux and Valio.
The Black Keys and other additions to the line-up
The Black Keys, Ane Brun, The War on Drugs, Nicolas Jaar, Flying Lotus, A$AP Rocky, St. Vincent, Jason Moran and The Bandwagon and Horace Andy with a lot of others have now been included into the line-up for this summer’s Flow Festival. More additions to follow during the spring.
Participate at Wastelands, design a venue
The design spectrum at Flow Festival expands in 2012 with the “Stage” competition, organised in co-operation with Wastelands: XXXII European Architecture Students Assembly.
Feist and heads up on line-up news
Canadian singer Feist is the latest addition to the line-up of Flow Festival 2012. The critically acclaimed singer, who released her album Metals last year will perform at Flow on Sunday 12th of August.
Nokia proudly presents: Flow Festival – The Documentary
Nokia’s Flow Festival documentary is now online in it’s full 16 minute form. The short film features the entire Flow team talking about the making of the festival and it’s history together with some cool footage from this year’s event. Press play and click CC for English subtitles. Enjoy!
