Lollapalooza Berlin is making its return this year with an impressive, eclectic line-up, featuring the likes of pop-punk superstar Machine Gun Kelly, Berlin rockers AnnenMayKantereit, Stuttgart hip-hop outfit Die Fantastischen Vier, Dutch DJ Tiësto, German American rapper Casper and beloved Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini. The festival will take place over two days, on the 24th and 25th of September at Olympic Stadium and Olympic Park in Berlin. Tickets can be purchased here, and you can peruse the line-up poster down below.
Presently, there is still one final headliner to be announced for the second day of the festival alongside Die Fantastischen Vier and Tiësto. Also on the line-up amongst the aforementioned headliners are English indie rockers Sea Girls, American singer and rapper Iann Dior and singer-songwriter Clairo.
Lollapalooza is undeniably one of the most well-known festivals in the world right now; whilst the event took its genesis in Grant Park in Chicago, its success has spawned a plethora of spin-off events and expansion to several other countries outside of the USA, including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Sweden, France and Israel. The festival was originally conceived in 1990 by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell and a number of other individuals such as artist manager Ted Gardner and music executive Marc Gieger.
The festival originally began as a touring event upon its founding in 1991, but later settled on Chicago as a permanent venue. The festival actually declined in popularity in the late 1990s, so much so that the 1998 iteration of the event was cancelled, as no suitable headliner could be found. Lollapalooza was revived in 2003, and whilst it struggled with low ticket sales and even another cancellation, by 2006, the festival was experiencing much more success, with Capital Sports and Entertainment and the Chicago Park District agreeing to a five-million-dollar deal lasting five years, that would keep Lollapalooza in Grant Park until 2011. This was extended to 2018 after a very successful event in 2008.
The festival has long been inclusive of many different genres of music, initially playing host to rock icons of the 1990s such as The Butthole Surfers, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Soundgarden, and then in later iterations featured artists such as Waylon Jennings and The Prodigy.
The German version of the festival commenced in September 2015 after an announcement in 2014 and has been held in Olympia Park since 2018.
