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Heavy rock in the industrial zone
On 24 and 25 June Goleniów will turn into the Polish hard rock Mecca. 20 bands, including Europe’s leading line-ups, will rock on stage.
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The Rock Hard Ride Free – Gole\n/iów Rock City 2016 Festival is organised by the Goleniów Bikers Association with support from Goleniów Municipality. The festival will be the biggest music event in the history of West Pomerania to date.
When in 1983 Biff Byford, the lead singer of Saxon sang This town knows how to rock, little did he know that he was singing about Goleniów. The Goleniów Bikers Association will do their best to make sure he can find this out for himself. But mostly so that thousands of heavy rock fans, some of whom used to carve the Saxon logo on their school desks with their penknives in 1983, can see and hear the British legend live, state the organisers.
The venue of the festival is unusual greenfield development land in the Goleniów Industrial Park. The spot offers enough space to accommodate two or even three thousand spectators and the location will ensure the minimum possible disturbance to the nearby villages and businesses operating in the industrial park.
The list of invited artists is impressive. The organisers are still negotiating terms and conditions with some of the best from the top European hard-rock and heavy-metal league. These are bands that filled the biggest concert halls in the world to the rafters in the late 1980s (when heavy metal had its peak popularity). Some of them are still active on the music scene and they can still send shivers down the spines of thousands of rock fans in Poland.
Saxon will be the highlight of the second day of the festival and that is official. The band are one of the leaders of the British New Wave of Heavy Metal and will be celebrating their 40th anniversary. They have 20 studio albums to their name, played thousands of live gigs worldwide and sold 15 million copies of their records.
In addition to Saxon, two bands Forsaken and Nomad Son– each being the pride of the Maltese doom metal- have confirmed their participation. The line-up will also include Polish hard’n’heavy stars as well as West Pomeranian hard rockers Iggy Gvader and Nights Crawlers and others. Over the two days the fans will see and hear between ten and twenty acts on the main stage. The small stage will be available to young talented electric guitarists hailing from West Pomerania and the rest of the country.
The festival organisers’ main aim is to promote motorcycle tourism and a good motorcycle gathering needs a good rock gig, claim the organisers.
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