Rock en Seine
The Rock en Seine festival (French pronunciation: [ʁɔk ɑ̃ sɛːn]) is a three-day rock music festival, held at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, the Château de Saint-Cloud's park, west of Paris, inside the garden designed by André Le Nôtre.
Name
The name is a pun, based on exactly the same pronunciation in French of the words "scène" meaning stage and Seine (the river separating Saint-Cloud from Central Paris after which the Hauts-de-Seine département is called).
Previous years
- 2003 : 1st year, 2 stages, 10 artists, 22,000 spectators
- 2004 : 2nd year, extended to Two days, 22 artists, 48,000 spectators
- 2005 : 3rd year, Three stages, 30 artists, 46,000 spectators
- 2006 : 4th year, Three stages, 30 artists, 57,000 spectators
- 2007 : 5th year, extended to Three days,45 artists, 68,000 spectators
- 2008 : Three stages, 34 artists, 76,000 spectators
- 2009 : Three stages, 47 artists, 97,000 spectators
- 2010 : Three stages, 47 artists, 105,000 spectators
- 2011 : Four stages, 63 bands, 105,000 spectators
- 2012 : Four stages, 62 artists, 108,000 spectators
- 2013 : Four stages, 56 artists, 110,000 spectators
- 2014 : Five stages, 65 artists, 120,000 spectators
- 2015 : Five stages, 66 artists
The venue
The festival takes place in the down of the Park of "Domaine national de Saint-Cloud", a historical place at the gates of Paris, and 5 minutes from the nearest subway station métro Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud.
The park and the garden, was designed by Le Nôtre in the 17th century, and it's the first park to be classed as a Monument historique in 1994. It is a 4.6 km² park, and there are gardens and forest with basins, thickets, cascades and statues.
Edition 2003
Grande Scene | Petite Scene | |
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Wednesday 27 August | - K's Choice - Morcheeba - Beck - PJ Harvey - Massive Attack |
- Uncut - Electric 6 - Tanger - Tom McRae - Eagle Eye Cherry - Keziah Jones |
Edition 2004
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | |
---|---|---|
Friday 27 August | - Yann Destal - Flogging Molly - The Roots - Sonic Youth - The White Stripes - The Chemical Brothers |
- Blanche - Wax Poetic - Electrelane - Daniel Darc - Joss Stone |
Saturday 28 August | - Nosfell - Hoggboy - Buck65 - Radio 4 (band) - Melissa Auf Der Maur[A] - Muse (band) |
- Kaolin - Colour of Fire - Mr Vegas - Zero 7 - Archive |
- A Replaced Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Edition 2005
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | |
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Friday 25 August | - Michael Franti & Spearhead - Fort Minor - Arcade Fire - Queens of the Stone Age - Pixies |
- The Subways - Athlete - The Sunday Drivers - Hot Hot Heat - Jurassic 5 |
- Stuck in the Sound - Flying Pooh - Hushpuppies - Alkaline Trio - Vitalic |
Saturday 26 August | - La Phaze - Amp Fiddler - Saïan Supa Crew - Foo Fighters - Franz Ferdinand |
- Asyl - Goldfrapp - Baby Shambles - Feist - Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation |
- Hopper - Herman Dune - The Departure - The Film - Sayag Jazz Machine |
Edition 2006
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | |
---|---|---|---|
Friday 25 August | - Calexico - Nada Surf - Dirty Pretty Things - Patrice - Morissey |
- Wolfmother - India Aire - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Kasabian [A] - The Raconteurs |
- Dead Pop Club - Neimo - French Paradoxe - TV On The Radio - DJ Shadow |
Saturday 26 August | - Taking Back Sunday - Phoenix - The Dead 60's - Beck - Radiohead |
- Broken Social Scene - Xavier Rudd - Skin - The Rakes - Editors |
- Fancy - Daddy Longlegs - Rhesus - Grand Corps Malade - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra |
- A Replaced Richard Ashcroft
Edition 2007
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | |
---|---|---|---|
Friday 24 August | - Dizzee Rascal - Mogwai - The Shins - The Hives - Arcade Fire |
- Rock and Roll - Dinosaur Jr - M.I.A. - Emilie Simon - 2 Many DJ's |
- Rodeo Massacre - Hey Hey My My - Biffy Clyro - The Noisettes - Unkle |
Saturday 25 August | - The Fratellis - Cold War Kids[A] - Jarvis Cocker - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Tool |
- Puppetmastaz - Hellogoodbye - Erik Truffaz - C.S.S. - Les Rita Mitsouko |
- I Love UFO - Pravada - Calvin Harris - Terry Poison - Alpha |
Sunday 26 August | - Daby Toure[B] - Mark Ronson - Kings of Leon - Faithless - Björk |
- Bat for Lashes - Devotchka - Kelis - Just Jack - Craig Armstrong |
- Housse de Racket - Nelson - Albert Hammond Jr. - Bromheads Jacket - Enter Shikari |
Edition 2008
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | |
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Wednesday 20 August | - Blood Red Shoes - Lostprophets - Mix Master Mike - Rage Against The Machine |
- N/A | - N/A |
Thursday 28 August | - Apocalyptica - Hot Chip - Serj Tankian - Kaiser Chiefs - R.E.M. |
- Infadels - These New Puritans - The Do - Dirty Pretty Things - Tricky |
- The Latitudz - Da Brasilians - Narrow Terence - Plain White T's - Wax Tailor |
Friday 29 August | - Louis XIV (band) - Scars on Broadway - The Roots - The Raconteurs - The Streets |
- dbClifford - Jamie Lidell - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Kate Nash - Justice (band) |
- Molecule - Fortune - Brooklyn - Black Kids |
- A Were meant to play on the Scene de l'Industrie but were added to the Grande Scene when Amy Winehouse cancelled at the last minute for unknown reasons. She never arrived to the festival site, despite her support musicians being there.[1][2]
Edition 2009
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | |
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Friday 28 August | - Just Jack - Asher Roth - Amy Macdonald - Vampire Weekend - Madness[A] |
- James Hunter - Keane - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Madness (band) - Bloc Party - Vitalic |
- The Tatianas - Gush - Passion Pit - Bill Callahan - Oceana |
Saturday 29 August | - Noisettes - Ebony Bones - Billy Talent - The Offspring - Faith No More |
- Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Dananananaykroyd - The Horrors - Calvin Harris - Birdy Nam Nam |
- Cheveu - Jil Is Lucky - Zone Libre[B] - Yann Tiersen - School of Seven Bells |
Sunday 30 August | - Baaba Maal - Macy Gray - Eagles of Death Metal - MGMT - The Prodigy |
- Metric (band) - Robin McKelle - Sliimy - Le Petit Pois (band) - Klaxons |
- Lilly Wood and the Prick - Hindi Zahra - Sammy Decoster - Veto - Patrick Wolf |
- A Madness, who played earlier, replaced headliners Oasis, cancelled after a fight between the Gallagher brothers backstage.
- B Replaced Esser
Edition 2010
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | |
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Friday 27 August | - All Time Low - Kele - Skunk Anansie - Cypress Hill - Blink-182 |
- Minus The Bear - Band Of Horses - Foals -The Kooks - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Underworld |
- Roken is Dodelijk - Kings of Conspiracy - Beast - French Cowboys - Deadmau5 |
Saturday 28 August | - K'naan - Stereophonics - Paolo Nutini - Queens of the Stone Age - Massive Attack |
- Chew Lips - Plan B - Two Door Cinema Club - Jonsi - LCD Soundsystem - 2 Many DJ's |
- Viva and the Diva - Quadricolor - Martina Topley Bird - Naive New Beaters - Jello Biafra |
Sunday 29 August | - The Temper Trap - Eels - Beirut - The Ting Tings - Arcade Fire |
- Wallis Bird - Black Angels - Wanye Beckford - Fat Freddy's Drop - Roxy Music |
- Succes - I Am Un Chien!! - Rox - Wave Machine - Crystal Castles |
Edition 2011
Edition 2012
Edition 2013
Grande Scene | Scene de la Cascade | Scene de l'Industrie | Scene Precession Live | |
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Friday 23 August | - Chance the Rapper - Belle and Sebastian - Tame Impala - Franz Ferdinand - Paul Kalkbrenner |
- Savages - Tomahawk - Alt-J - Kendrick Lamar |
- Big Black Delta - Team Ghost - Johnny Marr - The Pastels - Hanni El Khatib |
- Skaters - Daughter - DIIV - Alex Hepburn - !!! |
Saturday 24 August | - Eugene McGuinness - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Nine Inch Nails - Phoenix |
- Hola a Todo el Mundo - La Femme - Patrice Vitalic VTLZR |
- Fi/She/Is - J.C Satan - Kid Noize - Jackson and His Computerband - Fritz Kalbrenner |
- In The Valley Below - Laura Mvula - Wavves - Valerie June - Fauve |
Sunday 25 August | - Temples - The Computers - Eels - The Bloody Beetroots - System of A Down |
- Surfer Blood - Mac Miller - Skip the Use - Major Lazer |
- St.Lô - Wall Of Death - Is Tropical - Lianne La Havas - V.V. Brown |
- Polica - Ms Mr - Parquet Courts - Chvrches - Tricky |
Edition 2014
Edition 2015
References
- ↑ "Amy Winehouse is recovering at home in London after pulling out of a Paris concert where she was due to be one of the headline acts.". news.sky.com. 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
- ↑ "Amy Winehouse poursuivie par Rock en Seine". Le Figaro. 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
http://www.rockenseine.com/timeline/
External links
- Official website (French)
- Official blog (French)