Invest in your Live Music Fix This Winter
Ditch the wellies and grab your snowboots- it's time for the winter music festival season! Whether you're a skier, boarder, or merely a music fan, the real ultimate guide to tide you over until the summer music season starts.
Little World Festival 12th - 19th March in Meribel, France
Debuting in March 2010, Meribel Little World Festival combines five days of skiing and snowboarding in the largest ski area in world, with entertainment from Europe's biggest bands and DJ's. Ski or snowboard by day and party from sun set with over 40 live gigs during the week and a free outdoor concert over the piste.
The Little World Festival attracts 25- 45 year old urbanites with active and outgoing daily routines. With intimate venues set against beautiful backdrops, this is the place to be for anyone into their house music and live pop performances. Famous for its modern-day feel as a resort, Meribel was in the past the home the Altitude festival, which has now moved to Austria alongside Snowbombing.
The hours of sunlight provide an identical set of great activities with perfect snow conditions, panoramic views from the mountain tops and some of the finest runs in the arena making this resort a skier and snowboarder's Eden.
The Little World Festival gets bigger and better each year and 2011 promises for the most fun to date with more headline acts and gigs throughout the resort! Confirmed acts up to include Sophie Ellis Bexter, The Feeling and Freemasons. There is a new attraction using a three-day snowboard Big Air and Rail competition, featuring the best male and female riders in the united kingdom.
The Big Snow Festival 13th- 20th March in Arinsal, Andorra
The organisers of Major Reunion have the unique atmosphere their particular UK festivals and dropped them in the mountains for the Pyrenees. Debuting in March 2010 and nestled in the wilderness between France and Spain, Arinsal is easy to focus on and has some of the highest quality slopes around for beginners and more skiers. Board junkies furthermore love the 40,000 square metres of freestyle space packed with half-pipes, jumps and fun boxes.
Big Snow Festival 2011 promises in the form of rollercoaster ride of skiing, snowboarding and legendary nights out with Example, Judge Jules, Tim Westwood, Fearne Cotton and Scott Mills announced as headline DJs!
Be to be able to see man of in the event that Example shake the mountain, experience superb last year's favourites Judge Jules bring the use a standstill and pimp your ride with and also the Dawg himself Tim Westwood on the slopes.
Fearne Cotton will bring the sass and style to this winter wonderland with her raved about DJ set and get joined on the slopes by another one of our Radio 1 favourites Scott Mills.
Billed as best powder in Europe, Arinsal plays host to hundreds of festival goers for seven solid era of mountainous music, snowboarding, fascinating games with over 80 % of the crowd being alpine first timers. Skidomtrips.com is the official equipment hire & lift pass supplier.
Jazz Up Festival 19th- 26th March Jazz Up in Avoriaz, France
Once the host of the Avoriaz Film Festival, this Portes du Soleil resort started to cater for the more sophisticated music style of 2008. Combining chilled out springtime skiing with live jazz in bars, cafes and restaurants around Avoriaz, the Perk up Festival includes 40 dinner concerts inside a week, with four exceptional concerts in the festival hall and numerous jazz holidays.
After Archie Schepp, Mina Agossi, Philippe Petrucciani, Louis Winsberg, Ahmad Jamal and China Moses, Avoriaz Perk up now provides an exceptional programme for its fourth year, including a solo piano set from Tigran Hamasyan, concert at a Nicolas Folmer Quartet + Rosario Giuliani and a gospel night by Liz McComb.
The BRITS Music & Winter Festival 20th- 27th March in Laax, Switzerland
Entering the scene in 2008, the BRITS Music & Winter Festival is back with a bang, combining seven times of top snowboard and ski action with seven nights of live music and DJ shows. With festival heavyweights Pendulum confirmed to headline in addition to performance 1 of the hottest up and coming acts The Correspondents, The BRITS looks set to be an ultimate winter week the year 2010!
Although you're likely to confused with thinking i thought this was a mountain version for the annual music awards ceremony, the British Snow Tour is completely separate towards the BRIT Awards and mixes serious competition with alpine festivities. It isn't all to the partying, considering BRITS also unites the uk's top athletes such as Olympians Ben Kilner, Zoe Gillings and three times X-Games Gold medallist, Jenny Jones with budding amateurs, groms and rookies. Giving all-comers the chance showcase their skills and compete for British Championship titles across five age categories, Kids, Youth, Junior, Senior and Masters.
There will also plenty of other activities to help you entertained and Laax in addition has stepped up its say he is the king of chic ski resorts with a range of stunningly new and exclusive restaurants and cafes.
Snowbombing 4th- 9th April in Mayrhofen, Austria
Snowbombing is a festival filled with fresh air, blue skies, black runs and white-hot parties.billed just as the alpine alternative to Glastonbury! An exhilarating week-long whirlwind of brilliant bands and world class DJs the particular chocolate box alpine setting of Mayrhofen, Austria. Snowbombing is now regarded by a lot of as 'The Greatest Show on Snow'. An unique, mischievous celebration that everyone ought to experience!
Snowbombing has a reputation for their creative and entertaining activities and traditional Austrian cultural references are embraced (e.g. oom pah bands, lederhosen and sausages). Similarly, unconventional clothing is encouraged in a number of fancy dress themes that adhered to by many attendees and cult celebrities like Mr. Motivator are engaged to entertain and interact when using the crowd.
Running since 2000, Snowbombing has featured a plethora of world class acts. 2011 doesn't fail to impress, however Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Pendulum and Tinie Tempah, to name just a few, in Snowbombing's biggest line up in 11 years. Nothing on this scale musically has a lot attempted before in an alpine ring setting!
Festival-goers can climb up to the Tux Glacier for a night of revelry as well as a town-wide street party in Mayrhofen himself. If that wasn't enough, there could be the Challenge the Lumberjack competition where contestants pit their strength against some other by carrying tree trunks!