Altitude Festival '12

Altitude Festival 2012 will feature live stand-up comedy, live music, international DJs, slopestyle competitions and more. The backdrop to the festival will be the beautiful snow-capped Alpine mountains, restaurants, hotels and spas, of Mayrhofen, Austria which offers access to the entire Zillertal super ski area with 639km of piste and 167 lifts and gondolas. The week long event takes place from Monday 26th to Saturday 31st March 2012.

Line-up

Music

The Cuban Brothers and Abandoman, plus a DJ line-up for the apres-ski music parties each night.

Comedy

Early evening entertainment will see Phill Jupitus performing on Monday and Wednesday with his Improv All Stars. Marcus Brigstocke & Andre Vincent will present Early Edition on Tuesday and Thursday and there will be the Comedy Club 4 Kids starring Tiernan Douieb, Benny Boot, Eric Lampaert and Matt Reed every afternoon from Monday to Friday.

Monday 26th March:
Opening Night Gala: Jimmy Carr, Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, Michael Winslow, Craig Campbell, MC Andrew Maxwell
Late night shows: Terry Alderton, Craig Campbell, Ian Stone, Benny Boot, MC Andrew Maxwell

Tuesday 27th March:
Tim Minchin, Milton Jones, Kevin Bridges, Terry Alderton, Marcus Brigstocke, MC Rufus Hound
Late Night Shows: Abandoman, Ian Stone, Carl Donnelly, Pete Johansson, MC Craig Campbell

Wednesday 28th March: Al Murray, Kevin Bridges, Michael Winslow, Brendon Burns, Milton Jones, MC Craig Campbell
Late Night Shows: Phil Nichol, Special Guest, Benny Boot, Tiff Stevenson, MC Carl Donnelly

Thursday 29th March:
Ed Byrne, Al Murray, Frankie Boyle, Phill Jupitus, Rufus Hound, MC Andrew Maxwell
Late Night Shows: Abandoman, Tiff Stevenson, Eric Lampaert, Benny Boot, MC Matt Reed

Friday 30th March:
Closing Night Gala: Very Special Guest, Tim Minchin, Phill Jupitus, Rufus Hound, Abandoman, The Cuban Brothers, Craig Campbell, MC Andrew Maxwell
Late Night Shows: Very Special Guest, Pete Johansson, Abandoman, Matt Reed, MC Andrew Maxwell.

Tickets

A week pass is priced at £158, with a day ticket priced from £44 to £55. To buy tickets, click here.

The festival offers powder skiing and boarding by day in and entertainment by night with comedy and the cream of up-and-coming stand ups, Altitude is the first chance to check out brand new material from some of the best comedians around before they take it on to the Edinburgh Festival.

More info

The festival caters for everyone's tastes. There are kids shows and crèche facilities during the day and evening (including the Comedy Club 4 Kids), bars and restaurants high above the clouds, an empty 15th century spa, secret backcountry bash's and an igloo party.

Altitude's facilities includes 200 year old traditionally-built wooden barns and a nightclub made entirely from snow! With 625 KM's of pistes a 3286m glacier AND an award-winning terrain park.

Mayrhofen sits at 630m, with a ski lift that going up to 1800m in 12 minutes where there's plenty of deep snow. The Tux Glacier within easy reach (it has snow 365 days a year), and an army of snow cannons. The Altitude Super Ski Pass offers amazing value, allowing access to the entire Zillertal Super Ski Area - the Glacier, the Vans Penken Park, 639 km of piste and 167 lifts and gondolas .

The Zillertal 3000 ski area offers 157 km of slopes, 49 lifts and snow guaranteed to 2,500 metres (that's 8,250 feet, in old money), the region numbers among the top ski areas of the Alps. With sunny and treeless summit slopes, broad carving areas and challengingly steep north slopes, fantastic deep snow areas with cornices, humps, powder runs and fun slopes there is something here for everybody from free skiers'n'boarders, to the vertically-challenged nubies (who should make use of Mayrhofens excellent ski schools).

More information will be here when available.