German festival headliner by Muse, Metallica, and Kiss considers move

Rock Im Riever 2015

Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 2015
Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany MAP
179 Euro

Daily capacity: 85,000

Last updated: Thu 2nd Apr 2015

The new German tock event Der Ring - Grune Holle Rock (Green Hell) which will take place over 3 days from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 2015 may be moved from the Nurburgring in the Eifel mountains to an alternate location, after one of the organiser's published accounts reveal that less than 5,000 tickets have been sold.

The festival headlined by Muse, Metallica, and Kiss, have announced that the event will still go ahead in a statement on their Facebook page although it does suggest the event may move to German Bundesliga club Schalke 04's Veltins-Arena, a football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia,around 200km away from the Nurburgring.

The statement published, (here), says,

"Dear fans,
first things first: Grüne Hölle Festival will take place for sure!
Some of you may have already followed the recent discussion in the media about the festival moving to a different location. Today, we paid the last artist fee for the bands that will perform at Grüne Hölle – the festival will definitely take place. Though, the festival is very likely to move to the “Arena auf Schalke”, which is about 200 km from the Nürburgring, where camping will also be possible. This is an option we are currently looking into. We will definitely let you know before Easter what the final decision on this will be.

We already sold a total of 60,000 tickets for the sister festivals Rock in Vienna and Rockavaria with the same line-up as Grüne Hölle and we’re confident that our festival will also be a success!

In case the festival will move to Schalke-Arena, you will have the following options: use your ticket to rock with us at the new location, swap your ticket – without any extra fee – for a ticket to Rockavaria in Munich or Rock in Vienna, or you can demand a refund for the ticket you bought (at the same ticket office where you bought the ticket).

We hope you understand that we might not be able to answer all your questions right now. However, we will get back to you as soon as we have some new information for you – before Easter the very latest.

Thanks for understanding,
your Grüne Hölle team"

Early bird tickets (including camping) were priced at 169 euros, yet DEAG's own accounts in mid-March revealed that they had a revenue of 800,000 euros on ticket sales that's less than 5,000 tickets sold. By comparison, the old Nurburgring festival which has had to move to a new location Rock am Ring has sold more than 85,000 tickets Mendig at the new location.

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