OFF Festival 2013

Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th August 2013
Dolina Trzech Stawow, Katowice, Poland, Poland
54 euros for three days with camping

Daily capacity: 15,000

Last updated: Wed 12th Jun 2013

Now in its eighth year, the OFF Festival is held in Dolina Trzech Stawow, 'Three Lake Valley', Katowice, Poland from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th August 2013. Growing in prominence year on year with this year's event promising one of the strongest line-ups to date in line with organiser Artur Rojek's forward-thinking, eclectic music policy. From the alternative music acts from around the world to the increasingly strong Polish scene, OFF festival will showcase for 15,000 attendees over one hundred acts across four stages.

Line-up

Latest additions are The Soft Moon, 1926, Trupa Trupa, Peter J. Birch & The River Boat Band, Ampacity, Semantik Punk, and Teenagers.

They join Smashing Pumpkins, Austra, My Bloody Valentine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Skalpel, Girls Against Boys, Goat, Mykki Blanco, The Haxan Cloak, The Walkmen, The Pop Group, Thee Oh Sees, AlunaGeorge, Blondes, Super Girl & Romantic Boys, Très.B, Bisz/B.O.K Band, Deerhunter, Laurel Halo, Metz, Merchandise, Jens Lekman, Molesta Ewenement performs Skandal, Mikal Cronin, Solange, Zbigniew Wodecki with Mitch & Mitch Orchestra and Choir, Fucked Up, Julia Holter, Guardian Alien, Buke And Gase, John Talabot, Shackleton, UL/KR, Hera, Gowno, Hokei, Frozen Bird, Brutal Truth, Japandroids, Woods, Cloud Nothings, The Skull Defekts feat. Daniel Higgs, Dope Body, Fire!, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Autre Ne Veut, Glass Animals, Rudi Zygadlo, Holy Other, Stara Rzeka, Babadag, Fuka Lata, We Draw A, Nite Jewel and Peanut Butter Wolf perform Kraftwerk's Computer World Computer, Fatima Al Qadiri, Drekoty, Magnificent Muttley, Nathalie And The Loners, Rebeka, Sam Amidon, Veronica Falls, John Grant, How How, and Cass McCombs.

OFF Festival is about more than just music. It also features a number of accompanying events: film, art, performance and poetry. It's also an event which keeps the environment in mind - all food and drinks come in environmentally-friendly packaging and there is a big emphasis on recycling. It's a completely safe place, an event where diverse tastes and appearances are welcomed and where everyone is the same because everyone is different.

Tickets

The early bird offer ended. A three day camping ticket is priced at 54 euros, or 45 euros for 3 days without camping. To buy tickets, click here.

Camping

Please note that camping, at the Festival Village which offers sanitation, food, and drink, will not be sold this year separately - unless there is space available when the festival starts.

Getting there

There are regular cheap flights to from the UK and Europe to Katowice. Arriving at Katowice/Pyrzowice airport - take the bus marked "Lotnisko" to the Katowice train station (Dworzec PKP) and then transfer to one of the below lines.

Buses from Katowice train station (Dworzec PKP):
- to the Muchowiec airport (OFF Festival grounds) - lines 0 and 50.
- to the Trzy Stawy bus stop (shopping center, 500 meters from the festival grounds) - lines 10, 110, 672, 674, and 910.

More information will be here when available.