Paleo Festival 2016

Paleo Festival is an annual rock festival held in Nyon, Switzerland, between Geneva and Lausanne, with the Jura mountains as a backdrop. The 40th Paléo Festival Nyon will be held from Tuesday 19th to Sunday 24th July 2016.

The festival offers six days and nights of festivities over 84 hecatres, 230,000 spectators expected, over 170 concerts and shows taking place on six stages, and a total of 180 food, drink and craft stalls on site, Paléo Festival Nyon is easily the biggest open-air festival in Switzerland and one of Europe's major musical events.

Line-up

Tuesday: Muse, The Lumineers, Boys Noize Live, AaRON, Courtney Barnett, KiKu & Blixa Bargeld & Black Cracker, Grand Blanc, Last Train, Feldermelder plays Erratic, We Are Match, The Deaf, Antipods, The Rapparees, and Anach Cuan.

Wednesday: Iron Maiden, Louise Attaque, Eluveitie, Steve 'N' Seagulls, Synapson, The Raven Age, J.C. Satàn, Promethee, Coilguns, Sarah W. Papsun, Egopusher, Pandour live, LiA, Carlos Núñez, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, and Happy Ol'McWeasel.

Thursday: Francis Cabrel, Massive Attack, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Birdy Nam Nam, Stephan Eicher und die Automaten, Marina Kaye, Jain, Hyphen Hyphen, Nattali Rize, Alex Beaupain, The Teo, Le Roi Angus, L'Entourloop, Tatum Rush, Sharon Shannon Band, Denez, and Les Frères Guichen.

Friday: Les Insus (ex Telephone), Bastille, Lilly Wood & The Prick, Deluxe, GiedRé, The Avener, Caribbean Dandee : Joey Starr & Nathy, Balthazar, Vianney, Ocean Wisdom, Rover, Throes + The Shine, Pihpoh, DBFC, The Celtic Social Club, Krismenn & Alem, and Danceperados of Ireland.

Saturday: The Chemical Brothers, Alain Souchon & Laurent Voulzy, Bigflo & Oli, Fréro Delavega, Abd Al Malik, Fakear, The Shoes, Soom T, Guizmo, The Animen, Flavien Berger, Mansfield TYA, Aliose, Jas Crw, Simpig, Altan, Turbo Sans Visa, and Krismenn & Alem.

Sunday: Michel Polnareff, Louane, Ibrahim Maalouf, Thomas Dutronc, D'Jal in "Just D'Jal", Sinfonietta de Lausanne, Conducted by Alexander Mayer - Clarinets: Corrado Giuffredi and Cindy Lin, theAngelcy, A-Wa, Mbongwana Star, 3Somesisters, mps PILOT, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Vouipe, Alan Stivell, The Real McKenzies, and Bagad Karaez.

Tickets

Tickets just like last year's event sold out in just a few hours.

Facilities

As it is Switzerland then there are the clean, flushing loos and highly organised camping.

Camping

The campsite is open from midday on Monday until midday the following Monday. Access is limited to festival ticket and pass holders. 4, 5 and 6-day passes is also valid as an access pass to the Camping. Children and young people under the age of 16 who are not accompanied by an adult are not admitted to the campsite.

Getting there

The Festival is situated in Nyon, Switzerland, between Geneva and Lausanne. The site is close to the motorway exits of Nyon (11) if you are travelling from Geneva and Gland (12) if coming from Lausanne. The site is also served by decent bus transport and the railway station (L 'Asse stop) which is situated very near the main entrance (train Nyon - St-Cergue - La Cure).

More information will be here when available.

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