Rewire 2025

Shaka Hislop · December 10, 2024

First names are out for next years lineup. Anyone on here been before? Problem I find with these set ups is you often spend half your time queueing to get into venues. Is it well organized?

noisenoiseandmorenoise · December 12, 2024

I've been the last few years and yes queuing can be a problem.

Annoyingly queuing is also not as big a problem as it appears. Quite a few venues don't keep their doors open between acts so sometimes things look busy but it is more that nobody has entered yet.

Anyway if you like this sort of music, it is fantastic. The city is small enough to make everything easy to navigate and the side events (exhibitions, talks, movies) give depth to the festival.

LBare · January 21, 2025

Bought my ticket yesterday. First time at this festival!

@noisenoiseandmorenoise Do you have any practical advice?

I'm very excited!

noisenoiseandmorenoise · January 23, 2025

On 1/21/2025 at 9:16 AM, LBare said:

Bought my ticket yesterday. First time at this festival!

@noisenoiseandmorenoise Do you have any practical advice?

I'm very excited!

Great! It is a very friendly, welcoming festival! A few things come to mind but let me know if you have specific questions.

If you have must -sees, try to coordinate your timetable around getting to them 15-20 minutes early. A bit annoying but it avoids any queue risk. Though as I mentioned above, a queue may also mean that they simply didn't open the venue yet so if you see lines of people, don't immediately give up. This is especially the case with the theatres.

If you are more flexible in terms of what you want to see, you can double-up on venues (assuming they use the usual ones). Koninklijke Schouwburg to Amare and Korzo to Koorenhuis are both under 10 minutes walk so you can go back and forth. That said , everything is walkable but going from one end of the city centre to the other gets a bit much by Sunday .

Paard gets busy in the evening but this is because they have security checks on the door and it is a hang-out spot for Dutch one-dayers. Take that into account if there is something you want to see (it will take longer to enter). The main venue in there is rarely full but you have a lot of drifters at the back.

The Grey Space In The Middle is the festival hub and nice to hang around during the day (there is an excellent bookstore present, records, merch and talks). It has a basement club where they have more experimental electro and djs. Worth visiting at least once.

The side programs are pretty interesting and if you don't know the city, they use small galleries so it is a good way to explore.

LBare · January 24, 2025

16 hours ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

Great! It is a very friendly, welcoming festival! A few things come to mind but let me know if you have specific questions.

If you have must -sees, try to coordinate your timetable around getting to them 15-20 minutes early. A bit annoying but it avoids any queue risk. Though as I mentioned above, a queue may also mean that they simply didn't open the venue yet so if you see lines of people, don't immediately give up. This is especially the case with the theatres.

If you are more flexible in terms of what you want to see, you can double-up on venues (assuming they use the usual ones). Koninklijke Schouwburg to Amare and Korzo to Koorenhuis are both under 10 minutes walk so you can go back and forth. That said , everything is walkable but going from one end of the city centre to the other gets a bit much by Sunday .

Paard gets busy in the evening but this is because they have security checks on the door and it is a hang-out spot for Dutch one-dayers. Take that into account if there is something you want to see (it will take longer to enter). The main venue in there is rarely full but you have a lot of drifters at the back.

The Grey Space In The Middle is the festival hub and nice to hang around during the day (there is an excellent bookstore present, records, merch and talks). It has a basement club where they have more experimental electro and djs. Worth visiting at least once.

The side programs are pretty interesting and if you don't know the city, they use small galleries so it is a good way to explore.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply!

The information you mentioned are already very useful and will help me a lot in organising my weekend. Where possible (e.g. opening day) I have already bought separate tickets.

I don't have any specific questions. My idea is to try and enjoy the festival to the fullest and see shows in as many locations as possible. Same for the city. it is actually my first time in Den Haag and so I will try to get to know the city the best I can (I have already started making a list of galleries, bars and restaurants 🙂).