Booming bass, sunshine and hardly any masks: After years of forced Corona break, tens of thousands of fans celebrated the comeback of the cult festival “Rock am Ring”. “People are greedy for fun and joy,” said a police spokesman shortly after the start on Friday afternoon at the Nürburgring racetrack in the Eifel.
Booming bass, sunshine and hardly any masks: After years of forced Corona break, tens of thousands of fans celebrated the comeback of the cult festival “Rock am Ring”. “People are greedy for fun and joy,” said a police spokesman shortly after the start on Friday afternoon at the Nürburgring racetrack in the Eifel.
Skimpy summer clothes, colorful hats and kilts: a huge crowd cheered the German alternative rock band Donots as the first group on the main stage. Their frontman Ingo demanded “that the whole damn place jumps”: tens of thousands of fans jumped and jumped and jumped on the asphalt.
Record number of visitors
The new organizers of “Rock am Ring” spoke of a visitor record with 90,000 fans at the spectacle with around 70 bands on three stages at the Nürburgring. At the same time, the twin festival “Rock im Park” was to take place in Nuremberg with largely the same musicians.
At the legendary Nürburgring in the green mountains of the Eifel, the Italian Eurovision Song Contest winning band Måneskin (2021) and the US punk rock formation Green Day, among others, were expected on the main stage on Friday. A police spokesman spoke on Friday afternoon of normal, intensive arrival traffic. There were initially no major incidents.
The “Rock am Ring” open-air festival, which was launched in 1985, and the “Rock im Park”, which was added later, were to go on stage with other headliners such as Muse and Volbeat until Whit Sunday.
