Mixed Fortunes For Polish Fests

Poland’s Open’er Festival looks to have had an excellent year, reporting an average of more than 45,000 on site each day, while the 8-year-old Orange Warsaw had another difficult year.

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Open’er, which seems to be surviving the departure of former main sponsor Heineneken, claimed a total four-day crowd of 185,000. The figures suggest the festival, which is on the country’s Baltic coast at Gdynia, has bounced back.

In 2014, its first year without the major brewer’s backing, the crowd fell around 40 percent to a little more than 30,000 per day. The July 1-4 lineup included Kasabian, Mumford & Sons, Drake, Tom Odell, Modest Mouse, Disclosure, Alabama Shakes, and Years & Years. Orange Warsaw June 12-14, which had Muse, Paloma Faith, The Chemical Brothers, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Bastille, and Papa Roach, had a slow start but appears to have picked up as the festival went on.

The event, which is run by major TV show and event producer Rochstar, reportedly had only 8,000 on the opening day, but the second had 12,000 and the third had 30,000.