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General Information
The name Southside derives from the English “south side” and refers to Southern Germany where the festival takes place. Festival organizers are FKP Scorpio and KOKO & DTK Entertainment. The festival site consists of 800,000 square meters of former military and airport precincts and features four stages. The festival first took place on the former military airport of Neubiberg (Munich) with approximately 15,000 visitors. In 2002, the number of visitors had risen to 30,000 and kept rising up to 60,000 at present day. The revenue for one festival weekend, according to the organizers, amounts to between five and ten million euros. The paramedic service is provided by the Malteser Hilfsdienst, the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (regional association Bodensee-Oberschwaben ) and the German Red Cross. Throughout the entire weekend, around 400 helpers do approximately 12,000 hours of work. Crowd surfing is strictly against the festival’s safety policy.

History
The Southside Festival first took place in 1999 as a counterpart to the Hurricane Festival. In 2000, it was moved to Neuhausen ob Eck. Recurring musical acts included:


 * Queens of the Stone Age (1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2013)
 * Flogging Molly (2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017)
 * The Sounds (2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014)
 * Billy Talent (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2018)
 * Beatsteaks (2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010)
 * Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2002, 2004, 2008, 2015, 2018)
 * NOFX (2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018)

2008
In 2008, the festival took place from June 20th to June 22nd. It sold out at around 50,000 tickets and registered a new visitor record. The number of visitors and the hot weather led to a water shortage on Sunday at 11 am.

Musical acts on all three stages consisted of:


 * Apoptygma Berzerk, Bat for Lashes, Beatsteaks, Bell X1, Biffy Clyro, Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, British Sea Power, Calexico, Deichkind, Die Mannequin, Digitalism, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Donots, Elbow, Enter Shikari, Flogging Molly, Foals, Foo Fighters, Jaguar Love, Jan Delay & Disko No 1, Jason Mraz, Jennifer Rostock, Johnny Foreigner, Kaiser Chiefs, Kettcar, Krieger, Madsen, Maxïmo Park, Millencolin, Monster Magnet, Nada Surf, NOFX, Oceansize, Operator Please, Panic! at the Disco, Panteón Rococó, Patrice, Paul Heaton, Radiohead, Razorlight, Rise Against, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar, Shy Guy At The Show, Sigur Rós, Slut, Tegan and Sara, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Beautiful Girls, The Chemical Brothers, The Cribs, The Enemy, The Flyer, The Kooks, The Notwist, The Pigeon Detectives, The Subways, The Weakerthans, The Wombats, Tocotronic, Turbostaat, Wrongkong, Xavier Rudd.

In addition, the quarterfinals of the UEFA Euro 2008 were broadcasted on the big screen.

2009
In 2009, the Southside Festival took place from June 19 to June 21. After increasing the capacity to 55,000 visitors, the festival was not sold out with 50,000 visitors. The headliners were Die Ärzte, Kings of Leon and Faith No More.

2010
The Southside Festival 2010, which took place from June 18 to June 20, was sold out with 50,000 visitors. According to the organizer, it would have been possible to sell 100,000 tickets – two times more visitors than the terrain could hold.[19] For the first time a fourth stage, called “White Stage”, got introduced. This tent complemented the main stage (“Green Stage”), the side stage (“Blue Stage“) and the second tent („Red Stage). In the late afternoon, Electro music was played in this tent. The motto of the second, new tent was “Electric Circus”. Headliner of the 2010 festival were Billy Talent, The Strokes, Massive Attack, Mando Diao, The Prodigy, Deichkind and Beatsteaks. With a big screen, the organizer made a broadcast of the FIFA World Cup possible. Due to continuous rain the entire camping and festival terrain turned into mud. In the night of the 17th to the 18th  June, an event of heavy rain (percipitation: 80 l/m²) required an array of workers, iron sheets, over 500m² of wood chips and several semi-trailers of hay, as well as heavy technical equipment to make both entries to the festival terrain passable again.

In addition, the period reached cold temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius. For this reason, the community opened the Homburghalle, and many residents provided private accommodation and showers. On the day of departure, many vehicles got stuck in the mud and had to be salvaged by farmers with their tractors. Furthermore, the Bundesstraße 311 was so slippery from the mud, which the cars brought from the meadow to the roadway, that it had to be cleaned again and again with special machines. A total of 1800 employees were employed on the grounds during the festival, including 420 paramedics and doctors, around 400 security guards and stewards, as well as stage technicians and other helpers. At the end of the events, 450 mobile toilets had to be emptied and 80,000 rubbish sacks had to be disposed of. The amount of rubbish was immense due to the weather in 2010. Since the festival visitors had left more rubbish behind this year than usual and it sank into the mud which became solid again. Some areas had to be ploughed or dug up, levelled, filled up and reseeded.

2011
Neuhausen ob Eck was the venue of the Southside Festival for the twelfth time from 17 to 19 June 2011. Two days before the line-up began, the festival was sold out with more than 50,000 visitors. For the festival 81 artists were engaged: Also in 2011, there were four stages - two open-air stages and two tent stages. On the fourth stage, called the white stage, which was usually reserved for electric acts, there were additional shows consisting out of acrobatics underlined with electronic music. Newly introduced measurements to protect the environment were, "Green Camping", CO2 reduction due to new ways of arriving at the festival and avoidance of creating paper waste. The manager of the estate park outlined at the Southside Festival in 2011, that it would be the last one for the time being. Reason for that was the weather. The previous 3 years have been rainy which resulted in the ground being completely sodden, so there was a possibility of the festival not being held for the next 2 to 3 years so the ground could regenerate. The consequences of the mud in 2010, were that the grass only could spear sparsely which is why the soil was then even more in danger. The wood chips which were spread out in front of all the stages also massively acidifies the soil. As a measurement against siltation, some places of the festival area were carpeted with plastic mats. As the festival 2011 was still going on the promoter already announced on june 19, that even though they have been having mud problems in the years of 2010 and 2011 there is again going to be a festival in Neuhausen ob Eck in 2012, no matter the weather. For this purpose a five-year contract was closed.

2012
Long before the festival two headliners for the festival in 2012 were confirmed: Blink-182, which were already supposed to perform in 2011 and Die Ärzte who already ready performed on the southside festival in the years of 2002, 2005 and 2009. Due to the siltation problem, six digit-figure sums of money were invested into the preparation of the ground. A lot of the lawns were supposed to be gravelled.

2013
The Southside Festival 2013 took place from the 21st to the 23rd of June. It was sold out, totalling 60 000 visitors.

2014
The Southside Festival 2014 started on Friday the 20th of June and ended on Sunday the 22nd.

2015
The Southside Festival 2015 took place from the 19th to the 21st of June. Line-Up:


 * Placebo, Florence + the Machine, Farin Urlaub Racing Team, Paul Kalkbrenner, Deadmau5, Marteria, Alt-J, Jan Delay & Disko No. 1, Cro, Madsen, The Gaslight Anthem, Katzenjammer, Milky Chance, LaBrassBanda, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Parov Stelar Band, Of Monsters and Men, George Ezra, NOFX, Die Antwoord, Angus & Julia Stone, Death Cab for Cutie, Alligatoah, Frittenbude, Death from Above 1979, 257ers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Irie Révoltés, Suicidal Tendencies, Future Islands, The Notwist, Counting Crows, SDP, The Cat Empire, Backyard Babies, Danko Jones, The Tallest Man on Earth, Kontra K, Olli Schulz, All Time Low, Band of Skulls, The Vaccines, Lagwagon, Millencolin, Jupiter Jones, Chet Faker, First Aid Kit, Sheppard, Kodaline, Casper, Back and Fill, Antiheld, Montreal, AronChupa, Superheld, The Mirror Trap, Oscar and the Wolf, Little May, The Bohicas, Gengahr, Nothing But Thieves, Schmutzki, SomeKindaWonderful, We Are The Ocean, Big Sean, Archive, Burning Down Alaska, uvm.

2016
The Southside Festival 2016 should have taken place from the 24th to the 26th of June. Due to severe thunderstorms after the first concerts in the early Friday evening, the festival had to be postponed. Later on, it had to be cancelled completely so that none of the headliners were able to play. Only 18 of 88 bands that were booked were able to perform. The concerts of Tom Odell, Elliphant and Flogging Molly had to be ended prematurely. 82 people were slightly injured. 25 of them were brought to the hospital in Tuttlingen while 57 could be treated on-site.

2017
The festival took place from the 23rd to the 25th of June 2017. Because of technical difficulties affecting the Green Stage, the concert of Green Day had to be paused and finally cancelled after two hours.

2018
The Southside Festival 2018 started on the 22nd of June and ended on the 24th.

2019
The festival is going to take place from the 21st to the 23rd of June 2019. As a 'Support Act' for the visitors there is going to be a 'Festival-Store' of a discounter with 2000m² of sales area. The shopping trolleys are equipped with off-road wheels to facilitate the transport of the goods on the festival site. Additional special features will be a walk-in fridge, 12 baking stations and 16 cash desks. The 200 employees were chosen from a range of 400 applicants from 6 regional companies. They will take care of the 260 articles in the store in three shifts everyday.