Where is the festival "Invasion" - the main musical event in the world of domestic rock music?

Rock festival "Invasion" - one of the mostsignificant musical events for fans of domestic rock music. Since 1999, every year on the stage of the festival are the most famous and beloved by millions of rock bands and performers. The history and organizers, where the festival "Invasion" takes place and in what its features - all this will be considered in the article.

With what began "Invasion"

One of the organizers is a radio station"Our Radio", which with the help of the first festival decided to celebrate its birthday in 1999. Passed this action in the winter in Moscow, in the Palace of Culture of Gorbunov in the format of a concert. The musicians who liked the listeners for the year of the radio station's existence were performing - the group "Bi-2" and "Semantic hallucinations", Zemfira.

The development of the festival

The year is over, and where the rock festival takes place"Invasion"? In summer, on an open platform in Ramenskoye, at the racetrack. The event has already gathered more than 60 thousand fans of Russian rock. Since then, the festival has been held as a summer open-air. The exception for the whole history of the event was 2003, when due to the terrorist act at the music festival "Wings" the event was canceled. Performances of the announced musicians were held in direct radio air.

Already in 2005 the festival program becametake 3 days, and the number of participants has grown so much that the organizers had to do three scenes. One (main) stage is intended for the famous headliners of the event, and the remaining two are for young and still unknown to the general public teams. Thus the festival gives start to many beginning musicians and supports their aspirations. The international ambitions of the organizers led to the fact that in the same year the event is expanding to Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata, Bayserk airfield), where the "Invasion" festival is held, duplicating the Russian event. However, there were no more such experiments in the history of the event.

2008 became a landmark, when more than one hundred thousandpeople visited the rock festival "Invasion". The description of the participants shows that the organizers managed to bring the event to a new level. Important problems were solved: insufficient number of toilets, ill-will of law enforcement bodies, lack of food points. But in the village of Emmaus, where the festival "Invasion" is held in 2008, in the days of the event - torrential rain. For this reason, the festival site became like a mud marsh, in which transport with equipment and artists was stuck.

To avoid an unpleasant embarrassment eventmoved to Bolshoy Zavidovo, which is in the Tver region. This is the place where the festival "Invasion-2009" and all subsequent events will take place. The territory has a drainage system and a much larger area. This is a full-fledged festival area.

The main summer adventure

It is under this slogan that the event takes place inlast years. It is a classical open-air festival where spectators live in tents and enjoy the performances of their favorite musicians from morning till late night. It is noteworthy that from the scenes you can hear representatives of different genres of Russian rock: from folk to metal. In the area of ​​the event, the Internet works, there is a cafe, sports zones and showers, rent of tents and sleeping bags, parking. At night, you can visit a disco or film show, and in the morning - charging. Traditionally, on the last day of the event, an air show takes place, if weather conditions contribute to this.

How to get on the "Invasion"?

The place where the "Invasion-2017" festival will be held,will remain unchanged, but every year the organizers improve the conditions and on the official website inform about the updated rules of the event (for example, tickets in 2017 will be registered, and the flags will not be carried to the fan zone territory at the moment). There you can buy tickets. The sale of tickets begins in advance, there are several categories that differ in cost and options.

"Invasion" is held on the first Friday of July. Spectators can get to the festival on Thursday and live on the territory until Monday. Old-timers of the festival come on Wednesday and spend the night outside the territory of the event.

To get to Greater Zavid you can be personaltransport (place in the parking lot also need to buy in advance), a special bus or even a helicopter. During the festival there is a special train from Moscow, with a pass to which is a ticket for the event. Your travel should be planned taking into account that the flow of people to the festival will make you stand in traffic or in line.

Instead of conclusions

For its history, "Invasion" became a referenceThe event, which can be equaled to all novice organizers of musical festivals. Thanks to the number of popular artists performing on one stage, perhaps, this is the most ambitious and high-quality event that all fans of Russian rock are dreaming to get. Now you know where the festival "Invasion" is, you only need to buy a ticket.