“The biggest, most popular and most comprehensively staged music festival of its kind in the world” – LA Times
“It's rather difficult to imagine a festival getting any more momentous” – GQ India
“The biggest, most popular and most comprehensively staged music festival of its kind in the world” – LA Times
The gates of De Schorre have closed again for another year on Tomorrowland, with 180,000 revellers all safely returned to their 75 respective countries – and what a year it was! Not only did people flock from all over the world to witness musical highlights from David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, Avicii, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and 445 others, they were also treated to the most jaw-dropping stage designs ever seen.
The colossal main stage, which stood at almost 150 metres long and weighed more than any other stage in the world at 138 tonnes this year, represented a giant fairy-tale bookcase. Complete with intricate detail, giant movable LED display book and surprises hidden in every sleeve – the main stage surpassed all expectations! In addition to this there were waterfalls, the world’s tallest portable ferris wheel, performers, fireworks and 75 hectares of custom-made props to explore across the festival site.
Another new addition for 2012 was the much-lauded Tomorrowland TV, which launched for the first time ever to overwhelming demand! Broadcasting for 7 hours a day from each day of the festival, the live stream clocked up an astonishing 7,933,661 views! This makes Tomorrowland TV the most watched electronic music event EVER on YouTube and one of the highest viewed music events in the world. In addition to this the YouTube page alone attracted over 600,000 separate comments via Google+, Facebook and Twitter.
“The amount of people around the world watching Tomorrowland TV is beyond anything we could have hoped for. Some of the countries with the most viewers included Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and the USA, this really shows the international appeal of the festival” said Michiel Beers, co-founder of Tomorrowland. “This makes us even more excited to continue what we started next year, I look forward to revealing the dates of the 2013 edition!”
Fear not, this won’t be the last you’ll see of Tomorrowland 2012…there’s the small matter of its official after-movie. Having smashed every record in sight with 2011’s version with almost 46 million views, this year’s will take things to the next level and will go live at the end of August.
Flux BPM Online and 1mix radio were present as press at Tomorrowland 2012 so you can expect soon on this site and on 1mix site as well:
-Report for the whole 3 days with the elements that stand out for us at Tomorrowland 2012
-Video interviews with Tomorrowland spokeperson and Belgian journalist about the coverage of the event and in what elements they particularly focus on.
-Video interviews with artists that performed at Tomorrowland incl: Norin & Rad, Tritonal, Tenishia, Super 8 & Tab, Gregori Klosman, M.I.K.E, Johan Gielen, Myon & Shane 54 and Sean Tyas.
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