Main Square Festival
The Main Square Festival is an annual international music festival organized by Live Nation which takes place in the first week-end of July in Arras, France. Created in 2004 by France Leduc Productions, the festival rose to one of the major music events of the country, attracting worldwide famous bands and stars like Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Muse, Indochine or Metallica.
| Main Square Festival | |
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 Aerial view of the festival site (c.2012) | |
| Genre | Rock, indie rock, alternative rock, electronic, pop |
| Dates | 1st weekend in July |
| Location(s) | Arras, France
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| Years active | 2004–present |
| Founded by | France Leduc Productions |
| Website | Festival Website |
2005
Kyo & Sum 41.
2006
Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Muse, The Kooks & Second Sex.
2007
Tryo, Ayọ, The Sunshiners, Indochine, Air & Peter von Poehl.
2008
Celine Dion, The Chemical Brothers, Justice, Underworld, Boys Noize, 2 Many DJ's, Mika, The Kooks, BB Brunes, The Hoosiers, Digitalism, Panic! at the Disco, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, The Dø, The Wombats & Vampire Weekend.
2009
Coldplay, The Ting Tings, Amy Macdonald, M. Ward, Kanye West, Lily Allen, Phoenix, Birdy Nam Nam, Ace Out, Yuksek, Boys Noize, Placebo, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Gossip, Ghinzu, Expatriate, Crookers, Lenny Kravitz, Moby, Franz Ferdinand, Duffy, Katy Perry, Justin Nozuka & Michael Franti.
2010
Main Square Festival
The Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta, Jamiroquai, Pony Pony Run Run, La Roux, Vitalic, The Bloody Beetroots, Curry & Coco, Something A La mode, Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, M, Phoenix, Coheed and Cambria, Julian Casablancas, Gomez, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, TV Glory, Gush, Angus & Julia Stone, Hawkins, Art Point M, Rammstein, Pink, Gossip, Stereophonics, Florence and the Machine, Yeasayer, Skip The Use, The Bewitched hands, Patrick Watson & Delphic.
Main Square Special
Prince, Larry Graham et Mint Condition
2011
Main Stage
The Chemical Brothers, Linkin Park, Queens Of The Stone Age, Limp Bizkit, Shaka Ponk, The Gaslight Anthem, The Pretty Reckless, Moby, Arcade Fire, The National, Kaiser Chiefs, White Lies, Yodelice, Triggerfinger, Coldplay, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Elbow, Bruno Mars, Charles Bradley, Rival Sons
Greenroom
Martin Solveig, Beady Eye, Eels, Selah Sue, Tame Impala, Jenny & Johnny, Warpaint, Welling Walrus, The Shoes, Kasabian, Two Door Cinema Club, Jimmy Eat World, Fleet Foxes, Aloe Blacc, Everything Everything, Mai, Underworld, Magnetic Man, Cold War Kids, Julian Perretta, Puggy, I Blame Coco, Evaline, Manceau
2012
| Friday 29 June | Saturday 30 June | Sunday 1 July | |
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2013
Green Day, The Hives, Biffy Clyro, The Prodigy, Bloc Party, Sting, Indochine, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Modestep, Netsky, Mike + The Mechanics, Alt-J, Damien Saez, Of Monsters and Men, Madeon, Stereophonics, Lou Doillon, Modest Mouse
2014
- July 3
- July 4
- July 5
- July 6
2015
- July 3
- Lenny Kravitz
- Shaka Ponk
- The Script
- Hozier
- George Ezra
- Rone
- Lindsey Stirling
- Kodaline
- Patrice
- Sheppard
- July 4
- Muse
- Skip the Use
- Royal Blood
- Madeon
- Fakear (Live)
- James Bay
- BØRNS
- Circa Waves
- July 5
- Pharrell Williams
- Sam Smith
- Mumford & Sons
- Lilly Wood and the Prick
- IAM
- The Avener
- Tiken Jah Fakoly
- Oscar & The Wolf
- Rudimental (Live)
- ILoveMakonnen
2016
| 1 July | 2 July | 3 July | |
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| Main Stage | Disclosure Iggy Pop Louise Attaque Ellie Goulding Jake Bugg |
Birdy Nam Nam Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Offspring Walk off the Earth Mass Hysteria Lonely the Brave |
Les Insus Editors Ghinzu Band of Horses Last Train The Struts |
| Greenroom | Boys Noize Flume Jeanne Added Yelawolf The London Souls Cayman Kings |
Salut C'est Cool Nekfeu X Ambassadors Marina Kaye Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Bear's Den Cardri |
Odesza Years & Years L.E.J A-Vox Tiggs Da Author Evrest |
2017
- 30 June
- System of a Down
- Above & Beyond
- Biffy Clyro
- Soulwax
- Vitalic ODC (Live)
- Machine Gun Kelly
- Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
- Don Broco
- The Inspector Cluzo
- The Noface
- 1 July
- Major Lazer
- Die Antwoord
- Kungs
- Jain
- Kaleo
- Dirtyphonics
- Xavier Rudd
- Rag'n'Bone Man
- Vald
- Cage the Elephant
- Talisco
- Walking on Cars
- 2 July
- Radiohead
- Savages
- Seasick Steve
- La Femme
- Mark Lanegan Band
- Highly Suspect
- Thylacine
- The Lemon Twigs
- Naive New Beaters
- Spoon
- Kensington
2018
- 6 July
- 7 July
- Depeche Mode
- Liam Gallagher
- Oscar & The Wolf
- Feder
- The Blaze
- BB Brunes
- Wolf Alice
- 8 July