Provinssirock

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Provinssirock is one of the biggest rock festivals in Finland. It takes place in the city of Seinäjoki in Southern Ostrobothnia, Western Finland. The two- or three-day festival, which starts the busy Finnish rock festival season, has been held every June since 1979.^[1]

The 2007 festival had a combined three-day total crowd of 55,000. In 2008 Provinssirock was organised on 13-15 June, and was sold out with a combined three-day total of 75,000 attendees watching bands and rock artists such as Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Nightwish, The Sounds, Billy Talent and Serj Tankian.^[2] Provinssirock was also sold out in 2011, when there were over 84,000 attendees. Headliners were System of a Down, Avenged Sevenfold and Pendulum.

International performers that have previously performed at Provinssirock include:

• Alice in Chains
• Tori Amos
• As I Lay Dying
• Big Country
• Children of Bodom
• Bring Me the Horizon
• David Bowie
• Chimaira
• The Cult
• The Cure
• The Pogues
• De La Soul
• Dream Theater
• Faithless
• Faith No More
• Garbage
• Hatebreed
• HIM
• Hüsker Dü
• Kent
• Lamb of God
• Limp Bizkit
• Lou Reed
• Macklemore
• Manic Street Preachers
• Marilyn Manson
• Massive Attack
• Nine Inch Nails
• Paramore
• Placebo
• Iggy Pop
• The Prodigy
• Rage Against the Machine
• Rammstein
• The Ramones
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• R.E.M.
• Scissor Sisters
• Patti Smith
• The Stone Roses
• Suede
• System of a Down
• Tool
• Turbonegro
• Weezer
• Within Temptation

Media related to Provinssirock at Wikimedia Commons

• Homepage
• List of musicians and bands at Provinssirock (in Finnish)
• Provinssirock 2012 on Choose Fest

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