NH7 Weekender Festival
Amazing live performances by artists from India and around the world, a bustling bazaar where you can get local finds, fashions and foods, fascinating (and oh-so-Instagrammable) art installations, and much more with an unmistakable vibe to boot! One great weekend, a lifetime of memories. Well that what www.insider.in told us. I would say what they say is still too less to express with words.
NH7 Weekender Festival is once in a lifetime offer which people can avail who live near the venue. But who knows? There were many people from all around the globe just to see their favourite band play. It’s not any music festival, it’s a festival of Rock Music.
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History of NH7 Weekender
NH7 Weekender is an annual, multi-city music festival in India. Conceptualised, produced and organised by Only Much Louder (OML Entertainment), the event is one of the largest music festivals in India, with an annual attendance across the editions of over 100,000. The festival, held between October and December, travels to multiple cities, with the flagship event in Pune. Other cities that have hosted the Weekender include Noida, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Shillong. The festival is noted for its divergent artistic lineup and hosts a large number of established and emerging local artists alongside major international acts.
The genesis of the festival dates back to 2009, when British music executive Stephen Budd was in Mumbai judging the Indian leg of the British Council’s Young Music Entrepreneur Awards and met Vijay Nair, CEO of Only Much Louder. Nair came to UK the following year and was introduced by Budd to Martin Elboune, best-known for booking the Glastonbury Festival. The three of them subsequently came together to fund and create the first NH7 Weekender that was held in Pune in December 2010.
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Highlights of NH7 Weekender 2018:
Day-wise Lineup
Day 1: Friday, 7 December
God Is An Astronaut, The Contortionist, Salim-Sulaiman Live, Mahesh Kale, Benny Dayal and Funktuation, Mohini Dey, sleepmakeswaves, aswekeepsearching, Ankur and the Ghalat Family
Across Seconds, Tarqeeb, Blushing Satellite, Corridors (Live), Hashback Hashish Live, Lacuna, Ladies Compartment, Paper Queen, Pineapple Express, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Shadow and Light, The Twin Effect
Ashish Shakya, Kavin Jay, Navin Noronha, Neeti Palta, Nishant Suri, Saurav Mehta, Urooj Ashfaq
Day 2: Saturday, 8 December
Joe Satriani, The Local Train, West Thebarton, Dualist Inquiry, Ritviz, Sapta Ape Echoes, Burudu, DCF_SHAPES, Dewdrops, DOE, Fame the Band, I M U R, Jay Abo, Kimochi Youkai, Komorebi, Lagori, Louise Burns, Sandunes Live, Tanya Nambiar, The Kush Upadhyay Group, When Chai Met Toast
Aishwarya Mohanraj, Kaneez Surka, Kunal Rao, Niveditha Prakasam, Prashasti Singh, Rohan Joshi, Sumit Anand, Zakir Khan
Day 3: Sunday, 9 December
FKJ, Shubha Mudgal, Nightmares On Wax, Bhuvan Bam, House of Waters, Parvaaz
Aditi Ramesh, Alif, Alok Babu aka All.OK, Carl and the Reda Mafia, Cinema of Excess, DNKLE, Gurbax, Kumail (Live), Rafiki, ROE, Smalltalk, Smokey, The LaFontaines, Worldservice Project, Nothing Anonymous, The Yellow Diary
Biswa Kalyan Rath, Kumar Varun, Punya Arora, Radhika Vaz, Rahul Dua, Sapan Verma, Sonali Thakker, Sumaira Shaikh
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Article By Aditya Grover