Rock am Ring (Rock in the Ring) and Rock im Park (Rock in the Park) are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually in Germany and broadcast live on MTV.
While Rock am Ring takes place at the Nürburgring racetrack in the west of Germany, Rock im Park takes place in and around the Frankenstadion in Nürnberg, in the south east of Germany.
Both festivals are usually regarded as one event with a mostly identical lineup for both festivals. All artists perform one day at Nürburgring and another day at Nürnberg during the three day event.
Together Rock im Park and Rock am Ring are the largest music festivals in Germany and one of the largest in the world with a combined attendance of just over 150,000 people in 2007, selling out both events in advance for the first time.
The 2008 Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals were broadcast live in South Africa for two hours on DStv's MTV channel on Saturday 7 June 2008, from 20h00-22h00.
A half-hour edit of the two concerts aired on DStv's MTVbase channel on Wednesday 10 September 2008, at 22h30.
2008 Festival
The 2008 festival took place on 6-8 June 2008. It was the 22nd edition of the Rock am Ring concert.
The following acts performed:
3 Doors Down
36 Crazyfists
Against Me!
Airbourne
Alpha Galates
Alter Bridge
Animal Alpha
Babyshambles
Bad Religion
Bedouin Soundclash
Black Dahlia Murder
Black Stone Cherry
Black Tide
Bloodlights
Booka Shade
Bullet For My Valentine
CSS
Cavalera Conspiracy
Chiodos
Coheed & Cambria
Culcha Candela
Danko Jones
Die Toten Hosen
Dimmu Borgir
Disco Ensemble
Disturbed
Eagles of Death Metal
EL*KE
Fair To Midland
Fettes Brot
Fiction Plane
Filter
Finger Eleven
From First To Last
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Rossdale
High On Fire
HIM
Hot Chip
In Case Of Fire
In Flames
Incubus
Infadels
Jimmy Eat World
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Johnossi
Jonathan Davis
Justice
Kate Nash
Kid Rock
Kill Hannah
Lostprophets
Madsen
Manic Street Preachers
Masters of Reality
Metallica
Motörhead
Nightwish
Oomph!
Opeth
Paramore
Pete Murray
Queens Of The Stone Age
Rafael Weber
Rage Against the Machine
Rival Schools
Roisin Murphy
Rooney
Rose Tattoo
Saul Williams
Saxon
Seether
Serj Tankian
Silverstein
Simple Plan
Söhne Mannheims
Sonic Syndicate
Sportfreunde Stiller
Stereophonics
Steriogram
Takida
The Fall of Troy
The Fratellis
The Futureheads
The Hellacopters
The Offspring
The Prodigy
The Streets
The Verve
Tokyo Police Club
Turisas
ZOX