Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Ankkarock 2006

Ankkarock 2006 has ended. This years’ last real festival gathered over 32 000 visitors to Korso, 17 000 on Saturday and 15 000 on Sunday.

Sunday evening’s grande finale was Children Of Bodoms special show with spectacular pyrotechnics and traditional fireworks. Festivals other headliners Ministry, Turbonegro, Flogging Molly, CKY and Dropkick Murphys were to mention a few. In addition of Children Of Bodom, the most popular Finnish bands were PMMP, Hanoi Rocks, Disco Ensemble and Apulanta.

-We are really satisfied with this years’ Ankkarock. There were more people than we expected and everything has gone as planned. Dispite of extremely warm weather, there were no problems with crowd safety. We also made hard work to get The Rasmus perform here and both organizers and crowd seemed to be pleased with the show on Sunday afternoon, said promoter Juhani Merimaa.

Ankkarock wants to thank all visitors, bands and staff. See you next year!


Pictures from Ankkarock 2006 can be found from the
Ankkarock 2006 picture gallery.