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.

2004

& Gomm.

2005

& Sum 41.

2006

, Goldfrapp, Muse, The Kooks & Second Sex.

2007

, Ayọ, The Sunshiners, Indochine, Air & Peter von Poehl.

2008

, 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

, 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

, 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

, Larry Graham et Mint Condition

2011

Main Stage

, 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

, 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

2013

, 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
;July 3
;July 4
;July 5

2017

;30 June
;1 July
;2 July
;6 July
;7 July
;8 July