- BOOM festival - Portugal

The dates of the 8th edition of Boom Festival due to occur in 2010 are revealed. August 18th to the 26th in sync with the full moon.

The Boom Team is now in a brainstorming stage. We are evaluating all areas of the festival with a strong conviction for improvement. The main guidelines for 2010 are set and the whole concept and cultural approach are materializing.
All updates will be revealed through the Boom website.

We’ve been hearing crazy rumours for years but they are all wrong. Sorry dudes! That Boom was about to move to Brazil was the first rumour that cropped up – we estimate around 2002.

Then in 2004, a new gossip was going on: Boom would be held in Spain. More recently, we’ve been getting emails from people that want to book their flights to the beautiful and astonishing Azores archipelago as apparently the next Boom will be there. Noooop...

We make it clear from now on: Boom is geographically based in Portugal but is a collaborative project made by people from all around the world - Europeans, Northern and Southern Americans, Asians and Africans, or Aussies. Unless someone finds us a way of holding it on a psychedelic spaceship that would cross dimensions, we’ll stay here on the same latitude, in this laid-back country on the Western side of Europe, on the verge of Europe, Africa and the American continent.

o more than 26 000 people will attend Boom Festival 2010. No more tickets, as we don’t want to become an overcrowded and mainstream festival. We are already planning better infrastructures for the comfort of all the Boomers, where space and cosiness will be felt.

We’ll upgrade our music and art program, line ups will be released sooner than in previous years, and we’ll emphasize new facilities on the sanitary and ecological level. Ways of dealing with the entrance is another concern we are faced with and which we are now thinking about how to improve so that people don’t have to wait for so long to get in.
Similarly to some of you, we felt some of the magic lost due to overcrowding and we are working towards the revival of the spirit that was always felt at Boom… Keep updated through the Boom website.