16. 07. 2009
Budapest [H]-Dürer kert
free:
17:00-17:30 takszihárom
17:45-18:15 tisztán a cél felé
18:30-19:00 tes [nl]
admission: 10 Euro
19:00-19:30 new dead project
19:45-20:30 chief rebel angel
21:00-22:30 propagandhi [CAN]
free:
22:30-23:00 last minute
23:15-23:45 skambulance
24:00-00:45 katéter
01:00-01:30 hisztéria
01:45-02:15 pavilionul 32 [ro]
02:30-03:00 fit fat

17. 07. 2009
Komárom [H]-Csillag erőd
10:00-14:00 Exhibitions: photo by Keszk, posters by Szoszó, fanzine, and film screeming
tent traising, we take over the fort...
14:15-14:45 grow up fuck it up
15:00-15:30 a-punk
15:45-16:15 secondhand
16:30-17:00 kultúrkör
17:15-17:45 press gang [d]
18:00-18:30 lépéselőny
18:45-19:15 random chords
19:30-20:15 exit wounds [fr]
20:30-21:15 tHE sNOBS
21:30-22:00 de generatione nostra [i]
22:15-23:00 fegyelmező részleg
23:15-24:00 wroongg!
00:15-00:45 the ignored [b]
01:00-01:30 need a nurse [b]
01:45-02:15 holy man's glory
02:30-03:00 the gogets
we party, we rest, we go to sleep...

18. 07. 2009
Komárom [H]-Csillag erőd
10:00-14:00 wake up, we clean our selves, we eat, we look at the exhibitions and watch the films
14:00-14:30 streets of arrabona
14:45-15:15 gusztus
15:30-16:00 vigyázz lépcső!
16:15-16:45 suiced pride
17:00-17:30 hiteljugend
17:45-18:15 dózer.hu
18:30-19:00 szeszkor
19:15-19:45 iszonyat
20:00-20:45 tango undreground
21:00-21:45 silver shine
22:00-22:45 o.s.d.s. [i]
23:00-23:45 elit osztag
24:00-00:45 semmi komoly
01:00-01:30 bandanas
01:45-02:15 sangue hc [i]
02:30-03:00 cup-cup
we party, we rest, we go to sleep...

19. 07.2009
wake up, we clean our selves, we tidy up and we go home

FreeFest Total 2009, one the biggest underground jamborees of the Hungarian punk and hardcore scene, will be organised for the third time this year. We started FreeFest to show that the scene can get together to make our own festival ourselves, while spending a nice weekend together. Besides the musical programme, we feel it's important to introduce the audience to some organizations (animal rigths, environmentalism, drugs prevention, community radio, etc.). We're not interested in participating in the commercialism of the music industry, human values and friendship is are more important to us than money. The bands and the organisers all volunteered to make this show happen, and to make it run smoothly. This is a large gathering of friends, a large house party! The inspiration!

There lived a few enthusiastic guys near Soskut and Tarnok in the mid-90s led by Gergo Imre (Infuzio, KA Antisocial Project), who organised a weekend gathering every year for a few bands of friends, where they played their music to each other. By the 6th year the tightly knit party grew into a small festival pulling about 300 people where we were regular participants. Unfortunately the organisers could not come to an agreement with the authorities, so it had to stop. Parallel to this, and later, there were some other underground initiatives (New Wave Festival, Independent Fest, Voros Yuk Camp, etc.), which withered away mostly because of financial reasons. Meanwhile punk and hardcore bands, and even more importantly, the supporting audience got slowly pushed out of the big Hungarian festivals. By 2005 both the audience and the bands found themselves without a summer festival. As always, it was natural to take things into our own hands the DIY way, if we didn't like it.

The first jamboree was held in Szazhalombatta, in the Boathouse camping. It didn't need much organisation, more like coordination, as almost everybody joined in the effort immediately, and became an active participant. There were and are no leaders, only tasks to be done. Everybody helped where they could do the most. Keksz made the website. The bands from abroad (11 bands from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia and Voivodina) as well as the Hungarian bands (Boiler, Silver Shine, Hold X True, Liberal Youth, Semmi Komoly, Barackca, tHE sNOBS, just to name a few) kindly accepted the invitation and came bearing the costs themselves. Just like the invited organizations (eg. FAUNA Society, The Clean Air Action Group). The concerts were broadcast live by Fiksz Radio. The great size of the audience and the level of unity proved that there's a need for events like this. These three days united the audience, the musicians and the coordinators even more, and on the way back home, we all felt FreeFest was our own.

So this supporting environment made it natural to have the festival again in 2006. The venue changed because of the clashes between the owner of the camping and the town council. The new place was the Csepel district of Budapest, where Csepel-Schwinn took us in in their Skate Park. An extreme weekend in the extreme place! The concept and the running of the show remained the same, but the number of volunteers increased. Misi Juhasz (of Mas club and EGAL club in Eger, organiser of the Total festivals in the 80s), and Tamas Rupaszov (of Trottel Records, organiser of later Total festivals) liked our 2005 efforts and saw it as the reincarnation of the earlier series, so FreeFest got the Total subtitle. In this light, every day a legendary band from the 80s played (CPg, Tizedes meg a Tobbiek, and Lenin krt., who reunited only for the one time at FreeFest). Besides the big names from the past, Poland was added to the list of foreign bands.

This summer we're inviting our friends to the countryside again. FreeFest Total 2007 will be held at the Musical Farmhouse in Lajosmizse. The goals, the ideas, the dreams are still the same!

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Performance's at 2005
Performance's at 2006
Places in 2005
Places in 2006