Best Kept Secret (festival)

The Best Kept Secret festival is a three-day music festival held inside the Safaripark Beekse Bergen, within the village of Hilvarenbeek, in the south of the Netherlands, since 2013.

Best Kept Secret
The entrance to Best Kept Secret in 2014
DatesEarly-to-mid June
Location(s)Hilvarenbeek, North Brabant, The Netherlands
Years active2013–present
Websitewww.bestkeptsecret.nl
Best Kept Secret Festival (in American English)

Best Kept Secret is a music festival with a line-up in which big names are alternated with new discoveries from indie, folk, hip-hop, rock, electronics or a mixture of styles. The festival's centerpiece is a lake at the back of Beekse Bergen safari park. The festival's founder described his vision as aiming to create "something that we’d like to go to ourselves".[1]

Best Kept Secret festival has one open air stage (ONE), three tent stages (TWO, FIVE and SEVEN) and two dance floor stages: THREE and FOUR. For the 2017 edition Best Kept Secret added 'The Casbah', a dive bar and hang-out, that hosts performances of hardcore bands. For the 2019 edition Best Kept Secret added SEVEN, a smaller tent stage for experimental performers.

History

The festival is organized by Dutch booking agency Friendly Fire.

In June 2013 the first edition was held, and sold-out each day with 15,000 visitors.[2]

The festival has been nominated twice at the European Festival Awards:[3]

  • Best Festival Line-Up 2014
  • Best Medium-Sized Festival 2014

In 2013 the festival won the 'Best Festival Award' at the 'IJzeren Podiumdieren' award show at Eurosonic Noorderslag.[4] The 'IJzeren Podiumdieren' award show is an initiative by the Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia- en Festivals (Dutch venues and festivals association).[5]

Best Kept Secret festival introduced 'the food line-up' for their first edition. The festival organization strives for diverse and sustainable food options, including vegetarian meals, soup and juices.

Festival summary

Edition Year Dates Headliners
1st 2013 June 21–23 Arctic Monkeys · Damien Rice · Sigur Rós / Portishead
2nd 2014 June 20–22 Pixies / Interpol · Franz Ferdinand · Elbow / Lykke Li
3rd 2015 June 19–21 The Libertines · Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / A$AP Rocky · Alt-J
4th 2016 June 17–19 Beck · Editors · Jamie xx
5th 2017 June 16–18 Run the Jewels · Arcade Fire · Radiohead
6th 2018 June 1–5 Arctic Monkeys · The National · LCD Soundsystem
7th 2019 May 31–June 2 Bon Iver · Kraftwerk · Christine and the Queens
2020 Scheduled: June 12–14 Scheduled: The National · The Strokes · Massive Attack
2021 Scheduled: June 11–13
8th 2022 June 10–12 Alt-J / Jamie xx · The Strokes · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
9th 2023 June 9–11 The Chemical Brothers · Oscar and the Wolf · Aphex Twin
10th 2024 June 7–9

Editions

2013

Best Kept Secret 2013 (1st edition)
Friday June 21 Saturday June 22 Sunday June 23

Arctic Monkeys
Bloc Party
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Tyler the Creator
Fuck Buttons
The Maccabees
Danny Brown
Drenge
Splashh
Surfer Blood
Swim Deep
Space Dimension Controller

Damien Rice
alt-J
Two Door Cinema Club
Agnes Obel
Allah-Las
Balthazar
Efterklang
Savages
Swans
Wavves
French Films
Iceage
Mozes and the Firstborn
Pantha du Prince
Thomas Azier
Wolf Alice

Sigur Ros
Portishead
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Everything Everything
Black Lips
Local Natives
Palma Violets
Suuns
Cashmere Cat
Skaters
No Age
Traumahelikopter
Autre ne Veut
The Black Angels

2014

Best Kept Secret 2014 (2nd edition)
Friday June 20 Saturday June 21 Sunday June 22

Pixies
Interpol
Caribou
James Blake
Midlake
Breton
Circa Waves
Telegram
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Broken Twin
Samaris
Eaux
Cosmonauts
Falco Benz

Franz Ferdinand
The War on Drugs
Babyshambles
Miles Kane
Metronomy
Chvrches
Mogwai
Nils Frahm
Pink Mountaintops
Radkey
Night Beats
The Wytches
TRAAMS
Girl Band
The Bots

Elbow
Belle and Sebastian
Lykke Li
Angus & Julia Stone
The 1975
Catfish and the Bottlemen
The Notwist
The Horrors
Fat White Family
Truckfighters
Connan Mockasin
Ry X
Forest Swords
Deap Vally
Fucked Up
George Ezra

2015

Best Kept Secret 2015 (3rd edition)
Friday June 19 Saturday June 20 Sunday June 21

The Libertines
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Tallest Man On Earth
Chet Faker
Earl Sweatshirt
Eskmo
The Pop Group
Binkbeats
Blanck Mass
Daniel Norgren
Daniel Romano
Eagulls
Kevin Morby
Liima
METZ
Off!
Pissed Jeans
St. Paul and The Broken Bones
Strand of Oaks
The Coathangers
Vessels
Yak

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
A$AP Rocky
RIDE
Death Cab for Cutie
Of Monsters and Men
The Vaccines
Temples
Daniel Wilson
Fickle Friends
Föllakzoid
Ghost Culture
Hinds
Hookworms
John Coffey
Kiasmos
Kindness
Little May
Matthew E. White
Mourn
Outfit

alt-J
Royal Blood
SOHN
Black Mountain
Evian Christ
First Aid Kit
Future Islands
Jonny Greenwood & The London Contemporary Orchestra
Mew
Alvvays
Ariel Pink
Cairo Liberation Front
Dan Deacon
Gengahr
Kae Tempest
Marmozets
Pretty Vicious
Reigning Sound
Steve Gunn
Sunset Sons
Waxahatchee
Wolf Alice

In total, around 95 artists, bands and DJ's performed at Best Kept Secret festival 2015.

2016

Best Kept Secret 2016 (4th edition)
Friday June 17 Saturday June 18 Sunday June 19

Beck
Beach House
Christine & The Queens
Wolf Parade
DIIV
Mystery Jets
HONNE
Slow Magic
Empress Of
The Heavy
Preoccupations
Moon Duo
Beach Slang
Palmbomen II

Editors
Caribou
Air
Bloc Party
Dinosaur Jr.
Destroyer
Glass Animals
Bewilder
Sleaford Mods
Blossoms
Low
Julien Baker
Black Box Revelation
Kelvin Jones]]
Pional (live)

Jamie XX
Two Door Cinema Club
Wilco
Yelawolf
Yeasayer
Band of Horses
BADBADNOTGOOD
Fat White Family
Oneohtrix Point Never
Indian Askin
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Half Moon Run
VANT

In total, around 100 artists, bands and DJ's performed at Best Kept Secret festival 2016.

2017

Best Kept Secret 2017 (5th edition)
Friday June 16 Saturday June 17 Sunday June 18

Run The Jewels
Agnes Obel
Metronomy
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Section Boyz
Amber Arcades
Denis Sulta
DJ Prime
Hundred Waters
Jenny Hval
Joey Purp
Jo Goes Hunting
Kelly Lee Owens
Kornél Kovács
Leif Vollebekk
Mannequin Pussy
Real Estate

Arcade Fire
The Boxer Rebellion
Floating Points
George Ezra
Andy Shauf
Chris Cohen
Circa Waves
Cloud Nothings
Froth
Her
Honeyblood
Joy Orbison
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kim Janssen
Laurel Halo

Radiohead
Aurora
James Blake
Kaleo
RY X
Soulwax
Strand Of Oaks
American Football
Arab Strap
Junun ft. Shye Ben Tzur & The Rajasthan Express
Canshaker Pi
Cass McCombs
Fil Bo Riva
Henry Wu presents The Kamaal Williams Experience
Iguana Death Cult
Kadhja Bonet
Kikagaku Moyo
Marlon Williams

2018

Best Kept Secret 2018 (6th edition)
Friday June 8 Saturday June 9 Sunday June 10

Arctic Monkeys
Chvrches
Deerhunter
Future Islands
Tyler, The Creator
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Naaz
Rex Orange County
The Comet is Coming
Tom Grennan
The Districts
Job Jobse
All Them Witches
Sudan Archives
Flohio
Volcano Boys
Crows

The National
Wolf Alice
Warpaint
Vince Staples
The Kills
Isaac Gracie
Slowdive
Johan
Angus & Julia Stone
Four Tet
The Internet
Vince Staples
Alex Cameron
Shanti Celeste
Big Ups
Wavves
Pale Waves
Mattiel

LCD Soundsystem
Father John Misty
Rodriguez
Spoon
Mogwai
Khruangbin
Ty Segall
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Gang of Youths
Preoccupations
Rostam
Superorganism
Waxahatchee
Dermot Kennedy
Yellow Days
John Maus
Vagabon

2019

Best Kept Secret 2019 (7th edition)
Friday May 31 Saturday June 1 Sunday June 2

Bon Iver
Charlotte Gainsbourg
DJ Koze
Primal Scream
Spiritualized
Shame
Cate le Bon
Jambinai
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
SHHT
Angie McMahon
Bountyhunter
The Nude Party
Personal Trainer
Sports team
Stereolab
Julien Baker
Crack Cloud
Blossoms

Kraftwerk
Cigarettes After Sex
Guided By Voices
Mac Demarco
Death Grips
Yves Tumor
Borokov Borokov
LSDXOXO
Ron Gallo
Snail Mail
The Beths
Fornet
Wallows
Fat White Family
Feng Suave
Lucy Dacus
Aldous Harding
Phosphorescent
Viagra Boys

Christine & The Queens
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Raconteurs
Interpol
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Big Thief
Indian Askin
Kae Tempest
Lizzo
Princess Nokia
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Liz Phair
Caroline Rose
Cautious Clay
Romperayo

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