NorthSide hails ticket sales, “crazy” Danish mkt

NME album of the year winners The 1975 and veteran US experimental rockers Primus were today confirmed for Denmark’s NorthSide festival, which is on course for its best-ever year.

Today’s announcement, which also includes The Kills and Danish break-out act Off Bloom, comes after the festival landed Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Bastille and Run the Jewels for its eighth edition, which is selling “historically well”, according to booker John Fogde.

“We are approximately three months ahead of our best year ever, 2014, so sales for NorthSide 2017 are going historically well right now,” Fogde tells IQ.

NorthSide, promoted by FKP Scorpio Nordic, Mads-Kristian Sørensen’s MKS 64 Holding and Brian Nielsen and Flemming Myllerup’s Down the Drain Holding, has taken place in Aarhus since 2010. Aside from big-name acts –…

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