Doctor Music Festival forced to move by flood threat

DMF's 2019 'reincarnation edition', with Smashing Pumpkins, the Strokes and King Crimson, will relocate to Barcelona's F1 circuit, under pressure from "eco-opportunists"

News By | 2 April 2019

DMF will relocate to the Circuit de Barcelona in Montmeló, near Barcelona © Planet Labs, Inc.

Spain’s Doctor Music Festival (DMF) has been obliged to change sites for its comeback edition this summer, after the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) warned that the event’s original site in the Pyrenees was at risk of flooding.

Neo Sala, the founder of promoter Doctor Music, confirmed today that Doctor Music 2019 will take place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Formula 1 track in Montmeló, near Barcelona, from 12 to 14 July. The festival was originally planned to take place…

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