Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005, and has since become one of the world's largest and most notable music festivals. It now stretches over 2 weekends and usually gets sold-out in minutes.
The festival has a strict and extremely thorough ‘no drugs’ policy, and before you enter the festival grounds, you are respectfully asked to be rid off all your illicit substances, without any consequence. But if you are caught using within the festival gates, well, you’ve got to pack your bags.
It now stretches over 2 weekends and usually gets sold-out in minutes
The first edition of the festival took place on August 14, 2005. ID&T organized the festival. Performers included Push (M.I.K.E.), Armin van Buuren, Cor Fijneman, Yves Deruyter, Technoboy, Yoji Biomehanika and Coone.
In 2008, the festival took place on July 26 and 27. For the first time, more than 100 DJs participated. The number of visitors exceeded 50,000 for the first time.
Tomorrowland 2009 took place on July 25 and 26 and attracted 90,000 people.
The song reached number 5 in the Belgian commercial charts and is the biggest selling anthem for Tomorrowlands to date.
2011 marked the festival’s expansion to three days. Only a few days after the official pre-sale of tickets kicked off, Tomorrowland was completely sold out and had over 180,000 visitors.
It was voted the best festival of its kind in the world at the International Dance Music Awards in 2012.
The worldwide sale started April 7. Within 43 minutes, the other 100,000 tickets sold out.
Tomorrowland also offered its Global Journey packages and Brussels Airlines had 140 additional flights from 67 different cities around the world to get festival goers with 214 different nationalities to Boom, Belgium
Down a narrow manhole behind the stage lies a secret world. For the first time time in 2013, the Tomorrowland team dug and finished a tunnel running all the way under the stage to the tech booth, over 100 feet and several thousand people away (at the festival’s height) to home certain wires which are responsible for the functioning of the Main Stage.
Inside the enormous tomorrowland main stage, there is a Michelin rated restaurant. Immensely surprising but true. Boasting some of the finest chefs from around the world, a plate might just cost you a good sum of a $ 1,000. But the proceeds are all gone for charity !You might even have some of your favorite Djs cook at this place before they hop on stage.
Tomorrowland hosts it’s festivals after renting grounds from 20 different local farmers who welcome the festival organizers with open hands and waving the Tomorrowland flags.