# Peninsula / Félsziget Festival

Peninsula was a summer music festival taking place annually in Transylvania, Romania. It was one of Romania's largest music festivals.

## Festival

Peninsula was an eclectic festival, with stages for different musical styles: rock, metal, pop, electro, world music, folk, hip-hop, blues and jazz. The festival gathered yearly up to 10–15 major bands, and up to 40–70 Central and Eastern European bands which are more or less known outside their countries' borders.
Besides, the festival featured a number of other activities: about 30 sports (football, table tennis, badminton, beach volleyball, chess, sumo, paintball, karting, archery, zip-line, kayaking, swimming etc.) including some extreme sport facilities (bungee jumping, climbing, paragliding etc.), movie projections in partnership with the Transilvania International Film Festival, theatre shows and workshops, stand-up comedy shows, graffiti contests and other creative activities, ecological workshops, volunteering workshops and training etc.
Volunteering was another important aspect of this festival. Annually, hundreds of youngsters from all over Romania gathered at this event and enhanced their experience by volunteering activities within the festival.

## History

The first edition of the festival goes back to 2003. Organised by some members of the team of Sziget Festival, Peninsula (in Romanian) has grown steadily in terms of audience (from 20,000 in 2003 to 60,000 in 2009) as in the number, the variety and the quality of the bands: at the first edition there were Romanian bands, but in later editions bands from all over the world were invited.
In 2013, the organisers have decided to move the festival to a different city, namely Cluj-Napoca. As the city was chosen as the 2015 European Youth Capital, it only seemed as a strategical move. However, participants experienced a number of loopholes, from smaller location to a smaller number of bands. Initially, the line-up featured well-known bands such as Kaiser Chiefs, who eventually had to cancel.
After 2013, the festival was cancelled. Since 2017, VIBE festival is held in the location of the old Peninsula / Félsziget.

## Line-ups

| Year | Main artists |
| 2014 | Cancelled |
| 2013 | Paul Kalkbrenner Alborosie Emir Kusturica The No Smoking Orchestra Ska-P Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg Modestep N.O.H.A. Camo & Krooked Benga Pete Tong Umek RotFront Șuie Paparude The Sweet Life Society Utah Jazz & Stamina MC Ocho Macho Utah Jazz & Stamina MC Lemon Bucket Orkestra Sarmalele Reci Negură Bunget Luna Amară Acapella WindSingers Mango aka Modul Subotage Magda Puskas & friends Mushroom Story Kistehén Subscribe Julian Intim Torna Illegál The Amsterdams Traff!c Robin And The Backstabbers Guilty Lemon Niște Băieți Ada Milea Hot Club de Cluj GoodBye To Gravity Roadkill Soda Breathelast Scars of a Story Rock'n ghenă Divided By Perception Face Today Tboys – Missile & Goranga That Couch Funk Collective Neatbik Saboar Ugly Astronaut 32 |
| 2012 | Children of Bodom Tinie Tempah The Straits Ákos Netsky Dirtyphonics N.O.H.A. Emalkay Subscribe Zdob și Zdub Republic Vama Vița de Vie New Model Army Besh o droM Șuie Paparude Babylon Circus |
| 2011 | Guano Apes Foreign Beggars K's Choice Kasabian Danko Jones Markus Schulz Grimus Iggy Pop & The Stooges Within Temptation HammerFall Dub FX Tiga |
| 2010 | Dub FX Tricky KoЯn The Rasmus Europe Fedde le Grand Ska-P Above and Beyond Sub Focus Noisia Babylon Circus Hernan Cattaneo Parov Stelar Gorillaz Nero (band) Therapy? Félix Lajkó Phoenix Omega Tankcsapda Zdob si Zdub Quimby Vama Subscribe PASO Suie Paparude Puya Grimus Beatrice Charlie Irie Maffia Pokolgép Taxi (Romanian band) Sarmalele Reci |
| 2009 | The Prodigy Nine Inch Nails Tiësto Freestylers Tankcsapda Neo Primal Scream Kispál és a Borz Grimus Blank & Jones Chase & Status Kaukázus Grimus DJ Gojira Sarmalele Reci |
| 2008 | Avantasia Morcheeba Beatsteaks Epica LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad Tankcsapda Subscribe Kispál és a Borz Republic 30Y Kalapács The Mushroom Story Ektomorf Vama Fading Circles Vita de Vie Altar |
| 2007 | Theatre of Tragedy Kosheen Pendulum (band) Gojira The Exploited Tankcsapda Kispál és a Borz Vita de Vie Altar Ossian Depresszió Ákos Quimby Gogol Bordello The Booze Brothers |
| 2006 | The Rasmus Moby Dick Bikini Tankcsapda Phoenix Altar Alvin es a mokusok |
| 2005 | Apocalyptica Freestylers Tankcsapda Ossian |
| 2004 | Chumbawamba Republic (band) Moby Dick Tankcsapda |
| 2003 | |