# Mayday (music festival)

Mayday was an electronic music festival in Germany, where it began in 1991, and in Katowice in southern Poland where it debuted in 2000. Despite the name, Mayday festivals date oscillates between April and December (these being called Winter Mayday).
Now the festival is only held around 30 April in Dortmund, Germany northeast of Düsseldorf and 10 November in Katowice. Each Mayday has a theme. Until 2013 it was composed by Members of Mayday, DJs WestBam, and Klaus Jankuhn. Since 1998 Mayday (Germany) is supported by eve&rave Münster e.V. with drug information desks. Although it played techno music in its early days, in recent years Mayday has opened up to new sounds, from hardstyle to house, trance and EDM.

## List of Mayday events

Attendance figures are estimated.
| Event name | Date | Location | Attendance | Acts |
| Best of House and Techno '91 | 1991-12-14 | Berlin, Halle Weissensee | 5000 | 18 DJs: Frank de Wulf, WestBam, Sven Väth, Dick, Rok, Tanith, Dave Angel, Moneypenny, Sascha, Marusha, Mate Galic, Neutron 9000, Pure Energy Live Acts: Ravesignal, Speedy J, Mental Overdrive, The Hypnotist |
| A New Chapter of House and Techno | 1992-04-30 | Cologne, Eis- und Schwimmstadion | 12000 | |
| Forward Ever, Backward Never | 1992-12-12 | Berlin, Halle Weissensee | 7000 | 21 |
| The Judgement Day | 1993-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 16000 | 29 |
| The Religion | 1993-12-11 | Berlin, Halle Weissensee | 6000 | 21 |
| Rave Olympia | 1994-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 24000 | 33 |
| The Raving Society (We Are Different) | 1994-11-25 1994-11-26 | Berlin, Deutschlandhalle | 32000 | 22 |
| Reformation | 1995-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 22000 | 34 |
| The Great Coalition | 1995-12-16 | Frankfurt, Festhalle | 18000 | 40 |
| The Day X | 1996-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 47 |
| Life on Mars | 1996-12-14 | Berlin | 8000 | 26 |
| Sonic Empire | 1997-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 18000 | 42 |
| Save the Robots | 1998-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 35 |
| Soundtropolis | 1999-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 37 |
| Datapop | 2000-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 37 |
| Mayday Polska | 2000-11-10 | Katowice | 9000 | 19 |
| 10 in 01 | 2001-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 38 |
| Culture Flash | 2002-04- | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 37 |
| Mayday comes to Budapest | 2002 | Budapest | | |
| Password Europe | 2003-03-29 | Budapest, Hungexpo | 9000 | 50 |
| Troopa of Tomorrow | 2003-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 17000 | 42 |
| Future Downloaded | 2004-04-03 | Budapest | 10000 | 70 |
| Team X-Treme | 2004-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 38 |
| U Make The Rules, We Make The Noise | 2005-03-26 | Budapest, Hungexpo F-F2 | 11000 | |
| Prototypes | 2005-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 40 |
| Power Recycling | 2006-03-18 | Budapest | | |
| Worldclub | 2006-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 35 |
| New Euphoria | 2007-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 20000 | 70 |
| Reflect Yourself | 2008-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 25000 | 50 |
| Massive Moments | 2009-04-30 | Dortmund, Westfalenhallen | 25000 | |
| Massive Moments | 2009-06-13 | Budapest, Óbuda Island | | 80 |

## Gallery

* Mayday 2009
* Tom Novy at Mayday 2009
* Sven Väth at Mayday 2009