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EXIT FESTIVAL Novi Sad

Exit Fest - The mamma of all festivals in the Balkans, EXIT festival in Novi Sad definitely deserves to be listed here even though it doesn't take place in Belgrade. Four days, eighteen stages, hundreds of thousands of visitors... what more is there to say?

Belgrade eye visited the last year festival 2008, and we can tell you that most of the foreign visitors were from England and that we believe that this years EXIT had more visitors than usually. Of concerts - we were most impressed by Manu Chao - who played for more than 2 hours and was fantastic. Also Primal Scream, The Hives and Paul Weller were great.

The Exit festival started in year 2000 and was basically political festival but in the last 8 years it became one of the most important festivals in Europe and in 2007 it received prestigious festival award in the UK for the Best European Festival.

Some of the major stars on last year festival were: Manu Chao, Kruder and Dorfmeister Live, Tiga, Laurent Garnier, Juliette and the Licks, Soulwax Live, Booka Shade Live, Gossip, M.I.A, 2 Many DJ's, Deep Dish (Dubfire and Sharam), Primal Scream, Claude VonStroke, Ben Watt, Francois K, Sven Vath, Ministry, Gogol Bordello, The Hives, Paul Weller, Nightwish, Sex Pistols.

So, if you missed this years festival but are still nearby, it is more than worth it to take the hour's bus ride to Novi Sad from Belgrade and spend a day or two there. You can either camp out there, or find some accommodation in Novi Sad, or go back-and-forth from Belgrade (where you can stay at any of the hotels in Belgrade, hostels in Belgrade or an apartment in Belgrade available to book via Belgrade Eye). Either way, make sure you spend at least one day and night there.

Tickets are always available online as well as on the ground in Serbia. The actual price always depends on how far you postpone the purchase so be careful to buy ticket on time next year.

We will post a list of concerts and news related to Exist Festival 2009 very soon, in the meantime please check the official presentation of Exit Festival and check out the major news. If you are interested to learn more about the accommodation during the festival and to learn new about the festival please visit http://www.intoexit.com/