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‘It’s what the inside of Marilyn Manson’s head looks like.’
Noel Gallagher
It’s one of the best festivals in Europe. Set in a giant industrial museum in Ferropolis, Germany ( July 13-18). Its fans include some of the most influential artists in history. And this year’s Melt line-up is bigger than ever before. A gigantic line-up of electronic, indie, ambient and hip hop talent including the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Bloc Party, Dixon, Lauren Garnier, Gossip, Squarepusher Sebastian, Dave Clarke, Plan B and many more.
To celebrate its 15th year, Bench is offering all you music lovers out there the chance to win a pair of tickets VIP style. To include:
A VIP Camping Pass
Flights and transfers
A Free Bench/Melt T-shirt
Entry to Bench Barbecue (Friday) with complimentary drinks
Check out the Melt Line-up HERE
Enjoy some of Bench’s Magic Melt Moments
For your chance to win this festival extravaganza simply tell us below why Melt is the best festival in Europe?
Winners will be contacted by email on Wednesday, June 20.
It would be quite interesting to see what the inside of Marilyn Manson’s head looks like!
Because it melts your face off… i dont know why ive never been but would love to get the chance t go and experience it…it looks dope as though xD
iron city !! such a unique setting for an amazing festival
A helter-skelter ride into an electro-rock wonderland, taking you on a non-stop journey of absorbent music, extraordinary people – Europe’s true extravaganza.
Went last year, gutted I cannot visit again this year as I’ve spent all my money!
Being able to go for a swim in the day and dance on the beach at night before the amazing horizon comes up whilst everyone walks back to the camping site makes this the best festial in the world, not just europe!
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A helter-skelter ride into an electro-rock wonderland, taking you on a non-stop journey of absorbing music and extraordinary people – Europe’s true extravaganza.
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It is the best festival because it’s what the inside of Marilyn Manson’s head looks like
And that is something pretty incredible. Plus, the picture says it all. Imagie the atmosphere.
I have no idea what it is and I realy want to see it .I think its gona be a good experience
It melts everything away, stress… work…problems… it leaves just you and a very good time
Coz it’s cool as ice!
I love germany and want to go back with my future husband as he has never been
Because you have legends like Dave Clarke, Bloc Party, Rufus Wainwright, Justice and Josh Wink in with legends in the making Plan B, Two Door Cinema Club, Nero alongside some of the most exciting acts aside from them in recent years Lana Del Rey and others who’ve been around but haven’t had the attention they’ve deserved Blood Red Shoes, The Whitest Boy Alive and M83 all wrapped up into a completely ecclectic lineup… in Germany where it usually hot and they refuse to serve crappy beer!
Hot lineup – cool beer
It’s not just about the music. It’s about the attitude. No holds barred, unadulterated hedonism… (alongside the best line up of music ever)
Hard line-up, abroad and with the best beer in the land
Great music, friends, good beer and amazing atmosphere…just a few reasons why its the best festival in europe.
Melt would be the best mid-summer treat.
Rapidly approaching 40 (29/6) and have as yet, to experience a festival. Maybe Melt if i get lucky!! Just in case, i have got some fab floral funky wellies and to groovy in!! Life begins at 40!!!!
I’ve never been to melt but I really want to go, and wanna see how it is like. I always believe that music is the best treatment to everything, no matter what the problems are, it just wipes everything bugs me.
pure escpaism and hedonism in beautiful location with stupdenously fab bands! who in their right mind wouldnt want to go!
Inside of Marylin Manson’s head sounds like a challenge! But from the looks of things, its a fantastic event! Electronic meets Rock, a perfect combination, and to be set in such a fantastic place… I don’t know why I’ve not been yet! We should rectify this!
Wow gossip and Dave clarke, on one weekend line up thats me and hubby’s tastes catered for. fab line up x
Its the best because Noel Gallagher said so!!!!
I’m 85 years of age and haven’t been to a music festival since Woodstock !
I like to let what’s left of my hair down and boogie !
I’ve done Glasto – this sounds better!
…it’s where real music lovers go to party!
I would rather it that you show me why?
Melt! is by far the best festival in Europe because of it’s incredible location and lineup.
Beneath those monolithic cranes, I imagine the crowds party hard to the sound of some of the finest electronic acts who are playing.
I’d love to go this year as not had a holiday for an age and this would be a welcome break, and party, for myself and my girlfriend.
Melt is the best festival in Europe because any other is worse.
Rock x Electro + Bench – The English weather / The inside of Marilyn Manson’s brain = MELT, clearly the best festival in Europe.
The birth of my child, my wedding day, the day my Mum told me she was proud of me for the first time in 30 years, the day I earned my 25m swimming badge….none of these made me as happy as the time I spent at Melt!
It’s much more than a festival. Nothing compares.
Caribou + M83 + Zola Jesus + Yeasayer + German Beer + German Sausage + Perfect place = Marilyn Mansos’ head’s not a scary place to be after all
Melt festival is like a psychedelic euphoria where dreams are created!
Melt festival is a phenomenon better than sex. A monstrous force that embodies a crowd with euphoria within it and leaves each individual exhausted as they leave it…
…that’s what i’m hoping anyway
With a name like ‘Melt’ its obviously hot hot hot!!! Must be great as Ive never heard of it and people always like to keep the best things to themselves. Ssshh!!! Dont tell anyone… On a serious note I think its the best because its got a great mix of different genres of music, so it would suit anyone whatever age whatever taste in music, it’s set in a fantastic location and WOW!!, there are over 100 acts in the line-up!! Looks like it’s setting the benchmark for all other festivals…
… because it is an inexhaustible source of merriment, the poetry of iron. I crave to see the cranes in that subliminal light once again!
Melt festival has impeccable taste in music and the friendliest crowd coming together in a setting that enhances the experience immeasurably! BEST FESTIVAL IN EUROPE!!
you rule for offering this portal into my personal idea of a shangri-la, just when I thought all hope to be another happy Meltee was lost… and this year’s lineup is particularly killer!
Melt festival is a paragon of beauty where the weak magically become heroes… nothing can deter you from (nothing short of) bliss at any point while there, not even the warm fizzy water as only hydration!
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The Melt! gives its visitors a wonderful opportunity to break away from everyday routine and lead for a few days a completely different life than they normally do. Instead of being busy from morning to evening with a school, college, work or family, it is possible to do at a festival always exactly what one is just the point. You can get to know new people as you like to see the favorite bands and be exactly the person who you always wanted to be.
Total sensory overload.
Well organised madness, amazing music, excellent food and fun party people set to an incredible industrial backdrop.
Because is the most eclectic and extravagant festival on the planet!
Because it has an absolutely fricking awesome line-up and is in a great location and I have always wanted to go!
Melt is bigger, better and achieves what every other festival attempts and pales in camparison to.
Melt! Is the best festival in Europe, An industrial city with the sunniest people and a lineup that infuses the best of different genres lasting till the milkman is up out of his bed to do the rounds. and did someone else mention the small matter of Bloc party?!
Dave Clarke, Plan B and Bloc party????…. Enough said!!!!! So many different tastes of music in a FANTABULOUS Location…… “melt” me down, package me up and send me there!!!!!
This year… because of Plan B! I love them and would give my right arm to see them live!
Melt is the best festival in Europe by a country mile. Electronic meets Rock = heaven to my ears.
Melt its where its at, Its all soooo happening at Melt ,a Fusion of all things great and the greatest of all things, wowsers if anyone didnt think Melt was great They have probably already died
Because it simply blows all others out off the water party on!!!!!
What Touches our lives more than music? things come and go but music fills our lives and memories Melt is a fantastic collection of the best music around what fantastic memories it will create I would love to be part of Melt Memories for others and create Melt memories for myself
Amazing location (how cool does the museum sound?!), fab artists (I’d go for Lauren Garnier and Dave Clarke alone – brilliant to have somewhere I can indulge my eclectic tastes!) and you get to go for a swim or beach lie down between sets
Melt just sums up all the great things this festival offers – a fusion of great musical styles (dance, electronica, rock amongst others), a fab industrial style, and if the heat gets too much, the swimming pool and beach will stop you MELTing….!
I have never been to Melt before but have sat for hours watching videos on you tube and looking at pictures and I already know it is the best festival in Europe.
If I win I will dress like Marylin manson and dance my way to Berlin with a mini crane attached to me with an iPod speaker hanging off it playing all the acts that I will hopefully get to see I will be THAT excited!
The setting for the MELT inside an industrial museum in Germany is totally unique. In a nod to those old skool intimate ‘gigs’ you used to experience in run down warehouses or abandoned factories back in the 80′s and early 90′s – you get to hear ‘real’ urban music magnified tenfold into one incredible huge festival – an unbelievable opportunity to experience music the way it was meant to be heard…thrown into a culturally diverse MELTing pot it offers an ‘inlusive vibe’ that simply needs to experieced to be believed..
I am a virgin festival goer so would love thos to be my first – from what I have heard its among the best.
A festival like no other. Legendary artists performing in a unique setting which you aren’t going to forget in a hurry. Melt festival is the only place to party this summer.
Simply because there is no other like it.
Melt is unique and explosive- it’s one of the best festivals EVER full stop and that’s really something impressive considering the high bar set by festivals these days.
It’s cult-like in that the people that go once suddenly develop a real loyalty towards it and can find nowhere to beat the vibrant and energetic atmosphere.
Best of all it has an amazing lineup….I want to go so bad this year!
I’ve not been to Melt before and to be honest I’ve not heard of it before this. But I can certainly tell you why it’d be the best festival in Europe once i’ve been and come back
Melt is the best festival why compare it
nothing comes close and everybody swears it
the music and the vibes from this german site
you party all the day and continue through the night
you know it makes sense its the best festival in europe
Its really missing me though so i really need a hookup.
MELT! HAS to be the best festival firstly because of the location, what others festivals can boast 30 metre high machines as one of their star attractions?! Come on! Couple that with Electro vs Rock and you have yourself a futuristic party of a lifetime!
It sounds fantastic but I could you tell you what I REALLY think if I win!
Because it is the most diverse and incredible festival in Europe. With acts from all sorts of genres from electronic too hip hop to rock, it caters for all! No other festival has all the artists that you want to, but wouldn’t expect to see on the same line up! Nothing compares to MELT!
It’s the best festival because it lets people get away from their everyday hectic life, and just be free to explore music they love and musicians they’ve never heard of. It sits in an industrial city with beautiful happy, sunshiny people, where you will be able to get a real flavour of pop culture from Superpunk to Plan B, melt really does have it all!
Melt is the best festival because it is set in a great location and the line up looks like one of the best for the summer……. perfect
I would say for me it has to be the location plus it’s an openair museum from the 20th Century INCREDIBLE and I just love history too plus the line up is just simply FANTASTIC – I love German beer too.
SPEACHLESS!!! wow is all you can say! x
A brilliant selection of groups/music makes melt the place to be.
Never been to Melt but have been to lots of other music fests. Would be nice to compare it against some of the greats. Plus Germany what a place for a festival!
It melts your brain with the beats.
It’s the best festival, cos it has the best line up, and you just have to mention ‘Melt’ and proper music lovers ears prick up, as the atmosphere there is ut of this world.
Dont think any reply sums up the experience, or the wanna be experience for a woman of my age to have a taste of this
Booze, Bitches & Banter = Ultimate Win!
Melt festival gives you the closest thing to an epiphanic experience that a lifelong agnostic like myself can wish for. Incomparable to other festivals and somehow still withholds that feeling that it’s still on the ‘hidden treasure’ side of things. .
Wishing so hard to have a chance to abandon the office chair and cross Europe to embrace the mighty sound in that strange, splendid, industrial land. And skipping down to lap up everything the lake has to offer in the daytime!
i can’t even start to talk about this year’s lineup without getting the excited cannon-ball feeling in my belly at the possibility of being present at all those acts after all….
Love Germany, love music and hubbys beloved Croatia just been put out of Euro 2012 so the Bench BBQ sounds cool too
It has the BEST lineup, why go to reading & leeds when you can go to MELT!
thats the word on the street!
Melt! is the best festival since it has a rnage of music to suit all your moods!
Because the ear-melting lineup includes Benga,
Bloc Party, Caribou, Casper, Flux Pavilion, Hudson Mohawke, Josh Wink, M83, Matador, Modeselektor, Nero, Plan B, Squarepusher and The Bloody Beetroots… To name just a few of the artists I’d love to see there, and the venue looks truly mind-melting too. I need some quality time out of reality, and I can’t think of a festival I’d rather go to.
Melt has a wonderful array of artists at a fantastic location. Would also be a remarkable opportunity to visit Germany-a place I have always wanted to visit.
“Electronic meets rock “perfection…location…perfection I’m intrigued by the open air museum of 20th century industrial machines i though Berghain was cool ?!.. whilst sampling the delights of the line up which is ….unbelivable hands down the line up of 2012 ….final show from superpunk says it all.The light shows and stages are second to none ,and this is coming from somebody who saw chemical brothers at glastonbury !!!!watching the video from 2011 my friends showed me …i admit i didnt previously know too much about Melt festival although i have been to some boomtastic nights in london with melt DJ’s.we both looked at each other ,there was a mutual understanding …one way or another we were getting to the amazing ,magical place one way or another….
Sounds fab, I’d like to go and find out
Ive been to a fair few festivals in the past an MELT has been the best by far. Cracking location with great visuals, really chilled atmosphere everyone is really friendly and definitely the cleanest festival ive been to.
Would love to experience it again, im sure it would be better than last time aswell.
Big shout to MELT festival, other festivals need to take note if they ever want to get close to being as good as this one. However im sure even if they did they still wouldnt get close.
Its the place to be-playing the music you want to hear
It just is, gimmee!!
Less mud, more sun, better music, Great beer!
Just as lovers of film migrate to Tribeca
For adorers of music Melt is the Mecca
Infatuated with the idea of going to Germany
To dance and prance in paramount Harmony
As you can see I’m not versed
In the art of spitting rhyme
But for Melt I will freestyle
I swear it -until the end of time.
Yes, from the aisle to the green mile.
Yep I will lose my dignity to state that Melt is the best festival in Europe… No diggity!
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