Arvika Festival

It took place during three days in the middle of July, from Thursday to Saturday, with camping available from the beginning of the week.

Since the nineties, the festival had built up a tradition of booking many big synth bands.

This was initially an unintended side effect: for the first festival in 1992 the arrangers had booked Cat Rapes Dog, Pouppée Fabrikk and S.P.O.C.K.

and about 50% of the audience that showed up was actually mostly interested in these bands since no other festival booked many synth acts.

In 2009 the total number of tickets sold were 22500 including all three-day and one-day passes.