Musical headliners were MGMT, Turbonegro and the German bands Kettcar, Element of Crime and The Whitest Boy Alive.

The public radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and the German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reported, that 15,000 people visited the festival on its second day, occasionally causing some logistic problems.

[3] [4] The MS Dockville Festival of 2010 took place from August 13. til 15.. 111 artists performed, among them Klaxons, Wir sind Helden, Jan Delay, Jamie T, Slime, Neu!, K.I.Z, The Drums, Jupiter Jones, Uffie, Portugal.

In 2011 150 musicians played at Dockville, among them Santigold, Editors, Crystal Castles, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Bloody Beetroots, Johnossi, Marteria, Die Goldenen Zitronen, Kele, Kante, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Those Dancing Days, Noah and the Whale, Wild Beasts, Mount Kimbie, Andreas Dorau, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Egotronic, DJ Phono, Bodi Bill, Hundreds und Kakkmaddafakka.

2012's festival lineup consisted of Hot Chip, James Blake, Maxïmo Park, Tocotronic, Metronomy, Frittenbude, Prinz Pi, The Maccabees, WhoMadeWho, Le Fly, Dillon, Wye Oak, Dear Reader, Die Vögel, Future Islands und Retro Stefson and others.