Foreign acts that performed on the festival include Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, Gary Moore, Dinosaur Jr., The Stooges, The Lemonheads, The Fall, Heavy Trash, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Rakes.

The lineup featured Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, Gary Moore, Hladno Pivo, Let 3, Discipline A Kitschme, Partibrejkers, Plejboj, Darkwood Dub, Obojeni Program, Marčelo, Dado Topić & Time, Darko Rundek, and Laibach.

This year the festival was raising awareness about environmental issues by promoting a tin recycling campaign with the motto "Reciklirajte i Vi!"

The fifth Jelen Pivo Live was not organized as a festival, but rather as the Guns N' Roses concert, held on September 23 at the Belgrade Arena.

At the concert, which featured Gojira and Machine Head as opening acts, Metallica performed their 1991 eponymously titled album in its entirety.

[3] In 2012, Jelen Pivo Live also participated in the organization of IQ festival, which was held on June 9 in Belgrade Arena, and featured Marilyn Manson, Mizar, Block Out, Laibach and Dirty Vegas.