The festival site consists of 800,000 square meters of former military and airport precincts and features four stages.

[citation needed] The festival first took place on the former military airport of Neubiberg (Munich) with approximately 15,000 visitors.

[2] The paramedic service is provided by the Malteser Hilfsdienst, the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (regional association Bodensee-Oberschwaben[3]) and the German Red Cross.

Recurring musical acts included:[6] On the Thursday evening preceding the start of the festival, a storm demolished the tent stage and hurled large and heavy poles through the air.

Musical acts on all three stages consisted of: In addition, the quarterfinals of the UEFA Euro 2008 were broadcast on the big screen.

[citation needed] Headliner of the 2010 festival were Billy Talent, The Strokes, Massive Attack, Mando Diao, The Prodigy, Deichkind and Beatsteaks.

[10] In the night of 17 to 18 June, an event of heavy rain (precipitation: 80 L/m2) required an array of workers, iron sheets, over 500m² of wood chips and several semi-trailers of hay, as well as heavy technical equipment to make both entries to the festival terrain passable again.

[citation needed] For this reason, the community opened the Homburghalle, and many residents provided private accommodation and showers.

Furthermore, the Bundesstraße 311 was so slippery from the mud, which the cars brought from the meadow to the roadway, that it had to be cleaned again and again with special machines.

[12] A total of 1800 employees were employed on the grounds during the festival, including 420 paramedics and doctors, around 400 security guards and stewards, as well as stage technicians and other helpers.

[citation needed] At the end of the events, 450 mobile toilets had to be emptied and 80,000 rubbish sacks had to be disposed of.

[13] Since the festival visitors had left more rubbish behind this year than usual, but it sank into the mud and became solid again, some areas had to be ploughed or dug up, levelled, filled up and reseeded.

Newly introduced measurements to protect the environment were, "Green Camping", CO2 reduction due to new ways of arriving at the festival and avoidance of creating paper waste.

[citation needed] Als Vorkehrung gegen eine Verschlammung wurden an vielen Stellen Plastikmatten ausgelegt.

[18] Due to problems in the past years, six-figure sums of money were invested into the preparation of the ground.