The 6th Ireon Music Festival 2009 is over. We had 3 big nights. We had some amazing bands and a wonderful huge crowd. This was one of the most successful festivals in the Aegean ever! Almost 7000 people were there during these three days. On Friday 7 August, Imiskoumbria and Nigma showed to everybody that Greek hip hop and RnB is more alive than ever. Nigma prepared people for what it was about to come with their beautiful new songs (like Spasto). Imiskoumbria appeared on the stage and some of their songs like 'Greek Lover' and 'Brazil-Imiz 1-0' drove the crowd crazy. Dj Ilito and Dj Pritanis were also fantastic. On Saturday 8 of August, Valkyries opened the night with their melancholic, atmospheric rock sound. People liked them and especially their domestic fans. We are proud that this young band comes from Samos Island. A crowd as big as 2300 people was waiting for the big name to come out. Locomondo appeared on stage. Combining their reggae sound together with their traditional Greek elements, Markos and his company, is always a beauty to watch them live! Songs like 'Pino bafous kai paizo pro' make the crowd sing every single lyric! It was a great and long-awaited performance. Samos people again showed how much they like them. The big day eventually came.

Sunday 9 of August. It was THE STRANGLERS day. But first it was there another great band to warm up the 3000 (at least) crowd. Cyanna were amazing. Their first time in Ireon Music Festival and most of the crowd already knew their hits. 'Shine' and 'Like fire' were played perfectly. A band that has definitely a lot to offer . Not accidentally the best new alternative Greek band this year! At about 23:00 THE STRANGLERS appeared on stage. The Biggest group ever played in the festival has started its engines. The fans were mad! They were historical moments that every lucky person who was there will never forget! 'Always the sun', 'Golden Brown', 'Nice n Sleazy', 'Peaches', 'Spectrum of love' and so many of their legendary songs were sung loudly by the crowd. After playing two encores, with the crowd asking for more, they ended up their tremendous performance with the old-time classic song, 'No more Heroes'. Panic is not the right word to describe the moments followed. It was Ireon's most fantastic night with JJ, Buz and Dave dominating the stage. All the people who worked for this festival made their best. The crowd was excellent all these 3 days and every band offered its best!

Thank you for the memories

The organisation of the Ireon Music Festival

Ireon Music Festival 2009 - Photos >>

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THE STRANGLERS

The world famous English rock group was formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey. Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes" and "Peaches" and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene.
Their aggressive, no-compromise attitude made them one of the instigators of the developing UK punk rock scene, although their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre with the group going on to explore a variety of musical styles, including punk rock, gothic rock, and new wave through to the pop of some of their '80s output.

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IMISKOUMBRIA

Imiskoumbria is the best-selling hip-hop group in Greece. The group is composed by: Dimitris Mentzelos- MC Mithridatis- MC and Pritanis- DJ. Their songs are satirical and based in everyday life situations. Most of their albums released until today went GOLD and PLATINUM. Imiskoumbria have also been awarded three (3) times with the award of Best Group in Greece by the Greek Music Awards. Not only they write, produce and create their one albums, they also discover, produce and promote new artists in hip-hop music. The group also has an exclusive contract with NIKE, the number one athletic company in the world, since 2000.

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CYANNA

Cyanna (see-ana) are already a famous alternative rock band from Greece with full of musical potential for the years to follow. Cyanna's second long-player "Just A Crash" (Sony Music) was released in 2008. Songs like "Done Be", "Shine" and "TV Nation" are already amongst radio and TV favourites ("Shine" has remained on MAD TV top charts for more than 3 months), while thanks to "Just A Crash" the band was nominated in the Greek Act category of the MTV European Awards of 2008.
They are also an active live band putting up high energy shows, like the Hurricane Festival in Germany and the St. Gallen Open Air Festival in Switzerland, as well as winning the first Coca-Cola Soundwave competition as the best Greek band.

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LOCOMONDO

Locomondo is a unique seven member band based in Athens, Greece. Their music can be tagged as reggae or ska. With millions fans all over the world It is the first band in Greece which fused the Caribbean sound together with Greek musical elements. Since 2004, they have released 4 albums and have toured extensively in Greece, Germany and the Netherlands with great success. During the course of these four years, they have shared the stage with bands such as Manu Chao, Ojos de Brujo, the Wailers,and Aswad among others. Locomondo had huge success in summer 2005 with their cover of the traditional rembetiko song "Frangosyriani" and in summer 2007 with their parody of student life - “Πίνω μπάφους και παίζω Pro”.

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NIGMA

Nigma (means star in the Egyptian language) belong to the hip-hop/rnb/reggaeton music scene. The group consists of 3 members: dj MC ILITO, mc Sir Palou, and live synth by S.Metaxa. Although the group was formed in September 2007, its members have dominated the music scene since 1993 with certain activities such as djs as well as radio and music producers. They have also participated in lots of great events all over Greece and England. In February 2009, their first official album was released 'Ηρθε η σειρά μας' and is already a huge success in the Greek music charts.

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VALKYRIES

'Valkyries' is a young 5-members band from Samos with experimental progressive melodic rock sound. They were formed in 2004. They have already given lots of concerts around the island participating in many music events and festivals. They participated in the Greek schoolwave festival in 2006 (they were chosen out of 180 schoolbands all over Greece). They are influenced by 70's 'n' 80's classic and prog/art rock and younger alternative bands. The future belongs to them...

The rock festival of ireon will change their name:

After five years, the annual summer event is changing its name.
On the 21 of January 2009, it will officially be known as:

IREON MUSIC FESTIVAL SAMOS
where sounds inspire

Times are changing...2009: Times are changing...

And we have our NEW and official festival logo;

MUSIC is open to everybody. We're hoping ...

The 5th rock festival of Ireon 2008!

It started as a small festival, but after 5 years the rock festival of Ireon growed up to a BIG and important music evenement in Greece.
This year with even more people, more drinks, more souvlakis, more music and more FUNN...

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The winning ticketnumber of our lottery is 0657, and lucky winner of a Laptop!!

A tribute to the electro and alternative music.
Dedicaded to our friend ANDREA

The program is officialy ready, these groups will be LIVE playing at the
5th Ireon Rock festival on the 25, 26 and 27 of July at the parking place in Ireon.

MARSHEAUX

MARSHEAUX are a female electro pop duo from Thessaloniki (Greece). The two girls moved in Athens on 2000 and on 2003 they made MARSHEAUX in order to express their love for the electropop of the 80's and the sounds of synthesizers and drum machines. Their first release was a cover of the classic HOT BUTTER's Popcorn with a great success in Greece.

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Mikro is a Electro Pop-rock band from Thessaloniki, MIKRO are a sensation in Greece and the Greek audience has truly embraced them. They will play songs from there CD:
MIKRO-RESTART

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PALYRRIA

PALYRRIA: a mixture of western electronica and traditional music from around the Mediterranean. They call it world-electro and indeed this music is neither electronic nor ethnic. Let the strangeness ware off and enjoy music that comes straight from the source.

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DIMITRIS KORGIALAS
with guest participation of Evridiki

He's the most famous greek singer of electro pop rock. He was the winner of 2 MAD TV Awards in 2004 (best rock song and best duo). He had a participation in Eurovision and he was support in Germany for apoptygma beberk.Also he had a lot of top 10 in the greek chart.

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Vegastar is a French alternative new wave band which formed in 2003. Its members comprise mostly from former members of the french group called human beat box. Their highest ranking single so far to date is entitled 100ème étage which reached position 17 in the french top singles chart.

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A Greek alternative rock band singing in English, touring in Greece and England at the beginning of 2008 for 40 live shows!! During the same period there 3 CD: 'Toys Up' was released in Scandinavia and Russia.
They also have 3 nominations in the MAD tv award.

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Andreas Saponas (37)

One of the members of the Ireon rock festival

May 29, 1971 - March 30, 2008

Stay as you are,
the shiniest Star.
Shining for us,
Majestically

The 4th rock festival of Ireon 2007!
It has been a bigger success even than in the previous year, with more
than 8000 people visiting Ireon during this 3 days music event.
People were dancing and had a great time. The main act Aswad (London)
played their first show in Greece and loved Samos, Dionis Kalafatis &
Olga Venetsianou were a perfect duo and the electropop sensation Mirko
was smashing. The sound samples from the 80s and 90s were great work!!

During the concert we where LIVE transmitting on Samos FM (97,7Mhz) so more then 100.000 people on the Aegean islands could enjoy the music LIVE, and of course we had a life stream on the internet provided by Samos FM

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Finaly the program is officialy ready, these groups will be LIVE playing at the
4th Ireon Rock festival on the 10, 11 and 12 of August 2007 at the parking place in Ireon.

Aswad

A UK reggae band that have been performing since the early 1970s, having released a total of 21 albums. In 1994, Aswad captured a host of new fans with the release of Rise & Shine, a recording which garnered the band's first Grammy nomination for "Best Reggae Album of the Year." with number one hits like: Shine and don't turn arround

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Mikro is a Electro Pop-rock band from Thessaloniki, MIKRO are a sensation in Greece and the Greek audience has truly embraced them. They will play songs from there NEW CD: MIKRO-RESTART

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Locomondo

A 5 member band based in Athens. It is the first band in Greece which fused the Caribbean sound together with Greek musical elements and Greek lyrics. Songs like "Trendy Litsa" and "100 afro" had ample air-play in almost all the Greek radio stations, while the song "Stin Athina" entered the play list of Radio France Internationale for 2 months.

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Dionisis is playing classic rock and Olga is singing.

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Our 'own' Gothic rock band from Samos The past 3 years have been really creative, songs like the folk-gothic-metal Angel Bitch and the more alternative Mary Screams, immediately dominated most of the fans musical brains.

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After 3 years of organizing this rock festival, this third Rock festival in Ireon was a big hit, over 5000 visitors enjoyed our music festival from the 11until the 13 of August, Ireon was HOT and rocking! Three days free music event with local (Fat Mountain, Pheaton, Valkyries) and national (No Name, Domenica, Locomondo, Ble) bands. During the concert we where LIVE transmitting on Samos FM (97,7Mhz) so 130.000 people on the Aegean islands could enjoy the music LIVE, and of course we had a life stream on the internet!