Tickets: If you lost your eTicket and would like us to resend it, please get in touch with benjamin.munschongopenair.de Do it now. Be assured that we will neither have nor take the time next week since we are certainly going to be busy to doing things to make sure your festival weekend rocks!

Cheers, mates!

Hey guys!

We are looking for YOU! If you play in an awesome band, that is. At the 24^th of April, we are going to have our Dong Open Air Warm Party at the Bollwerk 107 in Moers with Maroon, Hackneyed, Grind Inc. and three other bands. We are still short of one band and would love to get a local band who are on their way to the top to play as our opener! You have some audio samples and

It’s about time!

Here we go, lovely Dong people! Here’s our final reminder for the Dong Open Air 2010 ticket sale! It will start this Sunday, the 14^th of March at 12 noon on www.dongopenair.de! Last year it only took four hours to sell out, so we are pretty sure that getting your ticket right then isn’t bad advice. Here’s a wrap up of the most important info as well as things on our Dong Warm Up Party:

Dear Dongians,

we took our time and spent it wisely to make sure we can inform you about something worthwhile. This time has now come!

As you probably know, this summer we will celebrate our dapper little festival for the 10^th time.

Cheers guys!

Here are a few interesting pieces of information regarding the 2010 Dong festival! There will be two exceptions regarding the anniversary edition of our fest:

The first exception will be the date. The Dong Open Air will rock the hill at the fourth weekend of July, which means July 23^rd and 24^th. Why is that? On our traditional third weekend of July the autobahn A40 will be closed due to the Ruhr2010 (you know, Essen and the Ruhrgebiet being cultural capital of Europe) making room for celebrations right there. Many of our suppliers and other partners will be working there, which means, we’ll have to postpone our fest a little.

But don’t worry, the soccer world championship finale will take place two weeks before and Wacken will happen two weeks after our date. After 2010 we will of course get back to normal so you have an easy time planning out your summer.

The second exception for 2010 will be that we won’t be accepting any band applications. We have something very special in store for you guys to appropriately celebrate our anniversary. Our application form online will thus be down this fall, but it’ll be back for the following Dong.

We will give you all the juicy details about what’s soo special about 2010 once we’re ready. *mysterious*

Take care,

If you already decided to join us there, but do not have a ticket yet, make sure you still get one of those tickets we sell in advance. Metaltix has already stopped selling the tickets because they cannot guarantee you will receive your purchase in time. Our print@home system at www.doaconcerts.de will be up and running until Wednesday. Ticketmaster and all the other places distributing tickets directly still have a bunch of tickets left. Jules Papp in Krefeld will sell tickets until Friday.

If you are more of the spontaneous kind: We are going to have a box office set up so you can buy your ticket at the venue.

To wet your appetite a bit, here are the special offers we arranged for you for that day:

- Borknagar are going to be there as a bit of a best-of combo of well-known bands (Vintersorg, Emperor, Solefald, Arsis…) and they are about to release their new album (more info in the Borknagar blog at www.doaconcerts.de)

- Solstafir, Secrets Of The Moon, Code and Powerwolf are eager to show off their brand new records as well

- The Grailknights will be playing one of their last shows in their old school armors before switching to awesome new gear

- The first 100 people to come automatically take part in a raffle for 3 x 2 free tickets to the Dong Open Air 2010, several Solstafir “Köld” CDs, Grailknights fan packages including some rare items and many more goodies provided by the other performing bands. Doors open at 12:30AM.

- The Bleeding Edge will be selling a special edition of 100 Dong Open Air 2009 crew shirts. Those were the ones with rearing stallion. You can check out a picture of it and of course get all the additional info of the whole festival, like

the running order and stuff at www.doaconcerts.de.

At the bus stop “Im Lipperfeld” busses will take you to the station of Oberhausen throughout the night and the day, too, of course.

We are looking forward to party hard with you!

Take care,

Your Dong Team

Hey there!    
   

Too good to be true, but apparently it is... Next year will be the tenth year of the Dong Open Air! Whoa!

While we are currently thinking about what to do for the anniversary, you can already get a ticket for it!  When, where and how? At the 26^th of September at the Bleeding Edge Festival!

Among the first 100 metalheads, we will be raffling a whole lot of goodies! CDs and merchandise of the bands performing at the Bleeding Edge, but also 3 x 2 tickets to the D.O.A 2010. Show up early with the ticket for the Bleeding Edge you got at www.doaconcerts.de through the Print@Home system and make sure to get one of those free Dong tickets (since the ticket sale in the spring sure won't last too long) at the venue.

Last but not least, we'd like to remind you that we'll be selling reprints of the Dong Crew shirts of 2009 (billing 2009 on the back instead of the crew print).

Good luck and see you soon,

Your Dong Team