EXIT Festival Promises Energy and Adventure

The annual EXIT festival returns to the historic Petrovaradin Fortress on July 10 in Novi Sad with stars like the Pet Shop Boys, Damon Albarn and Skrillex topping a diverse bill.

Voted ‘Best Major European Festival’ last year by the European Festival Awards, the 15th annual EXIT extravaganza will be keen to prove worthy of its new crown and deliver on the hype with an array of rock, hip hop, house, disco, reggae and punk.

“EXIT festival is charged with a huge dose of positive energy, to be taken in one unprepared go,” the festival’s strategic director Dusan Kovacevic said recently.

Last year’s festival broke all records with over 200,000 in attendance, 35,000 watching The Prodigy’s show alone and 25,000 hitting the dance arena for David Guetta’s set.

This year’s event includes two new party-extensions on either end of the usual four-day Petrovaradin Fortress session to create in total a seven-day, two-country extravaganza which is being promoted as an ‘EXIT Adventure’.

The festival that will run from July 10 to 13 in Novi Sad will move to Montenegro on July 15. During the four days in Novi Sad, the festival will host dozens of popular bands and DJs, including Pet Shop Boys, Gloria Gaynor, Suede and Carl Cox.

The EXIT party continues from July 15-17 with Jamiroquai, Example and Underworld headlining the new Sea Dance festival on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast.

EXIT began in 2000 as a student-run political protest against the politics of President Slobodan Milosevic, intended as a symbolic ‘exit’ from the repressive Serbian regime of the time.

The festival may have lost its subversive edge but has since been helping to put Serbia on Europe’s cultural map by competing...