Saturday Night Fiber was a small-scale music festival in

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, Spain that took place in 2008. It took place on the Saturday night of its similar sister festival, the

Festival Internacional de Benicàssim The Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (), commonly abbreviated to simply FIB, is an annual music festival that takes place in the town of Benicàssim, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It focuses mainly on pop, rock and electronica artis ...

, from which it took its name. The two festivals also had similar line-ups. The festival took place in the Juan Carlos I Auditorium, a large, 12,000-capacity complex incorporating an

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and surrounding greenery. The festival is also known as "Benicàssim day in Madrid".

Conception

Saturday Night Fiber was somewhat of a Benicàssim

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; organisers of the festival said that they created the festival to "geographically diversify the cultural offering of its brother festival", and had spent a number of years looking for a second location since the first Benicàssim in 1995. In contrast to Benicàssim, the festival lasts overnight, as opposed to a full

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music festival.

2008 festival

The 2008 inaugural festival took place on July 19, 2008, during the Saturday night-Sunday morning of Benicàssim. Tickets were priced at

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60 for a general admittance ticket, with an optional

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ticket available for €90. A VIP ticket allowed holders an exclusive entrance to the venue, and access to a VIP

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and

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. There was also a limited

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The bands, in order of appearance, played as follows: Morrissey was billed as headlining the event, although unlike most music festivals, he was not the final act to play the festival. Sets by My Bloody Valentine,

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and

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all followed Morrissey, despite being billed lower in the line-up. In a live review, '' Clash'' actually noted the later slot of My Bloody Valentine as the festival's highlight. Morrissey's headline performance was noted as being his first in Madrid in twenty-three years, having last played there with

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. My Bloody Valentine were playing their debut concert in Spain, while

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was also playing her first concert in the capital since playing with

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seventeen years earlier. It was announced that on the day following the event,

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would be performing their 2008 album ''

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'' at the Sala Heineken, also in

. This was another Maraworld associated event; the duo had headlined the Escenario Verde (Main Stage) the day before at Benicàssim (the same day as the Saturday Night Fiber event). Branching into an area outside of live music, the ''saturday night fiber'' festival also included a "

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project, presented by

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. The catwalk was held between bands in the greenery surrounding the festival, and allowed entry to anyone who wished to participate. It was organised to observe the fashion trends of those attending the festival. Awards were presented at the end of the festival.

Failure

In the press conference hold on 19 July 2008, festival organisers had named the festival an "urban celebration that is here to stay" and that it could become a multi-day festival, suggesting there would be more incarnations in the future. However, there were no further editions due to the lack of success of that first and unique night.

References

External links

Saturday Night Fiber official websiteFestival Internacional de Benicàssim official website
(Sister festival) {{Culture of Madrid Community Music festivals in Spain 2008 in music Electronic music festivals in Spain Rock festivals in Spain Music festivals established in 2008