NH7 Weekender is an annual, multi-city and multi-genre, music and comedy festival held in India. It is created by Only Much Louder (OML) and is among the largest South Asian arts festivals. It began in Pune, Maharashtra, India, as a three-day, multi-genre, music festival in 2010. Since 2012 it has expanded to multiple cities. In 2017, the lineup added comedy. Its title sponsor has been Bacardi since inception.
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Genre | Rock, pop, indie, hip hop, electronic dance music, stand-up comedy |
Dates | October— December |
Location(s) | Pune (originally, and other cities) |
Years active | 2010 – Present |
Founders | Vijay Nair, Stephen Budd, and Martin Elbourne |
Organized by | Only Much Louder |
Website | nh7 |
The festival is held between October and December, and hosted in multiple cities alongside its flagship event in Pune. Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Shillong have host the festival. The lineup includes a mix of, established and emerging, sub-continental and global artists.
History
editIn 2006, Vijay Nair, the co-founder and ex-CEO of OML, began formulating the idea of an Indian multi-genre music festival modeled after the Glastonbury where he had taken Pentagram in 2005. In 2009 he met UK music manager Stephen Budd in Mumbai and they discussed the idea of creating an independent music festival. Nair came to London where Budd introduced him to Glastonbury booker Martin Elbourne and the three subsequently planned and financed the first NH7 Weekender.[1]
The debut festival was held in Pune, in 2010, and was produced by OML. It was a three-day festival, had a multi-stage setup and was multi-genre. It was headlined by international artists Asian Dub Foundation, The Magic Numbers, and Reverend and The Makers, along with well established Indian acts including Lounge Piranha, Junkyard Groove, Zero, and Demonic Resurrection.[1]
In 2012 the festival expanded to two cities and alongside Pune added, multi stage and day, festivals in Delhi and Bangalore. Since then, the festival has been held in Kolkata, Meghalaya, Hyderabad and Shillong with smaller, single day, festivals in Mysore, Jaipur, Nagpur and other cities. In 2017, after OML's foray in the comedy business, the festival added a comedy lineup after having previously booked acts like All India Bakchod and Vir Das for musical performances.
The festival is one of the first large scale music festivals in the South Asian sub-continent. Its programming is a mix of Indian independent acts, younger sub-continental artists, and multi-genre international headliners. Initially stages were broadly divided by genres: rock and metal, electronic, and indie and folk. Each stage had two platforms: main and transition, with alternated performances. Over the past few years, the festival has ditched genre stages and headliners perform on the Bacardi Arena main stage.
Past headliners have included: Asian Dub Foundation, Joe Satriani, José González, Mark Ronson, Mogwai, Flying Lotus, The Wailers, A. R. Rahman, Vishal Bhardwaj, Imogen Heap, The Vaccines, Megadeth, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Seun Kuti, DJ Premier, Simian Mobile Disco, Fink, Jon Hopkins, Bombay Bicycle Club, Anoushka Shankar, SBTRKT, Steven Wilson, Chase & Status, Steve Vai, Nightmares On Wax and others. In August 2019, to celebrate its 10th edition in Pune, where the first NH7 Weekender was held, pre-sale tickets were sold at their 2010 debut price — ₹750 ($10.45; under 21 season tickets) and ₹1500 ($20.90; regular season tickets.)
Parent company sexual harassment allegations
editIn 2018, a few former senior management executives at Only Much Louder, the parent company responsible for organizing the festival, were accused of sexual harassment by various female employees, and work associates. This led to a few artistes pulling out of the various festival slots and several others issuing a public stance against it. The company issued a statement and said Vijay Nair had disassociated himself with the company months prior to the allegations becoming public.[2][3]
Editions
edit2010
editThe festival's debut edition was held from 10–12 December at Koregaon Park in Pune. The lineup had seminal Indian acts like Zero, Swarathma, Pentagram and Blackstratblues alongside international acts like Asian Dub Foundation and The Magic Numbers. The festival had four stages and hosted over 35 artists across three days. It was estimated the festival had 10,000 attendees over the course of three days.[4][5][6]
Lineup
editAsian Dub Foundation | The Magic Numbers | Indian Ocean | Swarathma | Demonic Resurrection |
Shaa'ir + Func | Junkyard Groove | Something Relevant | The Circus | Noiseware |
Arjun Vagale | Khiladi | Split | Infernal Wrath | Parikrama |
Ashu & The Petri Dish | Lounge Piranha | Susheela Raman | The Raghu Dixit Project | Pentagram |
Airport | Molotov Cocktail | MIDIval Punditz | Tough On Tobacco | PINKNOISE |
Barefaced Liar | Bhayanak Maut | DJ Ivan | Undying Inc | Projekt S |
Bay Beat Collective | Blackstratblues | Faridkot | Zero | Reverend Soundsystem |
Scribe | Ankur & The Ghalat Family |
2011
editThe second edition of NH7 Weekender was held between 18–20 November 2011. It took place at the Laxmi Lawns near Magarpatta City in Pune and grew to five stages. Over 25,000 were estimated in attendance over the three days. Grammy winner Imogen Heap and the British electronic music act Basement Jaxx headlined along with performances from Midival Punditz, The Raghu Dixit Project, and Swarathma.[6]
Lineup
editImogen Heap | Basement Jaxx | Bobby Friction | Skyharbor | Imphal Talkies | Big Daddy Klein |
Alisha Batth | Fire Exit | Pentagram | Soulmate | Indian Ocean | Blackstratblues |
Alisha Pais | Goddess Gagged | Reggae Rajahs | Zero | Jatin Puri | Blakc |
Ash Roy | Gumnaam | Riz MC | Su-Real | King Creosote | Demonic Resurrection |
Ayush Shreshta | Hipnotribe | Scribe | Swarathma | Menwhopause | Dhruv |
B.R.E.E.D. | Humble The Poet | Shaa'ir + Func | Taal Inc. | Microphon3 | DJ Jayant |
Advaita | Illbilly HiTec + Longfingah | Sid Basrur | Tara Priya | MIDIval Punditz | DJ Swaggamuffin |
BASSFoundation | Dualist Inquiry | Sky Rabbit | The Circus | Monkey Sound System | Moniker |
Bay Beat Collective | Blessed Love Soundsystem | The Raghu Dixit Project | The Pictish Trail | Motherjane | Nigel Rajaratnam |
Bhayanak Maut | Papon & The East India Company | The Ska Vengers | Tough On Tobacco | Ankur Tewari & The Ghalat Family | DJ Nihal |
NZ Selector | Ox7gen |
2012
editIn its third year, the festival expanded to Delhi and Bangalore. The combined lineup included 200 artists, 60 festival pre-party gigs, and six stages, took place in Delhi, on 13–14 October, at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida; in Pune from 2–4 November at Amanora Park Town; and in Bangalore, at the Embassy International Riding School, on 15–16 December.Headliners included Karnivool, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Buraka Som Sistema, Megadeth, Bombay Bicycle Club, Anoushka Shankar, and Fink.[7][8]
Lineup
editFink | Megadeth | Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 | Buraka Som Sistema | Testament |
Adam & The Fish Eyed Poets | Anoushka Shankar | Foreign Beggars | Bombay Bicycle Club | The Circus |
Adi Suhail Tarun | DJ MooSick | menwhopause | Soulmate | The Aston Shuffle |
Advaita | DJ Nihal | Michal Menert | Sound Avtar | The Bicycle Days |
Agam | EZ Riser | MIDIval Punditz | Split | The Koniac Net |
Akala | Driving Lolita | Million Stylez | Spud In The Box | The Lightyears Explode |
Akhu | Dualist Inquiry | Mode7 | Su-Real | Madu |
AlgoRhythm | Dualist Inquiry and Friends | Modern Mafia | Susheela Raman | The Raghu Dixit Project |
Anish Sood | Dub Sharma | Moniker | Swaggamuffin | Low Rhyderz |
DJ Amul | East Stepper | Mou | Nigel Rajaratnam | The Shakey Rays |
Lagori | Eccentric Pendulum | Mr. Williamz | Swarathma | The Staves |
Arjun Vagale | EdGeCut | Mungos Hi-Fi | Slow Down Clown | The Supersonics |
Ash Roy | Engine Earz Experiment | Music Basti Project | Symbiz Sound | Nischay Parekh |
Ashvin Mani Sharma | EZ Riser | Barefaced Liar | Talvin Singh | Them Clones |
Avi & The Uprising | 3 Sevens | Nucleya | Tarqeeb | Thermal And A Quarter |
Bangalore Metal Project | Galeej Gurus | NZ Selector | Swanand and Shantanu | Tough On Tobacco |
BASSFoundation Roots | Gandu Circus | Ox7gen | Soom T | Trilok Gurtu |
Bauchklang | Gaurav Jagwani | Pangea | Ankur Tewari & The Glalat Family | TripShot Crew |
Bay Beat Collective | Gaurav Raina | MC Ri$k | DJ Uri | Under The Influence |
Bhayanak Maut | Goddess Gagged | SlumGods | Solstice Coil | Undying Inc |
Big Scary | Gowri | Papon & The East India Company | Bombay Metal Project | The Susmit Sen Chronicles |
Blackstratblues | Hari & Sukhmani | Paradigm Shift | BREED | The Manganiyar Seduction |
Blackstratblues | Heems | Parikrama | DJ Dale | Vachan |
BLANK | Herbalize-It | Parvati & Mawkin | Caesars Of The Green | Vasuda Sharma |
Blek | Hexstatic | Pentagram | PINKNOISE | Vedant Bharadwaj |
BLOT! | Idan Raichel | Your Chin | Prateek Kuhad | Vernon Noronha |
Skrat | iLLBiLLY HiTEC | Periphery | Reggae Rajahs | ViceVersa |
Bobby Friction | Imli Imchen | Peter Cat Recording Co. | Rob Da Bank | Vir Das's Alien Chutney |
Bombay Bassment | Indian Ocean | Indus Creed | Rudy Roots | Wazulu Da Ill Dravidian |
Carlton and the Saints | Jstar | Inner Sanctum | SAGA | Dhruv Visvanath |
Cee | Kailasa | Jahcoozi | Sandunes | Delhi Metal Project |
Clinton Cerejo | Kaiserdisco | Jinja Safari | Scribe | Delhi Sultanate |
Clown With A Frown | Karnivool | Jitter | Shafqat Amanat Ali | Martina-Topley Bird |
Dakta Dub | Demonic Resurrection | Karsh Kale | Sheppard | Shaa'ir + Func |
Kryptos | Zero | Kohra | Shrilektric | Ziggi Recado |
Delhi Sultanate & Begum X | Sky Rabbit | Longfingah |
2013
editThe festival travelled to four cities; Kolkata (14-15 Dec), Pune (28-29 Oct), Bangalore (23-24 Nov) and Delhi NCR (30 Nov – 1 Dec). Headliners included Chase and Status, Textures, Simian Mobile Disco, and MUTEMATH.[9]
Lineup
editChase & Status | MUTEMATH | Textures | Skindred | Simian Mobile Disco |
Sagar Dharkar | Parthan | Nikhil Mhatre | Shantanu Pandit | The Heatwave |
And So I Watch You from Afar | EZ Riser | Moniker | Shiva Soundsystem | The Koniac Net |
Ankur Tewari | Faridkot | MoonDogs | SICKFLIP | The Lightyears Explode |
Arjun Vagale | Frame/Frame | Mr. Doss | Siddharth Basrur | The Maganiyar Seduction |
Baba Jas | Func | Dualist Inquiry | The Grind | The Mavyns |
Big City Harmonics | FuzzCulture | Nischay Parekh | Simple Sample | The Monkey In Me |
Black Letters | Ganesh Talkies | Noisia | Shankar Tucker | The Raghu Dixit Project |
Blackstratblues | Girish Pradhan | Noori | Skrat | The Ska Vengers |
BLOT vs. Kohra | Hey Geronimo | Nucleya | Sky Rabbit | The Spindoctor |
Bobby Friction | Humble The Poet | OX7GEN | Slow Club | The Supersonics |
Bolepur Bluez | Ifs and Buts | Papon and The East India Company | Smoke Signal | The Vinyl Records |
Bombay Bassment | Indian Ocean | Paralights | Soulmate | The Wanton Bishops |
Bone Broke | Inner Sanctum | Parikrama | Sound Avtar | Tough On Tobacco |
Carlton & The Saints | J.Viewz | Scribe | The Fender Benders | TripShot Crew |
Castles In The Sky | Jay Wud | Parvaaz | Space Behind The Yellow Room | Undying Inc |
A Mutual Question | Johnny B | Pentagram | Spoonbill | Until We Last |
Clown With A Frown | Kailasa | PINKNOISE | Sulk Station | Vachan |
Dakta Dub | Karsh Kale | Pippin | Suman Sridhar And Jiver | Vir Das's Alien Chutney |
David Boomah | Kate Miller-Heidke | Poirier | SundogProject | We Were Promised Jetpacks |
Deadly Hunta | Kill Paris | Prateek Kuhad | Su-Real | Winit Tikoo |
Delhi Sultanate & Begum X | Krunk All-Stars | Rajasthan Roots | Swaggamuffin | Write In Stereo |
Demonic Resurrection | Loch Lomond | Reggae Rajahs | Swarathma | Y&S |
Devoid | Low Rhyderz | Reji | Tajdar Junaid | Your Chin |
Dhruv Visvanath | Lucky Ali | Rob Garza | Tarqeeb | YT |
Digital Suicide | Maati Baani | Ruskin | TesseracT | Zero |
DJ Sa | Madboy/Mink | Sampology | MIDIval Punditz | Zervas and Pepper |
DJ Uri | Mekaal Hasan Band | Sandunes | The Colour Compound | Ziggy The Blunt |
Donn Bhat + Passenger Revelator | Meshuggah | Scribe | The F16s | Dry the River |
Shaa'ir + Func | Michal Menert |
2014
editThe festival travelled to four cities in the span of a month. Starting off with Kolkata (1-2 Nov), Bangalore (8-9 Nov), Pune (21-23 Nov) and Delhi NCR (29-30 Nov). Headliners included The Vaccines, Jon Hopkins, Fear Factory, Luke Sital-Singh, and Amit Trivedi.[10]
Lineup
editAmit Trivedi | Fear Factory | Jon Hopkins | Peking Duk | The Vaccines | MUTEMATH |
Adi & Suhail | Coshish | Kaos | Providence | The Bartender | The News |
AIB | Curtain Blue | Killwish | Reggae Rajahs | The Delhi Alternative | Nikhil D'Souza |
AlgoRhythm | Dualist Inquiry | Klypp | Motopony | The Down Troddence | The Ska Vengers |
Alo Wala | DJ Sa | Luke Sital-Singh | Cloud Control | The Emerald Armada | The Supersonics |
A Mutual Question | Barmer Boys | Maati Baani | Sandunes | The F16s | Tetseo Sisters |
Bhavishyavani Crew | Nucleya | Madboy/Mink | Zygnema | The Ganesh Talkies | The Wooden Shield |
Appleonia | Su Real | Money For Rope | Scribe | The Inspector Cluzo | Them Clones |
As Animals | Moniker | Monica Dogra | Sean Roldan | Thermal And A Quarter | |
B.R.E.E.D | Goldspot | Mr. Woodnote & Lil Rhys | Selvaganesh | Skyharbor | Undying Inc |
Bhayanak Maut | Fossils | Foreign Beggars | Shaa'ir + Func | Songhoy Blues | Unohu |
Big City Harmonics Live | Frame/Frame | Namit Das + Anurag Shanker | Sickflip | Soulmate | Voctronica |
Blackstratblues | Fuzzy Logic | Skrat | Soulspace | When Pandas Attack | |
Blent | Gingerfeet | Hoirong | Sky Rabbit | Spud In The Box | Nanok |
Bombay Bassment | Indian Ocean | Houdini Dax | Calcutta Local | Neeraj Arya's Kabir Cafe | |
Bombay Punk United | Your Chin | Iamrisha | Castles In The Sky | Superfuzz | Nicholson |
Peepal Tree | Tejas | Ankur & The Ghalat Family | Chad Valley | Dinosaur Pile-Up | DJ Skip |
EZ Riser | Indus Creed | RUN! It's the Kid | Pangea | Ox7gen | Norcotiq |
Sachal Jazz Ensemble | DJ MoCity | Colossal Figures | The Manganiyar Classroom | The Raghu Dixit Project |
2015
editAnother city, Shillong (23-24 Oct), was added to the festival lineup. After Shillong, the festival travelled to Kolkata from 31 Oct – 1 Nov, followed by Delhi on 28-29 Nov, and in Pune and Bangalore from 4-6 Dec. This was the first year when the festival took place in two cities, Pune and Bangalore, on the same dates. Headliners included A. R. Rahman, Mogwai, Megadeth, Mark Ronson, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Flying Lotus, SBTRKT, and The Wailers.
Lineup
editA. R. Rahman | Mark Ronson | SBTRKT | Flying Lotus | The Wailers | Mogwai |
Aayushi Karnik | Dhruv Voyage | Rodrigo y Gabriela | Peter Cat Recording Co. | Street Stories | Sukanti & Anushree |
Acollective | Diarchy | Madboy/Mink | Pierce Brothers | Swarathma | Tails On Fire |
Advaita | Dr. L. Subramaniam | Mahesh Raghunandan | PINKNOISE | Thaikkudam Bridge | Swarantar |
Akummika | Dualist Inquiry | Man Goes Human | Prateek Kuhad | The 3Stylers | The Bartender |
Alisha Pais | Dualist Inquiry | Dhruv Visvanath | Raghav Sachar | The Clameens | The Colour Compound |
Anish Sood | Duncun Rufus | Max Godman | Reggae Rajahs | The F16s | The Ganesh Talkies |
Ankur & The Ghalat Family | Erotic Market | Megadeth | Rehan Dalal | The Ska Vengers | The Map Room |
Arka | EZ Riser | Mad Orange Fireworks | Ritviz | The Tripp | The Raghu Dixit Project |
Awkward Bong | Faridkot | Naezy | Spud In The Box | Thumpers | The Urban EarlyMen |
Baba Sehgal | Feyago | Nanok | Sandunes | Underground Authority | Undying Inc |
Baiju Dharmajan Syndicate | Perfect Timing | Neel and The Lightbulbs | Sapta | Until We Last | Nusrat Tribute by Vishal Dadlani |
Begum | Fossils | Neeraj Arya's Kabir Cafe | Maati Baani | Vir Das' Alien Chutney | Scribe |
Bhayanak Maut | Frisky Pints | Nicholson | Selvaganesh | Shaa'ir + Func | Sickflip |
Big City Harmonics | Fuzzy Logic | Nikhil D'Souza | Skrat | Siddharth De | Sid Vashi |
Bipul Chettri | Gabriel Daniel | Niladri Kumar | Soul Clap | Skylight Vision | Sky Rabbit |
Blackstratblues | Gully Gang | Nischay Parekh | Space Is All We Have | Sound Avtar | Soulmate |
Blakc | Hidden Orchestra | Noori | Nucleya | Oh, Rocket! | Pangea |
Bombay Bassment | Hriday Gattani | Peasant's King | Parvaaz | Parikrama | Papon and The East India Company |
Borkung Hrangkhawl | Imphal Talkies | Brodha V | Kailasa | Indus Creed | Peepal Tree |
Clinton Cerejo | Chayan & Smiti | Lou Majaw & Friends | Last Remaining Light | Lagori | Cactus |
Crazy | Lucid Recess | Curtain Blue |
2016
editIn 2016, Shillong kicked off the Weekender (21-22 Oct) and saw close to 40,000 people over the weekend. The Weekender traveled to a new city, Hyderabad (5-6 Nov) before culminating in a new venue in Pune, Life Republic in Hinjawadi. The three cities saw a cumulative attendance of over 110,000. Headliners included Steven Wilson, Farhan Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan, José González, Anoushka Shankar, Patrick Watson, and The Joy Formidable. This year also began the festival's smaller editions in five cities, as day-long festivals, in Kolkata, Puducherry, Mysore, Nagpur and Jaipur.
Lineup
editSteven Wilson | Django Django (DJ Set) | Jose Gonzalez | Farhan Akhtar | DJ Premier | The Joy Formidable |
Aberrant | Aewon Wolf | Komorebi | RAC | Shankar Mahadevan | Shri |
Alluri | Dossers Urge | Kumail | Rhythm Shaw | The F16s | Spud In The Box |
Alobo Naga & Band | Dualist Inquiry | Lucid Recess | River | The Raghu Dixit Project | Tough on Tobacco |
Anish Sood | Eagulls | Madboy/Mink | Rosie Lowe | The Ritornellos | Underground Authority |
Ankur & The Ghalat Family | Easy Wanderlings | Mali | Sapta | The Ska Vengers | Undying Inc |
Anoushka Shankar | Elephant In The Elevator | Mosko | Sempre Libera | The Tapes | Vertical Horizon |
Aqua Dominatrix | Prateek Kuhad | Murthovic | Sickflip | Abish + Kenny | Vir Das' Alien Chutney |
Arjun Vagale | Fossils | Naezy x Prabh | Sid Vashi | Su Real | What Escapes Me |
Arpit Chourey | Func | NAFS | Skrat | Divine | When Chai Met Toast |
Aswekeepsearching | Funk Assassin | Nanok | Skyharbor | Nicholson | Wild Palms |
Bhayanak Maut | Gigi Lamayne | Natty | Soulmate | Nucleya | Zoya |
Bipul Chettri | Goddess Gagged | Parekh & Singh | The Ganesh Talkies | Papon | Dinosaur Pile-Up |
Blue Temptation | Gordi | Gumbal | Swarathma | Paraphoniks | Karsh Kale Collective |
Borkung Hrangkhawl | Parikrama | Hriday Gattani | Dhruv Voyage | Indian Ocean | Patrick Watson |
Dhruv Visvanath | Tejas | Imphal Talkies |
2017
editThe eighth edition of the festival began with the a return to the state of Meghalaya between 27 and 28 October. The edition saw over 25,000 attendees, before traveling back to its home city, Pune from 8-10 December, which estimated 45,000 in total attendance.[citation needed]
Headliners included Steve Vai, Textures, The Dillinger Escape Plan, CAS, Marky Ramone, Ram Sampath, and Vishal Bhardwaj. The Dillinger Escape Plan and Textures, both were on a farewell tour. Textures played their last ever show in Pune. Since signing comedians to their roster, OML added a comedy lineup and included Biswa Kalyan Rath, Kanan Gill, All India Bakchod members Rohan Joshi, Tanmay Bhat and Ashish Shakya, Kunal Kamra, Azeem Banatwalla and musical-satire trio Aisi Taisi Democracy among others. There were also nine single-day editions including shows in Kolkata, Bangalore, Jaipur, Puducherry, Indore, Kochi, Goa, Hyderabad and Mysore.[citation needed]
Music lineup
editVishal Bhardwaj | Steve Vai | The Dillinger Escape Plan | Marky Ramone | The Ram Sampath Experience | Textures |
Aditi Ramesh | DJ MoCity | Mahesh Raghunandan | Skyharbor | TM Krishna | CAS |
Ali Saffudin | Dualist Inquiry | Malfnktion | Divine | The Ganesh Talkies | Dewdrops |
Alluri | Easy Wanderlings | Mame Khan | Thaikuddam Bridge | Madame Gandhi | Colt Silvers |
Amit Trivedi | Faridkot | Skrat | The Local Train | The Magnets | Pentagram |
Andrea Tariang Group | Feyago | May Island | The Raghu Dixit Project | NH7 Hip-Hop Collective | Aarya |
Ankur & The Ghalat Family | Girls Names | MojoJojo | Nooran Sisters | The Rudy Wallang Guitar Jamboree | Scribe |
Ape Echoes | Goddess Gagged | Mosko | Oceantied | Blue Temptation | Karsh Kale |
Aqua Dominatrix | Gurbax | The Ska Vengers | Parvaaz | Bombay Bassment | Youngblood |
aswekeepsearching | Honey Lung | Polar Lights | Prabh Deep | Short Round | Lateral |
Avora Records | Hriday Gattani | Vir Das' Alien Chutney | When Chai Met Toast | Kamakshi Khanna Collective | Kumail |
Bad Pop | Indian Ocean | Zokova | Zygnema | Prateek Kuhad | Sid Vashi |
Baiju Dharmajan Syndicate | Indigo Children | Rhythm Shaw | Ritviz | Bhayanak Maut | Lady Midday |
Bhrigu Sahni | Blackstratblues | Khasi Bloodz |
Comedy lineup
editBiswa Kalyan Rath | Kanan Gill | Tanmay Bhat | Nishant Tanwar | Sapan Verma |
Aisi Taisi Democracy | Kaneez Surka | Rohan Joshi | Neville Shah | Rahul Subramanian |
Anirban Dasgupta | Kautuk Srivastava | Sonali Thakker | Azeem Banatwalla | Naveen Richard |
Anuvab Pal | Kunal Kamra | Sumaira Shaikh | Urooj Ashfaq | Atul Khatri |
Ashish Shakya | Kunal Rao | Sumukhi Suresh | Vaibhav Sethia | Gaurav Kapoor |
Aadar Malik |
2018
editThe ninth edition began in Meghalaya, on 2-3 November. It returned to Pune from 7-9 December. Both editions took place in the same venues: Wenfield, The Festive Hills, Meghalaya and Mahalakshmi Lawns, Nagar Road, Pune. Headliners included Joe Satriani, God Is An Astronaut, The Contortionist, Nightmares on Wax, Switchfoot, Poets of The Fall, Salim-Sulaiman, and Shubha Mudgal. An added comedy lineup was also included. In addition to this, there were also 7 single-day editions for the festival in Kolkata, Jaipur, Kochi, Hyderabad, Mysore, Lucknow and Chandigarh.
Music lineup
editJoe Satriani | God Is An Astronaut | The Contortionist | Nightmares On Wax | Poets Of The Fall | Salim-Sulaiman | Mahesh Kale |
Shubha Mudgal | Zubeen Garg | Switchfoot | Guthrie Govan | When Chai Met Toast | Kush Upadhyay | |
The Vinyl Records | FKJ | Bhuvan Bam | Ritviz | IMUR | Tanya Nambiar | |
The Local Train | Tarqeeb | Dualist Inquiry | Cinema of Excess | The LaFontaines | Ape Echoes | |
Sapta | Sandunes | ROE | Gurbax | Smokey | DCF_Shapes | |
Lagori | Dewdrops | Shadow & Light | Mohini Dey | Benny Dayal & Funktuation | Scribe | |
Alif | Worldservice Project | Blushing Satellite | Abhilash Choudhury | Summersalt | Mali | |
Kimochi Youkai | DOE | Aditi Ramesh | Whale in the Pond | Nothing Anonymous | Zero | |
Jay Abo | Ladies Compartment | Shankar Mahadevan | House of Waters | The Yellow Bucket | Mahesh Raghunandan | |
The Twin Effect | Fame The Band | West Thebarton | Tiny FIngers | Dossers Urge | Avancer | |
Pineapple Express | Carl and the Reda Mafia | Louise Burns | sleepmakeswaves | Smalltalk | Mahesh Kale | |
Komorebi | Kumail | The Yellow Diary | Burudu | DNKLE | Rain in Sahara | |
Hashback Hashish | Corridors | Takar Nabam Trio | Aarifah Rebello | The Pirates | TM Krishna | |
Lacuna | Rafiki | Fiddler's Green | Parvaaz | Across Seconds | Paper Queen | |
Alok Babu aka All.Ok | Ankur and the Ghalat Family | aswekeepsearching | Pentagram | Tipriti Kharbangar & the Clansmen | Sky Level | |
Sanjeeta Bhattacharya | Morning Mourning | adL x k.ly | The Other Soul Collective |
Comedy lineup
editZakir Khan | Biswa Kalyan Rath | Ashish Shakya | Kunal Rao | Radhika Vaz |
Kaneez Surka | Sumaira Shaikh | Sumit Anand | Kavin Jay | Aishwarya Mohanraj |
Prashasti Singh | Navin Noronha | Nishant Suri | Saurav Mehta | Kumar Varun |
Punya Arora | Niveditha Prakasam | Urooj Ashfaq | Azeem Banatwala | Rahul Dua |
2019
editThe 10th edition was held in Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya (1-2 November), and took place in Pune (29 November – 1 December). [11] In August 2019, to celebrate 10 editions of the music festival in Pune, where the first NH7 Weekender was held, pre-sale tickets were put on sale at the same prices they were sold at in 2010 — ₹750 (under 21 season tickets) and ₹1500 (regular season tickets). Headliners include Opeth, Nick Murphy, Karnivool, Marty Friedman, Kodaline and EarthGang.[12]
Music lineup
editNick Murphy | Opeth | Kodaline | EarthGang | Marty Friedman | Karnivool | TesseracT |
Kokoroko | Cozz | Hariharan | Wadalis | Soulmate | Shubha Mudgal | Across Seconds |
Sid Sriram | Sandunes | Garden City Movement | Pengshui | Okedo | Blue Temptation | Antariksh |
MIDIval Punditz | Indian Ocean | Swarathma | Raja Kumari | Yung.Raj | Imphal Talkies | Fame The Band |
Ritviz | Underside | Gully Gang Showcase | Parvaaz | Rafiki | Meba Ofilia | Lo! Peninsula |
BLOT! | Bhayanak Maut | Gutslit | Brotha V | Avora Records | Swadesi | Pakshee |
Aarifah Rebello | Azamaan Hoyvoy | adL x k.ly ft Dappest | SickFlip | DCF_Shapes | Shorthand | Sarathy Korwar |
Arunaja | Black Letters | Boombay Djembe Folas | Chrms | Gauley Bhai | Solr | Zokhuma |
Cut A Vibe | Dee En | Devoid | Ditty | Minute of Decay | Khasi Bloodz | Tejas |
DJ Ishani | Easy Wanderlings | Fopchu | Hanumankind | Kokoroko | Saptak Chatterjee | Praveen Achary |
Kaam Bhari | Spitfire | JBabe | Job Kurian | Pia Collada | That Boy Roby | Small Axe Sound |
Kavya x Chaz | Kumail | Lifafa | MadStarBase | The Koniac Net | The Soul | Water & Rum |
Malfnktion ft Shayan | Many Roots Ensemble | Benny Dayal & Funktuation | When Chai Met Toast | Tanya Nambiar | Anand Bhaskar Collective | Nothing Anonymous |
Raghav Meattle | Ramya Pothuri | Saltwater | The Andrea Tariang Band | Submarine In Space |
Comedy lineup
editAadar Malik | Biswa Kalyan Rath | Zakir Khan | Kanan Gill | Varun Thakur |
BhaDiPa | Aakash Gupta | Kautuk Srivastav | Bassi | Alexander The Comic |
Pavitra Shetty | Neeti Palta | Neetu Bharadwaj | Prashasti Singh | Sejal Bhat |
Tape-A-Tale | Prathyush Chaubey | Rueben Kaduskar | Shreeja Chaturvedi | Surbhi Bagga |
Urooj Ashfaq | Raunaq Rajani | Sumukhi Suresh | Samay Raina | Shaad Shafi |
Rahul Subramanian | Kenny Sebastian | Supriya Joshi | Sumit Saurav |
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