NOS Alive

NOS Alive
Genre	Music festival, arts festival
Dates	June (2007-2008) July (2009-present)
Location(s)	Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Algés, Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal
Years active	2007–present
Website
www.nosalive.com

NOS Alive (formerly Optimus Alive!) is a music and arts festival which takes place in the Algés riverside, in Oeiras, Portugal. The first edition took place in 2007. Despite its recent creation, the festival has achieved considerable popularity both inside and outside of Portugal, with the UK magazine NME placing in one of the top 12 European festivals in 2009. In 2012, NME.com's readers rated the festival 10 out of 10.^[1] It is organized by the Everything Is New and its main sponsor is NOS (previously named Optimus).

Editions

Oeiras Alive!07

The first Alive!, was held between 8–10 June 2007, in Algés, Oeiras, and the main attraction was the return of Pearl Jam, Linkin Park and The Smashing Pumpkins, and the first time in Portugal for bands like The Used, The White Stripes and Beastie Boys.

Optimus Stage
8 June	9 June	10 June
Pearl Jam Linkin Park Blasted Mechanism The Used	The Smashing Pumpkins The White Stripes Balla Triângulo de Amor Bizarro	Beastie Boys Da Weasel Donavon Frankenreiter Matisyahu Sam The Kid

Sagres Mini Stage
8 June	9 June	10 June
Shantel e Bucovina Club Orkestar The Sounds The Rakes Unkle Bob Loto Oioai	Dezperados The Go! Team The Dead 60's Capitão Fantasma Plastica Dapunk Sportif	Buraka Som Sistema The (International) Noise Conspiracy WrayGunn The Vicious Five Nigga Poison Tora Tora Big Band

Optimus Alive!08

The second Optimus Alive! was held between 10–12 June. The second edition gained considerable international attention having both Bob Dylan and Neil Young in the line up, among other popular artists like Within Temptation. It was also helped by the U.K. magazine NME, which placed it in a list of Europes 12 best festivals outside of the U.K. along with Benicasim and Roskilde. The low cost of tickets and the optimum weather conditions ensured the festival's success.

Optimus Stage
10 June	11 June	12 June
Rage Against the Machine The Hives Gogol Bordello The National Spiritualized Galactic Kalashnikov	Bob Dylan Within Temptation Buraka Som Sistema John Butler Trio Nouvelle Vague (Cancelled) Kumpania Algazarra	Neil Young Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Donavon Frankenreiter Xavier Rudd Bradiggan

Metro Stage
10 June	11 June	12 June
Boys Noize Tiga Hercules and Love Affair Peaches (DJ Set) Cansei de Ser Sexy (Cancelled) MGMT Vampire Weekend Sons of Albion Skip The Use	Sebastian DJ Mehdi Busy P Uffie Feadz Krazy Baldhead Mr.Flash Vicarious Bliss Unfair	MSTRKRFT Brodinski Gossip Róisín Murphy Midnight Juggernauts The Juan Maclean Sizo

Optimus Alive!09

Corey Taylor of Slipknot performing at the festival in 2009

The third Optimus Alive! was held at the same place between 9–11 July.

Optimus Stage
9 July	10 July	11 July
Metallica Slipknot Machine Head Lamb of God Mastodon Ramp	The Prodigy Placebo Blasted Mechanism The Kooks Eagles of Death Metal Os Pontos Negros	Dave Matthews Band The Black Eyed Peas Chris Cornell Ayo Boss AC

Super Bock Stage
9 July	10 July	11 July
Erol Alkan Crystal Castles Klaxons TV on the Radio Air Traffic Delphic Silversun Pickups Os Golpes	Zombie Nation The Ting Tings Fischerspooner Does It Offend You, Yeah? Hadouken! Late of the Pier John Is Gone The Gaslight Anthem	Deadmau5 Ghostland Observatory Lykke Li autoKratz Trouble Andrew Los Campesinos! A Silent Film X-Wife

Optimus Discos Stage
9 July	10 July	11 July
Mr Mitsuhirato Nuno Lopes The Vicious Five Tiguana Bibles The Bombazines Mazgani	Zig Zag Warriors Coldfinger DJ Ride Bezegol Youthless	DJ Kitten Sofia M Linda Martini Madame Godard The Pragmatic Olive Tree Dance

Optimus Alive!10

The Fourth installment of the Lisbon Festival will take place, as usual, in Passeio Marítimo de Alges.

Fan Packs are available from Fnac which as well as the single or three day tickets they also include an Alive! T-shirt. In 5 of these packs there are five Golden tickets, these tickets grant the winner entrance to the Festival through the V.I.P. entrance, backstage access, a guided tour and a chance to meet and greet the Stars in the Optimus Fan Zone. A three-day pass is €90, and €15 for the camping access, single day tickets cost €50.

Optimus Stage
8 July	9 July	10 July
Faith No More Kasabian Alice in Chains Moonspell Biffy Clyro	Deftones Skunk Anansie Manic Street Preachers Mão Morta Jet	LCD Soundsystem Pearl Jam Gogol Bordello Dropkick Murphys Gomez

Super Bock Stage
8 July	9 July	10 July
Burns Calvin Harris La Roux The xx Florence + the Machine Devendra Banhart The Drums Local Natives	Steve Aoki The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 Booka Shade Gossip New Young Pony Club The Maccabees Holy Ghost! Hurts	Boys Noize Crookers Simian Mobile Disco Peaches The Big Pink Miike Snow Sean Riley & The Slowriders Girls (Band)

Optimus Clubbing Stage
8 July	9 July	10 July
Planet Turbo Presents: Proxy (Live) Tiga Boy 8-Bit Matias Aguayo Band (Live) Aeroplane Villa Nah (Live) Jori Hulkkonen Shit Robot Youthless	Enchufada Showcase Laidback Luke Benga Buraka Som Sistema (DJ Set) Sinden Zombies For Money Octa Push (Live) Macacos do Chinês (DJ Set) PAUS (Live) Enchufada DJ's	The Legendary Tigerman Presents: Homens da Luta The Bellrays Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws Micro Audio Waves The Legendary Tigerman presents Femina with Asia Argento, Maria de Medeiros, Peaches (musician), Rita Redshoes, Lisa Kekaula, Cibelle, Phoebe Killdeer, Becky Lee, Claudia Efe, Mafalda Nascimento Cibelle Becky Lee & Drunkfoot Noiserv Enday

Optimus Alive'11

The fifth installment of the Lisbon Festival took place, as usual, in Passeio Marítimo de Alges, Oeiras. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the festival, Optimus Alive added a fourth day, during which headliners Coldplay performed.^[2]

Optimus Stage
6 July	7 July	8 July	9 July
Coldplay Blondie Grouplove The Twilight Singers	Foo Fighters Iggy & The Stooges Xutos e Pontapés My Chemical Romance Jimmy Eat World	The Chemical Brothers Thirty Seconds to Mars You Me at Six (canceled) The Pretty Reckless (canceled) Klepht (canceled)	Duck Sauce Jane's Addiction Paramore Kaiser Chiefs White Lies Lululemon

Super Bock Stage
6 July	7 July	8 July	9 July
Patrick Wolf James Blake Anna Calvi These New Puritans Example Avi Buffalo The Naked and Famous Mona	Primal Scream The Bloody Beetroots Seasick Steve Kele Okereke Teratron Os Golpes Everything Everything Bombay Bicycle Club Crocodiles	Grinderman Thievery Corporation Fleet Foxes Digitalism Slimmy Friendly Fires Angus & Julia Stone Massay	TV on the Radio Dizzee Rascal Foals A-Trak Fake Blood Orelha Negra Linda Martini WU LYF Stereopack

Optimus Clubbing Stage
6 July	7 July	8 July	9 July
Amor Fúria Salto Feromona Os Velhos Smix Smox Smux Os Capitães da Areia Manuel Fúria e os Naufrágios Asterisco Cardinal Bomba Caveira O Deserto Branco O Verão Azul	Enchufada Diplo Buraka Som Sistema Goose Carte Blanche Joker feat. Nomad Spoek Mathambo Wildlife! Diamond Bass Da Chick The Yardangs	Dim Mak Steve Aoki Afrojack Sidney Samson Atari Teenage Riot Uffie Congorock Autoerotique Mustard Pimp Motor Tai Scanners Rob Roy New Ivory	Boys Noize Erol Alkan Housemeister Spank Rock Djedjotronic Gold Panda Feadz Strip Steve Shadow Dancer

Optimus Alive'12

The sixth year of the festival drew crowds of more than 55,000 people to hear bands like Radiohead, Warpaint, The Maccabees, and The Kills.^[3] The festival's atmosphere failed to charm all its attendees, like The Line of Best Fit's Suze Olbrich, who described her first impression of the festival grounds as a "car park with an enormous hulking main stage, two smaller hooded stages and more branded eateries and stalls than I’ve ever come across in one place".^[4] Olbrich did compliment the sound quality blasting from all three stages, but mentioned the first day artists had no hope of filling the "cavernous" arenas, zapping some energy from the performances.^[4]

Headliners Radiohead's performance capped off the final night of the festival. The band mostly performed works from its 2011 album King of Limbs. Radiohead was called back for two encores, and performed a section of REM's 'The One I Love'.^[3]

The Maccabees also performed on the final day of the festival. During their set, the band broke into a rendition of "Happy Birthday", as 15 July was also the band's bassist Rupert Jarvis' birthday.^[3]

The Sunday performances wrapped up well after 4 a.m. Monday morning.^[4]

Optimus Stage
13 July	14 July	15 July
Justice The Stone Roses Snow Patrol Refused Danko Jones	The Cure Morcheeba Mumford & Sons Noah and the Whale We Trust	Radiohead Caribou The Kooks PAUS

Heineken Stage
13 July	14 July	15 July
Death in Vegas Zola Jesus Buraka Som Sistema Santigold LMFAO Miúda Dum Dum Girls The Parkinsons The Royal Blasphemy	Blasted Mechanism Sebastian Katy B Tricky Dolphin The Antlers Here We Go Magic Big Deal Lisa Hannigan	Metronomy The Kills SBTRKT Mazzy Star The Maccabees Warpaint Miles Kane Eli "Paperboy" Reed

Optimus Clubbing Stage
13 July	14 July	15 July
Brodinski Planningtorock Miss Kittin Busy P Gesaffelstein Club Cheval Logo Aeroplane Rory Phillips	James Murphy + Pat Mahoney Art Department Visionquest Guy Gerber Shonky & Dan Gherbacia Ninja Kore	Seth Troxler Moullinex + Xinobi Carbon Airways B Fachada Márcia Best Youth Laia

Optimus Alive 2012 was nominated for several European Festival Awards—Best Major Festival, Best European Festival Line-up and Artists' Favourite Festival.^[5] Ultimately, Optimus went home empty-handed however.^[6]

Optimus Alive'13

NOS Alive crowd during Depeche Mode performance in 2013.

Optimus Alive 2013 took place from 12 to 14 July 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. Ticket prices for the 2013 festival range from €53 for a day ticket to €121 for a three-day pass and camping accommodations.^[7]

Optimus Stage
12 July	13 July	14 July
Steve Aoki Green Day Two Door Cinema Club Biffy Clyro Sterophonics	2manydjs Depeche Mode Editors Jurassic 5 Oquestrada	Kings of Leon Phoenix Tame Impala Jake Bugg Linda Martini

Heineken Stage
12 July	13 July	14 July
Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg with Andrew Wk on Vocals Crystal Fighters Vampire Weekend Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Dead Combo Japandroids Deap Valley Jamie N Commons Quelle Dead Gazelle	Crystal Castles Hercules & Love Affair SoundSystem The Legendary Tigerman Jamie Lidell Capitão Fausto Rhye Wild Belle DIIV Oeiras Band Sessions	The Bloody Beetroots Django Django Band of Horses Alt-J Twin Shadow Of Monsters and Men Brass Wires Orchestra Tribes Capitão Ortense

Optimus Clubbing Stage
12 July	13 July	14 July
Redlight Mosca Disclosure Dusky Jessie Ware Shadow Child Huxley AlunaGeorge Gold Panda Two Inch Punch	Dezperados Matias Aguayo feat. Alejandro Paz Metro Area Flume Yen Sung How to Dress Well Switchst(D)ance Time for T	Seth Troxler Alex Metric Brodinski + Gesaffelstein White Haus (live band) Daniel Avery Blaya Zé Pedro Moura Max Drum Mad Called Honey

NOS Alive'14

On 2014 the festival was rebranded as NOS Alive.

NOS Stage
10 July	11 July	12 July
Arctic Monkeys Interpol Imagine Dragons The Lumineers Ben Howard	Buraka Som Sistema The Black Keys MGMT The Last Internationale The Vicious Five	The Libertines Foster The People Bastille The Black Mamba You Can't Win, Charlie Brown

Heineken Stage
10 July	11 July	12 July
Booka Shade Parov Stelar Band Kelis Elbow Tiago Bettencourt The 1975 Temples Noiserv Jacarés	Caribou SBTRKT Au Revoir Simone We Trust Sam Smith Parquet Courts For Pete Sake Russian Red Allen Stone	Nicolas Jaar Chet Faker Daughter PAUS Unknown Mortal Orchestra The War on Drugs Cass McCombs Tom Mash The 7Riots

NOS Clubbing
10 July	11 July	12 July
Jamie xx Daphni Pearson Sound Pantha Du Prince Midland Tasker	Branko Boys Noize Gunrose Diplo Dillon Francis Toddla T D'Alva com Gospel Collective Kuroma Matilha	A-Trak Nina Kraviz Jungle Phantogram Cherub SOHN Drenge Caelum's Edge Gin Party Sound System

Jardim Caixa - Comedy Stage
10 July	11 July	12 July
Aldo Lima Salvador Martinha Luís Franco-Bastos Manuel Marques Rui Cruz Luísa Barbosa (host)	César Mourão Eduardo Madeira Los Madraços Tânia Barbosa Zé Beirão Catarina Matos (host)	Nilton Luis Filipe Borges António Raminhos Hugo Sousa João Carlos Cunha - O Humorista Guilherme Fonseca (host)

NOS Alive'15

The festival took place from 9 to 11 July at Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Portugal.^[8]

NOS Stage
9 July	10 July	11 July
Muse alt-J Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals James Bay The Wombats	The Prodigy Mumford & Sons Sheppard Marmozets Blasted Mechanism	Disclosure Chet Faker Sam Smith Counting Crows HMB

Heineken Stage
9 July	10 July	11 July
Flume Django Django Cavaliers of Fun Metronomy Capitão Fausto Young Fathers Señores Galgo	Róisín Murphy James Blake Future Islands The Ting Tings Bleachers Kodaline Cold Specks Bear's Den Daniel Kemish	Chromeo Flight Facilities Azealia Banks The Jesus and Mary Chain Mogwai Dead Combo Sleaford Mods Soldier’s Heart That Rebellion

NOS Clubbing
9 July	10 July	11 July
Julio Bashmore X-Wife Tiga Breach Benji B Eclair Fifi Cityspark	Magazino Moullinex Batida DJ Kamala Capicua DJ Kamala Skip&Die Dianna Sousa	Miss Kittin Erol Alkan Louisahhh!!! SUPER DISCOUNT 3 DJEDJOTRONIC Riton (DJ Set) Alex Metric B2B Aeroplane Feadz John Ascia

Raw Coreto by G-Star Raw
9 July	10 July	11 July
Nice Weather For Ducks DJ Zé Pedro Basset Hounds DJ Zé Pedro Light Gun Fire Les Crazy Coconuts	DJ Fernando Alvim Tape Junk Los Waves Prana Naked Affair	DJ Pedro Ramos Raury Tracy Vandal Cave Story Pista

Jardim Caixa - Comedy Stage
9 July	10 July	11 July
The Boy With Tape On His Face Manuel João Vieira Diogo Faro Bumerangue Pedro Durão Rita Camarneiro (Host)	Herman José Francisco Menezes Jean Carreira Hugo Rosa Rui Xará Jorge Picoto Rita de la Rochezoire (Host)	Rui Unas feat. DJ Van Breda Rui Sinel de Cordes Carlos Moura Paulo Almeida Irmãos Machado Inês Aires Pereira (Host)

NOS Entrance
9 July	10 July	11 July
Kerafix & Vultaire Lodo DJ Goodrhythm Onica DJMI Casuar	Dré Guimarães Anomalia Sound Trap Layover Franklin Andycode	Metrica Los Bradas DJ Magillian Galgo DJ Hugh Lyricalminds

NOS Alive'16

In 2016 the festival is celebrating its 10th edition from 7 to 9 July and has already announced the following names:

NOS Stage
7 July	8 July	9 July
The Chemical Brothers Pixies Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters Biffy Clyro The 1975	Radiohead Tame Impala Foals Years & Years	M83 Arcade Fire Band Of Horses Agir Vetusta Morla

Heineken Stage
7 July	8 July	9 July
Wolf Alice John Grant Vintage Trouble 2manyDJs (DJ Set) Soulwax	Hot Chip Two Door Cinema Club Father John Misty Courtney Barnett Jagwar Ma Carlão	Ratatat Grimes Calexico José González Little Scream PAUS

NOS Clubbing
7 July	8 July	9 July
Junior Boys Branko SG Lewis Bob Moses Xinobi Throes + The Shine	NBC, Sir Scratch & Bob da Rage Sense Mundo Segundo & Sam The Kid Da Chick HMB, DJ Kamala & Filipe Gonçalves MGDRV Rocky Marsiano & Meu Mamba Sound DJ Kamala	Boys Noize Club cheval Mirror People Francis Dale Isaura Whales

Jardim Caixa - Comedy Stage
7 July	8 July	9 July
John Cooper Clarke Salvador Martinha feat. Tatanka Môce Dum Cabreste Pedro Figueiredo Carlos Vidal Soraia Carrega (Host)	Pedro Tochas João Seabra Diogo Batáguas David Almeida Joana Machado Inês Aires Pereira (Host)	Top Genius - Nuno Markl e Vasco Palmeirim Altos e Baixos - Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão António Machado Planeta Fluffen João Paulo Sousa Rita Camarneiro (Host)

Media coverage

The festival is broadcast live on television (through both linear channels and online multistreaming) by RTP since 2012 (it was previously broadcast by SIC on a single channel, that was SIC Radical, between 2007 and 2011) and on radio by Rádio Comercial since its inception.

See also

• List of rock festivals

References

1. "Optimus Alive". Retrieved 1 October 2013.
2. "OPTIMUS ALIVE 2011 – DAY 1 REVIEW". Retrieved 1 October 2013.
3. "Radiohead cover REM at Portugal's Optimus Alive festival". Retrieved 1 October 2013.
4. Olbrich, Suze. "Optimus Alive: Day 1". Retrieved 1 October 2013.
5. "European Festival Award Nominees Announced". This Festival Feeling. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
6. "And the winners are...". Retrieved 1 October 2013.
7. "Optimus Alive 2013 FAQs". Retrieved 1 October 2013.
8. "Lineup - NOS Alive Festival". Retrieved 12 April 2015.

External links

• Official website