SAN FRANCISCO, CA - LOVE was in the air on Saturday, September 24th for the second annual Loveparade San Francisco. On this day, 89,000 participants joined together in an alliance of music and diversity.

The spectacular weather provided an ideal setting for Loveparade San Francisco. Twenty four floats paraded down Market Street, the city’s main thoroughfare, for the procession. The marching line-up was comprised of large floats, art cars, dancers, performers and costumed participants, all championed by crowds stretching through the heart of downtown San Francisco. The parade culminated in an all day festival at Civic Center Plaza where more than 200 DJs performed. Participants gathered to observe, dance and listen to the diverse spectacle of electronic music and creative pageantry.


“This year’s Loveparade far exceeded our expectations in terms of the enthusiastic crowd, orderly conduct and cooperation with the City of San Francisco. We’re so proud to bring together the nation’s largest celebration of electronic music, and we look forward to carrying on the tradition next year.”

-JOSHUA SMITH, Loveparade San Francisco Board President


The success of Loveparade is a great testament to the City of San Francisco and to the current state of electronic music in America. The prevailing sentiment had a carnivalesque feeling of merriment and celebration, where everybody was happy to be a part of something significant for electronic music in America, a moment that instilled a feeling of optimism in all the participants.

Inside City Hall, the VIP / Press area was brimming with people who have supported Loveparade all year and contributed to its success. The Heineken press area hosted interviews and photo opportunities for Energy 92.7FM, SPIN magazine, BPM magazine, HD News, Q Television etc. with artists like Carl Cox, The Crystal Method, Mark Farina and others. Meanwhile, The Mutaytor (a Los Angeles based 30 person performance troupe incorporating tribal drums, electronic music, hoop dancers, acrobats and visual effects) performed at the top of the grand marble staircase, under City Hall's impressive rotunda transforming it into a colorful affair with dancing, song, and revelry.

Outside City Hall at the festival, the Skills/Spundae float, positioned directly in front of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, entertained large crowds all day. The Official Skills/Spundae Afterparty was brimming with 9,000 party people and featured sets by UK break beat duo Evil Nine, superstar techno DJ Carl Cox, along with US DJs Bad Boy Bill, DJ Dan, Markus Schulz with the highlight set performed by international DJ star Ferry Corsten.


“It was a good day to be in San Francisco if you were interested in the celebration of good spirit and dance music.” -CNET News.com

"...a platform showcasing the many emerging/healthy factions of the electronic music evolution, presenting each with color and excitement that made the event truly inspirational." -URB Magazine

“[Loveparade]…took over like a collective heartbeat and left the throngs on the sidewalks bobbing their heads in unison.” -San Francisco Chronicle

“Celebrants danced alongside the music-blasting floats. Electronic music shook the concrete under the feet of onlookers, sucking them out into the street to follow their preferred brand of electronic music. By Civic Center, the parade filled the street and the sidewalk with all types of colorful pretty people.” -Oakland Tribune

The organizers would to thank everyone who helped create this year’s Loveparade San Francisco. Without your support we would never have such an event. A special thanks goes out to all the DJs of the world: both those that contributed to making Loveparade San Francisco what it is, and to the others dropping beats all over the world.. We are already looking forward to next year’s Loveparade as we continue to grow a new legacy for electronic music in America.

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89,000 WOW... I didn't even know there was anything goin on inside City Hall, wish I could have caught some of that. Next year's is gonna be CRAZY! I'm excited just thinking of the potential line-up cause judging from other love parades, it only gets more spectacular every year! Lesson learned: I need to wander more and not stay glued to the Spundae float . How do they measure attendance btw?

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How do they come up with that number? Was there someone counting each and every head?

Just curious.

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Originally posted by TSG How do they come up with that number? Was there someone counting each and every head? Just curious.

It is a method used in Calculus II. It is also used for finding wildlife populations.

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You're not saying much. It doesn't really explain anything to me and I'm sure a few others.

What's the method?

HOLY SHIT!! Im so glad I was on the float!!!! That was an amazing day for sure!!

holy, that is a lot more people than last year.
pretty cool that the number boosted so high in just one yeear!!! cant wait to see what the 3rd one is like!!!!

Since we're talking numbers, a bit of history on Berlin's (once upon a time and hopefully soon again) Love Parade:

1989: on former West Berlin's main avenue Kurfürstendamm, legendary Berlin DJ Dr. Motte rallied together with other exciting techno/house groovers of the time and the LOVE PARADE was born. His idea to promote a "housemusic demonstration" evolved into a demonstration FOR something, namely: tolerance, respect and understanding between nations. Instead of speeches and pamphlets there was music.

Becoming an open forum for the international electronic dance music movement, the LOVE PARADE has grown from 150 participants and one truck on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm in 1989 to over a million ravers and 50 trucks. This enthusiasm only supports Dr. Motte's principle that "music.. speaks in thousands of languages and is understood by all".

So, there were 150 people in 1989 and approx. 1.5 million in 1993, the last year the official Love Parade Berlin was held! If San Francisco started with about 30,000 and the second year was 89,000, just imagine where it can go!

Here's to Love Parade 2006 (Berlin, SF, Tel Aviv, UK, Mexico, Austria, South Aftica and everywhere in between). I hope to be at many of them finding the wildlife populations!

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Originally posted by neinerlove HOLY SHIT!! Im so glad I was on the float!!!! That was an amazing day for sure!!

+1!!!

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SF actually has the smallest LP currently...believe the other cities get 300,000 - 700,000 ... but that's largely because of how different the cultures are. Here the music is a part of it, but it's oh so much more....while in the other cities, from the pics I've seen, not nearly as many...uhh...artistic *cough* freaks *cough people...

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Originally posted by Electrophile It is a method used in Calculus II. It is also used for finding wildlife populations.

You talking about integration with logs ruben?

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Originally posted by Xtracktor You talking about integration with logs ruben?

Yes, but also with limits, or maxima and minima. You can't integrate from zero to infinity. You also have to take into consideration the magnitude of trend. You do it over and over and over until you get a steady mean, then you find your standard deviation and there you have it!!! I don't want to get into specifics

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Last edited by Electrophile on Oct-13-2005 at 08:11