Draaimolen — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–2 Sept 2027 (2 days)

Location

MOB-complex, Tilburg, Netherlands

Sound

Techno · ambient · experimental

Tickets

€117 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Draaimolen is a 2-day techno, ambient, experimental festival at MOB-complex in Tilburg, Netherlands. The September 2027 edition runs 1–2 Sept 2027.

Expect stages split between Techno, ambient and experimental.

Everything happens at MOB-complex, in Tilburg. Tilburg is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

Draaimolen keeps the same calendar slot each year: September 2027 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Thursday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Tilburg are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Draaimolen works out at roughly €377 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.

The ticket is only 31% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is bus · 6h 43m each way, at €50 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Draaimolen are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Draaimolen on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2026

  1–2 Sept 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  1–2 Sept 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  1–2 Sept 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is MOB-complex, in Tilburg.
• Book a bed in Tilburg early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus6h 43m · €50
• car5h 30m · €109
• train4h 10m · €129
• air4h · €130