HIVE INDOOR — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

17–18 Oct 2026 (2 days)

Location

Messe-Allee 1, Leipzig, Germany

Sound

techno · hardstyle

Nearest airport

Leipzig/Halle Airport

Nearest station

Leipzig Central Station

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Leipzig · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

44 artists so far

The story

HIVE INDOOR is an electronic music festival held in Leipzig, Germany, at the Messe Leipzig on October 17, 2026. The festival features multiple music stages including Techno Colosseum, Iron Vault, Cargo Bay, Rage Box, and several others. It emphasizes a lineup of diverse electronic music artists performing in a vibrant atmosphere over the course of the event. This festival promotes an immersive experience with extended performances aimed at showcasing various facets of electronic music.

HIVE INDOOR is a 2-day techno, hardstyle festival at Messe-Allee 1 in Leipzig, Germany. The October 2026 edition runs 17–18 Oct 2026.

Announced so far: 44 ALL STARS, A.N.I., AIDEN, ALIGNMENT, ANGERFIST, AZYR, AZZLE 447 and BYORN and 36 more. Expect stages split between techno and hardstyle. The line-up is spread across the 2 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Messe-Allee 1, in Leipzig. Leipzig · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

HIVE INDOOR keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Sunday. 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 Leipzig 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.

• 10 stages featuring over 100 artists
• Takes place in Messe Leipzig
• Scheduled for October 17, 2026
• Features genres like techno and hardstyle
• Prominent acts include Holy Priest, Angerfist, and Kobosil

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Leipzig · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Accessible via public transport and taxis

What the trip costs from Paris

No ticket price is published for this edition yet, so the total below covers travel and a bed only. It updates automatically as soon as the organiser opens sales.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at HIVE INDOOR 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. 4If you fly into Leipzig/Halle Airport, check the transfer time to Leipzig before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow HIVE INDOOR on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Saturday 17 October

  44 ALL STARS, AIDEN, ANGERFIST, AZZLE 447, CHARLIE SPARKS, CLOUDY, DYEN, FELICIE, I HATE MODELS, IN VERRUF, KANDER, KLOFAMA, KUKO (LIVE), NATTE VISTICK, NICOLAS JULIAN, Novah, ONLYNUMBERS, PART TIME KILLER, RESTRICTED, Sara Landry, SOMEWHEN, UEBERREST

• Day 2 — Sunday 18 October

  A.N.I., ALIGNMENT, AZYR, BYORN, CLARA CUVE, DASSTUDACH, FANTASM, HOLY PRIEST, IGDA, KALTE LIEBE (LIVE), Klangkuenstler, KOBOSIL, LEE ANN ROBERTS, NICO MORENO, NOTMYTYPE, OGUZ, ORNELLA, PRADA2000, SANTØS, SCHROTTHAGEN, SVETEC, VIEZE ASBAK

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.

• 2025

  17–18 Oct 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: 44 ALL STARS, A.N.I., AIDEN

• 2024

  17–18 Oct 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: A.N.I., AIDEN, ALIGNMENT

• 2023

  17–18 Oct 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: AIDEN, ALIGNMENT, ANGERFIST

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Leipzig/Halle Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Leipzig Central Station; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Messe-Allee 1, in Leipzig.
• Accessible via public transport and taxis
• Book a bed in Leipzig early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.