Ski Festival

Over 13,000 fans attend David Guetta concert

Although Schladming’s Planai peak has been open to skiers since October 17, the official opening only took place on December 5, 2009. Over 13,000 fans made a pilgrimage to Schladming to be on hand for David Guetta’s formal celebration marking the opening of the Planai Stadium. Among them: 280 journalists from across Europe.

Conditions could not have been better: a deep-snow winter landscape, perfectly prepared runs and David Guetta at his best.
At 21:30pm, the wait was finally over for enthusiastic fans who came to the season launch event.

Superstar DJ David Guetta opened his sensational set with his mega-hit, “I Gotta Feeling”. With more than 13,000 visitors, the Schladming ski season opening event in the Planai stadium, which sold out three weeks before the event, broke all previous visitor records. 280 national and international media representatives attended a press conference in the snow with David Guetta at the Planai Bergstation (1800 metres above sea level) and met the visibly cheerful star, who had only just arrived from LA. The star DJ arrived for the press conference wearing a real “Schladming Rock” jacket, in a Guetta Look-branded VIP cable car gondola. The press conference was held against a background of an ice-cool DJ booth. Planai Managing Director Ernst Trummer and Schladming Mayor Jürgen Winter officially welcomed the renowned artist.

But there was no ice in the mood at David Guetta’s mega-concert – the evening was super-hot, and not even the summer’s mega-hit “When Love Takes Over” (feat. Kelly Rowland) was missing.

Budding Austrian pop star and 2009 Amadeus prize winner Anna F., who toured with Lenny Kravitz in the spring, opened the concert in the Planai Stadium.