Drop Dead Festival
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| Genres | Deathrock, Goth Rock, Psychobilly, Post-Punk |
The Drop Dead Festival is the biggest Deathrock festival and one of the largest horror music events in the world. A multiple day festival, Drop Dead is annually held in New York, NY with additional smaller events having formally been held in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Jersey. THis year Festival will be held in USA and Europe (Prague). Musical styles typically featured at Drop Dead include deathrock, psychobilly, gothabilly, gothic rock, post-punk, horror punk and dark cabaret. The festival is also notable for its elaborate stage designs, bazaar of vendors of scene paraphernalia, and a dancefloor featuring deathrock and post-punk djs from around the world.
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[edit] History
The first Drop Dead Festival was held in August 2003, after the success of a series of smaller events put on by NY Decay Productions at the Pyramid in New York. The festival was originally held at the infamous CBGBs punk rock club, but subsequent Drop Dead Festivals have moved to the much larger Knitting Factory, also in lower Manhattan. In-line with the Deathrock scene, the event spawns pre-parties and after-parties, which still occasionally take place at CBGBs. In 2005, the Drop Dead Festival grew to four days, during Halloween week. Three of the days were in the Knitting Factory and one in the old Limelight club. About 5,000 people attended this event, featuring headliner Nina Hagen.
In 2006 the Drop Dead Festival was held at the Knitting Factory, on Labor Day weekend, September 1-3 with Lene Lovich as one of the headliners. Festival also includes screenings and in 2006 movie " Forbidden Zone" Was screened with the director Richard Elfman flying in for a talk and Q and A.
[edit] Drop Dead Magazine
In 2005, NY Decay Productions began work on publishing Drop Dead Magazine, which covers many of the bands who play at the festival. The quarterly publication holds the same goals as the festival, promoting deathrock, post-punk, new wave, psychobilly and related musical styles. With the Current issue Issue 2 (Although the 3d magazine , DDM having started with Issue 0) magazine went full color and to 80 glossy pages of music and scene coverage.
[edit] Drop Dead Artists
Past shows have featured exclusive appearances by international headliners, such as Antiworld (2003), Ausgang (2004), Autonervous (2005), Bella Morte (2004, 2005), Bohemién (2005), Cinema Strange (2003, 2004, 2005 2006 ), Coffin Nails (2005), Cult of the Psychic Fetus (2003, 2004, 2005), Deadbolt (2004), Deep Eynde (2004), Frankenstein (2004), Frank the Baptist (2005), Holy Cow (2004), The Naked and the Dead (2005), Nina Hagen (2005), Phenomenauts (2005), Rezurex (2005), Scarlet's Remains (2005), Skeletal Family (2004), World Inferno Friendship Society (2005), Lene Lovich (2006), Submarine Fleet (2007) and hundreds of other up-and-coming, as well as established, bands.
