List of gothic festivals

List of gothic festivals

General Information
Related genres	Gothic rock, gothic metal, dark wave, industrial music
Location	Worldwide
Related events	Category:Music festivals, concert tour, music festival, rock festival, electronic music festivals, heavy metal festivals, electronic dance music festivals, technoparade, teknival
Related topics	Goth subculture, goth fashion

The following is an incomplete list of gothic festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on gothic music. Goth festivals may feature genres such as gothic rock and gothic metal, as well as industrial music. The festivals also tend to feature aspects of the Goth subculture, such as fans and bands in goth fashion. Goth is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes.^[1] The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from post-punk due to its darker music accompanied by introspective and romantic lyrics. Gothic rock then gave rise to a broader subculture that included clubs, fashion and publications in the 1980s.

Related lists and categories

The following lists have some or total overlap:

• List of music festivals
• List of rock festivals
• List of heavy metal festivals
• List of electronic music festivals
• List of electronic dance music festivals
• List of technoparades
• List of teknivals

The following categories are related:

• Goth festivals
• Music festivals
• Category:Experimental music festivals
• Rock festivals
• Electronic music festivals
• Heavy metal festivals
• Technoparade

Festivals

• Dark Storm Festival^[2]
• Etropolis Festival^[3]
• Dark Munich Festival^[4]

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Wave-Gotik-Treffen	1987– present		Leipzig, Germany	Annual festival is he largest gothic festival on this planet. Every year hundreds of artists and band from various genres perform at different venues throughout the city over a span of four days.
Whitby Goth Weekend	1994– present		Whitby, North Yorkshire	Twice-yearl goth festival with genres such as EBM and industrial
Castle Party	1994- present		Poland	Above the town Bolków stand the ruins of Bolków Castle, built in the 13th century. Devastated in the Thirty Years' War it became a property of Grüssau Abbey in 1703, though restoration efforts did not begin until 1905. Since 1994 the ruin is the site of the annual "Castle Party" Gothic rock festival.
Convergence	1995- present		North America	annual net.goth party run by and for members of the alt.gothic and alt.gothic.fashion newsgroup, and other related Usenet newsgroups.Events at Convergence typically included live bands and club nights, bazaars, fashion, art shows, panels, and tours of goth-themed locales in the host city. In recent years, however, the festival aspects of this event have been stripped away leaving the event transformed into a meet-up for old friends from past Convergences to get-together.
Bats Day in the Fun Park	1999– present		Anaheim, California	Started in August 1999 as a joint effort between the promoters of the goth/industrial and deathrock clubs Absynthe and Release the Bats. It has become an annual three-day event
Infest	2000– present		Bradford, England	An annual festival featuring a mixture of electronic, industrial and gothic music. The festival features club/DJ events, live concerts from established international artists & new bands to the scene, both clothes & music stalls.
Lumous Gothic Festival	2001– present		Finland	commonly known as Lumous) is the largest festival dedicated to the goth subculture in Finland and the northernmost Gothic festival in the world. covering musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk
M'era Luna Festival	2000-present		Germany
Reverence	2003–2009		Madison, Wisconsin	An electronic music festival. Featuring primarily aggrotech, electro-industrial and synthpop bands, it has also included other electronic dance music genres as well.
Summer Darkness	2003– present		Utrecht, Netherlands	Acts perform in various clubs throughout the city of Utrecht. The festival was a joint venture by Cybercase, Tivoli (Utrecht), EKKO and Mojo until EKKO made the decision in 2009 to quit.
Eccentrik	2004– present		Raleigh, North Carolina	A 3-day industrial and goth music festival. Started in October 2004, Eccentrik features various musical styles including deathrock, gothabilly, industrial, gothic rock, psychobilly, post-punk, synthpop and other related genres.[5]
Blacksun Festival	2005 – 2007		New Haven, Connecticut	Was created in 2005 is a 3-day industrial and goth music international festival. Because larger goth festivals take place in Europe, the festival gives American bands a closer opportunity to play.
Alt-Fest	2014		England	a crowd-sourced alternative music and lifestyle festival, intended to run from 2014 onwards at Boughton Estate, Kettering, England.[6] The inaugural festival promised six stages and 180 bands, but instead, the event was cancelled due to lack of funding, with the controlling company consequently going into liquidation.[7]

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See also

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• List of music festivals
• Gothic rock

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