Blacksun Festival

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Blacksun Festival
Scan of the 2005 Blacksun Festival program cover.
Genre	goth and industrial music
Location(s)	New Haven, Connecticut
Years active	2005–2007
Website	Blacksun Festival Webpage

The Blacksun Festival was an annual 3-day goth and industrial music international festival held in New Haven, Connecticut, spread out between several different venues.^[1]

History

The festival started in 2005. The festival billed itself as more than just a weekend long concert, but also as a social event designed to pull people together from different parts of the world who share an interest in goth and industrial music. In addition to live performances, the festival included a gothic fashion show, variety shows, a trivia contest, dance afterparties featuring various international goth and industrial DJs, and various music and fashion vendors.

Since many larger goth and industrial festivals are held in Europe, the Blacksun Festival provided a closer opportunity for North American bands to get a chance to perform in a festival setting alongside better established European bands. The final Blacksun was in August 2007.

Band lineups by year

2008 (March 14–16)^[2]

Assemblage 23 | The Azoic | Cesium 137) | Ego Likeness | Iris | Seabound | Zombie Girl | ...

DJs: Ian Fford

2007 (August 10–12)

Stromkern | Tearwave | Terrorfakt | Unto Ashes | Voltaire

DJs: Fuligin (Corrosion, New Haven, CT); Tom Gold (The Castle, Tampa FL); Jet (Cybertron, New York, NY); Bruno Kramm (Das Ich, Germany); Phil Phaid (Flux, New Haven, CT)

Special guest promotions by Contempt! (New York, NY), Haven / DJ Addambombb (MA) and Das Bunker (Los Angeles, CA)

Additional events: Art Show & Reception, the Future Music Panel (with Martin Atkins, Bruno Kramm, Valerie Lovely, Andrew Sega, and Patrick Rogers), Panels, Tech Styles Fashion Show, Vendor Market

2006 (July 28–30)

PTI | 51 Peg

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complications. Das Ich took their spot in the lineup.

DJs: AddamBombb (Northampton, MA); Annabel Evil (NYC); Atterlothe (Providence, RI); Death In Jim (New Haven, CT); DV8 (Cleveland, OH); Kangal (Washington, D.C.), Mange (Hartford, CT); Mighty Mike Saga (Philadelphia, PA); Morgana (Toronto, Canada); Mothra (Boston, MA); Mouse (Raleigh, NC); Nitez (New Haven, CT); Phil Phaid (New Haven, CT); Ratboy (New Haven, CT); Reverend Brian (New Haven, CT); Th'Elf (Toronto, Canada); Vladvamp (Bandung, Indonesia)

2005 (August 5–7)

Carfax Abbey | Platform One | Nightcrawler 1947

DJs: Addambombb, Annabel Evil, Bat, Draven, Ferret, Lee, Lost Boy, Kramm, Rev. Brian, voodoo (San Francisco)

• List of industrial music festivals
• List of electronic music festivals
• List of gothic festivals

References

External links

• Blacksun Festival Webpage
• 2005 Blacksun Festival Archived Webpage