The Damned, Dead Kennedys, and The Defiled for Alt-Fest

<s>Alt-Fest</s> - CANCELLED 2014 - The Damned — Photo credit: Rob Matheson

Alt-Fest - CANCELLED 2014

Friday 15th to Sunday 17th August 2014
Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 9UP, England MAP
£145

Daily capacity: 50,000

The Damned, Dead Kennedys, and The Defiled lead the latest acts confirmed for Alt-Fest.

The Damned are now confirmed as the last gothic stage headliner delivering a special set-list, featuring tracks that have not been played live for many years.

The line-up will also now include Heart Of A Coward, Revoker, Hawk Eyes, Theatre Of Hate, Other Day, Rubella Ballet, She Past Away, Soror Dolorosa, Whispers In The Shadow, and Collisions.

The crowd funded alternative lifestyle festival set to take place for the first time from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th August 2014 at Boughton House, in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

The event, will feature over 130 acts across the metal, rock, goth, industrial, steampunk and more genres are now booked with headliners to be revealed soon. Most importantly Alt-Fest, which is operating a strict policy of ‘run by the fans, for the fans’, is engaging their audience in every aspect of the planning process making Alt-Fest not just crowd-funded but also crowd-led.

The line-up includes Cradle of Filth, The Cult, Arch Enemy, Killing Joke, Gary Numan, Fields of Nephilim, Malefice, Onslaught, Fearless Vampire Killers, Truckfighters, Palm Reader, Primitai, Combichrist, Amen, Satyricon, Peter Murphy, The Howling, Dead Harts, Sanctorum, The One Hundred, Skarlett Riot, Bad Pollyanna, Peter Hook and the Light playing 'Unknown Pleasures', and many more.

Alt-Fest will feature seven live music stages, presenting crucial Goth, Metal and Industrial acts, plus the 'best-of-the-next' on a newcomers stage, and a punter voted main stage line-up.

Alt-Fest will feature six live music stages, presenting crucial Goth, Metal and Industrial acts, plus the 'best-of-the-next' on a newcomers stage, and a punter voted main stage line-up.

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A weekend ticket with camping is priced at £85, and a child aged 13-15 ticket is priced at£50 including camping. 2 early bird adults tickets are priced at £150.

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