Lumous Gothic Festival
goth festival in Tampere, Finland (2001–2020)
Lumous Gothic Festival (more commonly known as Lumous) was the largest festival dedicated to the goth subculture in Finland and the northernmost Gothic festival in the world. The four-day event was organised every summer in Tampere in late June or early July. While its primary focus was on music, covering musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk, other cultural and arts events were also organised as part of the festival. Lumous Festival consisted mainly of club nights organised in bars and clubs at the centre of Tampere, and also included a cruise dubbed die dunkle Seereise on the lake Pyhäjärvi.
Lumous was organised yearly by Lumous Gothic Ry, and its history dates back to 2001 when a handful of Tampere club nights decided to join forces and organise a three-day event called Extreme Gothic Weekend with performances from Two Witches, Nik, The Candles Burning Blue and Viola. Since then, the name of the event was changed in 2002 to the current Lumous Gothic Festival, the festival gained popularity within Finland and beyond, and also expanded to a four-day event. Previous years have seen international acts such as Zombina and the Skeletones, Das Ich, Haujobb, Pro-jekt and Killing Miranda play at Lumous, along with local bands such as Two Witches, Masquerade, Virgin in Veil and Suruaika.
Program by year
2001 Lumous Gothic Festival I
Originally known as Extreme Gothic Weekend
Bands
Two Witches (FI)
The Candles Burning Blue (FI)
Viola (FI)
Niklas Carlsson of Dark Side Cowboys (SE)
2002 Lumous Gothic Festival II
Bands
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (SE)
No Festival Of Neither Light Order Roses Nor Equilibrium (SE)
Tabloid (SE)
Suruaika (FI)
The Candles Burning Blue (FI)
A.Z.O.I.C. (FI)
J. Witch & M. Hautamäki Acoustic (FI)
Special guest DJ
Frey (FI)
2003 Lumous Gothic Festival III
Bands
Sepulcrum Mentis (DE)
Varjo (FI)
Imaginary Walls (SE)
Martin Kasprzak & Marko Hautamäki (DE/FI)
The Cyan Velvet Project (FI)
UltraNoir (FI)
Nyx (FI)
Gravehill (FI)
2004 Lumous Gothic Festival IV
Bands
Killing Miranda (UK)
Coph Nia (SE)
Haujobb (DE)
VJ Fetish 23 (SE)
Suruaika (FI)
Machine Park (FI)
Scarecrow (FI)
2005 Lumous Gothic Festival V
Bands
Angels & Agony (NL)
Midnight Configuration (UK)
Two Witches (FI)
The Protagonist (SE)
Pro-jekt (UK)
Neon Zoo (UK)
Angelica Kult (FI)
Mesmer (FI)
The Mimic (FI)
2006 Lumous Gothic Festival VI
Bands
Zombina & The Skeletones (UK)
Inertia (UK)
Raison d'Etre (SE)
Libitina (UK)
Doppelgänger (RU)
Suruaika (FI)
Silene (FI)
UltraNoir (FI)
Nevernettles (FI)
2007 Lumous Gothic Festival VII
Bands
Das Ich (DE)
All Gone Dead (UK)
Venus Fly Trap (UK)
KnifeLadder (UK)
Suicidal Romance (EE)
Suruaika (FI)
SinMasters (FI)
Machine Park (FI)
80th Disorder (FI)
Varjopiiri (FI)
Special guest DJ
Trevize (FI)
Lecture
Sofi Oksanen (FI)
2008 Lumous Gothic Festival VIII
Bands
Psyche (CA/DE)
Kirlian Camera (IT)
Star Industry (BE)
The Last Days of Jesus (SK)
Desiderii Marginis (SE)
Voices of Masada (UK)
Forgotten Sunrise (EE)
Novus (UK)
Beati Mortui (FI)
Curtain Call (FI)
Documentary
Vuoden Synkin Juhla (about Finnish Goth scene)
2009 Lumous Gothic Festival IX
Bands
Project Pitchfork (DE)
Inkubus Sukkubus (UK)
Vendemmian (UK)
Deviant UK (UK)
Patenbrigade:Wolff (DE)
Golden Apes (DE)
Trümmerfrau (DE)
Grunt (FI)
Silene (FI)
Murnau's Playhouse (FI)
Silent Scream (FI)
The Mimic (FI)
-Sihil (FI)
Lecturer
Timo Vuorensola (FI)
2010 Lumous Gothic Festival X
Bands
Leæther Strip (DK)
XP8 (IT)
Nosferatu (UK)
Two Witches (FI/DE)
Deutsch Nepal (SE)
The Cemetary Girlz (FR)
Waves Under Water (SE)
Grooving In Green (UK)
Silene (FI)
Chaos Research (FI)
Kuroshio (FI)
Haeretici 7074 (FI)
Maria (FI)
Documentary
Vuoden Synkin Juhla (about Finnish Goth scene)
2011 Lumous Gothic Festival XI
Bands
Klutæ (DK)
Star Industry (BE)
Anne-Marie Hurst Skeletal Family (UK)
Attrition (UK)
Freakangel (EE)
Larva (ES)
Lloyd James & Edel Braun (UK)
Silent Scream (FI)
UltraNoir (FI)
Wreckdance (FI)
-Sihil (FI)
Loistava Polku (FI)
Impakt! (FI)
Depressed Blokes (FI)
Single Sound (FI)
Special guest DJ
[M4RC] (NL)
2012 Lumous Gothic Festival XII
Bands
Extinction Front (ES)
Soviet Soviet (IT)
The Last Days of Jesus (SK)
Chaos All Stars (SE)
Bloodygrave & Die Lust! (DE)
Emplosia (RU)
Jemek Jemowit (DE)
Psyyke (FI)
Oldschool Union (FI)
Impakt!
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