Ghostfest

Ghostfest

Location(s)	Leeds
Years active	2005 - 2006, 2008- Present
Genre	Metalcore, deathcore, hardcore punk
Website	[1]

Ghostfest is a metal/hardcore festival that first took place in the Leeds Cockpit across 2 days in August 2005, returning in 2006. It brought together the best of the UK’s underground hardcore and metal crop along with metal and hardcore bands from Europe and America. There was no Ghostfest in 2007, but it has returned every year since 2008, and has now become a household name on the European indoor metal & hardcore scene growing to ten times its original capacity since its inception in 2005.

Ghostfest 2005

The first Ghostfest took place on Saturday 13 August and Sunday 14 August at the Leeds Cockpit on its smaller stage due to the main stage being unavailable. 18 of the underground metal and hardcore acts played. It was priced at £15 for a 2 day pass and the festival sold out in advance. The whole festival was shot and released as a DVD.

Saturday 13 August	Sunday 14 August
Hondo Maclean Eden Maine Love That Kills Azriel Penknifelovelife Test Switch Isolator Everette Her Words Kill Son Of A Fiend	Sikth Johnny Truant November Coming Fire Bring Me The Horizon The Legacy Shaped by Fate Architects Carbine Spasticated Razor Masturbator

Ghostfest 2006

The second Ghostfest took place on Saturday 12 August and Sunday 13 August. It was once again held in the Cockpit, but on both stages. Once again Ghostfest brought together the best underground bands the UK had to offer but it also showcased some heavyweight bands such as Canadian Death Metal legends, Cryptopsy and the increasingly popular Bring Me The Horizon. There were also popular post hardcore screamo bands in the form of The Blackout.
In a bid to let people see as many bands as possible without any potential clashes, stage times were alternated between the two stages so one band would play on the main stage while another would set-up on the second stage.
A day ticket cost £19, whilst a weekend pass cost £25. Ghostfest again sold out in advance. Some bands pulled out in the course of the weekend.

Main Stage

Saturday 12 August	Sunday 13 August
Cryptopsy Knuckledust* Job For A Cowboy Azriel Broken Oath Clone The Fragile Viatrophy The Murder Obsession Submerged	Bring Me The Horizon Devil Sold His Soul Architects Penknifelovelife Flood Of Red Baysix From The Carnival Of Horrors So Red The Rose April Dead

Second Stage

Saturday 12 August	Sunday 13 August
Gorerotted The Seventh Cross Burning Skies Raise The Dead Eternal Lord Everette Test Switch Isolator* Soon To Be September* The New Jonny Saville Mystery Project	Send More Paramedics The Blackout Cry For Silence D-Rail 8control Camorra From Grace A Thousand Battles Lost Buried Between The Cross*

• Pulled out*

Ghostfest 2008

The third Ghostfest took place on Saturday 28th of June and Sunday 29th of June and was this time held at Rios Leeds. A day ticket cost £20 and a weekend ticket cost £30. Some bands pulled out of their slots including Consort With Romeo who were replaced by Clone The Fragile for their last ever show and Annotations Of An Autopsy who were replaced by The Rotted. This was the first Ghostfest not to sell out.

Turbog Stage

Saturday 28 June	Sunday 29 June
Cult Of Luna Architects Devil Sold His Soul Azriel Dead Swans Your Demise* Blackhole The Rotted Martyr Defiled The Eyes Of A Traitor	Johnny Truant The Berzerker Exit Ten Raging Speedhorn Glamour Of The Kill Burn Down Rome Clone The Fragile Cry For Silence Miss Conduct Dividing The Line

Jagermeister Stage

Saturday 28 June	Sunday 29 June
Trigger The Bloodshed Shaped by Fate Postmortem Promises* The Ocean Collective Gold Kids* Many Things Untold The Arusha Accord Ingested Lower Than Atlantis The Torture Of Comacine	The Ghost of a Thousand The Plight Malefice The Legacy Ted Maul Anterior The Secret* Bury Tomorrow Fei Comodo The Vehicle Field

• Pulled out*

Ghostfest 2009

Ghostfest 2009 took place on Saturday 27th of June and Sunday 28th of June and was again held at Rios Leeds. The ticket prices dropped to £17.50 per day and £25 for the weekend, with the festival sold out in advance.

Front Stage

Saturday 27 June	Sunday 28 June
Whitechapel Annotations of an Autopsy* Azriel The Eyes of a Traitor Trigger The Bloodshed* Evita Postmortem Promises* Lower Than Atlantis Martyr Defiled	Despised Icon Sylosis Your Demise Viatrophy More Than Life Traces Brutality Will Prevail Project Metropolis

Monster Energy / Honour Over Glory Stage

Saturday 27 June	Sunday 28 June
Ted Maul The Arusha Accord Ignominious Incarceration Yashin Bury Tomorrow Ingested Heart In Hand This Is Colour	Dead Swans Flood Of Red Failsafe The Argent Dawn Chaos Days Veils Throne Of Decia

• Pulled out*

Ghostfest 2010

Ghostfest 2010 took place at the Leeds University on the 26th and 27th of June.

Monster Energy Stage

Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
The Acacia Strain Clone The Fragile Azriel The Arusha Accord Bleed From Within More Than Life TRC Desolated	Gallows Devil Sold His Soul Evergreen Terrace The Seventh Cross The Eyes of a Traitor Lower Than Atlantis Ingested Brutality Will Prevail

Honour Over Glory Stage / Thirty Days Of Night Records Stage

Saturday 26 June	Sunday 27 June
Knuckledust Trigger The Bloodshed Martyr Defiled Ignominious Incarceration * This Is Colour Throats Monuments Curses	Dead Swans Evita The Boy Will Drown Last Witness The Argent Dawn The Torture Of Comacine While She Sleeps With One Last Breath

• Pulled out*

Ghostfest 2011

Ghostfest 2011 took place at the Leeds University on the 25th and 26th of June. The festival sold out in advance.

Monster Energy Stage

Saturday 25 June	Sunday 26 June
Bury Your Dead Your Demise Bury Tomorrow Viatrophy Annotations Of An Autopsy Ingested Martyr Defiled Demoraliser	Suicide Silence Bleed From Within After The Burial TRC Evita Against The Flood Silent Screams With One Last Breath

Honour Over Glory Stage

Saturday 25 June	Sunday 26 June
While She Sleeps Brutality Will Prevail Last Witness Heart Of A Coward Hero In Error Breaking Point Bays Broken Teeth	Deez Nuts More Than Life Heights Heart In Hand Basement Polar Crossbreaker The Ocean Between Us

• All Shall Perish pulled out due to problems with the release date of their album.

External links

• Ghostfest on Myspace