Lumous Gothic Festival

Lumous Gothic Festival
Genre	gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM, neofolk
Location(s)	Tampere, Finland
Years active	2001 – 2020
Website	Lumous Gothic Festival

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.^[1] Since then, the name of the event was changed in 2002 to the current Lumous Gothic Festival,^[1] 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 play at Lumous, along with local bands such as Two Witches, Masquerade, Virgin in Veil and .

Program by year[]

2001 Lumous Gothic Festival I (originally known as Extreme Gothic Weekend)[]

Bands: Two Witches (FI), , Viola (FI), Niklas Carlsson of (SE)

2002 Lumous Gothic Festival II[]

Bands: Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (SE), , Tabloid (SE), , , A.Z.O.I.C. (FI),

Special guest DJ: Frey (FI)

2003 Lumous Gothic Festival III[]

Bands: , Varjo (FI), , Martin Kasprzak & Marko Hautamäki (DE/FI), , UltraNoir (FI), Nyx (FI), Gravehill (FI)

2004 Lumous Gothic Festival IV[]

Bands: , Coph Nia (SE), Haujobb (DE), , , , Scarecrow (FI)

2005 Lumous Gothic Festival V[]

Bands: Angels & Agony (NL), , Two Witches (FI), The Protagonist (SE), Pro-jekt (UK), , , 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), , Silene (FI), UltraNoir (FI), Nevernettles (FI)

2007 Lumous Gothic Festival VII[]

Bands: Das Ich (DE), All Gone Dead (UK), Venus Fly Trap (UK), , , , SinMasters (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), , Forgotten Sunrise (EE), , , Curtain Call (FI)

Documentary: Vuoden Synkin Juhla (About Finnish Goth scene)

2009 Lumous Gothic Festival IX[]

Bands: Project Pitchfork (DE), Inkubus Sukkubus (UK), , Deviant UK (UK), , , Trümmerfrau (DE), Grunt (FI), Silene (FI), Murnau's Playhouse (FI), Silent Scream (FI), The Mimic (FI)], -Sihil (FI)

Lecture: Timo Vuorensola (FI)

2010 Lumous Gothic Festival X[]

Bands: Leæther Strip (DK), XP8 (IT), Nosferatu (UK), Two Witches (FI/DE), Deutsch Nepal (SE), , , Grooving In Green (UK), Silene (FI), , Kuroshio (FI), Haeretici 7074 (FI), Maria (FI)

Documentary: Vuoden Synkin Juhla (About Finnish Goth scene)

2011 Lumous Gothic Festival XI[]

Bands: Grendel (NL), Star Industry (BE), Anne-Marie Hurst Skeletal Family (UK), Attrition (UK), , 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: , , The Last Days of Jesus (SK), , , , , Psyyke (FI), , Impakt! (FI), Harmony Garden (FI), Whrmcht (FI)

Special guest DJ: Meke (FI)

2013 Lumous Gothic Festival XIII[]

Bands: Spiritual Front (IT), Cryo (SE), , , Silent Scream -acoustic special (FI), Erila-Z (FI), Ovro (FI), Loistava Polku (FI), Masquerade (FI), Wreckdance (FI), Protectorate (FI)

Special guest DJ: K-109 (FI)

2014 Lumous Gothic Festival XIV[]

Bands: Leæther Strip (DK), Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (SE), Two Witches (FI/DE), , Autogen (LV), Psyyke (FI), , , , , Juha Raution Duo Perikato (FI), J.K.Ihalainen (FI)

Special guest DJ: Nik Carlsson (SE), Kari Berg (SE)

Special storyteller gig: Antti Lautala (FI) & Matthew Pallasoja (FI)

2015 Lumous Gothic Festival XV[]

Bands: Das Ich (DE), , , , , Forgotten Sunrise (EE), , Silene (FI), Wreckdance(FI), Harmony Garden (FI), ,

Special storyteller gig: J. Witch & M. Hautamäki & Toby (FI)

Special guest DJ: Jaakko (FI), 4-Got-10 (EE)

Lecture: Trestalkers (FI)

Documentary: Industrial Soundtrack For the Urban Decay

2016 Lumous Gothic Festival XVI[]

Bands: Aesthetic Perfection (US), , Two Witches (FI), Canis Lupus (SE), Naevus - Solo (UK), , , Masquerade (FI), , , , , Submission (FI)

Special guest DJ: Shades (FI), Slackerbitch (SE)

Special storyteller gig: Advanced Art (FI)

2017 Lumous Gothic Festival XVII[]

Bands: Nachtmahr (AT), Spiritual Front (IT), , Thinner (LV), Severance (MX), , , , Many Happy Returns (FI), , , ,

Special guest DJ: Shades (FI)

2018 Lumous Gothic Festival XVIII[]

Bands: , , , The Doctors (FR), Auger (UK), Novus (UK), Agnosia (FI), Astral Zombie (FI), , Hateful Chains (FI), Riot Kitten (FI),

Special guest DJ: Niklas Carsson (SE), Jussi40 (FI)

Poetry performance: Artemis Kelosaari (FI)

Lecture: Eero Ojanen (FI)

2019 Lumous Gothic Festival XIX[]

Bands: Das Ich (DE), The Danse Society (UK), Inertia (UK), , , , , , Tyburn Blossom (IE), , Murnau's Playhouse (FI), Plastic Bitch (FI), UltraNoir (FI), Virgin In Veil (FI)

Special guest DJ: NightOwl (SE)

Lecture: Asko Alanen (FI)

2020 Lumous Gothic Festival XX – The Final Episode[]

Bands: Two Witches (FI), , ,

See also[]

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

References[]

External links[]

• Lumous Gothic Festival