ArcTanGent Announces Day of Damnation (Festival Team Up)
ArcTanGent; from the creators of the award-winning 2000 Trees festival. Alongside the fact it was being produced in conjunction with 2000 Trees there was further reason to get excited by way of the headliners and the line-up that were confirmed at the time. Now, a month later ArcTanGent have been kind enough to announce that they will be featuring a stage over the weekend curated by the legendary all-dayer that is Damnation Festival. Now, I went to Damnation last year, and am fully intending on going again this year on the basis of how much I enjoyed it not to mention that Carcass are headlining. Yes, Carcass. Anyway, its a great festival with an always reliably relentless line-up that crosses over from the extreme end of the metal spectrum into the more progressive and post-rock side of the musical fence, which blends nicely with the sort of acts ArcTanGent are currently boasting; acts that include some former features of Damnations past line-ups Rolo Tomassi, Blacklisters, And So I Watch You From Afar, Maybeshewill and Talons. http://youtu.be/UsX6DhPOBVI Having an established festival like Damnation show support for a brand new festival like ArcTanGent on its first outing by providing a handpicked line-up for a Day of Damnation shows a great camaraderie between alternative festivals. As Damnation organiser Gavin McInally says himself:
ArcTanGent is already shaping up to be one of the best weekends of the summer and we're delighted to host a Day of Damnation at its inaugural event - handpicking eight acts who have previously graced our stages and left carnage in their wake....with Damnation camped in a cold Leeds each November and ArcTanGent enjoying a sunnier weekend in Bristol this August, the events will complement each other and we hope fans will make it along for both festivals.Furthering the camaraderie between festivals, Gavin also said that he and the Damnation team are looking forward to digging out our tents - if ArcTanGent is run as smoothly as its sister festival, 2000trees, with the line-up it now has in place it's going to be incredible! Sentiments complimented by, ArcTanGent co-founder, James Scarletts comments:
A few of us went to Damnation Festival for the first time last year and thought it was truly awesome. The quality of their line up and the atmosphere of the whole festival was top class, so Im bursting with excitement that weve been able to organise this partnership.ArcTanGent is all about giving festival goers something a bit different and pushing more leftfield, experimental music, so this announcement with Damnation fits perfectly with our ethos but brings a new, heavier edge. Bring on the summer!ArcTanGent will be taking place from the 29th to the 31st of August, with tickets now on sale. Check out the Damnation stage line-up below and the rest of ArcTanGents currently confirmed line-up HERE and HERE. Check out this year's Damnation Festival too, while you're at it - HERE.