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Alt-Fest is a 3 day outdoor festival with 5 days of camping and market stalls. With multiple live music stages covering the genres of Goth, Industrial, EBM, Electronica and metal. The stages will be filled with bands you know and love. We'll also have an up and coming stage, clubbing marquees hosted by clubs you also know and love and a circus big top, an entire zonde dedicate to Steampunk and a massive variety of alternative performers from burlesque to fetish, comedy and beyond.

Alt-Fest will be family friendly with the aged 12 and under getting free entry to the festival (1 free child per full paying adult). We will also have a creche where you can leave your very small ones for a few hours to get some well deserved adult time and there will be lots of activities for children as well, from fairground rides to a petting zoo, bouncy castles and more to keep them entertained.

We will also have an adult only 'village' which will be a self-contained area with a strict over 18 access, where we will have amongst other things a full Club AntiChrist clubbing zone and adult 'play' area. With other clubs planned to join us as well.

Alt-Fest really will have something for everyone.

We open our 'doors' (or should that be fences and fields) on Thursday 14th August 2014 when you may start your 5 days of camping and the main festival starts at 11am on Friday 15th.  You may camp right through till the Tuesday morning whilst the Festival ends at 2am on the Sunday night. There is so much to see and do locally as well, or you may just want or need a rest after all the fun, live music and activities we will have thrown at you!

If camping isn't for you there are many hotels within a 3-5 mile range, there are also lots of Bed and Breakfast accommodation in the surrounding areas.

We are pleased to announce our site! Alt-Fest is being held in the beautiful and HUGE grounds of Boughton House, near Kettering, Northamptonshire! This is a 10,000 acre site (yes, 10,000!).

We hope you are as excited as we are!

The facilitators and people who had the idea for Alt-Fest and started it are d.Void and Missy. A husband and wife team who are and have been successfully promoting Alt events, bands and clubs for over 10 years and also the couple behind the infamous and very successful Club AntiChrist, one of the largest and longest running events in London.

Site and project management is being handled by Full Fat 360, a very experienced Festival and events management company. Alt-Fest also employs a large team of staff and volunteers all working behind the scenes on the website, ticketing and all the administrative activity.