Skanifest was a

punk Punk or punks may refer to: Genres, subculture, and related aspects * Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres * Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...

ska Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walki ...

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festival organized in

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from 2005 until 2009. The festival's aim was to host rock, ska and punk bands at fair prices. The Skanifest

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(non-profit organisation) was dissolved in 2010. Each year, Skanifest tried to mix local groups starting out, more experienced local bands and artists with national, or even international, experience.

2005 Edition

The first edition (15 April 2005) gathered around 400 people. This was the line-up: * Wash Out Test(Be) * Gino's Eyeball (Be) * Mad Men's Team (Be) * Fucking Peanuts (Be) * BP Buckshot(Be) * Bilo Band (Be)

2006 Edition

The second edition (25 March 2006) was attended by around 1000 people. The line-up was: *

Vic Ruggiero Victor "Vic" Ruggiero, (also known as Rugaroo, Bad Vic or Lord Sluggo) is a musician, songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in reggae, blues, ska and rocksteady bands since the early 1990s, including The Slackers, Stubborn ...

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The Slackers The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of Nort ...

, ex Rancid) (USA) * The Moon Invaders (Be) * PO Box (Fr) * Skating Teenagers (Be) * Mad Men's Team (Be) * Shadocks (Be) * BP Buckshot (Be) * Bilo Band (Be)

2007 Edition

The third edition took place in "Salle Cecoco", Ciney, Belgium on 27 January 2007. This was the line up: *

Capdown Capdown is an English punk rock band from Milton Keynes. Originally known as Soap, their songs have political themes as alluded to by their name, which is short for Capitalist Downfall. Mixing ska, punk, hardcore, dub, drum and bass, and reg ...

(UK) * Joshua (B) * Sweek (B) * Camping Sauvach' (B) * Skafield (DE) * PO Box (Fr) * BP Buckshot (B)

2008 Edition

On 5 April 2008. *

The Locos The Locos are a Spanish ska punk band formed in 2005. The Locos were founded as a side project by Pipi, the backup vocalist for Spanish ska-punk group Ska-P, after the latter dissolved that same year. Although originally inclined not to rejoi ...

(ES) * La Ruda (FR) * The Experimental Tropic Blues Band (B) * PO Box (Fr) * Atomic Leaf (B) * Elvis Black Stars (B)

2009 Edition

The fifth edition took place in "Ciney Expo", Ciney, Belgium on 6 February 2009. This was the line up: * Joshua (B) *

Reel Big Fish Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Orange County, California. The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold-certified album ''Turn the Radio Off''. Soon af ...

(USA) * Malibu Stacy (B) * Camping Sauvach (B) * Suburban Legends (USA) * Sinus Georges (B) * Les Caricoles (B)

External links

Site de Skanifest
Music festivals in Belgium Ska festivals Punk rock festivals Rock festivals in Belgium Ciney