Ben Staub - Founder/Booking
Nate Dorough - Booking/Marketing
Ron Howard - Design/Marketing
The Fusion Shows team - Production/Ticketing
Influences
SET TIMES! (subject to change)
FUSIONSHOWS.COM MAIN STAGE
100-120 Definition Plexus
140-200 TBA
220-240 In Fear and Faith
300-325 Souldub
350-415 Saints Never Surrender
440-505 IKILLJACK
530-555 For Today
620-650 Once Nothing
720-750 The Swellers
820-850 Inhale Exhale
920-1000 Gwen Stacy
D-PRODS STAGE
1240-100 And Hell Followed With
120-140 Attack! Attack!
200-220 I.E.G.
240-300 Kiros
325-350 Here I Come Falling
415-440 Empty Orchestra
505-530 Siren the Escape
555-620 VersaEmerge
650-720 Kingston Falls
750-820 There For Tomorrow
850-920 La Dispute
MOCO DESIGN STAGE
1200-1220 Inbredacia
1240-100 I Am Abomination
120-140 The Experiment Perilous
200-220 This Or The Apocalypse
240-300 As Bound With Them
325-350 Phantele
415-440 A Love To Die For
505-530 Downers
555-620 The Sound And The Fury
650-720 Tiger! Tiger!
750-820 Judea
850-920 A Well Thought Tragedy
CLOCKWORK MEDIA STAGE
1220-1240 Good Day, Miss Quickly
100-120 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
140-200 The Plague Years
220-240 Incarta
300-325 Mary Shaw
350-415 Hero No Day
440-505 Failed Attempt 52
530-555 Of Choir and Chaos
620-650 Asphodel Fields
720-750 The Vanity Farewell
820-850 Your Best Friend
About Bled Fest 2008 - Who do you want to see next year?
SHOW INFORMATION
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hartland Performing Arts Center
9525 Highland Road, Howell, MI 48843
all ages welcome, gates open at 1130am
Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door ORDER NOW AT FUSIONSHOWS.COM
DIRECTIONS
The Hartland Performing Arts Center is located inside the Hartland Educational Support Services Center (formerly Hartland High School). The building is one mile west of US-23, on M-59 (Highland Rd.). It's just west of Target!
WE'VE MOVED!
We're taking Bled Fest this year to the Hartland Performing Arts Center. We'll be using a new part of the building where there's never been a show. There's a huge stage, and a huge area to dance and throw down. It's not in the auditorium.
WHY THE NEW VENUE?
Meijer Park's new management hit us with a quote for an obscene amount of money, and we were unable to continue in the current format. The folks at Hartland Schools stepped up with an incredibly fair offer, and we've come up with a great layout that will make this the best festival we've ever been a part of.
WHAT'S BETTER?
Besides the fact that we're sheltering you from the potential weather, the new PAC layout will allow there to a better merch area, better food vendor potential, Guitar Hero on the biggest screen ever, and will get you closer to the bands than ever before!
WHAT ABOUT SKATE-A-QUE AND OTHER SHOWS AT THE PARK?
Don't know yet. I'm pretty sure that the Hit the Lights show will remain at the park. Skate-A-Que is up in the air as of this point. Stay tuned for information on that at Fusion Shows' MySpace.
Flyers and everything else will be updated soon. If after a few days you see something that's not updated, please let us know! The only thing we've printed besides a few stacks of flyers is the tickets! Sadly, those can't be changed, so let everyone know what's up!
Outlets (cash only)
Discs and Tapes Unlimited - 204 W. Grand River, Howell, MI
Flat Black and Circular - 541 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing, MI
The Modern Exchange - 12219 Toledo Dix Rd, Southgate, MI
ABOUT BLED FEST
Bled Fest is coming home! Started three years ago as a house show in Fenton, the show blew up last year and had to move to Westland. However, Big Love's Educational Fest is coming home to Livingston County! The show will be Saturday, May 24, 2008, at the Hartland Performing Arts Center in lovely Howell, Michigan!
Last year was an unprecedented success, with the help of Brian Brown and Stefan Maxx from Avail Entertainment. However, the event got a little too focused on black/death metal, when Bled Fest was originally about celebrating music of many genres! This year, Brian and Stefan have moved on to greener pastures, and Bled founder Ben Staub has partnered w/ local promoter Fusion Shows to put on Bled Fest 2008! This year, we want to return to the roots of the house show that Bled Fest started as, featuring as many genres as possible. We just want passionate, intense, and exciting bands that will work together to make this the best show possible!
THIS YEAR'S LINE-UP Click the photo to visit each band's page
BOOKING INFO
BOOKING IS CLOSED! SORRY, TRY AGAIN NEXT YEAR!
SPONSORS
Thanks to our sponsors for supporting Bled Fest!
If you would like to sponsor this year's Bled Fest and receive an incredible amount of promotion for your company, please hit us up at bledfest2008@gmail.com and request a sponsorship information packet!
Bled Fest 2008 - Who do you want to see next year?'s Friend Space (Top 4)
Bled Fest 2008 - Who do you want to see next year? has 935 friends.
Suicide silence, salt the wound, rose funeral, winds of plague, emmure, bring me the horizon, the black dahlia murder, as blood runs black, august burns red, with blood comes cleansing, drop dead, gorgeous, carnifex, dance club massacre, the tony danza tap dance extravaganza... Oh my god you would sell a million tickets if you got the bands i just listed. please please please try!
this years line up was amazing! im so pissed i didnt get to go!!!!!!!!!
you could bring back gwen stacy, inhale/exhale, damera, in fear and faith, here i come falling, once nothing, for today, knives exchanging hands, kingston falls, and some more
~Underoath ~Norma Jean ~hopes die last(Italy) ~parkway drive(Australia) ~bring me the horizon(U.K.) the list could keep on going....
I had a great time out at Bled Fest. It was pretty rad that you (Ben) recognized me...didnt mean to look all in shock. I didnt know you were from Bled Fest and for you to ask if I came out from LA was def. a shocker! Char
let me know when you post some 2008 movies! that was so much fun! thanks for setting up everything and cleaning up after us and hosting all those sweet bands! i had a really great time!
anyone wanting bled fest t shirts, pins or stickers contact us we have 300+ shirts left and are willing to sell them below what we paid just to try and cover the huge loss we had
