Welcome to The Goth Calendar, an attempt to help people find which Goth gigs and club nights are happening in our busy busy times.

Hopefully this will help you find when your favourite goth band is playing next, or when your favourite goth club is next happening, providing someone has submitted it of course!

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Apparitions: Infest Preview

Grand Central, Manchester 80 Oxford St, Manchester

Apparitions returns for the August edition of Manchester's ONLY monthly club night for dark alternative music.

August leads us into a collaboration with Infest, the UK's longest-running alternative electronic music festival. We will be playing tracks from this year's lineup and acts from years past.

Expect Post-Punk, Darkwave, EBM, Industrial, Techno, Power Noise, Experimental, Alternative and more.

Featuring DJs SuchHorrors (Reliquia), Lady E (Cadence Noir)

Music happens from 7pm til close
4th August. Grand Central. Free Entry

As this is our first collaboration, and the birthday week of both your DJs, we'll be offering a […]

Free
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Ex Fiend + The Pink Diamond Revue + The Zipheads + Grooving In Green

Bootleg Social, Blackpool 30 Topping Street, Blackpool, United Kingdom

Ratty,  Ex Alien Sex Fiend member, brings his one off show to the Bootleg Social celebrating his life and times with them performing Fiend classics and surprises, with special guests support acts The Pink Diamond Revue, The Zipheads and Grooving in Green along with DJ Songs of Preys in a show brought to you by Songs of Preys Music.

*This is not affiliated with Nik and Mrs Fiend from Alien Sex Fiend at all or any other past band members*

£16.35

Grooving in Green + Chaos Bleak + St Lucifer

The Castle Hotel, Manchester 66 Oldham Street, Manchester

Off-Beat Promotions presents a a night of Gothic Rock/Post-Punk/Industrial at The Castle Hotel, Manchester.

Off-Beat Promotions presents a a night of Gothic Rock/Post-Punk/Industrial at The Castle Hotel, Manchester, featuring three of the UK's top contemporary acts, GROOVING IN GREEN, CHAOS BLEAK, & ST LUCIFER.

GROOVING IN GREEN is a Brighton-based gothic rock band known for blending darkwave atmospheres with post-punk energy and modern alternative influences. Emerging in the early 2010s, the group carved out a distinctive space within the contemporary goth scene by combining brooding vocals, melodic basslines, and cinematic synth textures. While rooted in traditional gothic […]

£13.70

Frogfest Liverpool 2026

District Liverpool 61 Jordan St, Liverpool

Mouth Ulcers | Mercy Girl | Cosey Mueller | SDH | Pol | Liminal Project and more Frogfest is Liverpool's only dedicated darkwave, goth, EBM, coldwave and post-punk festival — a full-day celebration of underground alternative music bringing together bands from across Europe and the UK at District and Lost Art in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle. Now in its 7th year and expanding to two stages, Frogfest remains deliberately intimate. At 350 capacity, the barrier between band and audience disappears. It's part gig, part club night, part underground party, and entirely unlike anything else on the UK alternative music calendar.

£35

Fitzfest: Deviant + Witch Of The Vale + Spire Circle

Eagle Inn, Manchester 19 Collier Street Salford, Manchester

Join us to celebrate a night of music in memory of our friend and talented musician Fitz.

A year after he left us, we wanted to create an event he would be proud of, remembering Fitz and his music project SkinjoB.

Bands on the night:
Spire Circle - Featuring Susana Duende, SkinjoB live keyboard player

Witch of the Vale - Featuring Erin Hawthorne, the beautiful art face cover of SkinjoB’s album Displeasure

Deviant UK - Featuring Jay Smith, Fitz performed live with Jay as guest keyboard player for Deviant UK

Keep an eye out for […]

£12.80

Twisted Firestarter #6: Clan Of Xymox + Massive Ego + Dead Lights + Moth Slut

Rebellion, Manchester 2B Whitworth Street West, Manchester

Stigmata Promotions: Gigs, Clubs, Tours Present Twisted Firestarter 6. The Official Infest Festival Warm Up!

Twisted Firestarter has become the eagerly anticipated warm up party for the Infest Festival and always delivers a fantastic party atmosphere to get the festival off to a cracking start. This year we are proud to bring as an incredible headliner the pioneering stalwarts of the electro-goth scene CLAN OF XYMOX! This will be an exclusive UK show for them.

MASSIVE EGO are finally back and this show is a long awaited return to the UK scene! DEAD LIGHTS are fast becoming […]

£28.75

Infest 2026: IAMX + Modulate + Potochkine + ghostbells + The Gospel + Lovelorn Dolls + Human Steel + Scheuber + Agnis + Sylvgheist Maëlström + OWLS + Utah Saints + Bein-E + FISTING + Holy Braille + Louisahhh + Aux Animaux + Human Steel + The Dirt + Wave Peak + Tr4nsients

We are very excited to confirm the lineup for INFEST 2026, 21-23 August in Manchester, with a Warm-Up Party happening on Thursday 20th too!

IAMX // Utah Saints // Louisahhh (live hybrid) // Potochkine // Modulate // Scheuber // Agnis // Aux Animaux // Sylvgheist Maelstrom // Lovelorn Dolls // Human Steel // Holy Braille // The Gospel // Ghostbells // Wavepeak // The Dirt // Owls // FISTING // Bein-E // Tr4nsients

PLUS DJs – To be Confirmed

All ages show until 11pm. Under 14s must be accompanied. 18+ after 11pm, Right of admission reserved […]

£90.10

The Cure Afterparty

The Star and Garter, Manchester 18-20 Fairfield St, Manchester

Join us at The Star & Garter, Manchester on Friday 21st August 2026 for our massive Cure Afterparty! 

We will be spinning all the hits, fan favourites & more plus a nice mix of your favourite alternative, goth, indie & new wave classics til late.

Expect to hear - The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen, Sisters Of Mercy, Siouxsie & The Bansheees, The Chameleons, Killing Joke, New Order, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Bowie, Psychedelic Furs, The Mission, Talking Heads, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, Morrissey, R.E.M, Radiohead, Placebo, The […]

£8
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Reliquia + Hurtsfall + Mrs Frighthouse

Aatma, Manchester 1st Floor, 14-16 Faraday St, Manchester

A profoundly eclectic concert bill celebrating different and diverse sounds from the UK's dark alternative underground. From gothic rock, to post-punk doom to industrial noise.

"Reliquia is a UK-based five-piece crafting emotionally charged, atmospheric music that merges post-punk urgency, post-rock scale, and the weight of heavy alternative music into a sound that prioritizes dark atmospheres, anthemic songwriting and heavy, crushing emotion.
Formed by vocalist Gregg Neville (Spire Circle, Golden Gardens) and guitarist Tobias Gray (The Machinist), the lineup is completed by George Kal (guitars), Andy Lindley (bass), and Karim Nashar (drums).
Since emerging onto the UK live circuit in 2023, […]

£5.50

Bats in the Attic 2026: Long Night + Merciful Nuns + The House of Usher + Christine Plays Viola + Last Dusk + The Waning Moon + Deathtrippers + Liminal Project + Schrödinger + Berenika + Silentways + Velvet Dead

The Alhambra Theatre, Morecambe 56 Marine Road West, Morecambe, United Kingdom
🦇 BATS IN THE ATTIC 2026 🦇
A Gothic Rock Festival
2026 marks our 5th anniversary, join us at the iconic Alhambra Theatre for Bats in the Attic 2026 — a two-day gothic […]
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