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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CorrosionFest 2026: Motel Transylvania + TRAITRS + Der Himmel + Manuskript + Seekers Are Lovers + Darkways + The Eddies + Subatomic Strangers + IAmImperfect + Scheitan + Drave + Art Gallery
A weekend of West Coast Gothic at Corrosion.
Our Pocket bespoke international indoor festival of live Alternative music returns to Morecambe. This year with 12 great bands over 2 days.
Strange Manchester: Promenade Cinema
Grafton Arms Manchester 27 Grafton Street, ManchesterStrange Events presents: Promenade Cinema
& Strange Manchester after party from 10pm.
Strange DJs playing the best in darks 80s, Goth, Darkwave & Industrial to follow.
Promenade Cinema create cinematic synthpop with dark allure and melodic intensity. Lush
synths and compelling vocals build songs that stay with you long after they end. Their music
draws you into a world of shadow and splendour, where emotion and atmosphere take
centre stage.
Following the popularity of their recent singles Play With Fate (July 2025) and Under Review
(September 2025) - new album AFTERLIFE cements Promenade Cinema’s reputation as one
of the UK’s most distinctive electronic duos. The physical album […]
Strange Manchester: Promenade Cinema live & after party
The Grafton Arms 27 Grafton Street, Manchester& Strange Manchester after party from 10pm.
The Awakening + Black Lakes
The Deaf Institute, Manchester 135 Grosvenor Street, ManchesterThe Awakening is a dark musical project born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late ’90s as the creative expression of vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, author, actor and songwriter Ashton Nyte. The Awakening’s sound has morphed and mutated over the years, incorporating elements of Gothic Rock, Darkwave, Gothic Metal, Industrial Rock, Post-punk, Electronic, New Wave, Folk Noir and other theatrical meanderings.
Frontman Ashton Nyte has released 8 solo albums and 2 books in addition to his work as The Awakening. He has contributed vocals and lyrics to several other projects, featuring members of The Cure, Peter Murphy, The Mission, Beauty In Chaos, […]
Mercy Girl + tbc
Yes, Manchester 38 Charles Street, ManchesterMercy Girl is sensory euphoria and contemplation.
Formed in 2024 by members Daisy Miles, Davey Purdie, Craig Harkness and Kylie MacNaughton, the Glasgow based electronic outfit explore themes of love, despair and the uncertainty of the human experience. Taking inspiration from EBM, Darkwave and Electro-Pop, Mercy Girl invokes both the solace of a dark empty highway, and the surrender of a neon-hazed dancefloor.
Since launching in November 2024, the band have amassed a global audience and a cult online following. Having their music regularly played at, and being used to promote dark scene club nights everywhere from Los Angeles to […]
Elegia + Parade Ground
The White Hotel, Salford Dickinson Street,, SalfordElegia's moving feast for EBM and darkwave fiends host Parade Ground, legendary pioneers of '80s Belgian cold wave, whose anthem 'Gold Rush' has been played at every Elegia thus far. During the mid-late '80s Parade Ground issued a classic run of LPs + EPs produced by Front 242, effectively making them Patrick Codenys and co.'s more pop-wise, dadaist sibling unit. More recently Dark Entries' reissues and comps have reaffirmed Parade Ground's pioneering status for EBM veterans and wavey youngbloods snagged on their sharp rhythms and ohrwurm hooks.
Creeper + TBC
Manchester Academy Oxford Road, ManchesterCreeper will tour the UK and Ireland with a special run of intimate shows focused entirely on their ’Sanguivore’ era, performing songs from volumes I and II in small rooms for the first time.
The Nosferatu + Manuskript + Dhampyres
Rebellion, Manchester 2B Whitworth Street West, ManchesterStigmata Presents The Nosferatu + Special Guests TBA Thursday 23 April 2026
Early Bird: £15 until 31/12/25 Advance: £20 until 23/4/26
WeGotTickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/684570
Fatsoma: https://www.fatsoma.com/e/3xoy6qi9/the-nosferatu-uk-tour-manchester
Skiddle: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/Rebellion-Manchester./Stigmata-Presents-Nosferatu/41642796/
Age Restrictions: 14+ (Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
The Nosferatu are a UK gothic rock band formed from the ashes of the original Rise era Nosferatu formed in 1987, playing rousing rock anthems, with thunderous guitars and exquisite symphonic orchestration, combined with booming baritone vocals.
Since reforming in 2019 The Nosferatu have played many festivals including Wave Gothic Treffen (DE), Castle […]

