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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Drab Majesty + TBC

Future Yard, Birkenhead 75 Argyle Street, Birkenhead

The latest EP from Drab Majesty marks the start of a stirring new chapter in the band’s majestic legacy. Written during a 2021 retreat to the remote coastal Oregon town of Yachats, Deb Demure leaned into the neo-psychedelic resonance of a uniquely bowl-shaped 12-string Ovation acoustic/electric guitar. After early morning hikes in the rain, Deb would record ambient guitar experiments the rest of the day, tapping into “flow states,” letting the sound lead the way. These sessions were then refined or recreated, and later elevated further with key collaborations by Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Justin Meldal-Johnson (Beck, M83, Air), and Ben […]

£20.35

Desolation

Sotto, Liverpool 54 Wood Street, Liverpool

Desolation returns at the heart of February for a post Valentines night of dark alternative Industrial, ebm, synthpop, postpunk, darkwave and alternative 80s.

£6 on door

stuff we play...

Numan, Sisters of Mercy, The Cult, Ministry, NiN, Rammstein, Joy Division, Clan of Xymox, The Cure, KMFDM, Thrill Kill Kult, She Past Away, Boy Harsher, Youth Code, Siouxsie, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Prodigy, Pitch Shifter, Covenant, Apoptygma Berserk, VNV Nation, The Smiths, The Mission, Bowie, Fields of the Nephilim, Skinny Puppy, Wolfsheim, London After Midnight, Suspiria, She Wants Revenge, Fad Gadget Human League, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psyclon Nine, Wumpcut, Lords […]

£6
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Sentinel: #20

Retro, Manchester 78 Sackville Street, Manchester

Sentinel is back for an end of September blow out! Featuring special guest, DJ Crispygoth (Revolution, Resistanz etc... Joining our regular Sentinel DJs, DJ Max Speed and Mr Elektrode, playing all the best in dancefloor friendly Synthpop, EBM, Industrial and other bouncy beats.

£5
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Corpus Delicti + Ash Code

Manchester Cathedral Victoria Street, Manchester

Corpus Delicti's sold out show in November was such a special and memorable event that we had to do it again! The band will be embarking on a UK tour early next year with Italy's finest darkwave act, Ash Code 🖤
Tickets will be available for Edinburgh, Manchester and London in September. The Manchester date will be particularly special - CORPUS DELICTI and ASH CODE live in Manchester Cathedral!! Events with full details will be up soon.

Darkher + Grift + Carcass Of Sighs

The Castle Hotel, Manchester 66 Oldham Street, Manchester

These dates will be the only live performances by DARKHER in 2024. Due to the intimate and intriguing nature of the performance venues, it is strongly advised that tickets are purchased well in advance.

THE VELVET SHEEP presents….a tour of the very finest in dark, powerful, ethereal beauty. The bleak, haunting melancholy of Jayn Maiven's DARKHER crosses boundaries and genres, captivating audiences with aural spells and other-wordly imagery - the songs and soundscapes of DARKHER will be given new twists and turns on these dates.
Joining DARKHER will be GRIFT, the name of the Swedish artist and multi-instrumentalist Erik Gärdefors known […]

£22.00

Corrosionfest 2024: All My Thorns + The Arch + Ghum + Je T’aime + Golden Apes + Kuro + Motel Transylvania + Dhampyres + Healthy Junkies + Last July + The Scarlet Hour

The Alhambra Theatre 56 Marine Road West, Morecambe, United Kingdom

A weekend of West Coast Gothic at Corrosion.
Our Pocket bespoke international indoor festival of live Alternative music returns to Morecambe. 11 great bands over 2 days.

Friday:
ALL MY THORNS
GHUM
KURO
DHAMPYRES

Saturday:
THE ARCH

JE T'AIME
GOLDEN APES
MOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
HEALTHY JUNKIES
LAST JULY
THE SCARLET HOUR

£65.50

Jaz Coleman: Unspeakable – A Spoken Word Tour

Stoller Hall, Manchester Hunts Bank, Manchester

An artist of fierce intellect and purpose, Jaz Coleman –heads out across the UK in March 2024 -to tell it like it is – the UNSPEAKABLE truth in the world of Killing Joke.

Jaz Coleman– the celebrated musician; composer; producer; author; lecturer; traveller; philosopher; actor and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, was born on 26 February 1960 in Cheltenham to an English father and an Anglo-Indian mother of half-Bengali descent.

Coleman studied piano and violin under Eric Coleridge, head of music for Cheltenham College, until the age of 17, and was a member of several cathedral choirs in England […]

£30.25

Empathy Test + Black Nail Cabaret

FLAG PROMOTIONS and PLUSWELT PROMOTIONS present:
EMPATHY TEST
10th anniversary tour 2014-2024
plus special guests: BLACK NAIL CABARET

Isaac Howlett and his comrades-in-arms have been making the landscape of synthetic pop music unsafe for 10 years now. EMPATHY TEST, founded in London in 2014, have since played hundreds of concerts in Europe and America. Their latest tour for the album "Monsters" brought several sold-out venues. More than 50 tracks have appeared on numerous albums, EPs and singles. Reason enough to celebrate this on a specially created 10th Anniversary tour! From "Losing touch" to "Safe from harm" and "Doubts", EMPATHY TEST present a colourful […]

Parallels

33 Oldham Street, Manchester 33 Oldham Street, Manchester

PΛRΛLLELS // THE RETURN

WE ARE BACK - the homecoming of the deepest darkest corners of Manchester's alternative club scene is finally here and with a brand new venue for the Parallels family!

With a heavy focus on the new, expect the very best of a selection of door slammers and some of the more recent artists on the Post-Punk, EBM, Techno and Body Music scenes.

With Resident DJs KATALAMØDE & VINDICARE - Special guest DJ from USA to Manchester - GRIEVING STATES .. We are beyond excited of this!

£6 OTD or Adv Tickets 
DOORS OPEN AT 10:30PM UNTIL 3AM
LAST […]

£6
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