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!
Is something missing? Then go submit it!
The Rook’s Den Night Market
Parklands Sports and Social Club, Wheatley Hall Road, Doncaster Parklands Sports and Social Club, Wheatley Hall Road, DoncasterFREE ENTRY
3 rooms of alternative stalls (downstairs and upstairs)<br class="html-br" […]
The Twilight Sad: Signing Event
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 33 Queens Road, LeedsRead ticketing page info
The Awakening + Black Lakes
Nightrain, Bradford 7-19 Queensgate, Bradford, United KingdomThe 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, […]
Resistanz 2026: Cassyette + Amelia Arsenic + Solar Fake + Lebrock + Reaper + MOAAN EXIS + Nevada Hardware + Rio Rodrigo + Rotorsand + Mercy Girl + Phosgore + Denuit + Strange Futures + Red Cell + Ghost Cop + Arch Femmesis + House of Serpents + Likk + Karkasarus + Tayne + Draven
Corporation, Sheffield Milton Street, SheffieldResistanz Festival 2026 - 3rd, 4th, 5th April.
Taking place at our spiritual home, the Corporation venue in Sheffield, England, UK. This three day event over Easter Bank Holiday weekend will see a full line up of both international and domestic artists from the world of industrial, electro, synthpop, alternative music and more, plus some of the scenes finest DJ's. Attendees can expect yet another high calibre and eclectic line up that the festival has become famously renowned for bringing together.
Tickets are now on sale exclusively at www.corporation.org.uk
The first release of early bird tickets sold out within minutes! The second and […]
Carpe Noctum: Grooving In Green + Black Rose Moves + Doberwoman
Lending Room, Leeds 229 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, United KingdomCARPE NOCTUM is the biggest and longest-running regular goth club in the north of England. It celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, and was recently an inaugural inductee of the Leeds Goth Hall of Fame. Our resident DJs boast a wealth of experience, with past residencies in Leeds and Bradford, including the legendary Flock club night, under their belts, alongside guest appearances at clubs and festivals throughout the North, including repeat appearances at Goth City Festival, Tomorrow's Ghosts, and Infest. Weaving sets from a broad palette of dark alternative genres and subgenres, fuelling and fuelled by the dancefloor, their ethos […]
Mercy Girl + tbc
Headrow House, Leeds Bramleys Yard, 19 The Headrow, LeedsMercy 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 […]
Courtesan + The Black Riders Cult + Hollow Dawn
The Yorkshireman, Sheffield 10 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, United Kingdom3 Gothic Rock Bands Battle it out!
Courtesan:
Blendings of Goth Rock and Industrial Sounds.
The Black Riders Cult:
Mixing dark alternative sounds with heavy riffs, deep basslines and metaphoric lyrics…
Hollow Dawn:
Formed from the ashes of some of Sheffield's finest alternative/goth bands (The Way of all Flesh, Every Black Day, The Silent Age and Sanctuary) we still have unfinished business.
Salvation + The InSect + The Scarlet Hour
The Fulford Arms, York 121 Fulford Road, York, United KingdomA superb night of Gothic Rock with scene legends Salvation
With support from The InSect + The Scarlet hour
£9 Adv. / 11 O.T.D
IST IST + The Youth Play
Network, Sheffield 14 Matilda Street, SheffieldManchester’s IST IST return with their fifth studio album ‘DAGGER’ - the follow-up to 2024’s ‘Light A Bigger Fire’ which charted at number 25 in the UK, breaking them into the Top 40 for the first time.
Once again collaborating with producer Joseph Cross (Hurts, Lana Del Rey, Courteeners) the record finds the band returning to their electronic-infused post-punk roots after making a leap into more mainstream sensibilities last time out.
Over their decade as a band so far, IST IST have forged a formidable reputation on word of mouth excitement, amassing a dedicated cult following in the […]

