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!

Carpe Noctum: Twisted Nerve + Chaos Bleak + Black Rain

Lending Room, Leeds 229 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom

It's been two years since TWISTED NERVE last graced our stage. Scintillating post-punk of the first wave, they originally emerged from Edinburgh in 1979, and their live show is still not to be missed!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100030708867168

Special guests CHAOS BLEAK have been building an ever-growing following over the past few years with their acclaimed live performances and studio output. They take inspiration from the early post-punk sound, before The Sisters became the template.
https://www.facebook.com/chaosbleakband/

Our openers, BLACK RAIN, play Carpe for the first time. A brand new band dark, aggressive post-punk band from the North East, we reckon they're one to […]

£9.05

Nightbreed: Senex IV + Black Rain + Social Youth Cult

The Globe, Newcastle upon Tyne 11 Railway Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
NIGHTBREED - 5 YEARS - LIVE
To celebrate 5 years since the start of Nightbreed, We've decided to put on a live event for you all.
Remember our beginnings at Prohibition Cabaret Bar til now? It's been quite the ride.
Celebrating our rising local bands BLACK RAIN and SOCIAL YOUTH CULT. Along with very special guests SENEX IV from Suffolk with their great sounds. <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu […]
£13 – £15

Stripped: Black Rain + Jan Doyle Band

Let the festivities begin!

Our 20th year of doing this continues with another in our series of Stripped Sessions, as we return to the Black Bull in Gateshead on December 6th with our usual-unusual mix of post punk, industrial, Goth rock, deathrock, EBM, New Wave, Coldwave, Darkwave, Neue Deutsche Hart, and various other alternative musical goodies. From the vault, hot off the press or anywhere inbetween, of course your requests are very welcome.

Featuring very special Live Performances from Black Rain, who have been blowing up all over the UK goth scene, and the goth variant of Jan Doyle Band […]

Free

CorrosionFest 2025: Gothzilla + The Foreign Resort + Mercury Machine + Your Life On Hold + Sexblood + Rome Burns + Elkapath + Instant Lake + Vazum + Black Rain + Pretty Addicted + Divine Shade

The Alhambra Theatre, Morecambe 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 BANDS:
GOTHZILLA (full band)
Pretty Addicted
Mercury Machine
Instant Lake

SATURDAY BANS:
THE FOREIGN RESORT
Your Life On Hold
Sexblood
Divine Shade
Rome Burns
Elkapath
Vazum
Black Rain

£69.88

Black Rain + Social Youth Cult + Machiner

Little Buildings, Newcastle Upon Tyne 3-5 Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne

10/5 Little Buildings Newcastle. Post punk Goth take over by three North East bands from the local area (Teeside/Sunderland/Newcastle). This shows just how much the local scene is growing right now. Support your local Goth club.

@the_black_rain_band @social youth cult @machineruk @little.buildings

newcastlegoth #teesidegoth #sunderlandgoth #goth #postpunk #punk #gothgigs #punkgig #postpunkmusic #livemusic

£12

Stripped: Westenra + Black Rain

Summer on the Dark Side of the Tyne - while some may be worshipping the sun, we'll we at the altar of the almighty musical pairing of Westenra and Black Rain

Since exploding onto the UK goth scene in 2019 ::WESTENRA:: have been building a reputation for captivating live performances of their stylish and atmospheric sound. Their debut album “First Light”
was released in January 2021 to rave reviews, followed by a cover version of the Cliff Richard classic “Devil Woman” in March 2022 - a taster for the new, bigger sound featured on the four track EP “BREATHE” which was […]

£10

Carpe Noctum: Westenra + Black Rain + Entertainment

Lending Room, Leeds 229 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom

Whitby's WESTENRA are undoubtedly one of the fastest-rising stars of the UK scene, and we're delighted to welcome them back to Carpe to officially launch their new album!
https://www.facebook.com/westenrabandofficial

BLACK RAIN impressed us so much when they opened for Twisted Nerve last year that we just had to get them back as special guests. These post-punks are another band who are most definitely going places!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554970057613

Opening proceedings, all the way from Athens, GA, are the fabulous and recently-reformed ENTERTAINMENT. Classic deathrockers in the Rozz-period Christian Death tradition, this is a band guaranteed to kick things off with style.
https://www.facebook.com/EntertainmentBandOfficial

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£9.05
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