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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AbSynth is 20!

La Belle Angele, Edinburgh 11 Hastie's Cl, Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s irregular dark alternative dance night playing an eclectic mix of industrial, darkwave and electronic in the cultural epicentre of La Belle Angele. The resident DJs bring a fresh display of some of the cutting edge EBM /industrial sounds of the 21st century, as well as mixing some of the classic industrial tracks which come together to fill dancefloors to this day. Catch AbSynth in this rare appearance for a night of heavy sounds and to mark 20 years since we first started in the vaulted rooms of Nicol Edwards. Expect to hear old and […]
£7.50 – £11
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Shadowplay July 2026 – 10th Birthday Special w/DJ Vilkas

DJ Vilkas presents

Shadowplay 3 July 2026, 9pm-1am

10th birthday party!

In July 2016, DJ Vilkas co-launched an event in Edinburgh focused on classic sounds of goths with a focus on newer bands innovating this area. Growing from venue to venue, with a brief pause over lockdown where livestreaming became the norm, 2026 marks Shadowplay’s 10th birthday! Now focused mostly on newer bands and styles, with a nod to the trailblazers, the club looks towards coldwave, deathrock and synthpunk – anything that promotes that dark punk spirit.
No Spotify playlists, no costume competitions, just real DJs […]

£6 – £8
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Deadinburgh Festival: John McKay’s Reactor + Ausgang + Skeletal Family + Inkubus Sukkubus + Ghost Dance + Balaam and the Angel + The Rose Of Avalanche + Salvation + Screaming Dead + 13th Chime + Chaos Bleak + Voodoo Twins + Post Ironic State

La Belle Angele, Edinburgh 11 Hastie's Cl, Edinburgh

The Deadinburgh Festival is a 2 day goth festival, taking place at La Belle Angele in Edinburgh's historic Old Town.

Featuring 14 of some of the best goth bands around, the festival is heading into it's second year and into a new bigger home!

£64.80

NO FATE 7 – Synthwave/EB(S)M/Cyberpunk 31/7/26 w/ Puck (Idlestates)

A night of neon synth sounds; a bleak look at the future through the lense of the past – coloured by the 1980s vision of a post-apocalyptic dystopia where we almost find ourselves today. The Yamaha-drenched sounds of recent years, with the Cubase-influenced heavy beats of today will provide the soundtrack, while DJ Vilkas (Shadowplay, Fimbulvetr, AbSynth) & special guest PUCK (Idlestates) entertain with images from prophetic visions of the future.

Ethan Anderson, AKA Puck, is the founder and creative force behind Idlestates Recordings, an imprint rooted in Scotland, UK. Emerging in the early 2020s, he developed Idlestates […]

£6 – £8
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