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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Courtesan + The Black Riders Cult + Hollow Dawn

The Yorkshireman, Sheffield 10 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, United Kingdom

3 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.

Free

IST IST + The Youth Play

Network, Sheffield 14 Matilda Street, Sheffield

Manchester’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 […]

£23.10

Mesh + tbc

Corporation, Sheffield Milton Street, Sheffield

STIGMATA UK presents

MESH
plus special guests
The Truth Doesn't Matter - Tour 2026

Tickets:
www.stigmata.uk/tickets

Due to popular demand, those masters of emotional electronics MESH are playing their homeland again, it’s no secret their songs pull at your very heartstrings while more often then not, have you dancing the blues away too, this time they play these 3 very exclusive ‘The Truth Doesn’t Matter’ shows in the UK! In their hometown Bristol and also in Sheffield for the first time in several years!

These special shows will see them play tracks from their new album plus an extended […]

£35.2

BlakLight + TBC

Corporation, Sheffield Milton Street, Sheffield

BlakLight is Los Angeles based dark synthpop trio Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine). Formed by Adam and Brian in early 2020, the band released the singles “Isolation” and “Unknown Love” before quickly unleashing their critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Music in a Time of Uncertainty’.

After an additional single, “Control”, an onslaught of remix EPs, compilation tracks and numerous remixes for other artists, BlakLight set their sights on a second album. “Nightmares” and “Reset” built anticipation for the follow-up, ‘Into the Void’, released in late 2021. ‘Into The Void’ crafts songs of […]

£12

Poisonous Little Creatures

The Hallamshire Hotel, Sheffield 182 West Street, Sheffield

After an absence of 36 years, Poisonous Little Creatures make their return to the stage. It will be the band's first gig for over three decades when they return at The Hallamshire Hotel, West Street, on Saturday 20th June, 2026.: the only venue they played back in the day that hasn't been either demo'ed or closed down! 

With founding member Pete Vanston retired from the stage, Denzil Watson (vocals), Kirk Nelson (guitars) and Michael Fearnley (drums) are joined by Denzil's ex-RepoMen bandmate Simon Tiller on bass and Lee Bradley on keyboards.

Sonically the band take their influences from the 80's indie/goth rock, […]

£11

Massive Ego + Dead Lights + Larva + The Silent Era

Corporation, Sheffield Milton Street, Sheffield

Stigmata Presents The Symphony Of Flies UK Tour
MASSIVE EGO UK – 30th Anniversary Dates!
DEAD LIGHTS (UK)
LARVA (Spain) 
THE SILENT ERA (UK)

MASSIVE EGO Biography: Formed in 1996, UK synth-pop/electronic darkwave act Massive Ego emerged from the short-lived New Romantic revival known as Romo, attracting early critical attention with a favourable live review in Melody Maker. Across a three-decade career marked by frequent line-up changes, including members such as Dan Black (The Servant/Planet Funk) and Dean Bright (Dead Or Alive), the band has maintained a strong presence on the European alternative circuit, appearing at festivals including Wave-Gotik-Treffen, M’era Luna, Amphi, Infest, and […]

£17.60

Cabaret Voltaire + Gazelle Twin

The Octagon, Sheffield Clarkson Street, Sheffield

Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder and Chris Watson have announced details of their Final UK Tour, starting on 10 October 2026 at Birmingham Town Hall and finishing at the Sheffield Octagon on 25 October, with Gazelle Twin confirmed as special guest across all the dates.

These dates follow news of this year’s highly anticipated sold-out tour, which marks 50 years since the live launch of one of Britain’s most influential electronic bands, Cabaret Voltaire, at the Sheffield Students Union Refectory on 13 May 1975.

Talking about the newly announced dates, Stephen Mallinder, says: “What a wonderful opportunity to go round the block […]

£38.50

The Witching Tale + Jan Doyle Band + Greystone Sisters

Samuel Worth Chapel, Sheffield Sheffield General Cemetery, Cemetery Rd, Sharrow, Sheffield

We're delighted to present a somewhat mysterious spooky and etherial Halloween show with The Witching Tale who are comprised of Katherine Blake known from Miranda Sex Garden and The Mediaeval Baebes and Michael J York from Current 93 and The Utopia Strong. This fantastic,mostly electronics driven, project merges incredible ethereal vocals with atmospheric isoundscapes. Drawing inspiration from folklore, nature, and the arcane, the duo weaves a hauntingly beautiful musical path that blend ancient themes with modern textures, creating a mesmerizing journey through mystical storytelling and bewitching melodies.

http://linktr.ee/thewitchingtale

With support from Jan Doyle Band who, while known for somewhat […]

£15.09

Brides of The Black Room + Promenade Cinema

Corporation, Sheffield Milton Street, Sheffield

The Brides of the Black Room

A secret society, existing as nothing more than a whisper through history, The Brides of the Black room began it´s unmasking in late 2020.

Once hunted as witches, and now reclaiming the title as their birthright, the coven seeks to bring balance to the shadows they’ve had to call their home. Serving the omnipotent entity they know as

“Mother”, the Brides took up arms against any that would see them brought back down into obscurity.

In season 1/album 1 “Blood and Fire” (2022), the Brides was fronted by a trinity of unexpected spearhead siblings […]

£16.50

Covenant Legacy UK Tour + TBC

Corporation, Sheffield Milton Street, Sheffield

COVENANT 1986-2026
We live in confusing times, in the dusk of mankind. We want to tell stories and sing about how that makes us feel. In a world that has stopped making sense, we need to learn how to see in the dark. Covenant is a triumphant embrace of the strength and resilience of the soul. It's the dystopian, unforgiving song of our dreams born in the shadow of the cold war. Our music is a monument of our failures and as beautiful as a collapsed star.

26t of April 1986, on the very eve of the Chernobyl disaster, Covenant was […]

£30.80
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