The March Violets are a rejuvenated 1980s British gothic rock band from Leeds, featuring original members Tom Ashton and Rosie Garland, with bassist Mat Thorpe. Following a 2023 reunion and signing with Metropolis Records, they released the 2024 album Crocodile Promises, toured the USA, and played major UK festivals like Rebellion and Bearded Theory.
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CARPE 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
Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the Gothic Americana music of the Heathen Apostles (Mather Louth [Radio Noir], Chopper Franklin [The Cramps, Nick Curran & the Lowlifes], Thomas Lorioux [Kings of Nuthin’] and Luis Mascaro) harkens back to a bygone chapter of American history. Using contrasting influences such as Bauhaus, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Pogues along with Howlin’ Wolf, Loretta Lynn (the band covers her classic Fist City) and Bessie Smith, the Heathen Apostles have created a style of music that at once conjures both angels and demons,
Top-notch rock’n’roll psychedelia with a punk edge. At their peak in the mid 80s they stimulated sales of black hair dye and crimpers like no band before or since. The Sisters of Mercy achieved early underground success after forming in Leeds in 1980. They had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and released three studio albums, including their last studio album Vision Thing in 1990. This was followed by the compilation albums Some Girls Wander By Mistake and A Slight Case Of Overbombing in 1992 and 1993 respectively, and the band have been touring ever since.
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Top-notch rock’n’roll psychedelia with a punk edge. At their peak in the mid 80s they stimulated sales of black hair dye and crimpers like no band before or since. The Sisters of Mercy achieved early underground success after forming in Leeds in 1980. They had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and released three studio albums, including their last studio album Vision Thing in 1990. This was followed by the compilation albums Some Girls Wander By Mistake and A Slight Case Of Overbombing in 1992 and 1993 respectively, and the band have been touring ever since.
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The Mission bring their God’s Own Medicine 40th Anniversary shows to the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, promising an evocative evening as the band revisits the seminal album in full alongside a selection of fan favorites, wrapped in cinematic production and evocative lighting that highlight the record’s brooding melodies and soaring choruses. The show will balance reverence and reinvention, with the band’s distinctive guitars and commanding vocals delivering both faithful renditions and subtly refreshed arrangements that resonate for longtime devotees and newcomers alike. Set in the atmospheric confines of the O2 Forum Kentish Town, the concert will feel immediate
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Best of the following albums: First Chapter, Children, Grains of Sand, Neverland, Aura, Brightest Light The Mission bring their God’s Own Medicine 40th Anniversary shows to the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, promising an evocative evening as the band revisits the seminal album in full alongside a selection of fan favorites, wrapped in cinematic production and evocative lighting that highlight the record’s brooding melodies and soaring choruses. The show will balance reverence and reinvention, with the band’s distinctive guitars and commanding vocals delivering both faithful renditions and subtly refreshed arrangements that resonate for longtime devotees and newcomers alike. Set
On 2026-11-06 The Mission bring their God’s Own Medicine 40th Anniversary shows to the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, promising an evocative evening as the band revisits the seminal album in full alongside a selection of fan favorites, wrapped in cinematic production and evocative lighting that highlight the record’s brooding melodies and soaring choruses. The show will balance reverence and reinvention, with the band’s distinctive guitars and commanding vocals delivering both faithful renditions and subtly refreshed arrangements that resonate for longtime devotees and newcomers alike. Set in the atmospheric confines of the O2 Forum Kentish Town, the concert will
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Playing Kith and Kin The Mission bring their God’s Own Medicine 40th Anniversary shows to the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, promising an evocative evening as the band revisits the seminal album in full alongside a selection of fan favorites, wrapped in cinematic production and evocative lighting that highlight the record’s brooding melodies and soaring choruses. The show will balance reverence and reinvention, with the band’s distinctive guitars and commanding vocals delivering both faithful renditions and subtly refreshed arrangements that resonate for longtime devotees and newcomers alike. Set in the atmospheric confines of the O2 Forum Kentish Town, the
COVENANT 1986-2026We 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
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