As Pride Month draws to an end, a small reminder that the scene was always queer from the start.

Big 69th birthday shout out to Susan Ballion from Southwark, UK. I bet she got up to all sorts of trouble back in the day, bless her.

Still recovering from a very long #WorldGothDay friends - thanks for all your comments and letting me know what you were up to! Remember, #goth is for life, not just #Halloween. Uh I mean WGD.

@terminatryx.bsky.social released a new cover for World Goth Day - their 6th successive WGD cover, this time with a new lineup. They've really done this song justice in my opinion. youtu.be/Hyz9VkEPWh8?...

A little piece of history; an in-depth interview with our co-founder from 2013 that answers all the questions you might have had, not least why WGD is on the 22nd of May.

Please do check this out. It's an important collection of words, more so than ever.

Not everybody remembers that All About Eve once had a drum machine phase, but it was equally as awesome a time as when they first broke the charts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n93q...

I was contacted last night by Bruce Haley, the man behind the iconic imagery used for 'Goth Box', a compilation album that much of the goth scene will be familiar with. I'll be posting his words later, once I've had a cuppa and taken care of a phone call 😉

It’s @worldgothday.bsky.social To celebrate my books with a Goth in are free on Kindle! Eviscerated Panda A Metal Tale www.amazon.co.uk/Eviscerated-... The Very Metal Diary Of Cleo Howard www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Metal-D... #WorldGothDay #Goth

...guess what. HAPPY WORLD GOTH DAY, MY LOVELIES!

How the literal HELL is it only 2 days to World Goth Day? If you're out there organising a WGD event year after year like an unstoppable final boss, we love you. You're inspiring others to get up and do the same. Just look at us all. Getting up and doing goth community stuff. Damn.

Finally. I've been meaning to get this done on the World Goth Day website homepage for a couple of days. Please help out our martin if you can. If you can't, then share the link below and hopefully someone who can will see it. Cheers. www.gofundme.com/f/help-marti...

This is possibly the most goth thing I've seen on the internet all week.

Just did a quick count. We currently have a grand total of 123 confirmed World Goth Day events. That number will go up as we get closer to the day itself. Thank you to all of the promoters & event organisers who take up the baton for this year after year. The Goth community is a bit amazing, right?

The man, myth & absolute legend that is World Goth Day co-founder Martin Oldgoth has started up a GoFundMe page, please consider helping him out. gofund.me/7a9406d1a

It appears Facebook adjusts the event date to show the date relative to us in the UK. That means we might see an event on the 23rd May, even though it's actually on the 24th in that country. If you're an event organiser and see a wrong date for your event on our website, let us know!

I've added probably another 10 or 15 WGD events to the website since last night - we've gone way past the 100+ count. So if all that talk about us goths being 'harbingers of doom' is anything to go by, then 2026 looks pretty f#cked for us all. But at least the music will be really good again.

@worldgothday.bsky.social be great if you could share!

We're pleased to announce that the World Goth Day website has now been updated with an unprecented number of announced events already. Well over 90 in-person and online events are now listed, and this is likely to increase as the days go by. Thank you to all the organisers in this worldwide scene!

Please give our co-founder's new track a consideration for Bandcamp Friday, he's ever so proud of it, bless him. 😉

We all know a street like this.

If you're in the UK and a bit of real culture is your thing, this looks like a really good way to spend World Goth Day. www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/goth-day/

Heads up. #WorldGothDay is approaching! We'll start to update worldgothday.com from the 1st May onwards so if you have a WGD event you want us to know about, contact us with a URL or Facebook event link & tell us where in the world it's taking place.

*sad Temu trombone noise*

Here's something I'd quite like to bring your attention to; it would be great to see this film become a reality, not least because you might just see a bit of me in it. I'm not telling you which bit. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

Have you checked out the snazzy little 'visualizer' video I smooshed together for the new track 'LUC45'? You know how socials work - give it a Like 😉 youtu.be/_IyMc0mQT-0?...

Coming to a goth night near you. Possibly. youtu.be/L2UzKWC9CfY?...

Released on 16 November 1987, Floodland is the second studio album by the English gothic rock band the Sisters of Mercy.

Employee of the month. Again.

Just in case you weren't aware and in need of trivia.

Great news! A pizza business from California wants to set up their food truck at this year's World Goth Day event. Uh...I hope they have passports and a LOT of staff.

The Sisters of Mercy released 'No Time To Cry' the second single from their debut album 'First And Last And Always' on this day in 1985 (I still bemoan the loss of my copy on vinyl)

Nottingham based goth-botherers Manuskript have dropped new music". preorder from Bandcamp here: manuskript-uk.bandcamp.com/album/doomsc...

It seems our choice to leave X has been largely positively received! Thank you to all our new followers for finding us here. 😊

Wishing you a fabulous Friday 13th!

Just to let you all know, the World Goth Day X account as of now, has been deactivated. We exist only here on Bluesky, Facebook (www.facebook.com/worldgothday...) and of course our official website (worldgothday.com).

A new goth charity compilation album was released yesterday by UK based Deadfall Management. All funds will go to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. 'REBIRTH' features 26 tracks from various artists around the world. deadfallmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/rebirth

Speaking of stuff getting dropped tomorrow on Bandcamp, there's this little bugger right here too! codenamelola.bandcamp.com

A compilation album is to be released tomorrow-all funds will go to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. 'REBIRTH' features 25 tracks from various artists incl. a live version of 'Voyeur' by The Glass House Museum recorded at the Darker Days Festival 2025! deadfallmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/rebirth

Good morning.

Happy Birthday to Carl McCoy, of #FieldsOfTheNephilim - born 15 January 1963

Since it's looking likely that access to the deep-fake SA site known as X could be banned in the UK, we take this opportunity to advise you we'll ONLY be on Facebook & Bluesky. WGD's X account will never stop being our *official* one, but it will stop being used.

We cannot believe how absolutely adorable this is...

Happy New Year, my goth lovelies!

We hope you're all having a great Christmas! What did Santa get you this year? New Rocks? Fishnets? Full human skeleton?

Happy Thanksgiving to our American fan base

Remembering both Sophie and Sylvia Lancaster born on this day and reminding you of the excellent work @sophiecharity.bsky.social does in their memory

Released on this day 41 years ago; 'Treasure' is a favourite Cocteau Twins album of mine, in no small part due to the heavy use of the LinnDrum 'rock kit' patch which featured a sample of John Bonham's famous snare sound from 'When The Levee Breaks' #musicnerd #shoegaze #goth #indie #mybackhurts