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

Released on this day 39 years ago. How's your lower back?

Sharing for awareness, be grateful if you could do the same and if you aren‘t give them a follow too!

Good evening sir/madam, can we interest you in a little MIRANDA SEX GARDEN GIG IN WHITBY THIS FRIDAY??? 😁🤘😉 We're all set & ready to make the long journey reet up North for this one, hope to see you there! www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Yor...

Fields Of The Nephilim will soon be embarking on their UK tour, and I'll be seeing them this Saturday in Birmingham! I won't ask who else is going to see them, but who's going to stand in the same room as them while they perform behind inpenetrably dense fog? (Photo by Beatha Borkowsky)

Released 35 years ago today... I remember travelling down to Wembley to see them perform on their Vision Thing tour, that felt far too long ago.

The Glass House Museum have got a cracking Halloween event at The Met Lounge & Ballroom in Whitby lined up. We're supporting the legendary Miranda Sex Garden alongside Iamwarface Tickets can be bought here: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Yor...

Released on this day in 1983. It might have sounded like it was recorded in a cave but that was the sheer beauty of it. You know you're old when you can still taste the smoke machine in the back of your throat from the first time you heard this.

There's a fantastic event called Black Pilgrimage coming up soon in Leeds UK that some of you might be interested in. Event link: facebook.com/events/s/bla... Tickets: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lee...

It's practically my duty to share this incredibly wholesome photo with you of @visionvideoband.bsky.social taken by Chris Cardi. It's a snapshot of everything we wish the goth community to be. Have a great weekend! 🦇

I feel seen

It can't moo all the time.

Okay we're a day late mentioning this one but on 5th August 1988, Fields Of The Nephilim released their highly acclaimed 2nd album which featured the single 'Moonchild', achieving a #12 position in the UK album charts & maintaining sales of flour & cowboy hats for another year...

And a belated Happy Birthday to Dinah Cancer of the legendary 45 Grave who turned 65 yesterday

We would like to wish a happy 62nd birthday to Elizabeth Davidson Fraser, the legendary Cocteau Twins frontwoman whose uniquely beautiful voice captured hearts & ears and whose lyrics inspired some of the most secure WiFi passwords this planet has ever seen.

Remembering Sophie Lancaster, who died 18 years ago today. She was murdered for being a Goth. Her legacy, The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, works to Stamp Out Prejudice, Hatred & Intolerance Everywhere. Honour her memory by standing against hate. #SophieLancaster #Sophie #goth #gothic

Happy birthday to Banshees/Creatures drummer Budgie, arguably the greatest drummer alive. If you haven't read his recent autobiography 'The Absence' I strongly urge you to do so, it's fantastic.

On this day in 1984, #DepecheMode released "Master and Servant" as the second single from their fourth studio album, "Some Great Reward".

www.ricemedia.co/from-meme-to... This resonates so hard with me, deep down into my Asian roots and beyond. I really would like to see them join in with a World Goth Day event next year.

On this day in 1979, Bauhaus unleashed the definitive goth DJ toilet-break record 'Bela Lugosi’s Dead' onto the unsuspecting populus. For some reason it's harder to acquire the standard 12" black vinyl version than the picture disc with glow in the dark text.

I'm unable to stop thinking about the rave/cybergoth cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Freebird' that I'd heard online last night. While it was a considerably faster beat than the original because 'oontz oontz oontz', it still managed to run for 3-5 business days, just like the original version. 😶

Happy 68th birthday to Daniel Ash of Bauhaus / Tones on Tail / Love and Rockets 🦇

Wise words indeed. It's up to all of us to challenge anti-minority rhetoric; it's not welcome in the goth community and does not reflect our core values.

Released on this day, 1988. I loved this single so much, pretty sure I turned my 12" copy into thin strands of black plastic.

A bit of 'light' reading for the rivetheads among you. Honestly this is a pretty decent list by Pitchfork & may lead to several hours of musical research for some. pitchfork.com/features/lis...

We've been asked to give a birthday shout out to Pete from Northampton who's a big fan of the goth scene. He's 68 today but he doesn't look a day over 25, does he?

COCTEAU TWINS-GARLANDS Released 43 years ago (yesterday). With its dystopian wall of screaming guitars & Liz Frazer's haunted vocals, it's still the most gothic sounding album ever made in my humble opinion & a staunch favourite in my entire music collection. What's your go-to 'gothest ever' album?

Do you like spooks? Do you like soaps? Do you like spooky soaps? Apparently spooky soaps is a thing and we're rather impressed by these. beautiful-freak-cosmetics.myshopify.com

Well then, this is the moment we've all been waiting for! We're pretty proud of this new release and we hope you'll like it too. Come and gerrit! the-glass-house-museum.bandcamp.com/album/a-thou...

Keep some payday dosh back for Tuesday folks.

If you've got access to BBC iPlayer then this right here is what you need to be watching immediately. Numan and his band serve up an unmissably intense performance. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

News: Glitch Mode Recordings releases debut single and video from The BooHoos in celebration of World Goth Day regenmag.com/news/news-gl...

They've been specifically releasing covers for this time of year for the past five years, and this is the latest annual World Goth Day offering from the wonderful Terminatryx youtu.be/tx0RM0C4O_Y?...

The Blogging Goth reached out for a few words from me regarding this beautiful day. Quick mentions included of Martin Oldgoth, John Holley and Craig Dalrymple who keep this funny little tradition bubbling along steadily!

Co-founder martin oldgoth (always use lower case letters or there's gonna trouble) has recently uploaded his WGD mix. Get your ears all over it.

FYI: a very slight World Goth Day website update for 2026 which will take place next week...

Lots & lots of World Goth Day posts and photos on here, Threads and Facebook, it's a really beautiful thing to see. Not so many on X of course because, ya know... 😬 Let's raise a full glass to very silly ideas gone global, everyone! (Photo: DJ BatBoy Slim during mid '90s 'post-grebo' goth era.)

@bbc6music.bsky.social is really where it all kicked off back in 2009 when May 22nd was a day full of goth music and interviews. So I know what I'll be listening to today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It’s after midnight in the UK so Happy World Goth Day 2025

It's already World Goth Day in Australia but it's too early to be up celebrating. Unless you have black pyjamas of course.

For those who are curious, there have so far been 111 World Goth Day events announced by promoters all over the world on the official website, (and that's if you count the online World Goth Day Festival as just one event, though is actually made up of 21 individual events itself). worldgothday.com

With World Goth Day looming and our new Terminatryx tribute cover in the works for 22 May, we continue our retrospective of our annual adaptations for the occasion. Here is our second one from 2022, Bauhaus's Bela Lugosi's Dead: youtu.be/b3iYwYGhN2E?... #goth #Gothic #cover #coversong #Terminatryx

11 years ago, I made this aural travesty happen. I think it's high time that we put it back out there. youtu.be/fKaha5bwua8?...

40 years old today; Love and Rockets released 'Ball Of Confusion', a sheer stomper of a tune by The Temptations, and only slightly bettered by the rendition of the song in 'Sister Act' in 1993. Orrrr not.

Well are you?

To all promoters who want to contact us with your World Goth Day event: We need a URL (eg. FB, IG or ticket site) and where the event will take place. Flyers can be hard to read if elaborate text is used on them! All the events on our website are in text-we don't upload flyers to the page.