Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival

Weekend Ticket

Whitby Pavilion

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TOMORROW’S GHOSTS FESTIVAL // HALLOWEEN GATHERING

THE ULTIMATE GOTHIC CELEBRATION RETURNS TO WHITBY FOR 2024

 

FEATURING HEADLINERS

PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT:

‘JOY DIVISION : A CELEBRATION’ & CREEPER

 

VERY SPECIAL GUESTS:

IST IST

 

WITH SUPPORTING PERFORMANCES FROM

SKELETAL FAMILY + BLACK DOLDRUMS + THE GOSPEL

 

PLUS CLUB NIGHT HOSTS CARPE NOCTUM,

GOTHIC & ALTERNATIVE MARKETS + MORE

 

PLUS, FURTHER ‘VERY SPECIAL GUESTS’ STILL TBA

 

@ WHITBY PAVILION, WHITBY – FRIDAY 1ST & SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER

 

 

The UK’s ultimate Gothic weekender - TOMORROW’S GHOSTS FESTIVAL // HALLOWEEN GATHERING -

will be back for Autumn 2024.

 

Following the resounding sell-out success of last year, the annual goth festival will return to its spiritual home of

Whitby in the wake of Halloween once more and today it presents the first names who will be making up the bill.

Across its three days (Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd November), the festival is thrilled to confirm headline

performances from one celebrated gothic forefather, and the pinnacle of his most damned contemporary

proteges...

 

On Friday 1st, Goth Rock’s greatest innovators of the moment CREEPER will be unfurling a fright-fest to

remember following the runaway success of latest album ‘Sanguivore’. Riding high on an album that was lauded

as Metal Hammer’s No. 1 Album of the Year and Kerrang!’s No.2; expect a freakish, future-facing performance of

high drama and jet-black darkness as Southampton’s visionary hell-raisers take the stage.

 

The following night, headliners PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT will be taking the genre back to the blackened roots

that began it all as they present a ‘Joy Division : A Celebration’. Voted as one of the Top 5 ‘Greatest Goth

Bands Of All Time’ in a poll by Revolver and long-argued as being the founding fathers of the Gothic genre,

Hooky and co. will be making their case by illuminating the macabre marvels of classic albums ‘Unknown

Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’ in their completion. A festival exclusive, only at TOMORROW’S GHOSTS FESTIVAL

2024.

 

Each night the headliners will be ably supported by some very special guests. On Friday night, the foreboding

tones of industrial Manchester will set the mood for the evening as IST IST, one of the city’s most celebrated

post-punk outfits of recent times, return to TOMORROW’S GHOSTS as guests of honour. After their incendiary

set at the festival’s Spring Gathering in April 2023, expect to hear elements of 2023 masterwork ‘Protagonists’

alongside deep cuts from their cultish canon. Stay tuned for Saturday’s ‘very special guests’ to be confirmed

soon…

 

 

Across the weekend, TOMORROW’S GHOSTS // HALLOWEEN GATHERING’s specially curated line-up will see

bearers of the Gothic flag new-and-old representing at Whitby. Yorkshire goth-rock originals SKELETAL FAMILY

will be reminding audiences of their essential early works with choice picks from the likes of ‘Burning Oil’ and

‘Futile Combat’, while also showcasing work from 2023’s class comeback album ‘Light From The Dark’.

Elsewhere, BLACK DOLDRUMS will be blitzing senses with their “dark psych” creations. Viewing their work as a

contemporary form of gothic post-punk, the sonic voodoo they conjured on their acclaimed debut ‘Dead Awake’

(as-produced by Suicide’s producer Jared Artaud) was praised by Uncut Magazine as “a fierce combination of

post-punk, reverb, drone and melody”. A set guaranteed to leave you feeling anywhere but the doldrums.

Plus, opening the festival on Friday, future stars and Louder Than War favourites THE GOSPEL will deliver an

enrapturing performance. A supergroup of sorts comprising Jimmy Sweet (Hot Hot Heat), Danni McCormack (Mel

from hit 90’s TV series ‘My Parents Are Aliens’), Charis Anderson (Curse Of Lono), Heather Bell (Nova Hawks),

and Hazel Cotogno (Poussez Posse), this unlikely combo make otherworldly synthesiser-addled gothic-gospel

with more than a whiff of Nick Cave about them.

 

As per previous years, alt/rock DJ royalty CARPE NOCTUM will be burning the midnight oil and bringing the

tunes as they reprise their notorious death disco into the early hours. Around the site, attendees can also expect

to see the return of the Gothic and Alternative markets, as well as other special events - to be confirmed in due

course.

 

Hosted annually at the Whitby Pavilion, the town that saw Bram Stoker gift the world with the original Gothic

masterpiece ‘Dracula’, since 2018 TOMORROW’S GHOSTS HALLOWEEN GATHERING has earned its place as

 

the UK’s ultimate gothic destination festival. Delivering expertly curated line-ups, markets, talks, club-nights

and so much more, fans of the gothic subculture flock to Whitby every Halloween in what is becoming something

of an annual pilgrimage for its devout following. Following the sell-out successes of 2022 and 2023, the 2024

edition of TOMORROW’S GHOSTS will be celebrating the very finest the dark arts have to offer with one of its

most spectacular editions yet.

 

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TICKETS / INFO

TOMORROW’S GHOSTS FESTIVAL // HALLOWEEN GATHERING 2024

WHITBY PAVILION, WHITBY

 

FRIDAY 1ST - SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2024

 

Friday Tickets are priced at £42.50 + BF

 

Saturday Tickets are priced at £42.50 + BF

 

Weekend Tickets are priced at £85.00 + BF

 

General Sale tickets will be available on: Friday 2nd February @ 10AM

 

Pre-Sale tickets will be available on Thursday 1st February @ 10AM

 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Ages 8+

Under 14s to be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18 at all times.

Over 18s only for after show club night events.

Doors 6.00pm / Curfew 2.00am

 

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PARTNERS

As with the previous editions, the TOMORROW’S GHOSTS // HALLOWEEN GATHERING 2024 festival will be

partnering with the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. A charity committed to stamping out prejudice, hatred and

intolerance everywhere, the ideals of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and Tomorrow's Ghosts couldn’t be any

closer aligned. 17 years on from Sophie’s tragic passing in a vile hate-related crime, the festival will be supporting

the exceptional work of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation throughout the weekend.

The festival will also be teaming up with certified goth aficionados, Vive Le Rock Magazine, who will be the

festival’s official media partner for 2024.

 

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FULL LINE UP

FRIDAY

CREEPER

Very Special Guests:

IST IST

SKELETAL FAMILY

THE GOSPEL

+ CLUB NIGHT HOSTS: CARPE NOCTUM

SATURDAY

PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT

Very Special Guests:

TBA

BLACK DOLDRUMS

+ CLUB NIGHT HOSTS: CARPE NOCTUM

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

w/ https://www.tomorrowsghostsfestival.co.uk