Welcome to Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival
Halloween Gathering 2025
No sooner has one gathering ended & we’re asking you to return for another. Come & join us again to celebrate the darker side of life! We hope your enjoyed Halloween 2024 enough to head back to Whitby for 2025 to see your friends & experience great music, creativity & culture
We are delighted to return to Whitby following a fantastic 2024, we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. We know there was much debate about the line up, we like to surprise occasionally & bring new talents to the event to breathe new life into the old goth dog!
Our 2025 line up we hope has something for everyone musically. From classic trad goth to new exciting projects for legends of the goth sub genres
We are very proudly still partnering with the amazing Sophie Lancaster Foundation, please support them in their work, we must not forget that the world is still sadly a place filled with hate and intolerance
So what do we have lined up for 2025?
Our Friday headliner are definitely not new to the event, a band who are increasingly selective about the shows they play, but they said yes to us again. So we are delighted to bring back the mighty Fields of the Nephilim
Our Special Guests to the Nephilim are goth royalty in our humble opinion, Clan of Xymox return to Whitby for the first time in years. Also gracing our stage on the Friday night are post punk legends Pink Turns Blue, we’ve had to wait a while to get them back to Whitby, but we can now look forward to seeing them again.
Opening Friday night’s show are Heathen Apostles. Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the Gothic Americana music of the Heathen Apostles 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 will conjure both angels and demons, and will enlighten a darkened soul
The Friday clearly promises a broad range of musical styles and influences before we event get to Saturday
We’ve got a marmite feeling here. You are either in the love or hate camp on this one. We love them, great band, great live, playing Bloodstock, then playing TGF, its Lord of The Lost
Our very special guests for Saturday are a band who always deliver big time live on stage; we are so happy to have Balaam And The Angel back at TGF. They’ll be playing their epic album “The Greatest Story Ever Told” plus other Balaam classics
Before Balaam we welcome another act we’ve tried to get over to Whitby for a while, we’ve finally managed it, please be upstanding for Ash Code heading over from Italy. We’re very excited to see them live
On Saturday night we have a band playing who we can’t believe are opening for us. We only had the early evening slot on the bill to offer them when we became aware of their availability, we thought this is never going to happen, we were wrong. They said yes! High Parasite join us in 2025
“This is not a side project. It’s a new touring and recording band, and with Forever We Burn, our debut studio album, we’re showing our love for all things gothic and grand, along with a collective belief that dark music doesn’t have to be confined to the shadows” –
Aaron Stainthorpe (High Parasite / My Dying Bride)
We are delighted to confirm that our Alternate & Gothic market will once again take place in the Exhibition Hall with our brilliant and varied traders. You can all enjoy them from 10:00 on Friday October 31st through to Sunday November 2nd at 17:00. Remember entry is free
