Therapy? and Wayne Hussey top line-up for Whitby Goth Weekend 2016

Whitby Gothic Weekend 2016

Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th April 2016
Whitby Pavilion Complex, West Cliff, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 3EN, England MAP
£65 for the weekend

As the Goth world's favourite time of year Hallowe'en passes, the line-up led by Therapy?, and Wayne Hussey has been announced for Whitby Goth Weekend 2016 takes place at Whitby Pavilion Complex, West Cliff, Whitby, in North Yorkshire this year from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th April 2016.

Other first acts confirmed are Fuzzbox, The Red Paintings, Lene Lovich Band, Rhombus, She Made Me Do It, and Hands Off Gretel.

Organisers said, "Whitby Goth Weekend prides itself on catering to all subcultures and tastes, and seeks celebration of the movement and its roots every step of the way. The result is a bi-annual line up of what influenced Goth, what's come from Goth, and, perhaps most importantly, what will get an audience of Goths moving - and Steampunks, Punks, Bikers, et al besides! You all know Goth music, we all know Goth music - we provide music to dance to. For 2016, we expect to see pointy shoes, cuban heels and New Rock boots kicking up a storm."

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Early bird tickets are on sale priced at £58 for the whole weekend, a minor weekend ticket is priced at £31.50. There are family ticket and pay in instalment options also available. A day ticket is priced at £30.60.

Now in its 22nd year, The Weekend is still one the largest and most successful independent, home grown festivals in the UK and is estimated to produce around £1.1million for the town's local economy per annum, and has generated thousands for charities such as the Bat Conservation trust and the Sophie Lancaster foundation.

The event is celebrated as an icon of the alternative movement, having been studied, visited and explored by television, newspapers and radio over the years, and has, despite all this, remained utterly independent throughout its run. Growing since Jo Hampshiire founded the event in 1994 as a forty-person pen-pal meet up, it now attracts thousands from all over the globe - all from word of mouth, with no sponsorship and no outside funding.

After two decades, the team is still built of friends and family, all in house, and the town now handles between 8,000 and 10,000 people a year, drawn entirely by the spectacle of top hats and tailcoats roaming the town's Victorian streets.

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in Whitby.

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