World Goth Day - getting closer!

This time a year ago DJ Cruel Britannia and I had only just begun to hype the idea of a "Goth Day", after discovering that the BBC6 Music decided to dedicate a weekend to musical subcultures and the 22nd May was goth. It was nothing other than a laugh at the time, something to do to see how far we could push it, and we had a small amount of success, a few local radio requests and a handful of people joining in the fun.

Well, like most things that are fun, if its worth doing once, its worth repeating, and so in January we started working on trying to make it a worldwide event, and quite frankly the response has been incredible. People all over the globe are putting together events, and doing things to celebrate the scene, from full scale events, to small club nights, coffee shop get togethers and picnics. We're actaully taking this so seriously this time we have merch for sale!

The World Goth Day awards were created for people to honour those they felt had shaped our scene and the results from those will be announced on the day. A CD I've put together to raise funds for The Sophie Lancaster Foundation will be released featuring some of the scenes biggest names, all giving tracks for free. More on that later when I can post the download info.

On the actual day Phoenix Radio, normally a rock and metal station with a weekly one hour show presented by Cruel Britannia, will be handing over 12 hours of airtime to us, the schedule for this reads as follows (times are UK GMT):

12.00 - 80s & 90s Gotherama
13.00 - Charnel House WGD Special
14.00-16.00 - Wolfmans Monster Mash
16.00 - Oldgoth's Girlie Show_Mix
17.00 - Trinity Show World Goth Day Special
18.00 - Winterborne
19.00-21.00 - Fadeout WGD Special
21.00 - Hex In The City Revisited
22.00-00.00 - thirteen13 WGD Special


Radio Nightbreed, the dedicated 24 hour a day goth station, will also be broadcasting special World Goth Day shows thrpughout the day. My show is playing at it's normal time of 9pm, for one hour (just before the Phoenix one if you fancy listen to me talk crap for three hours!).

So yeah, its bigger than last year. If you want to find out more, or check the forum for something near you head off to the World Goth Day website. Looks like the day is here to stay, a part of the goth calendar, no going back now, we've created a monster!

Happy Goth Day!