Carpe Noctum: InSect, Exceptional Mr Hyde, Short Dark Stranger

Online ticket sales are now closed. Tickets can be purchased on the door from 7pm, £8 cash only.

Fronted by Ed Tuke (ex-Screaming Banshee Aircrew/Partly Faithful), The InSect are a formidable live force, with dual lead vocals and spiky post-punk backing, crackling with energy. We're welcoming them back for the first time since 2023, and they'll be debuting tracks from their forthcoming new album alongside established favourites.

The Exceptional Mr Hyde have been busy building their reputation and following, with a fabulous live show. Proper old-school post-punk, with one of the best debut albums we've heard in a long time

The North's premier purveyor of poetic, provocative pumping power pop, a short, Dark Stranger, opens proceedings with his Carpe debut. The dapper doyen of darkly dour yet determinedly defiant disco - synths, sorrow, sarcasm, showmanship & soul.

Carpe Noctum is the biggest and longest-running regular goth club in the north of England. It celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, and was recently an inaugural inductee of the Leeds Goth Hall of Fame. Our resident DJs boast a wealth of experience, with past residencies in Leeds and Bradford, including the legendary Flock club night, under their belts, alongside guest appearances at clubs and festivals throughout the North, including repeat appearances at Goth City Festival, Tomorrow's Ghosts, and Infest. Weaving sets from a broad palette of dark alternative genres and subgenres, fuelling and fuelled by the dancefloor, their ethos is that the party is all! Expect tracks old and new, bona-fide classics and hidden gems, foot-stompers and lightbulb-changers.

The Lending Room is Leeds' finest big small venue! With state-of-the-art lighting, PA and engineers, you can get up-close-and-personal with some of the best acts around today, and still sidle back to the bar in short order. Please note the Lending Room is an upstairs venue with no level access.

18+ only, right of admission reserved.
Bands from around 19:30 till approximately 22:00, with the club night following till 2am.
Admission is £8 advance/on the door, or just a fiver after the bands for the club night only. Cash only on the door please!