Tainted Love presents DARKSIDE – a day/night of alternative 80s
Tainted Love presents DARKSIDE – a day/night of alternative 80s
Saturday 6 February 2027 / 4pm – 9pm
The Key Club, 66, Merrion Street, Leeds, LS2 8LW
After a sell-out in November 2026 at The Warehouse in Leeds, Darkside storms back for another night of alternative 80s action. But this time, we return to where it all started: at The Key Club.
This basement venue in the bowels of the Merrion Centre is the perfect location for an authentic 80s alternative party. Relive those heady days staggering out of Le Phono on a Saturday afternoon after 4 pints of Stowford Press snakebite into a crowd of confused Morrisons shoppers!
Let DJs Dan Lomax (The Town & Country Club, The Cockpit, Black Lodge) & Richard Miechje (Salvation) take you on a dark thrill ride through the best of the alternative 80s sound-scape, transporting you back to your favourite decade for a day to remember (whether you were actually there or just wish you had been).
Expect to hear:
The Cure / Bauhaus / Sisters of Mercy / Joy Division / Soft Cell / The Cult / Depeche Mode /
Siouxsie and the Banshees / The Damned / Killing Joke / The Cramps / The Smiths / Violent Femmes / Nick Cave / The Damned / The Mission / Fields of the Nephilim / New Model Army / Pixies / The Chameleons / Iggy Pop / NIN
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