Another year passes, and another edition of the Wave Gotik Treffen approaches. This year Wave Gotik Treffen will celebrate its 30th edition. The event will take place between the 26th and 29th of May and promises to be one of the best ever. In musical terms, at the time of writing this, 166 bands are [...]
May 4, 2023
João Osório
Previews
Another year in which The Black Planet Magazine was present at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig. As always, we will focus on our target audience and report on events that our readers most identify with. Interestingly, almost all the reasons for our report this year were located in the same place (Heidnisches Dorf), with a [...]
June 18, 2022
João Osório
Festivals, Reports
After 2 years of interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in which cultural events were cancelled everywhere, Wave Gotik Treffen will return to Leipzig. :: When ? :: This will take place between the 3rd and 6th of June and it will be the 29th festival. Alternative music lovers will be able to find a [...]
May 4, 2022
João Osório
Previews
Another year has passed, and once again thanks to the organizer’s collaboration, we were given access to this very unique festival, in which various musical cultures (although the predominant is Gothic) coexist in a healthy way. Here is our report! [...]
June 28, 2019
João Osório
Festivals, Reports
Another year in which the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig will take place between 07th – 10th June 2019. This year, until now, 160 bands have been confirmed, some with special concerts that promise to please fans of alternative and gothic music: White Lies, Cradle of Filth, Still Corners, Tangerine Dream, The Soft Moon, Tamaryn, [...]
May 13, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
This year the “The Black Planet” team returned to Leipzig for the Wave Gotik Treffen festival. Like last year, we chose to do the daily reporting in one place. We decided to watch the performance of all the bands on that stage/venue, instead of jumping from place to place, because we would lose a lot [...]
June 17, 2018
João Osório
Festivals, Reports
We are a little more than a month way, and some the anxiety over the arrival of another edition of Wave Gotik Treffen is already felt in the air. Not only in social media, but also in conversations at the underground places in Leipzig, we can see that an event like this has become a [...]
April 17, 2018
Rita Limede
Previews
Due to the unique logistics of the WGT festival, where events are happening simultaneously in different parts of the city, an educated selection of certain event per day was made in order to make a complete report of that specific daily event. The events were chosen according to the spirit that moves this webzine. Day [...]
June 23, 2017
João Osório
Festivals, Reports
Between the 2nd and the 5th of June another Wave Gotik Treffen edition will be held in Leipzig, Germany. Wave Gotik Treffen is a festival which mobilizes an entire city, since the events spread through various locations around Leipzig. The events do not only focus in one place, but during these 4 days of festival, it’s always [...]
May 17, 2017
João Osório
Previews