In an interview with the British paper The Sunday Times John Lydon told that he risks becoming blind. Currently, the punk icon is forced to wear glasses on stage. Reading a newspaper barely succeeds nowadays, says Lydon.The singer suffers from poor visibility since his child time after he got meningitis by drinking contaminated water as a seven year old boy. For Lydon getting blind is the worst thing you, I'd rather be deaf, Lydon said in the interview.

Black Easter has to announce that RosaRubea can't play at the festival. Because of the terror act of Brussels Airport, all flights are changed, and the band can't manage to get to Antwerp. Within short time the organization found a worthy replacement by Story Off, the elektro minimal project by Chesko who you might know as the front man of the Belgian new wave band Der Klinke.
This means however that the time schedule is changed a bit.

This is the time schedule of Saturday

16h00 ELVYA DULCIMER
16h55 STORY OFF
18h00 WHISPERING SONS
19h20 ATTRITION
20h40 HEKATE
22h10 MILA MAR
00h00 IN THE NURSERY

This is the one of Sunday

16h00 ORGANIC
17h05 SAIGON BLUE RAIN
18h15 JO QUAILL
19h40 EVI VINE
21h05 LEBANON HANOVER
22h35 SONJA KRAUSHOFER
00h15 SHE PAST AWAY

And there's more. Those who come at Black Easter before 18h00 will get a Saturday ticket of the pre sales price of 45 Euro.

25th Wave-Gotik-Treffen

Date: May 13th to 16th, 2016

- Location: Leipzig, eastern Germany, at about 50 venues spread all over the city; camping site and main venue at the edge of town at the agra-Messepark, Markkleeberg; for information on the city you may check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig or the official city website www.leipzig.de/int/en.

- Websites: www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english www.facebook.com/WaveGotikTreffen

If you are travelling to the WGT for the first time, you can find lots of useful information for planning your trip on: www.sadgoth.com

- WGT-app:
The useful and free app WGT-Guide can be downloaded in the app stores of Google Play, iTunes or Amazon.

- Music styles:
All sub-genres of dark music: Gothic; EBM; Industrial; Ambient; Neofolk; Synthpop, Goth-Metal, Post Punk etc.

- Tickets:
4-Day-Tickets for all events within the 25th Wave-Gotik-Treffen Whitsun 2016 are available for 120,- € each in advance ticket sale (including advance sale charges). The Treffen-Event-Ticket includes free using of public transport (tram, city-busses, regional trains, suburban trains within the zone 110 of MDV) from May 13th, 8.00 a.m. to May 17th, 12.00

- Camping:
For camping you need a special ticket called Obsorgekarte available for 25,- € (including advance sale charge). It provides the following service-package:

- Parking:
For car parking at the Treffen-area you have to purchase a parking vignette for 15,- € (including advance sale charges). Parking at the Treffen-area (agra-Messepark) is definitely not possible without a parking vignette.

All tickets can be ordered via www.wave-gotik-treffen.com

- Expected number of visitors: approximately 20,000

- Contact: Phone: 0049-341-2120862 / Email: info@wave-gotik-treffen.de

Twenty-four years ago, two Gothic people from Leipzig had an unusual idea: They didn’t want to create yet another dark music festival but rather a supra-regional gathering of like-minded fellows for relaxed meeting, chatting and celebrating. When the 1st Wave-Gotik-Treffen took place in 1992 at the edge of Leipzig with about 2,000 visitors and just a handful of bands, it is unlikely that anyone imagined that within a few years the WGT would become the largest meeting of Gothic people in the world, taking possession of a whole city every year at Whitsun.

Now, the WGT exists a quarter-century…from May 13th to 16th again more than 20,000 Gothics from all over the world are expected to come together again in Leipzig to celebrate the jubilee of Wave-Gotik-Treffen as THE international gathering of the dark family. To start this 25th WGT properly, there will be a grand opening party already on Thursday, May 12th, starting at 8.00 p.m. It will take place at AbenteuerReich Belantis - an amusement park in the south of Leipzig. DJs will be inviting to dance at various locations on the area, among them veterans of the early days of Leipzig’s dark scene like the founders of WGT, Michael Brunner and Sandro Standhaft as DJ-team Moonchild. All fairground rides of the large amusement park can be used until midnight.

All over the city there will be about 200 bands performing, projects and single artists covering the whole wide range of Gothic music: from Electro-Pop to Goth-Metal, from EBM to Neofolk, from medieval music to Post Punk. Apart from famous bands of the scene, you are invited for new discoveries with several less-known real underground bands or artists from the edge of the Gothic music universe. The concerts and events take place at more than 50 venues spread throughout Leipzig, for instance in the vaults of the Moritzbastei, in the splendid neo-antique cupola hall of the Volkspalast, and in the historical public bath Stadtbad, as well as in large concert halls. The WGT program will also include beautiful classical music again, such as Wagner operas, Mozart’s Requiem as ballet, chamber music, organ concerts and Brams Stoker’s Dracula as musical.

From its beginning the Wave-Gotik-Treffen has been much more than a music festival: its guests may step back to the romantic atmosphere of ancient times at the medieval market place at the Pagan Village (Heidnisches Dorf). We will present authors reading and unusual theatre, cinematic performances will take place. People in historic clothing will gather for a Victorian Picnic in a park. For four days a large hall at the agra-Messepark will be transformed into the biggest Gothic-wares marketplace in the world. In numerous clubs DJs from all over the world will invite you to dance until dawn. There will also be a large fetish party where entrance is only possible by following a strict voluptuous dress code. A stroll through the winding passages of city centre of Leipzig with its historical buildings of the Renaissance, Baroque and Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) eras is especially worthwhile for art and culture lovers: the entrance to several of Leipzig’s museums is free for WGT-guests.

Cheap and entertaining accommodation is available at the huge Treffen camping ground. To enter, you need a special ticket (called Obsorgekarte) which includes also the extensive WGT-program-book. Public transport in the city is free for all WGT-guests from Friday morning until noontime Tuesday.

The inhabitants of Leipzig have become familiar with the Treffen over the last two decades – there are no longer any prejudices and the Gothic guests are very welcome here. The most fascinating aspect of the Wave-Gotik-Treffen is surely its unique magic atmosphere that covers the whole city. Gothics from all over the world celebrate their gathering in a peacefully relaxed manner, turning Leipzig into a diverse wave of black. Once a year about twenty thousand Gothics come home: to the Wave-Gotik-Treffen.

The Stadtgeschichtliches Museum of Leipzig (Museum for town history) presents an exhibition about 25 years of WGT, this eerily beautiful part of Leipzig's history, as well as about the scene with its dubious reputation to the public.

Extravagant fashion, multi-faceted music genres, spectacular accessories and most of all fascinating people will be the main focus of the dazzlingly black show. Visitors and organisers will tell about their experiences and adventures around the WGT and about their self-conception of being goth. Guided tours in English will be offered on WGT Saturday and Sunday.

The following 138 artists have already confirmed their performances at the 25th WGT (as at March 21st):

Aesthetic Perfection (USA) - Amber Asylum (USA) - Amnistia (D) - And Also The Trees (GB) - Angelic Foe (S) - Artwork (D) 30th anniversary show - Aurelio Voltaire (USA) - Autumnal (E) - Árnica (E) - Backworld (USA) - Balzac (J) - Banane Metalik (F) - Bestial Mouths (USA) - Bifröst (A) - Biomekkanik (S) - Black Moon Secret (D) - Blitzmaschine (D) - Chainreactor (D) - Christ Vs. Warhol (USA) - Christine Plays Viola (I) - Cinema Strange (USA) worldwide exclusive show in 2016 - Coppelius (D) - Crematory (D) 25th anniversary show - Cult Club (D) - Culture Kultür(E) - Cultus Ferox (D) - Dark Fortress (D) - Darkhaus (D/USA) - Darkher (GB) - Das Ich (D) - Dernière Volonté (F) - Destin Fragile (S) - Deutsch Nepal (S) - Diary Of Dreams (D) - Die Krupps (D) - Die Wilde Jagd (D) - Diodati (D) - Dirk Ivens (B) presents the best of The Klinik, Dive, Blok 57 and Absolute Body Control - Dornenreich (A) with two different sets - Drangsal (D) - Endless Asylum(E) - Enslaved (N) - Eric Fish And Friends

(D) - Estampie (D) - Faun (D) - Gernotshagen (D) - Girls Under Glass (D) 80s original lineup - Golden Apes (D) - Gothminister (N) - Grausame Töchter (D) - Hante. (F) - Har Belex (E) - Harpyie (D) - Haujobb (D) - In The Nursery (GB) 35th anniversary show - Irdorath (BY) - Irfan (BG) - James Rays Gangwar (GB) - Jessica93 (F) - Joachim Witt (D) - Kari Rueslåtten (N) - Kauan (RUS) - Kirsten Morrison (GB) - Kommando (D) - Korpiklaani (FIN) - Krayenzeit (D) - Kuroshio (FIN) - Kyoll (D) - Lacrimosa (CH) - Lament (D) - Last Leaf Down (CH) - Leather Strip (DK) - Leaves' Eyes (D/N) Viking show - Legend (IS) - Lene Lovich Band (USA) - Lord Of The Lost (D) - Machinista (S) - Maschinenkrieger KR52 vs. DISRAPTOR (D) - Mesh (GB) - My Dying Bride (GB) - Näo (F) - Nekromantix (DK) - Neuroticfish (D) - Nordvargr (S) - Nullvektor (D) - One I Cinema (D) - Orange Sector (D) - Other Day (D) - Patenbrigade Wolff (D) - Peter Murphy (GB) 'Mr. Moonlight show' presenting the best of Bauhaus - Peter Yates (GB) - Pink Turns Blue (D) - Plastic Noise Experience (D) - Position Parallèle (F) - Pride And Fall (N) exclusive German show 2016 - Psilocybe Larvae (RUS) - Reaper (D) - Roger Rotor (CH) - Ruined Conflict (USA) - Saeldes Sanc & Ernst Horn (D) - Sangre De Muerdago (E) - Schöngeist (D) - Schwarzer Engel (D) - Siechtum (D) exclusive reunion show - Signal Aout 42 (B) - Sigue Sigue Sputnik (GB) - Skálmöld (IS) - Solar Fake (D) - Somatic Responses (GB) - Sonar (B) - Suicide Commando (B) - Sunset Wings (RUS) - Supersimmetria (D) - Tanz Ohne Musik (RO) - Te/DIS (D) world premiere - The Aerdt (D) - The Angina Pectoris (D) first show in 15 years - The Deadfly Ensemble (USA) - The Fright (D) - The House Of Usher (D) - The Legendary Pink Dots (NL) - The Protagonist (S) - The Underground Youth (GB) - The Visit (CDN) - Thorofon (D) 25th anniversary show - Tragic Black (USA) - Treha Sektori (F) - Triarii (D) - Trollfest (N) - Ultranoire (H) - Unzucht (D) - Valhall (S) - Velvet Acid Christ (USA) - Versengold (D) - Winter Severity Index (I) - Winterkälte (D) 25th anniversary show - Xeno & Oaklander (USA) - XTR Human (D) -

For more information about the confirmed artists, there is a list of their official webpages here: http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/forumwgt3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23278

There’s some good news for Einstürzende Neubauten-fans who don’t have the DVD Liebeslieder in their collection.
This official release from 1993 has already been sold out for a while, but is available again now. On this DVD you’ll find two hours of material that’s been recorded between 1981 and 1993.

Hapax, the Italian post-punk and synth wave band from Naples has released a new video which you can see exclusively on Peek-A-Boo!

The new single Vitriol comes from the forthcoming album Cave that will be out on Swiss Dark Nights.