Promenade Cinema + The Brides of the Black Room

Promenade Cinema are a UK darkwave/electropop duo whose cinematic synthpop is built on lush, layered electronics, commanding vocals, and hooks that refuse to leave your head. Their sound moves between brooding synthwave and euphoric electro-pop with sweeping melodic intensity. Third album Afterlife (2025) is their most ambitious work yet, and their live reputation - forged at NCN Festival (DE), Infest (UK), Resistanz (UK), ElectriXmas (SE), and upcoming performance at the Out Of Line Weekender 2026 (DE) - speaks for itself. Dark, danceable, and dripping with melody. The Brides of the Black Room are a Swedish collective who've built something far beyond a band. Drawing on members connected to hundreds of acts across Sweden's music scene - from cyberpunk to doom metal - they channel their output through an elaborate mythology of witchcraft and ritual vengeance, structuring albums as "seasons" and songs as "episodes" in an unfolding narrative. The music is a wall of unforgiving synths and seismic bass, equal parts spectacle and incantation. Second album Commander (2025) continues the saga. Prepare accordingly. Opening the night are IAmImperfect they are a Sheffield-based act blending darkwave, synth-pop, industrial, and goth, built around intricate synth arrangements, electronic drums, heavily distorted guitar, and soaring vocal hooks and harmonies. Emerging in late 2023 with an appearance at the online Ravenspurgh Music Festival, they quickly built momentum through UK gigs and festival slots across 2023 and 2024. That year also saw the release of a run of singles culminating in the Reincarnate EP, followed in 2025 by a tour of southern England and the single The Fallen. Their latest release, Ghosts (out 1 May 2026), explores the weight of life in the mid-2020s - how it grinds you down and lingers, haunting your every waking moment.