join the global goth community in a day of celebration of goth-ness. this is our 4th year representing Durham for WGD.
live performances by IDOL TALK (nc) & desolation colony (va)
dj sets by Fifi Hi-Fi (nc)
Idol Talk is a darkwave/post-punk trio from Carrboro, North Carolina, creating danceable anthems with gothic themes. Their sound echoes 80s synths, basslines, and guitars. Influenced by The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, and modern acts like Drab Majesty and Twin Tribes.
In April 2025 they released their debut album 'Allure' which explored loss, love and existential longing, offering a soundtrack for the dark.
Desolation Colony is the doom electronics project from Joshua Strachan (Vaura, Azar Swan, Blacklist). Incorporating elements of industrial, noise, power electronics, and EBM, Strachan absorbs our daily disintegrations and refracts them through aggressive sounds and relentless energy.
The project first performed live with legendary Italian film composer Fabio Frizzi in December of 2019 and signed to Berlin-based Mannequin Records in February of 2020. After releasing an EP via Mannequin featuring club favorite “Burn My Hands in Slow Fire,” Strachan began to collaborate with Tom Moore of Throne Heap records and released “…Those in the Cities Will Be Devoured” on [aufnahme+wiedergabe]. Choosing mainly to focus on touring in Europe and the UK, with occasional appearances in the U.S., Desolation Colony has played with like-minded acts such as Xeno &. Oaklander, Agent Side Grinder, and Years of Denial.
Desolation Colony dropped two full-length releases in 2025, the first entitled “A Rapture of Blooming Revenge," via Phage Tapes and the second, “The Impossibility of Haunting a Barren World," via Throne Heap. The first is an aggressive, beat-driven catalog of world-destruction and the retreat of the human animal from its failed attempts at dominance over nature. The second is a raw, power electronics-inflected slice of textural industrial reflecting on the disappearance of humanity at its own hands through technological warfare and genocide.
In the summer of 2025, Desolation Colony contributed the song “Portraiture” to a compilation for the UK-based Industrial Coast label. The song foreshadows upcoming material, which will be released later in 2026. The 2CD compilation "Wound in the Subsoil", which collects all recorded material to date, will be released March 28th via Berlin-based [aufnahme+wiedergabe] coinciding with several tour dates across Europe in late March and early April.
