The Black Lights 2026
2026-06-26 – 2026-06-28
| Day | Time | Stage | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | 01:15–02:30 | Bad Habitz (WP) | Obeka & Kop-Z |
| 2026-06-26 | 01:30–02:30 | Tower 5th Floor (WP) | A Guy Called Gerald — Black Secret Technology live |
| 2026-06-26 | 01:30–02:30 | Bootleg Social (WP) | Ceephax Acid Crew |
| 2026-06-26 | 02:30–04:00 | Tower 5th Floor (WP) | Kode9 & DJ Flight |
| 2026-06-26 | 02:30–04:00 | Bootleg Social (WP) | Microplastics |
| 2026-06-26 | 02:30–05:00 | Bad Habitz (WP) | Jon K & Chunky |
| 2026-06-26 | 11:00–21:00 | Houndshill Info Hub | Mark Fell & Rian Treanor — Nothing Is Explained, Everything Is O |
| 2026-06-26 | 16:00–19:00 | The North Pier | Boomkat DJs |
| 2026-06-26 | 19:00–20:00 | The North Pier | The Last Rose |
| 2026-06-26 | 19:15–20:00 | Blackpool Tower Ballroom | Austin Philemon — Wurlitzer Welcome |
| 2026-06-26 | 20:00–21:30 | Blackpool Tower Ballroom | The Caretaker — You Were There, Weren't You? |
| 2026-06-26 | 21:30–23:00 | Blackpool Tower Ballroom | 2K88 & Lauren Duffus & Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout |
| 2026-06-26 | 23:00–00:00 | Blackpool Tower Ballroom | Klein |
| 2026-06-26 | 23:59–01:30 | Tower 5th Floor (WP) | Mia Koden |
| 2026-06-26 | 23:59–01:30 | Bootleg Social (WP) | Factory Floor |
| 2026-06-26 | 23:59–01:15 | Bad Habitz (WP) | Annabel Fraser |
| 2026-06-26 | 23:59–03:30 | The Avenue (WP) | The Commission for New & Old Art Crooner Band |
| 2026-06-27 | 00:00–01:30 | WG Olympia Hall | Evian Christ |
| 2026-06-27 | 00:00–01:30 | WG Derham Lounge | Anna Gray |
| 2026-06-27 | 01:30–02:30 | WG Olympia Hall | Lee Gamble |
| 2026-06-27 | 01:30–03:00 | WG Derham Lounge | Faux Naif |
| 2026-06-27 | 02:30–04:00 | WG Olympia Hall | Anz & Crystallmess |
| 2026-06-27 | 03:00–04:00 | WG Derham Lounge | Conor Thomas |
| 2026-06-27 | 11:00–16:30 | The Albert Hotel | Ivan Seal — Your Guests Never Mention Me (exhibition) |
| 2026-06-27 | 11:00–18:00 | Houndshill Info Hub | Manchester Soda — Agentic Anxiety (Audint / Gladwin / Macdonald |
| 2026-06-27 | 12:00–14:00 | Houndshill Shopping Centre | Workshop: Cubulating The Void |
| 2026-06-27 | 14:00–16:45 | Regent Cinema | Reels From The Abyss: Muscle (2019) + Q&A — Gerard Johnson |
| 2026-06-27 | 14:00–15:30 | WG Olympia Balcony | LINTD — The Black Impossible |
| 2026-06-27 | 15:00–17:00 | Houndshill Shopping Centre | Workshop: Five Key Benefits of Temporal Involution |
| 2026-06-27 | 15:00–22:00 | Blackpool Catholic Club | Red Laser & Bakk Heia |
| 2026-06-27 | 15:30–17:00 | WG Olympia Balcony | One Leg On Eye |
| 2026-06-27 | 16:00–16:45 | Bootleg Social | Shell Company |
| 2026-06-27 | 16:30–18:00 | The Albert Hotel | Ivan Seal & The Caretaker in Conversation |
| 2026-06-27 | 16:30–18:30 | Grand Theatre Studio | Bow Down — The Art of Crime / CFN&OA |
| 2026-06-27 | 16:45–18:30 | Regent Cinema | Reels From The Abyss: Angst (1983) |
| 2026-06-27 | 16:45–17:30 | Bootleg Social | Feeo |
| 2026-06-27 | 17:00–18:00 | WG Olympia Balcony | Moin |
| 2026-06-27 | 17:30–18:30 | Bootleg Social | Joanne Robertson |
| 2026-06-27 | 18:00–20:00 | Houndshill Shopping Centre | Workshop: Honey I Shrunk The Ambiguity |
| 2026-06-27 | 18:30–19:30 | Bootleg Social | Iceboy Violet |
| 2026-06-27 | 18:30–20:00 | WG Opera House | Kali Malone |
| 2026-06-27 | 19:30–20:15 | Bootleg Social | Bloody Shield |
| 2026-06-27 | 19:30–05:10 | Grand Theatre Studio | Bow Down — The Art of Crime / CFN&OA (2nd performance) |
| 2026-06-27 | 20:00–21:00 | WG Opera House | Space Afrika |
| 2026-06-27 | 20:15–21:15 | Bootleg Social | Jawnino |
| 2026-06-27 | 21:00–22:30 | WG Derham Lounge | DJ Nonapropriado |
| 2026-06-27 | 21:15–22:00 | Bootleg Social | Silverwingkiller |
| 2026-06-27 | 21:15–22:00 | WG Olympia Hall | Croww |
| 2026-06-27 | 22:00–23:00 | Bootleg Social | Kop-Z — The Ochieng Odhis Quartet |
| 2026-06-27 | 22:00–23:00 | WG Olympia Hall | Blackhaine — Saints in the Wethouse |
| 2026-06-27 | 22:30–00:00 | WG Derham Lounge | DJ Old Rat |
| 2026-06-27 | 23:00–01:30 | Bootleg Social | Lupini |
| 2026-06-27 | 23:00–00:00 | WG Olympia Hall | Gescom |
| 2026-06-27 | 23:00–05:00 | Bad Habitz | New Habitz Bad World |
| 2026-06-28 | 00:30–01:00 | Pleasure Beach - Paradise | DJ Deathdefy |
| 2026-06-28 | 01:00–03:00 | Pleasure Beach - Paradise | Leyland Kirby — V/VM: The Hitman & Hair |
| 2026-06-28 | 10:00–14:30 | Grand Theatre Studio | Speed & Strike's Summer Holiday: Histoire(s) du Cinema — Godard |
| 2026-06-28 | 11:00–18:00 | The Albert Hotel | Ivan Seal — Your Guests Never Mention Me (exhibition) |
| 2026-06-28 | 11:00–20:00 | WG Atrium | Bound x Impiety Hour — Art Book & Record Fair |
| 2026-06-28 | 12:00–14:00 | Houndshill Shopping Centre | Workshop: Psychic Friendships (How & Why) |
| 2026-06-28 | 12:00–18:00 | Houndshill Info Hub | Manchester Soda — Agentic Anxiety |
| 2026-06-28 | 12:00–12:15 | WG Derham Lounge | SKAM present: Bhatoptics |
| 2026-06-28 | 12:00–17:00 | The Albert Hotel Pub | Mega-Day in a Micro-Pub (Bingo / Pub Quiz / Tombola) |
| 2026-06-28 | 12:15–13:00 | WG Derham Lounge | North Manc Beds |
| 2026-06-28 | 13:00–14:00 | WG Derham Lounge | Phono Ghosts |
| 2026-06-28 | 13:00–14:00 | Blackpool Spiritualist Church | Jennifer Walton |
| 2026-06-28 | 14:00–14:30 | WG Derham Lounge | Sdem |
| 2026-06-28 | 14:00–15:15 | Blackpool Spiritualist Church | Milkweed |
| 2026-06-28 | 14:30–15:00 | WG Derham Lounge | David America |
| 2026-06-28 | 14:30–15:30 | Grundy Art Gallery | Jack Sheen x Louise Giovanelli — Live String Quartet Premiere |
| 2026-06-28 | 15:00–17:00 | Houndshill Shopping Centre | Workshop: The Transfinite Dayrider |
| 2026-06-28 | 15:00–17:30 | Regent Cinema | Reels From The Abyss: Mona Lisa (1986) + Q&A — Stephen Wooley |
| 2026-06-28 | 15:00–15:30 | WG Derham Lounge | Massonix |
| 2026-06-28 | 15:15–16:15 | Blackpool Spiritualist Church | Valentina Magaletti |
| 2026-06-28 | 15:30–16:00 | WG Derham Lounge | Meatbingo |
| 2026-06-28 | 16:00–17:00 | WG Derham Lounge | Russell Haswell |
| 2026-06-28 | 17:00–18:00 | WG Derham Lounge | VHS Head |
| 2026-06-28 | 17:30–18:30 | Regent Cinema | Reels From The Abyss: The Final Selection (secret film) |
| 2026-06-28 | 17:30–19:30 | WG Opera House | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra — World Premiere: new work by Mica Le |
| 2026-06-28 | 18:00–20:00 | Houndshill Shopping Centre | Workshop: Non-Beings of the Monodromy |
| 2026-06-28 | 18:00–19:00 | WG Derham Lounge | Afrodeutsche |
| 2026-06-28 | 19:00–20:34 | Grand Theatre Studio | The Man Who Left His Will on Film — Oshima (1970, 1h 34m) |
| 2026-06-28 | 19:00–20:00 | WG Derham Lounge | MDX |
| 2026-06-28 | 20:45–21:55 | Grand Theatre Studio | A Woman Kills (1968, 1h 10m) |
| 2026-06-28 | 21:00–03:00 | Pleasure Beach - Horseshoe | Karaoke |
| 2026-06-28 | 21:00–03:00 | Pleasure Beach - White Tower | The Commission for New & Old Art Crooner Band |
| 2026-06-28 | 21:20–22:15 | Pleasure Beach - Paradise | EXO presents Exlruth |
| 2026-06-28 | 22:15–23:30 | Pleasure Beach - Paradise | Nazar |
| 2026-06-28 | 23:30–00:30 | Pleasure Beach - Paradise | The Ephemeron Loop |