Death Disco Indoor Festival 2026

Death Disco Indoor Festival returns to Gazarte Ground Stage for two nights of post-punk, darkwave, and synth — eight acts across Friday and Saturday, doors at 18:00 each evening.

The lineup pulls from four decades of the genre's family tree. And Also The Trees, the Worcestershire band that The Cure's Robert Smith produced in 1983, headline Saturday — fifteen studio albums released since, still active after more than forty years. Selofan, the Athens duo who run Fabrika Records and have spent a decade shaping international darkwave from their home city, anchor Friday. Riki brings Dais Records synth-pop from Los Angeles. Escape With Romeo, founded in Cologne in 1989, have pushed their sound from post-punk into darker electronic territory across thirteen albums. Days of Sorrow, Ghost Cop, Desinteresse, and Convex Model round out the bill.

The room fills with people who own records they cannot stream. They showed up for the opening act because this bill was curated as a sequence, not stacked as a hierarchy. You spot them by the band patches and the fact that they watch the stage, not the bar queue.

Gazarte Ground Stage is the venue's dedicated rock and alternative room in Gazi, capacity up to four hundred. Two nights mean the bill unfolds rather than compresses — each evening builds its own arc.

Friday opens with Ghost Cop and Days of Sorrow before Riki and Selofan close. Saturday builds from Convex Model and Desinteresse through Escape With Romeo to And Also The Trees. The programming reads like a timeline — newer acts opening the door for the bands that shaped them.

If you want a single headliner and a two-song encore, this festival does not work that way. But if you want to stand in a room where every act was booked because someone traced the through-line connecting them, two nights at Gazarte cover that ground.

Gazarte is at Voutadon 32-34 in Gazi, walkable from Kerameikos metro. Tickets EUR 30-50 via more.com.

Eight acts drawn from Athens, Los Angeles, Cologne, and Worcestershire share a bill for two nights — then disperse to their respective time zones.