Return To The Batcave is total DIY independent event which promotes crazy, spooky and twisted music from the music genres known as post-punk, coldwave, deathrock, gothic-punk, gothabilly and other related weird and experimental music styles with its direct roots in the 80’s of the twentieth-century, and whose common elements are art and good fun.
Gothic-punk movement is amazing visually and musically eclectic: combines into one the best and most fascinating music genres which have underground roots directly in the late 70’s and 80’s.
As with the previous edition of Return To The Batcave for a moment we would like to move back in time to the beginning of the 80’s and bring the atmosphere of the legendary London’s club Batcave.
First edition of Return To The Batcave party take place in 2008 in Wrocław (Poland) and after five years of activity we decide to expand formula of our event and organize festival with more and more rolling music.
As so far we hosted such bands like:
- Hyoscyamus Niger
- Genetiks
- Psychoformalina
- Strange Dolls Cult
- Wieże Fabryk
- The Proof
- Devil’s Starship
- Nacht Und Nebel
- Girls Overcome By Satan
- Dead Sexy Inc
- Krzyż:Kross
- Ben Bloodygrave
- Nihilista
- Augen X
- This Cold
- Velvet Condom
- Soror Dolorosa
- Voyvoda
- Lahka Muza
- Golden Apes
- The Spiritual Bat
- The Last Days Of Jesus
- The Cemetary Girlz
- Ascetic
- The Mescaline Babies
- Joanna Makabresku
- Popoi Sdioh
- BA13
- Luminance
- Totenwald
- Hatestory
- Alles
- XTR Human
- Pornografia
- Sierpien
- 13th Chime
- Agent Side Grinder
- Frank The Baptist
- Eyaculacion Post-Mortem
- Shadowhouse
- Varsovie
- Geometric Vision
- Elvira And The Bats
- Masquerade
- Ash Code
- Kandahar
- Weird Candle
- Aviaries
- Undertheskin
- Christine Plays Viola
- Huta Plastiku
- Der Himmel über Berlin
- KatzKab
- 1984
- Schröttersburg
- Old Cat’s Drama
- Liste Noire
- Bootblacks
- Twisted Nerve
- Wallenberg
- Nova Et Vetera
- She Past Away
- Horror Vacui
- Readership Hostile
- All Your Sisters
- Virgin In Veil
- Double Echo
- Dark Door
- Telegram Frank
- Diavol Strâin
- Past
- Ukryte Zalety Systemu
- Výsměch?
- Soviet Soviet
- Skeletal Family
- Charles De Goal
- Honeymoon Cowboys (ex-Siglo XX)
- Dirty Weather Project
- Martyr Whore
- Dystopian Society
- Winter Severity Index
- Selofan
- Whispering Sons
- Kælan Mikla
- Plomb
- Blood Bitch
- European Ghost
- Dear Deer
- Second Still
- Boy Harsher
- Belgrado
- Usé
- Kadeadkas
- The Doctors
- Box And The Twins
- Jessica 93
- Void // Gist
- Words And Actions
- Ploho
- Pink Turns Blue
- Screaming Dead
- Altar De Fey
- Jacquy Bitch (ex-Neva)
- Miguel And The Living Dead
- Silent Scream (ex-Varjo)
- Rendez-Vous
- Date at Midnight
- Ramoles
- Ötzi
- The Creeping Terrors
- Tearful Moon
- Soft Riot
- Padkarosda
- DK Postoronnih
- Dehet Sinn
- Mala Herba
- Rakta
- Fangs On Fur
- Cabaret Grey
- Night Nail
- BFG
- 1919
- Then Comes Silence
- Minuit Machine
- Traitrs
- Pawns
- Esses
- Nox Novacula
- Molchat Doma
- Dividing Lines
- Bragolin
- Causa De Muerte
- Anatomy
- Hände
- Ksy
- Götterdämmerung
- Naturata Brutalismus
- Cierń
- Procesor Plus
- Bluefaces
- The Foreign Resort
- Barren?
- Bleakness
- Ausgang
- Days Of Sorrow
- Senex IV
- Sacred Legion
- Noktva
- The City Gates
- Morwan
- Quadrille (Кадриль)
- Gentle Ropes
- She Pleasures Herself
- Je T’aime
- The Flatfield
- Santa Espina
- Hammershøi
- Eat My Teeth
- Clustersun
- BluzaTaty
- Nowomowa
- Talk To Her
- Yakutian Cult
- Kill Your Boyfriend
- The Snake Corps
- Bohemien
- Order89
- Kave
- Marie Laveau
- Endora Y Sus Vicios
- The Last Oath
- Night Hexe
- Cataphiles
- Nurnberg
- Kurschatten
- Carillon Del Dolore
- Shrouds
- Mekrokiev
- Telaraña
- This Eternal Decay
- Mayflower Madame
- Lifeless Past
- Naut
- Denuit
- Soft Scent
- Tiss Vampiric
- Delta Komplex
- Natures Mortes
- Opowieść
…and numerous DJs from all around the world.