2025 Halloween Aotearoa Gig Highlights

Wooooo welcome to our 2025 Halloween Gig Highlights — a thrilling selection of thematically on-point (and close enough) live events happening around Aotearoa this spooky season. Sink your fangs into the offerings below, plus head over to our always essential Gig Guide HERE for even more options...

Thursday 30th October

Goblin Ghouls – Halloween Special - Goblin Akl, Auckland

Friday 31st October

Racing - Halloween Disco - Whammy Bar, Auckland

Halloween Fest II - Death Chemist Halloween Party!! - Big Fan, Auckland

Goth Night Halloween Edition - Ding Dong Lounge, Auckland

Halloweed At The Museum - Indica | Tipas | Jafa Mafia | Qualen Mathlay - Whakamana Cannabis Museum, Auckland

Halloween Blow-out - Featuring Teamsquad And Jett Ranger - The Yard Cafe & Venue, Raglan

Monica Loves Halloween Party - Monica Loves, Napier

High Altar - Veneration Of St Denis Tour - Porridge Watson, Whanganui

Halloween Headbanger! Jormungandr, Plagueditch (npl), Dead Queens - Underworld Tavern, Wellington

Valhalloween - Valhalla, Wellington (6pm start)

The Dark Eighties Halloween Party At Valhalla - Valhalla, Wellington (10.30pm start)

Vamps & Tramps - Havana Bar, Wellington

Darkroom Halloween Special 2025 - darkroom, Christchurch

Erase Everything EP Release Show - Threes & Sevens Records, Invercargill

Saturday 1st November

Dia De La Muerte - Carrion Bride, Skumlord, Cesura - Small Rave, Auckland

Tone Fest 2025 - Whammy Bar, Auckland

Infinity Ritual - Tusk - Wolf Wizard - Last Place, Hamilton

Heavy Halloween Horror Show - Asgard, New Plymouth

All Saints Day - A Halloween Mini-fest - Dom Polski, Wellington

Big Gay Halloween At The Graveyard: Night Of The Unliving Wage - The Graveyard, Wellington

High Altar - Veneration Of St Denis Tour - Underworld Tavern, Wellington

Totally Spookers | Halloween Drum And Bass Sessions #3 - East Street Cafe, Nelson

Other Voices Perform The Music Of The Cure - Christchurch - A Rolling Stone, Christchurch

The Wendys, Sentient Mud, The Perfect Gun - darkroom, Christchurch

Lewis Parke - The Halloween Bash - Wunderbar, Christchurch

Erase Everything EP Release Show Dunedin - Pearl Diver, Dunedin

Playing this Friday at the Darkroom Halloween Special 2025, here's Moider Mother's 'Brick In A Stocking'...

On the mega-stacked bill for Tone Fest this Saturday at Tāmaki Makaurau's Whammy Bar, crank up Cootie Cuties' 'I got stood up by the creature from the black lagoon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt'...

Playing this Halloween weekend in Dunedin and Invercargill, here's Erase Everything's new single 'Shadows'...