In the Dark

In the Dark comes to Gloucester Cathedral on Friday 29 January 2027, with two sessions on the same night. It's a live 360° immersive music experience performed in total darkness: 30 musicians and vocalists move silently around the audience in multiple, changing positions, unamplified, with no stage and no lighting of any kind. The set list — cinematic soundscapes, post-rock and indie-folk — is kept secret until the night.

It's a hard thing to describe because so much of it relies on what you can't see. The musicians aren't fixed in one place; they shift around you throughout the performance, so the sound moves with them. There's no amplification and no stage, just the voices and instruments in the dark. The show is often compared to London's Dans le Noir, the restaurant where you eat in total darkness, but with music as the art instead of food.

Andrea Cockerton started it in Cambridge in 2017, and it grew from original sold-out runs into a full London season in 2024. That season was performed by professional musicians drawn from the West End, the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and other leading institutions, and it won the Offies Assessors' Choice award. Since then, the show has played more than 60 performances to over 12,000 people, and it's been touring the UK and Europe following sellout runs throughout 2025 and 2026.

It's held in the Nave of the Cathedral, 12 College Green, GL1 2LX. There are two sessions: the Early Session, with entry from 18:30, starting at 19:00 and finishing at 20:15; and the Late Session, with entry from 20:30, starting at 21:00 and finishing at 22:15. Each runs for 75 minutes, and adult tickets are £40.07.