Krampus Market at The Key Club
Carmel Smickersgill, Tours & Activities Editor
Not everyone likes to celebrate this time of year with sparkles, mistletoe and bright lights. For those people who don’t feel aesthetically aligned with mainstream Christmas, Krampus Market at the Key Club has your back and is keen to fill your festive hole with a delicious array of dark, witchy and oddly unusual objects.
The Key Club is well established as Leeds’ premier alternative gig venue. It holds two fairly sized gig rooms and has a history of booking outrageous live acts. Their club nights celebrate and venerate anything deemed weird, spooky, alternative and out there, making it a hot bed of inspiration for a lot of the city’s creative scene. The Krampus Market will be taking over both gig rooms with a deftly curated selection of stalls.
It’s a market that loves Christmas as much as Skeleton jack from Tim Burton’s nightmare before Christmas. You can pick up festive themed baked goods as easily as you can find top quality pagan burnables to aid you in bringing in the winter solstice. It’s also a market that proves Black can be an extremely festive colour, when in the hands of capable makers and artfully skilled crafts people.
Even if you yourself are a die hard Mariah Carey loving, glitter donning, carol singing, festive fiend, alternative markets are a perfect place to find your witchy half sister a beautifully bespoke seasonal gift. These kind of events celebrate the breadth of festive cheer. We should embrace and enjoy the fact that communities can be brought together with one overarching reason whilst still expressing their individual aesthetics, interests and passions within that umbrella of warm feelings.
This market is dog friendly as long as the doggos in question are well behaved and on a lead. Unfortunately the venue isn’t currently accessible, the organisers do apologise for this.
