DARK delights will descend on Worcester with a double dose of tributes to some of the biggest names in goth and post-punk.

On Friday, February 13, Lizzie and the Banshees and The Cureheads will storm the Marr's Bar in Pierpoint Street.

Gary Clarke set up the tribute to the Cure in 1990, and after 25 years has decided to call it a day.

However, he is determined the band will go out on a high.

He said: "We actually played at The Marr's bar about six years ago in a last minute decision. About five people turned up, but we were looked after so well that we promised to come back one day. I remember thinking what a friendly town it was, we went out after the show and ended up dancing the night away at some sixties night where nobody cared that we were dressed 80s."

After 25 years of 'being' Robert Smith, Gary certainly has some stories to tell.

"The highpoint for me in the last decade was playing the national basketball stadium in Santiago in Chile. We turned up and there was this huge empty stadium that we sound checked in at 8am. We just couldn't comprehend that we would have any way of filling it. We walked onstage at 10pm to the screams of 14,000 people. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget.

"The first time we played in the USA our drummer broke his leg a week before the trip. I became frantic and desperately emailed Robert from the real Cure. To my utter surprise, two hours later we received a call from the Cure's manager, Daryl Bamonte, who under instructions from Robert set us up with a drummer for the tour. He turned out to be the partner of the sister of the Cure's guitarist. On that tour we ended up paralytic in Frank Sinatra's restaurant desperately begging people to believe we were not the real Cure, but that's another story."

Gary said he decided to make this the last year as he "never dreamed we would end up playing someone else's music for 25 years".

Lizzie has been performing in the tribute to Siouxsie and the Banshees since 2012 with bassist, Mark,

and guitarist, Jack.

She said the band is "really looking forward" to performing with the Cureheads on the four dates of the tour.

"Before the Banshees tribute we did a punk covers band from about 2007 which included playing a few Siouxsie and the Banshees songs. We decided after a while that we just wanted to do the Banshees and formed the band," she said.

"We've put a lot of work into the songs, image and stage show. We are basically concentrating on the early to mid-period of the band. The set at the moment consists of material from the first album,The Scream, to Tinderbox plus all of the favourites."

Tickets cost £8 in advance and can be bought by visiting www.wegottickets.com/event/304541.