EMPATHY TEST & LAKESIDE X // 06th dec 2025 // Sheffield, Corporation

Empathy Test, who last played the Sheffield Resistanz Festival in 2022, make a welcome return to Corporation for one of only 3 UK shows.

Over the past decade, Empathy Test have evolved from complete obscurity to become one of the best-known and loved bands in the UK, German and American alternative electronic music scenes, attracting listeners all around the world.

Empathy Test’s unique brand of cinematic, analogue synthesizer-enthused pop has been hailed by the UK’s Clash Magazine as “gorgeous”, by USA’s KCRW as both “nostalgic and immediate”, and by Culture Club’s Boy George as “a musical orgasm”.

As well as Boy George, Empathy Test also count Rusty Egan (Visage/Rich Kids), Midge Ure (Ultravox/Thin Lizzy), Republica’s Saffron Sprackling and Spanish actress Ester Exposito (Elite) among their fans.

Support come from the Prague based synth-pop trio, Lakeside X.

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