vdubber if it was early whitby years then I'd have seen you, what bandything were you in? please do not say shadowmaker or nosferatu or I'll have to hunt you down and kill you with crimpers!
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Great post! Seems like Balaam and the Angel are being missed out a little here, but there you go! A few additions to some of the others:
FOTN: Dawnrazor (album and title track!)
SOM: Marian, some kind of strangerPosted 2 years ago # -
The Damned - Curtain Call
good call... can you taste the grit between your teeth?
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red lorry yellow lorry reformed earlier this year, played Leeds (naturally); they were actually from Wakefield, and I was in a little known band in Wakey at the same time.
Mick Brown (drums) was later to become a founder member of The Missionand speaking of 'reforming'; Anne-Marie Hirst, Stan Greenwood & Trotwood played a gig last month in Bradford. That to me equals the Skeletal Family, although apparently they played some Ghost Dance stuff as well
Altered States - name rings a bell but...
I never really heard anything by The Virgin Prunes, Christian Death, UK Decay at the time, and was never struck on Alien Sex Fiend.
There was also a big unsigned band scene in Bradford (Western Dance, Seven Antelopes, Skeletal Family (ok, Keighley then), Requiem - later to join up with Wild Willi Becket & become the Psychosurgeons, to name just a few)as well as Leeds & Wakefield at the time; I played in a few and saw quite a lot - some good, some not so good.
Wakefield had "Raffles" nightclub just off Westgate, that was a cracking night out. I never once went to The Phono in Leeds though.
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What A Great Thread Lost all My Goth Stuff years ago when My car got Broken into and had my all My tapes nicked. ITUNES is about to get some of my money.
Nothing really new to add apart from a teniuos link with The Mission
All About Eve
The only band that Me and My mrs will listen to as she is of the BROS, Kylie ilk
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Just listening to Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue - on YouTube. I know this song, I just didn't know who did it
All About Eve are one of my faves - and Mrs_drummer likes them too. The crossover between them & The Mission wasn't entirely surprising, as IIRC Julianne & Simon Hinkler were an item at one point...
what about Flesh For Lulu? I saw them supporting the Sisters c1984
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the severina (aquamarina mix) was always jolly, one band I could could never quite get was play dead. always just seemed a bit flat. Most memorable teenage years touring all over following the neph, new model army, rosetta stone, creaming jesus etc.. it was always such a tribal event but you'd always get a place to doss where ever you ended up. 32 people in a one bedroom flat in the arse end of birmingham after a gig at the barel organ was fun.
grotiest venue- princess charlote in leicester
most dry ice ever to obscue a dance floor- chicos in hanley.happy crimpy days.
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THE THE They were another band I was Into
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I'll see your Princess Charlotte & raise you one "Manhattan Club, Bradford"
actually, I picked up a 3CD Gothic Collection at Peterborough Services about a year ago; some cracking stuff on it, and something that shouldn't be - Cradle Of Filth. One major omission of course - no Sisters, but I guess Mr Eldritch is trying to protect his revenue stream
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john_drummer I'll agree with your shite venue top trumps, the bukley tivoli and the mercat in digbeth were also pretty vile.
I'm currently listening to specimen and looking through some old fanzines. I'm going to be such a grumpy f**ker when i have to go back to work and pretend to be a responsible adult again.
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ooo danse society
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I haven't had my hair cut since the end of July; it's getting quite a decent length now.
Do you think crimpers & grey hair go together? no? ok, maybe not
Can't go dying it black again, it would be rather obvious... and I'm supposed to be a grown-up now.still, if the band takes off...
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my hair was a black mohawk/topknot style with white badger stripes that was long enough to reach my belt. Now bald.....arse!
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I still have my hair, but it's mostly grey now. I'm 44 FFS
then:
now:
(well, July actually, just after the last haircut)Posted 2 years ago # -
just dye most of it black and leave some grey/white bits to look like dave vanian
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I also saw Flesh for Lulu supporting Sisters of Mercy, this was at Leeds Uni around 1984. In the Sisters set, the smoke machine completely engulfed the room and we never actually saw Sister of Mercy other than at the beginning and end, they sounded good tho.
Can I also recommend to those revisiting the music
The Three Johns - teenage nightingales to wax (single) - Atom drum bop (album)
Inca Babies - big jugular (single) - Rumble (album)Posted 2 years ago # -
oh yeah, 3 Johns were ace. ADB was a superb album, I think I still have it on cassette somewhere.
<goes off to rummage>
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Late entry:
Listen to Her Heart - Salvation
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I reckon that might have been on the same tour
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I still have the first SF single - Trees. Bought off Punky Pete in the White Horse Pub in Bingley in 1983, he was selling them out of a plastic carrier bag. We knew Stan well at the time, he was a regular in the White Horse and a really nice bloke. I last met up with Anne-Marie in the Busfield Arms in East Morton (nr Keighley) about 15 years ago. We had a bit of a fling for a while at that time, she had a butty shop/cafe in Keighley, she's a really nice girl. I missed their reunion gig in Bradford a few weeks ago, didn't hear about it until a few days afterwards.
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tazzymtb - Member
vdubber if it was early whitby years then I'd have seen you, what bandything were you in? please do not say shadowmaker or nosferatu or I'll have to hunt you down and kill you with crimpers!
Not early years mate - I think it was 2005 to be honest. Band was called Neon Zoo. Not proper goth, more dance-y nonsense, but Mike from goth faves Manuskript was in the band.
We gigged on the 'scene' such as it is these days for about a year or so. I found it really weird as I haven't really been a 'goth' since about 1992!
I remember when all of this was fields.....of the nephilim...
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lol, in the middle of a good old 'goth off'!!! brilliant!
nowadays i can't help thinking of the mighty boosh "this is the strongest hairspray known to man, made from the tears of robert smith"
red lorry yellow lorry-walking on your hands-ace!Posted 2 years ago #
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