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The Mission - Tower of strength.
Room for any Queen Adreena?
Pretty Like Drugs
Kitty Collar Tight
Suck
Or am I mixing my sub-cultures? 🙄 😉
Tootallpaul - I can help you with that, I just copied it onto my pc last night
[i]The Birthday Party - Release the Bats[/i]
Excellent! I was singing that while walking the dog last night! (A bat was flying around me) 🙂
I'm making my ulitmate playlist from all of these.
The best thread in weeks...suddenly I'm 17 again, I can smell the Patchouli oil.
Glad to be of service 🙂
Ooh, some I completely forgot about; not all strictly 'Goth'...
The Cramps - Human Fly, Goo Goo Muck
Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning
The Cult - Resurrection Joe
The Meteors - My Daddy Is A Vampire
Psychosurgeons - Chasing The Dragon
bauhaus- bela lugosi's dead
Awesome song. And it sounds like it shouldn't work but Sepultura's cover of said song is also truly awesome!
Moonchild - the Neph
Dr Jeep - Sisters
Millenium - Killing Joke
White Wedding - Billy Idol
F-1-11 Love Missile - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Rosetta Stone? Bloody hell, I used to go round to Porl and Carl's flat, get s**tfaced and stagger around Birkenhead and Planet x in liverpool with them.Bought their first drum machine off me they did, Porl is still knocking around the music scene producing top forty-ish(Elbow actually) acts here and there, and working with his own band miseryjab.
verses- definately mixing your sub-cultures, but katy jane did sing backing vocals on a couple of creaming jesus tracks so I'll let you off 😉
followed rosetta loads and miserylab is rather tops as well.
Also forgot to add
susperia - assassin soul
killing joke- eighties
sex gang children- oh funny man
god i miss my crimpers
not buying into the marylin manson stuff or slipknot but i've been belting through youtube for all the good stuff...sisters at leeds this year were astronomical 🙂 some great playlists coming out of this thread! slightly ot but got to admit their support (goldblade) were rather good too!
for all the old goths out there, check out the eden house, project with bits of neph, altered states, all about eve, faith and the muse, this burning effigy etc... It's bloody top banana
http://www.myspace.com/theedenhouseuk
<sigh>
Many blasts from the past there. I have nothing new to add but I think I am going to listen to some Nephilim now....
Who knew there were so many goth types on here. 🙂
Tn- it's obvious, skinny legs, tight clothing, vain and slightly bitchy, all goths are xc racers!!
forgot to add the need to be different form the "norm" therefore it could be argued that goths are also singlespeed nichewhores 😀
[i]sisters at leeds this year were astronomical [/i]
well they were better than they were in '06, but still not a patch on the line up c1985 😉
Bloody hell,you lot of got a funny idea of what goth is. Goth is code for shite!
Foetus/Clint Ruin-not goth
Killing Joke -ditto
Proper goth - Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy,Fields of Nephilim and the rest of the sad chancers that sprang up. A truly abysmal genre of music.
Oh,and the Virgin Prunes weren't goth either.....or Siouxsie and the Banshees.
so what are you doing in here then Dave? and what genre of music floats your boat?
Bloody hell,you lot of got a funny idea of what goth is. Goth is code for shite!
"goth" was a label thrown onto a load of different bands by the music press as most of it didn't fit any particular genre of the time. It got picked up from a UK decay interview when the interviwer (steve keaton) was stating that the music was going to be a movement and that it needed a name, uk decay just messing about said that they were into "the whole gothic thing" and then messed about laughing about gargoyle shaped vinyl. TADA! goth enters the press as a new genre and anyone who didn't fit the norm got lumped into the genre.
Interestingly most bands listed as goth never wanted anything to do with it. FOTN never wanted to be goth and even in interviews admitted that although their fan base was made up of "goths" they never understood or recognised the term.
so goth can mean whatever the **** the listener wants it to because it was never anyhting other than a press invented genre to describe a loose collection of very different bands with very different sounds and sytles. It sadly passed away in late 80's early 90's when it just became heavy rock/metal with a bit of eyeliner and lippy! 😥
and another thing.......
thanking you mr john_drummer for making me go through hundreds of old vinyls I'm having an ace time.
anyone remember red lorry yellow lorry and altered states?
damn good thread, I just got a USB turn table and have been converting all my old missio, sisters and all about eve stuff to digital
I'm so goth I've gigged at Whitby Goth Fest!!!
No - seriously.
The Cure - 100 Years
[i]In a high building there is so much to do[/i]
http://www.free-lyrics.org/The-Cure/273797-100-Years.html
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!
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 stranger
The Damned - Curtain Call
good call... can you taste the grit between your teeth?
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 Mission
and 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.
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
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
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.
THE THE They were another band I was Into
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 😉
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 ****er when i have to go back to work and pretend to be a responsible adult again.
ooo danse society
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...
my hair was a black mohawk/topknot style with white badger stripes that was long enough to reach my belt. Now bald.....arse!
I still have my hair, but it's mostly grey now. I'm 44 FFS
then:
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(well, July actually, just after the last haircut)
just dye most of it black and leave some grey/white bits to look like dave vanian 😀
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)
oh yeah, 3 Johns were ace. ADB was a superb album, I think I still have it on cassette somewhere.
<goes off to rummage>
Late entry:
Listen to Her Heart - Salvation
I reckon that might have been on the same tour
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.