+1 early The Cure! Especially peel sessions & the M gig

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

“Makes the Sister of Mercy sound like the Stylistics”

Skinny puppy – saw them in some pub near hammersmith and the finale was the lead singer hanging himself in some gallows type prop :-). Never a goth myself but +1 for first and last and always by SoM, had a cracking version of Adrenochrome on an old CNT Records compilation (No Pasaran)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GykfIOym8Qg[/video]

for those that liked the lorries, altered states had a similar style

At the risk of a STW barney I would recommend the early proper Fields Of The Nephilim. Their 2nd album is best

+1 to that.

also, not really goth but around Leeds at the same time – The Three Johns, The Rose Of Avalanche;
Bradford’s finest (again not goth but most goths like em) New Model Army;
Southern Death Cult / Death Cult / The Cult up to & including Love but nothing after that;
The Birthday Party/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds;
Cocteau Twins;
The Damned (The Black Album era);
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Mission
Play Dead
Bauhaus
Killing Joke
Sex Gang Children
Alien Sex Fiend
Virgin Prunes
Gene Loves Jezebel

and crossing over to psychobilly,
The Cramps
Theatre Of Hate / Spear Of Destiny
The Meteors
Guana Batz
King Kurt (if only for the comedy value)

Loop definitely weren’t goth, but v industrial IMO.

Tazzy – some excellent stuff there, some of which reminded me of Leather Nun.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PIYEBdx5UwE[/video]

Throbbing Gristle?
Yes to Cabs. 2×45, Yashar.
Nurse With Wound?
definitely Einsturzende (Halber Mensch just for Yu Gung alone!)
Does Jim Thirlwell (sp?) in his variety of Foetus guises count? He was a hoot.
Laibach, they were more industrial early doors weren’t they?
I remember a Test Dept lp with a fold out sleeve, which is all I remember about it… 😳 but they were a bit ‘body fascist’ for my liking really…
Coil? Scatology, and hows about topical, Horse Rotorvator
Pushing the boat out a little further surely Swans would sneak in? Greed and Holy Money, man I loved them lps.
Goth for me started and finished with the Birthday Party…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S1HiWqqqcE[/video]

hmmmmm almost metal there chap…

oh god I’d forgot the Birthday Party. SONNY’S BURNING

metalheart – Member

Throbbing Gristle?….”

If you’re mentioning throbbing gristle what about Chris & Cosey – a bit poppy. God this thread is taking me back a few years.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLQ4FRsepg[/video]

The Young Gods.

Wow, thanks for all the responses folks.

Already got loads of Psychobilly & Punk, so that’s covered.

Will have a good look in the local secondhand vinyl/cd empora for the other bands mentioned.

Once again, thanks, much appreciated.

At one Christian Death gig Valor’s son stood in front of some death camp videos and chanted “I am death”.
The crowd replied by chanting “your daddy’s a ****”.
Still tickles me to this day.

Most times when the wife is out and I open the record box of doom I reach for “PAILHEAD: Don’t stand in line”. A truly epic industrial track.

Great topic for a thread by the way… loving it.

At one Christian Death gig Valor’s son

LoL, WTF were you doing going to see them with that dobber!, without Roz williams there were cack 😀

Xmal Deutchland
Ausgang
Inca Babies
Flesh for Lulu
Lords of the New Church

This
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HrkilhnN8[/video]

@ Kilo… all flooding back now…

was at same Skinny Puppy gig… Fulham Greyhound back in the day late 80’s
vivisection a plenty and the ‘hanging finale’… mental

Went to plenty of Nitzer Ebb gigs in London… not uncommon to see some of the Mode lads there
saw Fletch and Martin Gore at one (LSE gig i think)

Also any one into their Razormaid’s? some cracking remix’s and a great way of accessing new stuff at the time