2025 and Online Anniversaries
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by The Blogging Goth
1w ago
"...it was so effective at not only connecting me to myriad other fans at a time when the internet was still developing, but it even created the right circumstances for us to form a community in the real world ..read more
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“Songs of a Lost World” by The Cure
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by The Blogging Goth
1M ago
"...indulge the slow-burn experience of each tune washing over you like a midnight tide, from the miasma of languorous guitars that herald the expansive intro of Alone and the entire album, to the dark cacophony and taut feedback of Endsong that wraps up this incredible release ..read more
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New album by The Sisters of Mercy…’s founder guitarist, Gary Marx!
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by The Blogging Goth
4M ago
Sincere apologies for the clickbait title - but I couldn't resist the urge to be a bit mischievous! It's Gary Marx of all people, who has returned to the fold with Green Ginger Jive, a glam-inspired album - and his first release since 2008's "Nineteen Ninety Five and Nowhere ..read more
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“Alone” – the new single by The Cure
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by The Blogging Goth
4M ago
The chance to discuss a new single by The Cure last cropped up sixteen years ago. There might never be another. Such is the atmosphere one inhabits when approaching 'Alone', released on 26 September to promote the album "Songs of a Lost World ..read more
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World Goth Day 2024 – reflections from my first Wave-Gotik-Treffen
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by The Blogging Goth
9M ago
The bones of this article were compiled on the terrifying early flight back on May 21, from my very first visit to Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig. The day before the celebrations of World Goth Day, it seems apt to share my thoughts on goth through the prism of this major festival! The most immediate impact is the scale. Over 200 bands were booked and played to appoximately 20,000 attendees across multiple venues in the city. Event organizers worked with city authorities to allow free travel on trams and buses, and as I rode from venue to venue, every stop was crowded with the black-clad masses ..read more
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“I’ve been listening so long” – 35 Years of Disintegration by The Cure
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by The Blogging Goth
10M ago
On May 2nd 1989, The Cure released Disintegration, their eighth studio album – intended as an obituary for the band, it instead exceeded expectations as their most successful album to date. It was a massive departure from 1987’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me – discarding the ebullient exploration of riotious pop for a brooding, introspective creation awash with murmured vocals and sprawling echoing guitars. The ever-evolving band had returned to the gloomier sounds of Pornography from 1982, and indeed Disintegration would come to be seen as the second instalment in the Cure’s ‘dark trilogy’ of alb ..read more
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Killstar Employee Woes / Dom Joly’s Goth Weekend / Morecambe Corrosion – DREADLINES
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by The Blogging Goth
1y ago
Welcome to February 2024 and the DREADLINES, three stories summed up quickly for the goth news consumer on the go! Alternative fashion brand Killstar is in headlines and across social media posts after reports they’re commencing operations Brighton in the south of England – and asking staff to either relocate or quit. The formerly Glasgow-based clothing company enjoys a massive online presence with nearly 2 million followers on Instagram, but divides the goth community with those who embrace the more DIY and thrift aesthetic rejecting its slick, corporate style. Other observers have been obse ..read more
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The Whitby Conundrum
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by The Blogging Goth
1y ago
Established in 1994, Whitby Goth Weekend was a spectacular success story of an event that drew goths from across the world to the UK’s premier subcultural music event, held in the isolated Northern town of Whitby, for going on two decades. It seemed like it would last forever. It was so successful, it turned the biannual dates into a town-wide free-for-all of activity beyond the confines of the Pavilion. In doing so, Whitby the phenomena gained an intertia all of its own that outclassed the actual Goth Weekend event. How else could it survive the unseating of Whitby Goth Weekend, the promoter ..read more
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Whitby Gothic Festival – Halloween 2022
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by The Blogging Goth
2y ago
Happy Spooktober! It’s that time of the year when goths begin rooting around in their cavernous wardrobes for their few remaining matching blacks, and disentagling their boot laces ahead of the journey to Whitby for the premier UK goth festival. Once again I’m looking ahead and giving you a roundup of the array of events on offer. The entire weekend has always orbited the live music at Whitby Pavilion – so let us welcome the new promoters behind Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival (TGF), and give a heartfelt thanks to Kirstin and Paul who have understandably stepped back from running a massive music e ..read more
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Goth City Festival VI: Interview with the Promoter
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by The Blogging Goth
2y ago
Forget the Batcave, Highgate or Camden Market, Leeds is going to embrace its dark heritage as the true capital of UK Goth with the welcome return of Goth City Festival in just a few weeks time. A smorgasbord of live music, DJs and traders catering to a vast influx of black-clad fans, it’s popular with old-school and bleeding-edge goths alike. I dropped GCF Comandante Joel Heyes a line to chat about the event, as well as challenging some old-fashioned thinking in the scene! Hi Joel, how’s it going? Very busily! But everything is on schedule, and the agony will be over again soon, so it’s jus ..read more
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