Celebrate! It’s World Goth Day May 22, 2011
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I suppose, it is not about the preservation of the Gothic language
… some music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbtgsdGQNtE
I really like that clip. If I knew how these things worked I’d put up Romeos Distress by Christian Death, the Goth band par excellence. Though obviously given my part in the NWOBHM thread I have no credit whatsoever on matters musical. Walk Away by Sisters of Mercy seems to me to somehow capture the essence of Goth.
Time to get working on that Goth post…
Now that would crush any remaining credibility left.
Re the Sisters, I tend to think Floodland is the one great mainstream Goth album.
I still kind of like Xmal. Some great guitar sounds going on in the background.
btw.: Michael Löwy uses the term “gothic marxism” in his study Fire Alarm. Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ for describing Benjamin’s and André Breton’s marxism … when someone talks about the “essence of Goth”, I have to mention Field’s The Watchman
The “Walk Away” video is derided by Sisters fans as “the festival of the dancing gonks”. But as for Leeds drum-machine bands, I give you the March Violet’s new single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFE2-XNkVjw
The Festival Of The Dancing Gonks would have made a pretty good description of the historic ground-breaking and utterly inspirational royal visit of last week.
I kind of liked the March Violets too Doloras LaPicho. Nice Joy Division pull to their stuff.
I’m astounded they’re still producing material.
I miss Goths.
Gentlest ever subculture. They seemed to be forever waiting at bus stops – I guess because, as well as being gentle, it was almost completely suburban.
and partly subterranean
I do hear that goth is making a comeback, now that emo has mercifully died.
http://dominion.gothic.ie/
True fact. I only recently found out that emo wasn’t a branch from goth but came from hardcore.
I love hardcore, but emo always seemed a bit… well… overwrought.
You woz one WBS, no? Sort of innannyways.
While it is true that I often had crimped hair, excessive quantities of hairspray and dressed exclusively in black, was known to wear thin silver bangles on my scrawny wrists and that I was on occasion in the mid to late 1980s to be found in the company of some Goths, if you are suggesting that I was at any point a member of that sub culture known as Goth, I will – taking a leaf out of Anthony Coughlan’s response to certain books – be forced to sue you.
Actually, John Cooper Clarke was my main man and post-punk my thing so more a case of parallel evolution.
Gentle? True, but narcissistic too.
The other odd thing is that while definitely a creature of the suburbs (and indeed Kilbarrack had a few of them as well right into the late 1980s so this cut across class like metal) driving through Ireland in the late 80s you’d more than likely see a few of them huddled around street corners in the quietest of towns. It sort of became the default option for those not into metal and not into pop I think.
Brilliant. Do my eyes deceive me or is that Noel Fielding?
If you click on the link in the OP, you’ll find some events listed for Dublin – a pub crawl, and a gothic picnic at 3pm in the Iveagh Gardens – surely a graveyard at midnight would be more suitable?
But then you’d miss your last bus.
Should you not have headlined this; Languish, it’s world Goth Day?
I remember a speaker at a conference on youth subcultures some years ago speaking of goths as ‘giving each other permission to be sad’ – a phrase that’s stayed with me. It sums up the mixture of melancholy and good manners, doesn’t it?
That was supposed to be a link to South Park’s goth kids episode. Youtube it.
I assume it was a race against time to organise this before Robert Smith died
Is he not well?
Was he ever?
Is he not well?
Apparently there’s no Cure.
He’s only got seventeen seconds left to live.
Always wanted to start a band called ‘The Prevention’ so I could say they were better than the Cure.
I used to think I was goth. Turns out I was electro, the difference being more colours and less flouncing.
Though now I think of it Type O Negative had a song to that effect.
Shite – missed it… what’s today then WBS ? World Make-up Removal day ??
Not for me. Never used the stuff.
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Pictures from a recent international Goths Convention in Leipzig
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-69113.html