Author Archives: The Blogging Goth

About The Blogging Goth

News, reviews and other articles written from the UK Goth subculture

What is Goth?

Goth is what goths like – like their totemic crows, they pick and choose what they like from the galaxy of culture and fashion it into their own wild and contradictory scene. Continue reading

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The Art of Darkness – A Review

This mammoth text is heralded by the bold claim it’s “…the first major and only complete comprehensive overview of Goth music and culture and its lasting legacy.” This slightly tortured sentence is accurate in one sense, in that nobody else has committed more than 500 pages to attempting to cover every possible influence and aspect of the sprawling web of goth… Continue reading

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Dark Return of the Same Old Story

I was in two minds about responding to The Guardian’s article of 20 February – “Goth’s undead! The dark return of Britain’s spookiest subculture”. The “dark return?” The question, “did it ever go away”? Time to set the record straight! Continue reading

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The Blogging Goth in conversation with The March Violets

My first video of 2023, an interview I did with the lovely folk in the March Violets – once labelmates with the legendary Sisters, and an ongoing force in the post-punk world. Continue reading

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Farewell 2022

2022 was the usual array of highs and lows set against the backdrop of a world going increasingly mad… Continue reading

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