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World Goth Day: In the Shadow of CORVID-2020

Posted on May 22, 2020 by

You’d think being forced to stay indoors, hiding from the sun and shunning close contact with other humans would be pretty easy work for goths. In reality of course, we’re just as hungry for interaction as everyone else – so it’s a joy to concentrate on celebrating World Goth Day 2020 even if we’re restricted to only what we can experience through our screens. Continue reading →

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Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival – November 2019

Posted on April 25, 2020 by

I’ve published my review of last November’s Spa event, Tomorrow’s Ghosts Winter 2019 festival – let’s remember how it was and look forward to when it will be again! Continue reading →

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“What Year Is This?” Twin Peaks in 2020

Posted on April 8, 2020 by

This is how we should process the storytelling of Twin Peaks – fragments recalled by David Lynch, dreaming he is Dale Cooper, dreaming of spirits good and evil, murder and mercy, the real and the other…. coffee and pie. Continue reading →

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First and Last and Forever: The Sisters’ debut album, thirty five years on

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

…it is to First and Last and Always we must look for what I believe to be the ‘truest’ sound of this most definitive band. To many fans, the cowboy-hat wearing smoke-wreathed silhouettes are the golden-age lineup… Continue reading →

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General Dejection 2019: Black and Blue UK

Posted on December 13, 2019 by

In a parallel universe however, there was a rare display of Goth unity and the black clad put their vote in the red box en masse. Continue reading →

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