It’s almost time for the Halloween of Spring – yes, World Goth Day is just over a week away! With canny timing, that will also be the day the Leeds Goth Hall of Fame is launched with an exhibition at the Leeds City Museum, and I’m excited to be present as one of the panel judges.
Continue readingEven now, adventurous early bats – sorry, birds – will be making the arduous journey to the North Yorkshire coast for Whitby Goth Festival, Spring 2025. Or should that be Whitby FOMO Festival? Like many more, I won’t be attending this year – for a myriad of causes including the significant cost and investment of energy. Nonetheless there is the most ambitious array of events in the town I’ve ever seen, that I definitely do want to signpost to attendees new and veteran!
Continue readingWhenever I’m lucky enough to share my passion for the goth subculture with people, I always anticipate fielding derisory or dismissive views. I smoothly correct them, insisting instead that we should celebrate the worldwide phenomena that is goth – a music genre that emerged from the confusing wreckage of punk, post-punk, futurism, New Wave and more, only to outlast so many subsequent alternative music scenes like numetal, grunge, emo and more.
Well it’s finally happening, and a celebratory exhibition of the goth scene is being assembled in – where else? – Leeds, West Yorkshire. Goth City itself – and you can suggest what should be included.
Continue readingI’m not a fan of horror movies. It’s a terrible thing for a proudly self-professed goth* to admit, that they don’t enjoy a widely celebrated aspect of their subculture. But I come to resent the carefully constructed method of provocation and suspense, or slew of shock and gore that is cunningly targeted to prod an audience in a pre-set direction of reaction. Jump-scares just piss me off.
Continue readingHappy New Year, readers! As the headline goes, 2025 is also a milestone for me as a terminally online goth. I made absolutely sure I logged into a certain forum at a certain time, so I could grab this screenshot.
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