Goth Election 2015: Voting Green

Posted on May 6, 2015 by The Blogging Goth

Yesterday, we talked to Mark who is a Goth and will be voting for UKIP at the General Election on Thursday. The result was by far and away the most visited article we’ve published yet.

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We’ve also been running a poll of our visitors, which has proven that politics in England have fractured dramatically. We’ve seen the rise of former fringe parties like UKIP and the Green Party, so we’ll be talking to a Green supporter today.

Below is my e-mail interview with Rand Mann, an audio technician, guitarist with Terminal Gods and Green Party member. Remember you can still vote in our poll to see where the “Velvet Vote” will be cast tomorrow!

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Goth Election 2015: Voting UKIP

Posted on May 5, 2015 by The Blogging Goth

In just a couple of days time, the United Kingdom will go to the booths to elect a new government. There isn’t too much crossover between politics and the Goth scene, but when a friend acknowledged that he was a committed supporter of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), a fringe political party enjoying surprising grassroots support, I decided I had to dig further. To see if being into Goth informed your political stance, or if party membership affected how you were on the scene. Below is my e-mail interview with Mark “Mori” Trowbridge, a longstanding Goth, band-member, self-employed IT specialist and supporter of UKIP. Continue reading →

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“Game Changers: The Reptile House EP”

Posted on May 4, 2015 by The Blogging Goth

The Sisters eclipse even Joy Division as The Blogging Goth’s primary muse. This is a proclamation in favour of their most standout EP, the legendary Reptile House.

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the_reptile_house_epFor me, the Sisters of Mercy are one of THE goth bands, and it makes me chuckle inwardly when Eldritch, and Pete Murphy, try and distance themselves from a sound and an image they went to painstaking lengths to define and craft.

The Reptile House EP is a moody slab of uber-goth and is probably the crystallisation of Eldritch’s vision (the EP is allegedly pretty much an Eldritch solo work) and, being pre-Hussey, has no light side… in fact there is no glimmer of light in any of the 25 minutes – and it’s the better for it.

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REVIEW – “The Comfort of Loss and Dust” – Cold In Berlin

Posted on May 3, 2015 by The Blogging Goth

“Our love is suicide…
Our love is shame”

These two lines from “The Bell” sum up in appropriately blunt style the entire sound of London dark indie rockers Cold In Berlin. Their new album is released tomorrow, and they’ll be performing the launch party tonight – so now you can read all about this latest crushing installment in the bleak trilogy of their releases.

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“Disintegration” by The Cure released this day in 1989

Posted on May 1, 2015 by The Blogging Goth

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A fantastic review of possibly one of the most influential Goth albums produced.

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