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New Music Reviews – August 2025

Posted on August 30, 2025 by The Blogging Goth

I should back up my words about new music being fresh blood to the goth scene. So read on for three releases I enjoyed recently that are keeping goth moving ever forward… Continue reading →

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Deadinburgh Festival 2025

Posted on July 18, 2025 by The Blogging Goth

Despite an array of logistical issues, the inaugural Deadinburgh delivered an astonishing roster of new and established alternative acts… Continue reading →

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Whitby Goth Festival 2025

Posted on April 24, 2025 by The Blogging Goth

Or should that be Whitby FOMO Festival? Like many more, I won’t be attending this year – but there’s an ambitious array of other events that I definitely do want to signpost… Continue reading →

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“Alone” – the new single by The Cure

Posted on October 1, 2024 by The Blogging Goth

The chance to discuss a new single by The Cure last cropped up sixteen years ago. There might never be another. Such is the atmosphere one inhabits when approaching ‘Alone’, released on 26 September to promote the album “Songs of a Lost World.” Continue reading →

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‘Goth needs to defend its territory’ – how the ‘postpunk’ tag is muddying the waters

Posted on June 3, 2024 by The Blogging Goth

“Joy Division is a massively important band in explaining why some indie and rock bands sounded the way they do in the 2000s. No self respecting music journalist wanted to admit the bands they liked were influenced by something as stupid and tawdry as goth and so it all got neatly sanitised, packaged and labelled as post punk.” Continue reading →

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