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Goth City Festival VI: Interview with the Promoter

Posted on June 21, 2022 by The Blogging Goth

Forget the Batcave, Highgate or Camden Market, Leeds is going to embrace its dark heritage as the true capital of UK Goth with the welcome return of Goth City Festival
in just a few weeks time.

A smorgasbord of live music, DJs and traders catering to a vast influx of black-clad fans, it’s popular with old-school and bleeding-edge goths alike.
I dropped GCF Comandante Joel Heyes a line to chat about the event, as well as challenging some old-fashioned thinking in the scene! Continue reading →

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“Give Me Walls” by Cold in Berlin: Ten Years On

Posted on November 26, 2020 by The Blogging Goth

Cold in Berlin make hypnotic, spiky synth-backed bleak indie rock with mesmerizing and terrifying vocals that had me hooked from the start. Ten years ago today their debut album hit and this tireless band have been creating, performing and releasing ever since… Continue reading →

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Black Cat Radio: Interview with Rosie Garland

Posted on November 11, 2020 by The Blogging Goth

Black Cat Radio is an hour-long online show featuring presenters The Blogging Goth and Dr Claire Nally, with the next show including an interview with author Rosie Garland Continue reading →

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World Goth Day: In the Shadow of CORVID-2020

Posted on May 22, 2020 by The Blogging Goth

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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Could you be in the Museum of Goth?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by The Blogging Goth

Now all the celebrations have ended and our hangovers have receded, it’s time to confront reality. 2019 is the fortieth anniversary of many goth origins, and so we must accept that this odd old scene of ours is a legitimate … Continue reading →

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