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Killstar Employee Woes / Dom Joly’s Goth Weekend / Morecambe Corrosion – DREADLINES

The Dreadlines for February – Killstar in staff relocation row, Dom Joly in Whitby visit and CorrosionFest 2024 approaching rapidly! Continue reading

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The Whitby Conundrum

Reports and thoughts from Whitby, North Yorkshire, in the aftermath of Goth Weekend 2023. Continue reading

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Whitby Gothic Festival – Halloween 2022

It’s that time of the year when goths begin rooting around in their cavernous wardrobes for their few remaining matching blacks, and disentagling their boot laces ahead of the journey to Whitby for the premier UK goth festival. Continue reading

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Goth City Festival VI: Interview with the Promoter

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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International Women’s Day – Goth Herstory and Future

As much as it lifts my shrivelled black heart, this photo is more than forty years old! Not to detract from the immortal achievements of these musicians, but they’re from genres famous for innovation and creation. Where are the new women stepping up to carry on the legacy of fearless creators in a field riddled with – like so many others – misogyny and sexism? Continue reading

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