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Dark Return of the Same Old Story

I was in two minds about responding to The Guardian’s article of 20 February – “Goth’s undead! The dark return of Britain’s spookiest subculture”. The “dark return?” The question, “did it ever go away”? Time to set the record straight! Continue reading

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Dark Wash Recycle – ‘gothcore’ and high fashion

It’s all part of the Dark Wash Cycle, where the catwalk commandeers goth style for their Fall-Winter collections, and every journalist has to act like they’ve never seen huge boots or winged eyeliner before. Continue reading

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In Response: Black Lives Matter

If it suddenly turns into exclusion based on somebody’s race, creed, sexuality or other basic human right – it goes beyond petty goth politics and into the realm of crime and cruelty. That is not permissable under any circumstances. Continue reading

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General Dejection 2019: Black and Blue UK

In a parallel universe however, there was a rare display of Goth unity and the black clad put their vote in the red box en masse. Continue reading

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Can An Article Be More Insulting?

With a sound like the stone trap chasing Indiana Jones, thousands of goth eyeballs were rolled recently as the Wall Street Journal published an online article ‘provocatively’ titled Can A Grown Woman Wear Goth Fashion?  Continue reading

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