Remembering #PeteBurns, born this day in 1959. Long before Big Brother, Pete sang for Nightmares In Wax who had a true #postpunk and early #goth vibe about them - before transforming into Dead Or Alive and achieving #synthpop success! Pete sadly passed away in 2016.
Happy Birthday #Skynet - human decision making was removed from strategic defence on this day in 1997.
Remembering Carolyn Jones (Apr 28, 1930 💖 Aug 3, 1983)
Conundrum; one of the reasons I run The Blogging Goth is to speak to the media on behalf of the subculture. But what do I do when the media who gets in touch are the literal Worst in the world? Your advice please.
Manifest #18577 from QUASAR (EYES ONLY) 1. Obscure Abyss of Ossuaries 2. Crypto-Rundown 3. Erotic Duct Tape
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
On this day in 1980, #DavidBowie released "Ashes to Ashes", the lead single from fourteenth studio album, "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)".
"Kaleidoscope", the third studio album by #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees was released on this day in 1980. In 2020, #RollingStone included Kaleidoscope in their list "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list, praising #JohnMcGeoch as "one of the Eighties' unsung guitar masters" and #SiouxsieSioux "vocal charisma".
On today - Yorkshire Day - Goth City Promotions are proud to announce the creation of Yorkshire Gothic Forward, a new regional development agency for the Gothic in Yorkshire. Statement: www.yorkshiregothicforward.co.uk
Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
On this day in 1987, "The Lost Boys" by Joel Schumacher was released in American cinemas.
folk horror is so popular with young people because it involves the scariest possible thing: going outside and touching grass
MASINT #14572 from X-37B (UNCLASSIFIED) 1. Defunct Stack of Pain
It's okay to sit in the bowl of melancholy for a little while, just not too long. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Church porch as excommunicate outreach. Church porch as corpse pause, corpse watch. Church porch as threshold, as site of loosing and binding. Half-consecrated, beyond the blessing of water, wine, salt and ash. Neither in nor out and therefore a place of magics. – #CLNolan
Many happy returns to the incomparable #KateBush born this day in 1958. She danced into our lives with her 1978 number one hit "#WutheringHeights" - based on the classic 1847 tragic #gothic novel by #EmilyBrontë, who was born this day in 1818!
On this day 41 years ago, #NickCaveAndTheBadSeeds released "Tupelo" - their second single ever and the only one from the second album "The Firstborn Is Dead".
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
On this day in 1983, #DeathCult - formerly #SouthernDeathCult - released their debut EP, "Death Cult".
The girl outwits the house and leaves, carrying her shame and her family's pride.
I'm a long-standing chancer. Veteran readers will know I inveigled myself into the Manchester Gothic conference in 2016 as an actual speaker despite only having a modest BA and a blog to my name!
The Goth in the North
We have awoken today to a populist and conservative US President (elect) in an America engaged in a long-stare with resurgent Russia, whilst Britain thrashes through post-industrial collapse in the…
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For it is St. Lazarus Eve or as we Hooklanders call it, Pale Harvest Eve. It is a night when the dead twitch and the living worry about restless spirits. Some say it is like most nights in the county, but this is more than a little unfair. – #CLNolan
On this day forty years ago, The Sisterhood released their only album, "Gift".
On this day in 1993, #SmashingPumpkins released their second studio album in the US, the acclaimed "Siamese Dream". The album is multi-platinum selling over six million copies and received near-universal praise.
