[kj] UK Decay & the great "goth" debate

[iPat]

i seem to recall the goth tag emerging with the southern death cult .
It wasnt used with TOH or kj. Saying that the 'goth' beginnings were
already happening before the cult. I recall not getting in to the
first tour of SOD due to a skirmish with the bouncers and joining the
'goths' who were far too dark and alternative to get lumped as new age
romantics in a nearby club. I never heard them use the term.


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:58:46 -0000, antoni at clara.net <antoni at clara.net> wrote:
> ... but to be fair Alex, you've always said that you picked up on KJ with
> Eighties so that was 1984 ... around 1980-81 there was an army of fanatics
> into these bands ... the term "goth" had not really been coined by then ...
> the likes of Siouxsie And The Banshees and The Cure were still seen as punk
> or new wave ... neither were Theatre Of Hate a "goth" band, rather a punky,
> sax driven sound with spaghetti-western themes ... but a large number of
> punters were into all 4 bands ... post-punk was what we (or at least I)
> called it ... and the fact was that Killing Joke was part of that "scene"
> ... a scene with no name, even before the The Face magazine decided to refer
> to the Blitz club scene with a similar moniker ... as the New Romantics
> horrors approached ... 
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iPat