'80s gothic rock

This is a space dedicated only to original 1980's gothic rock. A place to explore musical, graphic and historical details related to the genre. Anything is acceptable as long as it is related to those early "gothic" bands OR others that evolved from them OR bands that keep playing with that '80s original goth style.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Aleister, Mercury and Mephisto Walz

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Mephisto Walz are/were (?) an interesting US band formed by Barry Galvin, a former Christian Death member, in 1985. We 'll talk exten...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Press material and gig ads (part 4)

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Here's some more clippings that may appeal to you: Lets start with this 1981 two days festival in... Leeds of course! Interesting to...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

The Danse Society logo (part VII)

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Danse Society was curiously an underrated act. They started as a Bauhaus influenced band only to display soon an array of great, dreamy sou...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Gothic Rock forefathers pt.I (Black Sabbath)

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I almost completed a new upload on Danse Society's logo... I was planning to upload it today when suddenly yesterday night as I was wi...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

A remote island for Killing Joke

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As known to older fans and mentioned also in the history page of KJ's official website, in 1982, Jaz Coleman under the influence of occ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Bauhaus clippings

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Here are some Bauhaus magazine ad clippings I recently received from a friend. The first is a magazine ad (Zig Zag?) concerning the re...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Ralph Gibson and the (proto) Goths

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Hi folks I'm back again! Hope you're all OK hiding your precious white skin from the sun... Here we go again... Ralph Gibson i...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Walk away...

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Hi, to all. Have to travel for a week so I'm leaving you with a nice little photo of the Mission circa "Children" (1988). ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

The Marionettes (Less known Bands)

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Totally underrated band formed in England around 1986 under the initial name "the Screaming Marionettes". They released two sin...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Andrew's interview in Classic Rock magazine 2011

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Found this Von's interview recently and thought you would find it interesting (as I presume we're probably all SOM fans!).  The man...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

A surrealist and Dark Entries

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In 1979, Bauhaus 1919 -as they were called back then- entered the Beck studios in Northamptonshire to record 5 tracks. The most famous been...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

FOTN at "Ancienne Belgique", Brussels, 26.10.1988

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I  recently found a set of photos I took back in 1988 during the Fields of the Nephilim "Precious to the Lost" european  tour .  ...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Bob Carlos Clarke and the Damned

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The Damned have never been a real Goth band. They were one of the first and best punk acts. Many songs though, due to Dave Vanian 's o...
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