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It’s a very busy week but it’s also Hallowe’en week so I’m just going to chuck some classic goth-y material at you to get through the month. We’ll start with The Cure and “Charlotte Sometimes”, a non-album, post-Faith single released in October 1981 and based on a 1969 children’s novel.
Simon Gallup has quit The Cure except no, he hasn’t quit The Cure. It’s unclear if in the months between point A and point B if he actually missed out on any work duties since the band aren’t touring and next album Live From The Moon was supposed to have been almost done since last […]
In May 2019 – aka a million years ago – The Cure played a series of shows to mark the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Disintegration at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. It was hinted that there’d be more recitals of the record, but the remainder of their 2019 dates were more conventional […]
I do love me some melodrama, so the third single from Siouxsie & The Banshees‘ 1988 album Peepshow certainly hit the spot. All slow burn and build and featuring one of Sioux’s best vocal performances, it’s an all-timer. The version recorded at the final stop of the Lollapalooza 1991 tour in Washington state was deemed […]
I’ve sampled Killing Joke’s discography at various points in their four-decade career, and for whatever reason the only record of theirs that really does anything for me – so far, at least – is 1985’s Night Time. Not any kind of surprise, I guess, since it was their biggest record and had their most successful […]
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year (or most years), so I didn’t know Siouxsie & The Banshees had had a moment thanks to The Weeknd. He’d sampled the opening riff of “Happy House” – the first single and lead track from the band’s 1980 album Kaleidoscope – for the title track from his […]
I haven’t done one of these posts for a Cure song yet because, well, The Cure are a big band and they have a lot of live material online and most of their classic songs have been covered many, many times. In other words – too much work. But I’m going to give it a […]
It’s quite a thing for a single song to be given credit for creating not just a musical genre, but an entire subculture but these are things that are attributed to Bauhaus’ 1979 debut single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, aka the song which begat goth. PopMatters ran a piece on the song’s importance and influence on […]
I’ve seen and shot a lot of live music photographs, but this photo of Siouxsie & The Banshees on stage in Sweden in 1982, shot by Jill Furmanovsky through John McGeoch’s Yamaha SG 1000, just stopped me in my tracks. Breathtaking. “The live silhouette shot was taken at around 9pm just as the band came […]
This Cure classic from 1980 was the subject of one of my first posts, but it’s a track that merits further examination. To that end, here’s a ridiculously in-depth piece at Sound On Sound from December 2004 with Mike Hedges. It covers his history with the band – he engineered their first record Three Imaginary […]
