The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth

Contents

• Introduction
• 1 Floorshow: a night out at the heart of 1980s goth
• 2 The fall of Rome
• 3 Deep in the forest: Europe’s Gothic history
• 4 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know': the Romantics and the Gothic imagination
• 5 Euro visions
• 6 The devil has the best tunes
• 7 Paint it black: the dark heart of the psychedelic sixties
• 8 All the children are insane, or people are strange: the (un)holy trinity: The Doors/Velvets/Stooges
• 9 Wham bam thank you glam: the dark side of glam rock
• 10 Proto post-punk
• 11 The punk wars
• 12 'What was once unhealthily fresh is now a clean old hat': post-punk to a very Public Image
• 13 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees
• 14 Feel the pain: The Damned
• 15 Ridicule is nothing to be scared of: Adam Ant
• 16 New dawn fades: Manchester and Joy Division
• 17 'The wreckers of western civilisation...': industrial music
• 18 'I must fight this sickness... find a cure': The Cure
• 19 The naughty north and the sexy south
• 20 All we ever wanted was everything: Bauhaus
• 21 Lord of chaos: a dark and beautiful playground: Killing Joke
• 22 Release the bats! Nick Cave
• 23 'I am not avant-garde I am a deserter': Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten and the reinvention of Berlin
• 24 Voodoo idols: the ballad of Lux and Ivy
• 25 First, last and always: how post-punk Leeds created goth and The Sisters of Mercy
• 26 Vagabonds Bradford: New Model Army and Joolz
• 27 Flowers in the forest: Southern Death Cult
• 28 Wanted dead or alive: how Liverpool opened the doors to a new (North) West Coast sound
• 29 Do you believe in the westworld? Theatre of Hate
• 30 A new form of beauty: Virgin Prunes, Dublin: how Lypton Village changed a nation
• 31 'Good poetry can still resonate louder than a thousand guns': Rammstein for grown-ups: Laibach
• 32 At the gates of silent memory: Field of the Nephilim
• 33 Darklands: how the dark energy infected indie
• 34 'We sing to the gods to be free': American Gothic and the dark art of the American dream
• 35 Trans Europe Express
• 36 In the flat field, suburbs and satellite towns: the second coming of goth
• 37 Apocalypse now! Goth's end days
• Index