with a dazzling array of Goth and Goth-adjacent music and an exploration and celebration of where Goth comes from, where it went and where it is now.It was said that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads to become a master of the Delta blues. He wasn’t the first to make that bargain; Niccolo Paganini bewitched crowds with his virtuosity on the violin, but his critics claimed he was channelling the forces of evil to play the devil’s music.
Joy Division lacked the romanticism that would define many of the big goth bands, but their music is positively gothic in its construction, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, and Bernard Sumner creating musical sepulchres out of the post-industrial landscape of Manchester. And then the vocals of Ian Curtis, a voice that seemed to have sprung from the seeds of Gregorian Chant via Jim Morrison and David Bowie.
But the reality is that goth never died, it just evolved. One of the best loved cult movies of the 90s was Alex Proyas’ The Crow, a love letter to goth, featuring a soundtrack showcasing The Cure at their devastating best, while industrial noise merchants Nine Inch Nails honoured their goth roots, offering up a reverential cover of Joy Division’s ‘Dead Souls’. Marilyn Manson became a stadium sized controversy machine, but he drew heavily on the goth aesthetic to get him to where he needed to be.
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