Cathi Unsworth in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.cathiunsworth.co.uk/
As Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, a handful of bands born of punk - Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and the Cure - find a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked and dancing with the fetishistic, all will become global stars of goth.
By the time Thatcher is cast out of office in 1990, the arrival of goth will have imprinted on the cultural landscape as much as the Iron Lady herself.
Now, forty years since its inception, author Cathi Unsworth provides the first comprehensive overview of the music, context and lasting legacy of goth. This is the story of how goth was shaped by the politics of the era - from the miners' strikes and privatisation to the Troubles and AIDS - as well as how its rock 'n' roll outlaw imagery and innovative, atmospheric music cross-pollinated throughout Britain and internationally, speaking to a generation of alienated youths.
The Bolshoi with Paul Clark
Martha and the Muffins - Martha Johnson & Mark Gane
Diesel Park West - John Butler
Pat Irwin - Raybeats, 8-Eyed Spy & B52s
Matthew Edwards - Dance, Matthew Edwards & The Futurists/Unfortunates
Vernon Dewhurst - photographer
The Reducers with Hugh Birdsall
Rebecca Pidgeon
The Higsons with Simon Charterton
Omega Tribe with Hugh Vivian
Peppy Castro - Blues Magoos
Jeff Drake - The Joneses
Paul Roessler - The Screamers, Nervous Gender & 45 Grave
Vashti Bunyan
The Bolshoi - Trevor Tanner
Five Thirty with Tara Milton
Ivan Julian
Make Me Famous - Edward Brezinski with Brian Vincent & Heather Spore
Modern English - Michael Conroy
Mark Reeder
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