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Whitby Gothic Festival – Halloween 2022
Happy Spooktober! It’s that time of the year when goths begin rooting around in their cavernous wardrobes for their few remaining matching blacks, and disentagling their boot laces ahead of the...
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Catching up with ‘Britain’s Biggest Goth’
It’s always random chance when the British media decides to cover goth. We were very lucky with The Guardian’s article on ‘long-standing goths’, a sterling set of interviews some true veterans...
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Farewell 2022
Festive greetings from The Blogging Goth! I sincerely hope the season has been good to you, and 2023 brings you all you could desire. 2022 was the usual array of highs and lows set against the...
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The Blogging Goth in conversation with The March Violets
Those of you who follow me on Twitter, well – first of all, thanks for sticking with it. I have a stubborn affection for the hellbird site since I remember it first coming out and being actually quite...
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Dark Return of the Same Old Story
I was in two minds about responding to The Guardian’s article of 20 February – “Goth’s undead! The dark return of Britain’s spookiest subculture”. For once, I wasn’t being told a B-list celebrity was...
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The Art of Darkness – A Review
Firstly, my thanks to John Robb for kindly supplying me with an advance review copy of The Art of Darkness – A History of Goth, published today via Louder Than War. His enthusiasm for the subject has...
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What is Goth?
On World Goth Day 2023, I thought I’d tackle this thorniest of subcultural quandries. There’s a brief, tongue-in-cheek version on the site itself, but I wanted to expand further on my opinion of what...
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In conversation with Cathi Unsworth –“Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth”
On Saturday 8 July, please join me at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where I’ll be discussing “Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth” with author Cathi Unsworth! Spawned by punk, bands...
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Siouxsie Weekend
The Ice Queen of the Scene was the theme of last weekend, with my first chance ever to see her perform live on Friday, then on the following evening to discuss her iconic career as seen on the pages...
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The Whitby Conundrum
Established in 1994, Whitby Goth Weekend was a spectacular success story of an event that drew goths from across the world to the UK’s premier subcultural music event, held in the isolated Northern...
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The 2024 Goth Calendar
Happy New Year! Unfortunately 2023 ground to a halt in spit of my commitment to blog at least monthly. My job cranked up the pressure significantly, and my personal interests paid the price....
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Killstar Employee Woes / Dom Joly’s Goth Weekend / Morecambe Corrosion –...
Welcome to February 2024 and the DREADLINES, three stories summed up quickly for the goth news consumer on the go! Alternative fashion brand Killstar is in headlines and across social media posts...
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Can Dune remain “Star Wars for Goths”?
I’ve now seen Dune: Part Two, the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 adaptation of the legendary scifi doorstopper novel by Frank Herbert, written in 1965. Such a weighty tome combined within it...
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“Goths are so back” articles are so done.
It goes utterly against my instincts as a journalist and actual thinking person, but I’m encouraging you not to read Dazed’s latest article, “Goths are so back” by Hatti Rex. I have seen many goths on...
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“I’ve been listening so long”– 35 Years of Disintegration by The Cure
On May 2nd 1989, The Cure released Disintegration, their eighth studio album – intended as an obituary for the band, it instead exceeded expectations as their most successful album to date. It was a...
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World Goth Day 2024 – reflections from my first Wave-Gotik-Treffen
The bones of this article were compiled on the terrifying early flight back on May 21, from my very first visit to Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig. The day before the celebrations of World Goth Day, it...
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‘Goth needs to defend its territory’– how the ‘postpunk’ tag is muddying the...
Mark Chisman is a Senior Thought Leader at Dark Entries the influential (and wholly fictional) goth think tank. He enjoys Goth, industrial and punk music and DC comics. He supports Middlesbrough FC,...
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Goth Election 2024
In one week’s time, the UK goes to the polls for the 2024 General Election. Speculation is rife that the incumbent Tory Administration, in power since the 2010 Election, will be obliterated in what...
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The Velvet Vote and the 2024 General Election
As predicted, the Labour Party has swept to power in the UK General Election and formed a new Government with the lion’s share of MPs elected. However, it was largely predicated on the outright...
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Leeds Goth QR Code Challenge
Between 2007 and 2014 I lived in Leeds, having visited for years prior to chase gigs, friends, and notorious clubnights. The common denominator attraction was always that dark legacy of goth, which...
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