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minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 06:06:16 JST minute

are there any music journalists on fedi? especially in the direction of post-punk, non-mainstream goth/industrial, batcave etc

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- minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 06:09:26 JST minute
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  - Alessio :linux:
  @dottorblaster yeah, kind of. there was a thing called the Drop Dead Festival, or the Gothic Pogo Party (still exists) that had this kind of crowd. also related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batcave_(club)
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  1. Batcave (club)
    
    The Batcave was a weekly club-night launched at 69 Dean Street in central London in 1982. It is considered to be the birthplace of the Southern English goth subculture. It lent its name to the term Batcaver, used to describe fans of the original gothic rock music, who would adorn themselves in Batwing coffin necklaces to distinguish themselves from other goth clubs. The original Batcave ran for five months every Wednesday from 21 July 1982 at the Gargoyle Club in Soho, moving out when the upper floors were sold off that December. Originally specialising in new wave and glam rock, it later focused on gothic rock. Olli Wisdom, the lead singer in the house band Specimen, ran the night with Specimen's guitarist Jon Klein as art director, and initially with the assistance of production manager Hugh Jones. Famous regulars at the Batcave who came for meeting friends and having a drink, included musicians and singers such as Nick Cave, Robert Smith of the Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, the members of Bauhaus, Marc Almond and the members of Foetus. The novelist Rupert Thomson included an account of a Batcave club night in his 2010...
- Alessio :linux: (dottorblaster@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 06:09:27 JST Alessio :linux:
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  @mntmn is batcave a thing? I’m genuinely interested now
  
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