Teen Gothic

One of the best experiences ever! Their discography was really good, and I would definitely recommend going if they’re coming to your town next!

Don't listen to the anti hype. If you've never seen the SoM state side, catch em. All things considered, it's worth it.

Elder goth here, with an important public service announcement to all of you who are newer goths, or goth-curious.

Thirty something years ago I went to my first goth night. I had been listening to the basics for a couple years, not really aware that there was a scene. For the most part, I had just been an alt kid. I spent some time in the punk scene, and finally made some friends who were goth, and started hanging out with them more, and really finding that goth really clicked with me.

Anyway, some friends were going to an all ages goth night, and I wore my “Love will Tear us Apart” shirt, and some black jeans. We got there a bit early, and as people were filtering some girl who was wearing the same shirt looked and me and in a totally disgusted way rolled her eyes and said to friends something about how she couldn’t believe that some dickweed kid was wearing the same shirt.

That really sucked, but I didn’t let it phase me too much. I kept going and tried really hard to be the gawthiest person around. Fast forward two or three years and I am so well known in the scene (big scene in that city) that as an underage person I had no issues getting into 21+ clubs and drinking drinks at the bar to my heart’s delight.

I had a great time and had lots of friends. The reality though was that the people who ended up being real friends, would have just as cool to me the first time I ever walked into a club in my joy division shirt. The reason is that they are actually cool people. Many people are not. If someone is an ass to you because you are new, or asking questions that think you should know the answer to, pay no mind. Those people are truly not worth knowing. There are a ton of shitty people in the scene, and you DO NOT need their approval. Don’t worry about other people. Enjoy the music, and dance, even if you don’t know how. No one worth knowing will ever look down on you, because WE HAVE ALL BEEN NEW at one time or another.

Hope this helps at least one person. If it does it was worth it.

I was too proud of this photoset not to share it and also highlight the amazing photographer who took these. @zealandz on instagram, absolutely stunning.

I've considered a lot of aspects of my personality to be in the niche, macabre and creepy side of things. Goth and Post- Punk rule music playlists. I'm obsessed with horror. Does a goth have to dress goth to be goth? I don't think so. What do y'all think?

Your fav fun stories from their tour life, or something unhinged and interesting from bands members memoirs..?

I just recently saw SOM on tour with Blaqk Audio (specifically the show in Charlotte) and man.. have they always been like this? The show was really boring and tame compared to Blaqk Audio which kinda shocked me. Were my expectations too high? Did Blaqk Audio spoil me? SOM hardly acknowledged the crowd, I figured at least a few songs in they'd stop and be like "Thanks for coming out Charlotte! What did you guys think of Blaqk Audio??" or anything along those lines. Has Andrew Eldritch just gotten too old for this? Was this just an off day for the band? I left before the encore so maybe something more happened then, but regardless I left feeling a little dissapointed.

I will say I'm a little new to the goth scene, so maybe all shows are just like this and I'm used to seeing metallica tribute bands and the energy there lmao.

Additionally, is their mixing always that bad too? I could hardly hear him singing which sucked. Did anybody else feel this way?