Teen Gothic

Hi, I've been researching the subculture for a while now and one thing that I'm constantly getting confused about and that cause me a headaches is drawing a line when it comes to early goth bands. If we exclude the American deathrock scene, I know there's positive punk and post punk goth bands but also there are bands that are apparently just darker sounding post punk bands which people don't consider as goth and there's exactly where I'm having troubles with. Below I listed bands that I find confusing so if you guys can help me tell me which of those is goth and which isn't I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

Sad Lovers and Giants
The Snake Corps
The Chameleons
Pink Turns Blue
And Also The Trees
The Bolshoi
Flesh For Lulu
The Sound
New Model Army
Killing Joke
Lords Of The New Church
The Damned
Virgin Prunes
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Tones On Tail
Love And Rockets
The Glove
The Creatures
Dalis Car
Gene Loves Jezebel
Balaam And The Angel
Ghost Dance

tomorrow i'm going to see Sisters of Mercy, She Past Away and other bands live in Athens. I feel so lucky they came in my Country just when I started listening to them, but it's my first time going alone in a concert/festival and i'm a bit anxious to be honest but so excited! It's also going to be 45°C tommorow in Athens. A hell of a night, it's gonna be🖤. do u go to concerts/festivals alone?

Recently found a band called Egrets on Ergot(post punk/kind of experimental) , not really for everyone but absolutely love their song Occult matters. For those into Spanish goth there’s a Mexican goth band called Acid bats(death rock ) honestly all their songs are soo soo good. In terms of Spanish too hear Decencantos by Vacios Cuerpos(post punk/dark wave), pretty chill and I like his voice.<3

Any bands or songs you have on replay or u’ve recently found?

Hey so i made a post a while back about my going to my first concert specifically goth concert alone so i’d thought it be nice to update after the experience

Firstly i’d like to thank everyone who commented and gave me advice though i didn’t reply to all comments i did read them and i appreciate everyone’s feedback

So I went to see the sisters of mercy and… they sucked just like everyone said they would lol they had mic problems the whole night i don’t really mind though because i didn’t really have high expectations for them

However the coward there was awesome and made up for the lack luster show it was nice to see other goths there was this one elder goth who was telling stories about all these different shows he’s been to from skinny puppy to the cure. there was the this other guy next to me that i had friendly banter with about the mic problems of the night. so yea the crowd was pretty awesome and friendly and everyone still clapped and cheered despite mic troubles.

I got merch before the show started which was great because the line was long at the end of the night. I was also in the pit which I really didn’t mind despite me being short I was still able to make the most of it. the opening act which was a cloud of ravens was amazing and better than sisters imo. Anyway I had a great time and i’m happy I went just to be able to say i saw the sisters live. My advice for anyone who’s nervous about going to a show is just don’t be an asshole and you should be fine 🙂

Link to my previous post

https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/13rsxjw/going_to_my_first_goth_concert_alone_any_advice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

hey so i’ll be going to sisters of mercy this saturday i’m pretty nervous because this is my first time i’m going to a concert alone since no one i know irl is into goth music it’s not a really large venue but i still feel a bit nervous any advice for this situation will be well appreciated 🙂

Happy belated World Goths' Day everyone! I feel very proud to announce that I was able to hold and perform two true Goth fashion shows In India this last month, with help of my team and our collective hard-work, we could do what seemed impossible!! I previously shared some pictures of my first fashion show on here few weeks ago. Here's the full video of my second fashion show, on one of my team mates' Youtube channel.

https://youtu.be/1VFgrwCdL2M

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This is me<3

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My team for the second show!

This was during Dear Prudence! My life is now complete