Teen Gothic

Hi everyone, most likely this post will look like a whine, but I hope someone responds. I'm 20 years old, and I'm graduating from university this year, and I'll be 21 in a few months. I spent all my teenage time at home in the rhythm of home school. I became interested in the Gothic subculture relatively recently, but everything is limited exclusively to reading about it on the Internet, listening to music and communicating with Goths on the same Internet. Deep down, I want to party and move from the internet to the real world, but sometimes it feels like it's too late.. Looking at people who are 18.19 years old, it becomes sad that at their age they have so many interesting things, and I started getting involved in it so late.. Do I need to come to terms with this, or is it not too late?

I got into the Goth scene in the mid-2000s, and my first exposure came in the form of artists on the Dancing Ferret label – The Cruxshadows, Ego Likeness, ThouShaltNot, and The Last Dance were the sacred standbys of my peer group who were first discovering the Dark Arts, so to speak. The Where's Neil When You Need Him? tribute album is perhaps the most representative sample of the scene and era.

I notice however that this period and this section of the Goth music kingdom is ignored by Goth historians: Lol Tolhurst ignores it in his recent Goth: A History, jumping between '90s Depeche Mode and 2010s-2020s post-punk revival.

Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture by Elferen and Weinstock mostly focuses on Industrial and Death Rock, and largely acts under the assumption that this era and corner of the Goth scene never existed.

Would it be inaccurate to say that these artists, neglected by historians of Goth music/subculture, constitute the Goth scene's lost years?

My aunt, her friends,and then other concert goers awaiting tonsee skinny puppy late 80s

I've only seen a few details about them here and there; they released a single called 'Egypt' and had a track called 'Every Good Man' on the New Alternatives Five comp. Any details (or music!) would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

There is an embarrassment of riches for goth, darkwave and post-punk fans of both established bands and new ones in the New York City area and all over the country late summer and early fall. Many of these bands are doing full tours and may be coming to a city near you too if you are in North America and elsewhere! This is an amazing season of shows. I'm sure I've missed some because there are so many to keep track of. Between now and the end of October, you can see:

• Peter Hook and the Light – Aug 27, Terminal 5, performing Joy Division albums (honorable mention to New Order who is also touring)
• The Damned – Aug 31, Sep 1, Chelsea Music Hall
• Black Rose Burning, The Long Losts, Hallowed Hearts, Twin Tribes, Ritual Howls, Then Comes Silence, Nuovo Testamento, Astari Nite – Sep 2 and 3, Murder of Crows Festival, Mercury Lounge and Bowery Ballroom
• Bauhaus – Sep 8, 9, Kings Theatre
• Echo and the Bunnymen – Sep 14, Terminal 5
• Creux Lies – Oct 1, St Vitus Bar
• Pink Turns Blue – Oct 8, Market Hotel
• The Mission UK, The Chameleons, Theatre of Hate – Oct 13, Le Poisson Rouge
• Linea Aspera, Bootblacks – Oct 19, St. Vitus Bar

Show-wise this is a great time to be alive. Loving this. Anyone seeing any of these bands in NYC or elsewhere?