Teen Gothic

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCqO2soyEc&si=fWW53PweKqnc4yGK

I was reading an interview with Peter Murphy from 2018 here and he had a different story about the first use of Gothic (Or actually Gothick in this case) than what Ian Astbury has said, which I thought might interest this sub.

In the interview he quotes the name of the old article, "Gothick as a brick", stating that it was the first time the term gothic was applied to music. I thought the name of the article sounded familiar, and found it in my copy of the book "bauhaus: beneath the mask". Here it is, from NME, apparently written soon after "In the Flat Field" was released in 1980. The article does seem to indicate at the very least that the genre didn't have a name at that point. It's amusing what a tasteless snob the interviewer was.

Edit: fixed the link

https://preview.redd.it/aj99venw2udd1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7f7b577ac405bb6319f1f63c279d3258c8eeff1

What a lovely version. So beautiful for over 30 years and now it looks and sounds like the time I drove tanks and 1st time listening to this album on repeat and singing along.