Teen Gothic

I have loved the album Floodland by Sisters of Mercy for over a decade now and tried sporadically to listen to their other stuff, but just couldn't get into it. I have recently gone through their whole discography and I have found some gems on the album "Some Girls Wander by Mistake" I am not saying the album is exceptional because out of the 24 songs I wouldn't eagerly listen to most of them. But if you like goth music, please listen to the following songs.. Burn, Lights, Heartland, Floorshow and Adrenochrome.

I have been really frustrated with this for many years. There are club nights every day of the week with decent- to great- attendance (so the potential audience is there) but shows, not so much. The vibes are extremely spooky 7 months out of the year, and obviously Salem is right there. Nevertheless, we pretty much only have one successful local act, and touring bands (even from close by) just see us as a weeknight stop between NY and philly at best, or skip us altogether.

For reference, Boy Harsher LIVES IN MASSACHUSETTS and has not been here since 2019 as far as I remember. I've picked up on hints from a few different touring bands that they had a bad experience here as well but I am not clear on exactly what the bad experience was — low attendance, people who don't dance, etc? Theories

• Attendance is SUPER hit or miss, and there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason as to why and which bands get a good reception. half the time I'm watching their faces like 'there is zero way these people are coming back'
• People who like fun and dancing seem to just go to clubs and aren't that passionate about the music itself or they're just crossover from the kink community (I love clubbing but I wish there was more cross-pollination)
• People who actually go to shows don't seem to like fun and dancing. They just stand there looking cool with folded arms
• We don't have a lot of local acts to welcome them and they all leave due to it costing one billion dollars to live here. Still, NYC seems to do fine despite also costing one billion dollars
• The population is like 30% college kids and events are usually 18+ but they don't seem to have any interest in going to anything besides molchat doma
• It becomes a vicious cycle where if we're lucky enough to get a stop, it's on a weeknight, so attendance is even lower and the vibe is even lamer.

What can i, some random chick, do about this besides spend another 12 years complaining?

off the top of my head, i can think of witching hour with "ligea" and eyes of the nightmare jungle with "shadow dance"

I guess most goths concider goth and i do too. but sometimes i see people here and there claiming they are not goth. i don't realy get it even if they're not under this label they're still post-punk which is super close and i know not all post-punk is goth but they're definetly are. what funny is i heard someone say "just beacuse they had sad lyrics dosn't mean they are goth". so what actually make a band sound goth than ? they had sad/melancholic lyrics and also gothic/darkwave-ish instrumental.

Was able to be a part of the final leg of the creation of the Rozz Williams Documentary being made by Rozz’s close friend Nico B. Shot two interviews for it, the Rozz Williams tribute and scanned and digitized a bunch of photos for the Doc.

These are the ones I’ve posted and have been posted before so, shouldn’t be a problem.