Teen Gothic

Hi all, I am an old punk but I was around a lot of Goths around probably 1993 '94. From what I remember it was kind of the very beginning of a scene that got bigger later on in the '90s.

I'm writing a country album about my experiences and couple of the characters are goth kids. The setting is a small town, the type of place where weirdos who grew up in the surrounding rural counties would have congregated. Think college towns or tourist towns that ended up with like an LGBT community or other weirdos. I was personally in Asheville at the time but that was not at all like Asheville is today. At the time there were a very small number of weirdos/artsy types in small towns, as it was a lot harder to find subculture since there wasn't really an internet.

The folks I actually knew back in the mid '90s are no longer reachable.

Help me out with some memories: What did you do that was part of Goth subculture when you were being romantic, flirty, mysterious seductive with your significant other "back in the day"?

Was your significant other also part of the that scene? What would date night have looked like? What about if you lived together and had a date night at your place?

I dated one of these pagan goth folks for a while and we were part of a scene that was into the occult. Kinda remember a lot of tarot cards and candles and red wine but I wasn't very serious about the occult part which makes my memories kind of hazy about what my significant other was doing much of the time when we were hanging out.

We and lots of other weirdos used to go to an old cemetery, not that all surprisingly. There was some hanging out on rooftops downtown and a little bit of 'by the railroad tracks' stuff but I'm really looking for suggestions on what to make my characters do indoors on date night because it's relevant to a song. Right now I have a couple of different songs where people are messing around with tarot cards in the candle light but I can't reuse that same image for multiple songs

Hi everyone, sorry if this is a dumb question.

An acquaintance of mine is a "DJ" for an online radio station that caters mainly to "oldies" rock music from the 50s – 70s or so. It made me wonder if there is such a thing for goth music, or, maybe more broadly, alternative music that would/could include goth music.

I am aware of Spotify playlists and etc. but I am looking more for an online radio station format with DJs that play sets at specific times.

Thanks in advance!

I really like the vibe of this song, is there more like it?

I’ve been into the scene for quite some time but the closest thing I got to a goth scene is two hours away, and I unfortunately can’t do the travel to join in events. It’s time related with work. I mostly work mornings so I have to sleep at night but sometimes I work closing and I don’t feel like doing much after my shift, especially driving a four hour round trip in a night.

Underground events don’t really happen where I live and the closest thing I have to a goth night is a emo night. The only goth friends I have are all online in different states and countries. I guess I’m just having a lot of FOMO and jealousy from people who live near ‘big’ goth scenes.

I preferably want percentages of the population per state/province/country. Are there significant places where goths gather perhaps?

I can't get it out of my head. It was something that sets Lebanon Hanover apart from all those lives I've been to. Anyways, what kind of dance is it even called?

basically some sort of catalog for all goth bands, ever.