Fade To Black 1334: Goth Subculture - The Batcave | Documentaries and more on the original Goth club

Sunday 1 November 2015

Goth Subculture - The Batcave | Documentaries and more on the original Goth club

Posted on October 31, 2015

Back in 1982, the original Goth club opened over at Soho in London (most notably at Gossips located on 69 Dean St) This was a club organized by the members of the dark and glamorous Specimen, and featured Dj’s such as Hamish Macdonald with his project Sexbeat, and Anni Hogan, who would become a long time collaborator with Marc Almond, who was also a regular attendee.

In fact, this was a club attended by nearly every Post-Punk musician in London at the time, such as Robert Smith of The Cure, members Siouxsie and The Banshees (Note that Steven Severin and Robert Smith wrote music for Marc Almond and Anni Hogan’s project Marc and the Mambas, this, along with The Glove was surely a collaboration inspired by hanging out at The Batcave), Nick Cave, Nik Fiend (Alien Sex Fiend), Andi Sex Gang (Sex Gang Children), Ian Astbury of Southern Death Cult—they all haunted this club. The Batcave was the place to be, and the highly stylized dark glamour of the attendee’s went on to define what would be considered the “Gothic” subculture, even connecting with bands in Los Angeles, such as Christian Death, and with the legendary Danceteria nightclub in New York.