Born in the Batcave

Part 2 of 2

Year: 1987

Albums: Dreamtime, The Cult

Strange Days, The Doors

Turning 18 is a big year for anybody, and for our spikey-haired protagonists it was no different. Coveting the analog delays and stomp box phasers of others reached fever pitch, as did the partying, the posturing and the panicking. Simon looked toward university and leaving home with trepidation and excitement. Nick played his first gig and went all pixie-powered. Life was in overdrive, while The Cult and the Doors played as soundtrack to those heady, headless-chicken days of misspent yoof.

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Part 1 of 2

Year: 1987

Albums: Dreamtime, The Cult

Strange Days, The Doors

Our maladjusted heroes finally come of age, leave home, learn to cook pasta and embark upon nearly-adult pursuits. Nick performs his first gig with Felo de Se and begins chasing the dream of goth stardom in earnest. Simon leaves behind small-town England for the bright lights of the capital, immersing himself in study and the noble art of endless late night rambling in the smoky bedrooms of his new student compadres.

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Part 2 of 2

Year: 1986

Albums: The Glove, Blue Sunshine

Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead 12"; Burning from the Inside

Yes, local goth club The Crypt is now the only place to be, and in the belly of this murky beast can be heard the sound of Bauhaus and The Glove, and this week our oddball heroes tackle these two classic outfits, finding within them the old bones of long-dead French avant-garde actors, half-digested alphabetti spaghetti-induced nightmares, and an inescapable time vortex otherwise known as a 'delay trap'.

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Part 1 of 2

Year: 1986

Albums: The Glove, Blue Sunshine

Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead 12"; Burning from the Inside

Our lovable, fluffy-haired misfits finally look old enough to creep into Hastings' only goth club, The Crypt. And what a time they have! A tribe is discovered, a new band crystallizes around Nick, takes on a very strange Latin name, and friendships deepen over the music they start making. Simon finds a comforting anonymity-and-belonging in the midst of the dry ice, the noise and the unholy, beautiful confusion.

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Part 2 of 2

Year: 1985

Albums: Young Limbs & Numb Hymns, Batcave (compilation)

First and Last and Always, The Sisters of Mercy

Our daring young alternatives get deeply embroiled in the sounds of 80s goth, as The Sisters and the Batcave album mark the point of no return for our poor little lost ones, our willing victims of the terminally weird. Will they ever learn? Not likely, not if this week's breakdown of the almighty Andrew Eldritch's lyrical ouevre is anything to go by...

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Part 1 of 2

Year: 1985

Albums: Young Limbs and Numb Hymns, Batcave (compilation)

First and Last and Always, The Sisters of Mercy

As our unlikely, small-town heroes reach the age of 16, they make a revelatory discovery: there's a goth club in town! Attempts to sneak in may be less than successful, but Nicky and Simon's discovery of a scene filled with misfits and marvels begins in earnest with their knowledge of The Crypt. Girls and booze also loom into view, with all the inevitable consequences...need I go on?

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Part 2 of 2

Year: 1984

Albums: Pornography, The Cure

Hyaena, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Completing week 2, we hear how dreams of freedom grow from the dark visions of the Banshees' Hyaena album; its similarities to David Lynch's excavation of the wild urges and violent drives beneath the surface of suburban life are drawn out. Our young gothteens start dressing in line with the styles and ideas they see in the burgeoning alternative culture.

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Part 1 of 2

Year: 1984

Albums: Pornography, The Cure

Hyaena, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Waking Up to Goth - in Week 2, we find our alternative heroes turning on to goth and alternative music and culture in a big way. Though still young, the seeds of creativity and freedom are beginning to sprout. From the dark earth laid down by The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Simon and Nicky start to dream, still sitting behind school desks, of wider, stranger horizons...

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Part 2 of 2

Year: 1983

Albums: Breaking Glass, Hazel O'Connor

Head Over Heels, Cocteau Twins

We join our brave young alternatives for the conclusion of their debut week. We've seen them narrowly escape injury at the disco at the end of the pier, and we've heard Nicky's paean to the inspirations of Breaking Glass, now check out Simon's exploration of what made Cocteau Twins so important to his life as a 14-year-old becalmed in the doldrums of the everyday world in small-town suburbia, England, in the early 1980s.

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Part 1 of 2.

Year: 1983

Albums: Breaking Glass, Hazel O'Connor; Head Over Heels, Cocteau Twins

Week 1 introduces our alternative heroes. At the tender age of 14, they meet as one is escorted out of the disco at the end of the ramshackle seaside pier, after being threatened, as the other is on his way in, with two hungry-for-action sociapaths riding shotgun. After meeting, Nicky and Simon find they share a love of alternative music and culture, and take their first steps into a darker world of creativity, fascination and doom.

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