UK Decay

[werewolf]

NME goes Goth... Scary!

"I f you go take a look in your local newsagent you’ll see the latest pricey
“Collector’s Edition” that the likes of Q and NME keep pumping out, this one’s
called “Goth”……
Well I wasn’t exactly expecting a mountain of stuff on UK Decay. A mention
would have been nice, but you don’t even get that. Instead you get a huge
load of pretty pictures of all the big label acts; Banshees, Cult, Bauhaus and
(particularly) Fat Bob and his Cure. Stadium Goth, don’tcha just love it."
(paulrabjohn)

Well nothing changes does it? Here we go twenty odd years later and hey!
The NME are still around and up to their tricks. This time re writing the
History books! We are not saying that bands like The Cure, Banshees etc.
Are not deserving, they most certainly are!
The point is that most of the bands featured in this rag are signed up to
Major labels and were only part of the true story
The scene that we knew was driven up from the 'underground', with
Many bands 'grafting' tirelessly up and down the motorways for endless gigs,
Meeting as many people and contacts as possible and even
Self-promoting concerts and nightclubs. Slowly but surely this began to
pay-off in late 1982, with an unstoppable deluge of bands and punters
alike attending events.
This movement by 1983 had picked up the 'Goth' tag and in that same
year the major labels as usual caught wrong-footed, made their
comeback by signing up some of the better known bands and by
creating their own 'watered down' versions.
The NME we accuse is re writing history from the major label point of
view and ignores the true roots of the scene!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

In the forthcoming Newsletter, Paul Rab John takes a deeper look
at this scene and some of the true pioneers!

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[richpassivity]

yes it's pretty laughable & to have no mention of DECAY or the likes of BLOOD & ROSES is criminal.
I thought they would at least mention Richard North's 'Positive Punk' article which they ran in February 1983 but no...
Shouldn't be surprised really...
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