For my sins, I use Spotify. I appreciate that they do artists very few favours and with that knowledge, I do try to support the artists that I like by seeing them live and buying as much music in physical form as possible, although the price of vinyl places something of a cap on that! Anyway, through Spotify it is clear what I have been listening to throughout 2025 and there's quite a bit of goth stuff in there!! What's going on? To be fair, I have been rather selective in my 'goth' selections as some of it I still find a little ludicrous. The Sisters of Mercy I can take in small quantities, a Fields of the Nephilim gig is one of the few that I have walked out of and well, Alien Sex Fiend.... I have never gone there.
However, I have played a lot of the March Violets, Xmal Deutschland and this bloke, the troubled Mr Murphy, in particular his new album 'Silver Shade'. Having purchased the latest issue of 'Vive Le Rock' today I feel a little vindicated in my listening choices given the fact that the aforementioned 'Silver Shade' was selected to be number 2 in their listing of best albums of 2025 (Conflict attained the No.1 position).
To my understanding Pete Murphy has had another difficult year on a personal level and that resulted in him pulling out of the summer's 'Forever Now' post-punk festival. For that reason, this gig from the latest Bauhaus reformation in 2022 is the most current material that I can find (if you can call 40 year old material current). Periodically, Bauhaus in some form or other resurfaces for gigs. In 2019 Murphy teamed up with David J to mark the band's 40th anniversary. 2022 saw dates for which all four members of the band left the bell tower for the stage.
Of all the bands that fell under the bat's wing of 'goth', I think Bauhaus did it best (and they didn't even come from Leeds!), but how can you go wrong when your front man resembles the mutant offspring of The Thin White Duke and Nosferatu.
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