So, having skimmed a variety of recent LJ posts on the subject...

[mrph]

Today's question: Is the UK goth scene broken? And, if so, just what changes d'you think would be needed to fix it?

Yes, I know this is a can of worms. But I'm curious to see what people think. This is mostly sparked by Uncle Nem's excellent Leipzig piece and the LJ comments it triggered.

(Now that you've lured him to Leipzig, can we drag him to M'era Luna next year, chimera_s? I'd quite like to see a similar write-up on that, a very different kind of German festival...).

Comments

[caveynik.livejournal.com]

"And, if so, just what changes d'you think would be needed to fix it?"

...one word, "Deathrock" ; )

[inulro.livejournal.com]

As we all know, that works for me, but then again, I'm not British.

[caveynik.livejournal.com]

Uk = "Deathrock? What is Deathrock?" ; )

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Feh. It's certainly a long way from futurepop, though - I think there's an audience for it here, but you'd know far better than I would how much of that audience overlaps with the Slimelight variety of goth...

I suspect part of the problem is that while Deathrock bands do tend to put on impressive live shows, which is one of the things fuelling the US scene, they don't tend to play the UK. Well, not aside from Antiworld in Leeds and (arguably) Last Days of Jesus - and while they're both damn good bands, they've not conquered London or gained popular recognition here yet.

[caveynik.livejournal.com]

...not yet...

[markeris.livejournal.com]

Nooo. You`ve got it all wrong. It`s called Death *metal*. ;-)

[caveynik.livejournal.com]

*Exactly!*