Goth discussion. Late night UK TV - 1997.

A discussion about goth, on the Jo Whiley late-night show broadcast in 1997. Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 1 "alternative" and indie DJ, was reputedly a bit of a goth in her youth, & something of an Ian Astbury / Death Cult fan. In this she admits to crimping & backcombing, but nothing more. The curly haired guy knows his stuff! Bit of a closet goth I think... :-)

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Music

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• Brian
• Molko
• Placebo
• Jo
• Whiley
• goth
• uk
• gothic
• march
• violets
• danse
• society
• cult
• sisters
• of
• mercy
• manson
• leeds
• phono
• crimp

[ttwnrancon]

Ah..death rock. It's a shame no one seems to remember that term anymore.

[JohnAdrenochrome]

It was never known as Deathrock in the UK in the 80's, at least not up here in Yorkshire, (the birthplace of goth). It was called just "Goth", plain and simple! :-)

[bionicgrrl]

I fucking love you :O

More?

[JohnAdrenochrome]

No more unfortunately. I stopped the video recording when they stopped talking about goth.

[peaceless]

Placebo is one of the most genre-free bands. At some shows they definitely looked glam, goth, punky, sometimes pure nancy boyish stuff. They've just never been afraid to do whatever they felt like at the time, without feeling a need to belong somewhere. Actually not many bands, artists OR people in general are brave enough or have that particular talent to be as unique as Placebo's fashion style and music have always been. Labeling such a band is a sign of insensitivity to me.

[sp45ih]

I've got a problem with people calling this music goth. These bands loathed the term. So calling them that is of the utmost disrespect.

[Monkeyhead75]

@sp45ih So why did Eldritch say "I am Goth"?

[tainteddeity]

@kpuc1973

Turning my own comments against me only makes sense if they're true, snookums.

I won't disagree that The Rasmus play fairly generic, angsty teen rock but Placebo really don't.

[kpuc1973]

@tainteddeity more likely you've never heard the rasmus play.

[tainteddeity]

@kpuc1973

Yeah... you've never heard Placebo play before.

[tainteddeity]

@Justyn1337 That confused me, yeah. They just jumped from goth and deathrock to the shock metal of Manson like it was a perfectly natural progression...

[kpuc1973]

@tainteddeity yes, they sound like The Rasmus

[tainteddeity]

@kpuc1973 You've never actually heard Placebo play, have you? ; )

[alexandro1011]

Placebo is goth, The Rasmus is fun, jajajajaj. An authentic goth from the eighties...

[alexandro1011]

Placebo is goth, The Rasmus is fun, jajajajaj. An authentic goth from the eighties...

[ASTRUBAL1334]

@ttwnrancon well,,herein mexico deatgrock term is overused.. obviously that's a shame,, cause now deathrock idea seems to be for mayority ,, an excuse to overdrive goth with zombies and halloween elements and an annoying fake everthing goes with sex preference atittude.. don't missunterstand me.. but it's a shame D.R. is more asociated with the zombie gimmick instead the vision of christian death and the burning image..