Dave & Laurie Vanian for me were the first goths...They truly lived the goth lifestyle 24/7, their ''77 goth wedding pics are both spectacular & hilarious (note...never invite Captain Sensible & Rat Scabies to your wedding ceremony...ever...!) & Laurie had her goth shop in Covent Garden in the early '80's long before goth became part of the mainstream.
I was going to Halloween parties in junior school from about 1972 in suburban England, usually dressed as Dracula. I am 60 years old. Carved Swedes rather than pumpkins is what I remember. Personally, I love horror films as a genre. John Entwistle was Goth before Goth. Boris the Spider, Whiskey Man, Dr Jekyll &Mr Hyde (sounds so much like Siouxie and the Banshees) and the skeleton suit. He was ahead of his time.
Great point about John Entwistle. You're spot on. He really was goth. He even decorated his home in a macabre way. He collected suits of armor and his walls were covered in trophy fish he caught on fishing expeditions. He also had pet tarantulas and a snake. 😂😂😂
@@hazelwray4184 Well, I can and I also went to few held by class mates. 72, 73, and 74. None in secondary school. By the late 80s we had one every year involving lots of alcohol, mix tapes and horror films. They didn't involve a lot of dressing up by then. We looked like we were dressing up anyway. That would be when I owned a military surplus helicopter pilot's flying suit which I wore all the time. 88 or 89 was our first pumpkin. It cost a bomb. We tried to preserve it by baking it for some reason. It sort of melted into a blackened blob.
To expand on Matthew’s point - I think Buckingham and Nicks wrote so many songs about each other that everyone else might as well take the day off. Diamonds and Rust always struck me as the definitive song from someone not quite over someone else. I understand that Taylor Swift wrote a whole album (1989) which explained at length how much she was ‘so totally’ over Harry Styles.
You mention 'The Night of the Living Dead' at about 7 mins mark. I remember reading back copies of the old NME in the very early 1980's.Their review of The Grateful Dead's 'Blues for Allah' had a picture of the band on stage circa 1975. For uncanny humour the caption underneath said 'Is this The Night of the Living Dead?'. The NME liked the album, for all it's uncertainty and daring.
So glad I live in Japan at times/days/periods like these... It's utter nonsense, ridiculously commercialised to the Nth degree.Complete & utter crap. I have good memories of my Halloweens enjoyed way back in the early '60s... All the crass American-isation of the day is toe-curling & unbearable to witness. "Eraserhead" is a classic... re; Dave Vanian - he's been extremely well-versed in everything from HP Lovecraft >> Mary Shelley >> Edgar Allan Poe, amongst many more long before he joined The Damned in 1976. (He was a grave-digger before he joined the Damned). p.s. Kudos to Sir John Cooper Clarke!
'Good evening and welcome to another episode of Things Were Better In Our Day.'
Dave & Laurie Vanian for me were the first goths...They truly lived the goth lifestyle 24/7, their ''77 goth wedding pics are both spectacular & hilarious (note...never invite Captain Sensible & Rat Scabies to your wedding ceremony...ever...!) & Laurie had her goth shop in Covent Garden in the early '80's long before goth became part of the mainstream.
I was going to Halloween parties in junior school from about 1972 in suburban England, usually dressed as Dracula. I am 60 years old. Carved Swedes rather than pumpkins is what I remember. Personally, I love horror films as a genre.
John Entwistle was Goth before Goth. Boris the Spider, Whiskey Man, Dr Jekyll &Mr Hyde (sounds so much like Siouxie and the Banshees) and the skeleton suit. He was ahead of his time.
Great point about John Entwistle. You're spot on. He really was goth. He even decorated his home in a macabre way. He collected suits of armor and his walls were covered in trophy fish he caught on fishing expeditions. He also had pet tarantulas and a snake. 😂😂😂
I can't recall halloween parties at school in 1970s /80s suburban England.
@@hazelwray4184 Well, I can and I also went to few held by class mates. 72, 73, and 74. None in secondary school. By the late 80s we had one every year involving lots of alcohol, mix tapes and horror films. They didn't involve a lot of dressing up by then. We looked like we were dressing up anyway. That would be when I owned a military surplus helicopter pilot's flying suit which I wore all the time. 88 or 89 was our first pumpkin. It cost a bomb. We tried to preserve it by baking it for some reason. It sort of melted into a blackened blob.
A timely and articulate elucidation of the aptly titled : "Gothification" of entertainment.
In the early seventies it was called Duck Apple & we had Turnips not Pumpkins
To expand on Matthew’s point - I think Buckingham and Nicks wrote so many songs about each other that everyone else might as well take the day off. Diamonds and Rust always struck me as the definitive song from someone not quite over someone else. I understand that Taylor Swift wrote a whole album (1989) which explained at length how much she was ‘so totally’ over Harry Styles.
Don’t get me started on it being referred to as spooky season
You mention 'The Night of the Living Dead' at about 7 mins mark. I remember reading back copies of the old NME in the very early 1980's.Their review of The Grateful Dead's 'Blues for Allah' had a picture of the band on stage circa 1975. For uncanny humour the caption underneath said 'Is this The Night of the Living Dead?'. The NME liked the album, for all it's uncertainty and daring.
Jimmy Savile absolutely loved Halloween!
Ireland has a bank holiday for Halloween, but its on the Monday this year, not the Thursday.
But then, we invented it! 🎃 👻 🍀
I've got nothing and I wake up excited to get going for another day, I might need to see a therapist, that can't be normal.
Join the club
love a good Hepworth rant
He speaks for many of us. Glad I’m not the only one harboring
the same negative feelings re: the whole Halloween shebang.
What's astonishing about Peter Kay selling 100,000 tickets is, he just ain't funny, AT ALL!
David just created the Ebenezer Scrooge of Halloween.
For once I am 100% with him on this incoherent nonsense american import.
@@SamLowryDZ-015Samhain - they even go right in.
Grinch.
The International Poetry Incarnation event took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 11 June 1965.
the nazis were big on all things Goth, chaps…that didn’t end well….
So glad I live in Japan at times/days/periods like these... It's utter nonsense, ridiculously commercialised to the Nth degree.Complete & utter crap. I have good memories of my Halloweens enjoyed way back in the early '60s... All the crass American-isation of the day is toe-curling & unbearable to witness. "Eraserhead" is a classic... re; Dave Vanian - he's been extremely well-versed in everything from HP Lovecraft >> Mary Shelley >> Edgar Allan Poe, amongst many more long before he joined The Damned in 1976. (He was a grave-digger before he joined the Damned). p.s. Kudos to Sir John Cooper Clarke!
Goth wriggled out of punk...then Cindy Lauper brought in dayglo...
Alice Cooper contributed to the sell.
Your take on Goth was so off😂
Say something yourself then. Rather than slagging off.
It was clickbait considering it was just a 10 minute rant, mainly about Halloween decorations, and around 10 seconds on goth music.