Lamp of Goth
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Dr. Phil Legard Esotericism. Esoteric Music. Esoteric Zines. Leeds, UK. www.instagram.com/phil_legard Profile pic by @aloverdrive.bsky.social
Meanwhile, does anyone want to form a crust punk band called KILLER BUSHES? (image: The Dungeoneer zine, ca. 1977?)
From the collected edition of Just Glittering / Idwal Fisher zine. www.kormplastics.nl/product/boek...
NOX VI - This Saturday, from midnight in Leeds! £6/8 advance, £10 otd. All sorts of post-punk, goth, industrial, coldwave, minimalwave, darkwave tracks will be dropped! Come cut shapes in the fog! ra.co/events/2469299
John Cowper Powys writing in 1920 on language and the other-than-human, and "the vision of the immortal companions".
July 11th in Leeds!! Post-punk, proto/trad goth, industrial deep cuts abound once more in the fog-shrouded atmosphere of Wharf Chambers! Advance tix £6/8 from ra.co/events/2469299 #goth #gothleeds #postpunk #coldwave #darkwave #industrial
Hawthonn will be tablemaxxing in Derby on Saturday with Jim Ghedi and Ancient Hostility! Tickets: www.universe.com/events/every...
NOX returns on July 11th. Midnight to 4am. Leeds' fog-drenched avant-garde gothic discotheque! Praised on toilet walls throughout the land! £6/8 advance tix now available: ra.co/events/2469299 This instalment's design based on a shirt by Jhonn Balance!
It's NOX on Saturday, if anyone wants to danse thru the fog in darkest Leeds' finest avant-goth discotheque! 11:30(ish) to 4:00am at Wharf Chambers. Adv tix here: ra.co/events/2428503 #goth #gothleeds
Goth in unexpected places: In 1987 Jackie magazine was doing a fine line in Wayne Hussey piss-takes...
Can someone fact check this for me... ;) (Irish Independent - Thursday 17 December 1987)
Layla won this Fay Pomerance painting at auction last year... feels good to have finally collected it and put it on the wall!
Leeds' most esoteric goth/industrial/coldwave/ethereal/ avant/weird disco returns on 23rd May! Name that tune! Tickets here: ra.co/events/2428503
When you open that highly-anticipated translation of a foundational text... and the preface gives you yikes.
I am sure they all grew up just fine... except maybe the kid at the back with no eyes. :O
The important question in 1986 was: Will Fighting Fantasy create a generation of sword-wielding maniacs?
McKenzie Crook and Toby Jones need to reunite for a TV adaptation of this...
It's 1992, and the Crawley and District Observer has just found out about TOPY/Psychic TV...
"The other day I saw and heard a bird singing on the branch of a tree, & suddenly realised that the tree was the shape of the bird’s song, they were one." It's the birthday of Cecil Collins: here's an unpublished piece I wrote about his work & creative imagination! www.academia.edu/29779727/Sin...
"If we're going to make a dark ambient band, we're going to need some eeeeevul names... how about 'Stupid' and 'Betwixt'?"
Zines on the Web #8 - Scans from the AFU collection on Archive org: archive.org/details/ufon... Not just UFO newsletters: there's also the occasional weird underground gem in there, such as Dharma Combat.
Playing in Norwich on Saturday w/ Dawn Terry + Monasunne. Tix: thehollowaynorwich.com/events/HmizL...