A comprehensive overview of goth music and subculture, John Robb's latest work offers a comprehensive overview of goth music and subculture and its enduring relevance. Robb's exploration begins with a night in a goth club and then delves deep into the culture he has personally experienced since the late 1970s. He describes the social context that gave rise to goth in the post-punk era. He examines the distant origins, precursors, and influences of goth culture: the fall of Rome and the Goths, Lord Byron and the Romantic poets, European folktales, Gothic architecture and painters, the occult, right up to modern Instagram influencers. Robb explores the music, style, political and social conditions of this culture, its music, fashion, and lifestyle, the clubs that defined it. And he reports from firsthand experience, having been present at many of the legendary gigs. The book focuses on the post-punk/goth scene of the 1980s. It contains interviews with Andrew Eldritch (The Sisters Of Mercy), The Cure, Nick Cave, Bauhaus, The Cult, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Damned, Einstürzende Neubauten, Killing Joke, Johnny Marr, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Adam Ant, Laibach and many others. New product