Goth Archives - Desperate Living

The new event from the Satanic Flea Market arrives in Camden in May 2024, and Desperate Living will be there.

A vital and varied collection of salacious, sinister and silly trad-jazz tunes from the legendary raconteur.

It’s been a while since we shared a selection of music with you and what better time to come up with a new playlist than Halloween?

Goth meets pop meets New Romantic – it’s like the 1980s never ended.

Nine albums, all released simultaneously – a mad folly, a moment of genius or a cynical slap in the face for music critics?

The final four albums from the punk-goth pioneers show a band struggling to find a new direction and shake off the labels that they found reductive.

Remembering Soho’s pre-Goth hangout for morbidly-inclined Beatniks.

Looking back at the most notorious example of extreme cinema to emerge in the post-Video Nasty age.

Looking at a pair of stories that revive a grand old tradition of stand-alone short fiction.

NECRONOMIDOL / Season of Ghosts / Yukika Live @ Camden Underworld, London, 16/07/2019