Lethal Poor On The Goth Trancefloor? Lethal Poor, tending to get lumped in with the whole Goth tag thing, they had a very dark sound, almost Bowie/Peter Murphy like quality to the vocals and a nice thudding bass line as well as a whole bunch of nice synth work and guitar weaving in and out. Some might say it sounds a bit funk as well as dark goth? Make your own mind up and have a listen... This was Lethal…

Three versions of the same song first by The Strangeloves, The Count Bishops and finally Bow Wow Wow.... The song 'I Want Candy' was originally recorded way back in 1965 by The Strangeloves, a band created by a New York based song writing team. They were: Strangely in the day they pretended to be brothers from a Sheep Farm in Australia, evidently their British Accents weren't much cop! I can only guess that the British and Australian 'invasions' of music…

Early Days, Antix & Formation. Another post with a mixed bag of music styles, Goth Rock, Punk and Psychobilly, and all based around this band... Originally formed in Suffolk in the early 1980's, and started out with the name The Antix, this single 'Cursed' with the B Side being 'Dug Up' was not originally on a label when it was released in 1982. This track has thunderous drums and a throbbing bass line, thrash sounding guitar in the chorus and…

Exhibit A. A marvellously entitled E.P. on a brilliantly named label by a London Band called 'Exhibit A' called 'No Elephants This Side Of Watford Gap' an EP released in 1979 on the Independent 'Irrelevant Wombat Records' as catalogue no. 'DAMP 1' - Matthew Matrices (Matthew Vosburgh) - Bass/Vocals - Dan Dare (Dan Goldstein) - Keyboards/Vocals - Paul Platypus - Guitar - Andrew Lunchbox - Drums Exhibit A were to release another 7" E.P. called 'Distance' in 1980 on the…

Easter Alt Rock Style Well, not exactly an Easter song, but as Easter time is almost upon us...this is taken from the 1978 album by the Patti Smith Group called 'Easter' This is one of the tracks from it, 'Privilege (Set Me Free)', this track and the more obviously likely to be a hit 'Because The Night', originally penned by Bruce Springsteen were both released as singles. The latter being by far the more commercially successful reaching #5 in the…