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Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 14:12
by keys
FFS Dave wrote:...Great Preston - possibly the least goth village in the entire Leeds district...
...unless, of course, you count Little Preston!
Royton, Oldham - can't remember... i was too young! But it wasn't a million miles away from Middleton - home of The Chameleons.
Garforth, Leeds - had it's moments during the 80's, with it's quota of goths attending that fine institution which was once know as Garforth Comprehensive School
Barwick in Elmet, Leeds - erm, it's got an ancient earth mound and a maypole? Does that count?
Droylsden, Manchester - goth? nah! too many scallies around for anything remotely goth to survive.
I feel i've let the side down, so on doing a random image search on google for 'goth', i bring you this...
Sorry!
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 14:24
by timsinister
Gawd, that bloody shirt. Mate of mine bought one for irony value, but it quickly fell by the wayside...
keys, look on the bright side; you're near Leeds. I'm in Kingston-upon-Hull! Arse-end of England, my man...not a good club to be seen
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 14:25
by timsinister
Correction, you're near Manchester, which has Jilly's and Ara Nights and a host of other quality digs. Even better!
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 15:05
by keys
Aye... several miles west of here and Manchester does have it's moments with Jilly's... haven't checked out ARA Nights yet - think that's the 'club in a church' with a 'bring your own alcohol' policy.
Plus, now i'm in Manchester, i don't feel the need to wind the window down on the M621 to throw a finger at Elland Road. <--- that should upset a few Leeds types!
Re Kingston upon 'ull - a recent venue we played was The White Room on Cleveland Street - Paul, the DJ there IS trying to make a go of it. Not the best appointed property in the city, but it'll get there! (not far down the road from Spiders, i believe)
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 15:07
by Quiff Boy
and there's the fortnightly "sin city" night downstairs at the retro bar (opposite umist)
http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Club/934.html
went a few weeks ago and that was a tippty top goff night. very 1985
shall be going again this saturday in fact
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 15:17
by keys
Quiff Boy wrote:and there's the fortnightly "sin city" night downstairs at the retro bar (opposite umist)
http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Club/934.html
went a few weeks ago and that was a tippty top goff night. very 1985
shall be going again this saturday in fact
Good night that Sin City lark... even if it is a tad small downstairs... handy for a quick pre-club beverage in The Salisbury though, not forgetting the traditional post-club pizza slice from t' 'So Near So Spar' on Oxford Road.
If you change your mind, this Saturday's alternative would be the mighty Rhombus in the mighty Huddersfield with his mighty Honourable Gingerness, Paddy 'the only ginger in the village - and by Christ, is he ginger' McFretwiddle of Galvin. The things we do to make the place look busy, eh?
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 15:20
by pikkrong
Sorry, did you see the Estonian version of this
http://www.vidial.com/index.php?gid=130&oid=25&lang=ENG ?
Just click to the
English version and you'll understand the point
(If I wanted just to point at some pics of medieval buildings in Tallinn I could found many others, also from the same website.)
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 17:40
by timsinister
keys wrote:
Re Kingston upon 'ull - a recent venue we played was The White Room on Cleveland Street - Paul, the DJ there IS trying to make a go of it. Not the best appointed property in the city, but it'll get there! (not far down the road from Spiders, i believe)
Yeah, I was at that gig actually. Asleep on a big white chair, but I was there! It's so far outta town though...but at least it's handy for Spiders [/involuntary shudder]
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 18:06
by James Blast
Goth Inna Glasgow Stylee please take time to peruse this site.
thank you
Blast!
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 19:59
by smiscandlon
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 20:04
by Dark
hallucienate wrote:You guys are all so lucky, I've just got a great big mountain to look at
Luxury.
I've got the oldest gothic architechture for a long way around, in the shape of Lincoln Cathedral.
And Lincoln sucks.
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 21:43
by James Blast
smiscandlon wrote:I went there!
I only went to evening classes there, DOJCOA was my school of art, crap building, good lecturers.
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 22:29
by pikkrong
Mackintosh rules
When I was a student (and studied art history) I was a big fan of such kind of architecture. I've got a nice book about him but never seen those buildings with my own eyes. One day I will come!
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 22:38
by James Blast
Thank you, Indrek, the man was a genius
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 22:46
by pikkrong
James Blast wrote:Thank you, Indrek, the man was a genius
Yes, he was.
(And it calls to my mind those Mackintosh-style eardrops I bought for someone from Victoria & Albert Museum in 1997. It seems to me I have to come to UK again in 2005.)
Posted: 20 Jan 2005, 22:52
by James Blast
pikkrong wrote:It seems to me I have to come to UK again in 2005
Northern Wastelands, division
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 01:36
by Andrew S
James Blast wrote:Thank you, Indrek, the man was a genius
Could never see the appeal of Mackintosh myself, apart from a couple of his peintings. Ditto for Alexander Thomson - Glasgow's "other" famous architect. Not sure if it's true or not but I heard an Art School student got expelled after getting caught spraying "Rennie Mackintosh sucks!" on the wall?
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 01:40
by boudicca
I've got a lovely Mackintosh poster on my wall for some German exhibition thing. And I've been in there,
went to school just beside it...
Weegies...
Have a guess!
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 01:55
by Planet Dave
keys wrote:Plus, now i'm in Manchester, i don't feel the need to wind the window down on the M621 to throw a finger at Elland Road. <--- that should upset a few Leeds types!
Fear not, I observe that fine tradition whenever I fly past.
And you're right, Little Preston IS less goth than Great Preston. They don't 'suffer' from
my noisy racket for a kick off!
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 14:13
by DerekR
Not very goth where I live, but I do have some nice trees
http://www.redpath.fireflyinternet.co.uk/front.jpg
...and if you look carefully, a bus to Leeds
http://www.redpath.fireflyinternet.co.uk/bus.jpg
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 18:40
by James Blast
There's no one driving! How Goth is that?!
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 19:46
by keys
Quiff Boy wrote:and there's the fortnightly "sin city" night downstairs at the retro bar (opposite umist)
http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Club/934.html
went a few weeks ago and that was a tippty top goff night. very 1985
shall be going again this saturday in fact
Erm... Quiffy...?
Think you might have your nights mixed up, matey. This week is Club Violet (80's stuff) at The Retro Bar. Sin City (goth / industrial / ebm) always falls on the last Saturday of the month.
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 22:53
by Big Si
Andrew S wrote:James Blast wrote:Thank you, Indrek, the man was a genius
Could never see the appeal of Mackintosh myself, apart from a couple of his peintings. Ditto for Alexander Thomson - Glasgow's "other" famous architect. Not sure if it's true or not but I heard an Art School student got expelled after getting caught spraying "Rennie Mackintosh sucks!" on the wall?
Don't you guys remember seeing this?
http://www.forrest-group.co.uk/images/main/irnbru.jpg
I was the only goth in my school at the age of 15! Boy did I get bullied!
The Alexander Thomson building at the end of my street -
http://www.buildingconnections.co.uk/im ... ics/54.jpg
But this is round the front at the main road
-
http://www.buildingconnections.co.uk/im ... cs/342.jpg
And for all the non-weegies out there!
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/upload/15 ... omiles.jpg
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 22:58
by lazarus corporation
it's ok as far as architecture goes, but it doesn't compete with the madness that is Brighton Pavillion:
http://www.ukexpert.co.uk/photopost/dat ... vilion.jpg
Posted: 21 Jan 2005, 23:02
by Big Si
lazarus corporation wrote:it's ok as far as architecture goes, but it doesn't compete with the madness that is Brighton Pavillion:
As featured in Sir Ian McKellen's Richard III
