Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her book ‘Season of the Witch’ and she’s since put together a soundtrack album, ‘Dressed In Black’, featuring the Goth divas she most admires and adores. And talks to us here about everything from murder ballads, the Industrial Revolution and Victorian literature to …

… John Peel, Siouxsie, Joy Division and her teenage Goth conversion among the “hedge-goths” and “field-goths” of rural Norfolk

… the phenomenal life, lyrics and mysterious disappearance of ‘Swamp-witch’ Bobbie Gentry

… has Goth eaten Punk?

… why BBC banned Billie Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday”

… the ‘death discs’ of John Layton, the Shangri-Las and Twinkle

… how Cabaret and Julie Driscoll coloured Siouxsie and the Banshees

… Shirley Collins’ Death And The Lady – “now that’s what I call a pandemic!”

… did Liz Fraser speak fluent Faerie?

… Nico – “if I had a machine-gun I’d kill you all!”

… and how Juliette Gréco looked the devil in the face.

Order copies of ‘Dressed In Black: Goth Divas From The Dark Side’ here: https://acerecords.co.uk/various-artists-dressed-in-black

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