Cutest Ginger bread man cupcake, We made mince pies, Christmas day mess, Morticia seems very please with her rat toys she got for Christmas, the prettiest Chocolate log, Dylan trying to show-off on Just Dance, The ugliest thing i have ever seen in a shop, Pumpkin doesn't like her santa outfit, Re-doing my skirt pattern, Photographing my skirt, Facings, Photographing my bodice x 5, A meal with my friends at Zest, Richie, Morticia is obsessed with Dylan's shoes, I died laughing.
The New Romantic movement was influenced by the English romantic period, Russian Constructivism, French Incroyables and 1930s Cabaret. Taking inspiration from early silent films. Looking back on early films you realise how beautiful they are and how artistic even without all the fancy technology we have today. I couldn't really find many New Romantic films, but I did find some amazing silent movies which showcased some creative costumes.
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Throughout the evolution of Goth subculture, classic Romantic, Gothic and Horror literature has played a huge role in the movement. The theme has continued into TV and Film. The most iconic Gothic image is that of Dracula from Bram Stoker. Many adaptations of the character have been featured in TV and Film.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu is a classic German Expressionist horror film from 1922, starring Max Schreck and directed by FW Munrau. The film was an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with the names and some of the details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel. The film is one of cinema's most iconic masterpieces. Schreck's animalistic portrayal of Dracula was one of the most chilling in the silent era.
Dracula
Dracula is a horror film directed by Tod Browning in 1931. Bela Lugosi stars as the title character of the Vampire. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the 1924 stage play, Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which is based upon the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The film was a key precursor to the goth image, with Dracula's iconic portrayal by Bela Lugosi appealing powerfully to early goths. Even influencing the band Bauhaus' first single "Bela Lugosi's Dead", released in August 1979.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential German Expressionist films and considered one of the greatest horror movies. The film used stylised sets, with jagged buildings and has said to have influenced the work of Tim Burton heavily.This movie had an obscure and bizarre mood, the painted scenario gave it a nightmarish feel and provides the sensation of claustrophobia, depression and madness. The actors used jerky and dancelike movements which added to the strange theme.
The Crow
The Crow is a 1994 film directed by Alex Proyas, written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, and staring Brandon Lee. The film was based on the 1989 comic book 'The Crow' by James O'Barr. The film tells the story of Eric Draven, a rock musician who is revived from the dead to avenge his own murder, as well as the murder of his fiancée guided by a crow. The couple were to be married the day after they were murdered which coincidentally reflected the real life of Brandon Lee. This was Brandon Lee's final film as he was killed during filming by an accidental gunshot on set, he was engaged to be married just 2 weeks after the date of his death. Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice was directed by Burton in 1988, revolving around a recently deceased couple who haunt their former home and a devious bio-exorcist named Betelgeuse. Michael McDowell's original script was drastically changed by Warren Skaaren for the film. Initially the script was much more violent and a lot less comedic. The character of Betelgeuse was envisioned by McDowell as a winged demon who was intent on killing the Deetzes rather than scaring them, and wanted to rape Lydia instead of marry her. The script also featured a second younger Deetz child , nine-year-old Cathy, the only person able to see the Maitlands and the subject of Betelgeuse's homicidal wrath when in the film's climax he mutilates her while in the form of a rabid squirrel. The Hunger
The Hunger is a romantic horror film directed by Tony Scott in 1983, based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Whitley Strieber. It tells the story of a love triangle between a doctor who specialises in sleep and ageing research and a vampire couple. The film starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. The film even featured the gothic rock band Bauhaus performing 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' in a nightclub. Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton in 1990.The film tells the story of an artificial man named Edward, and unfinished creation who has scissors for hands. He is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their daughter Kim. The film stars Johnny Depp and Winona Rider as the leading roles. Tim Burton credits the film as his most personal work, coming up with the plot when he was only a teenager, he himself represented by Edward.
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Films such as Fame further established the Sports/Dance Wear trend in the 1980s. These movie inspired the viewers to "Live your Dreams" and instilled a passion in them. There were many teenage sport films at this time with a recurring theme.
Fame
Fame is an American musical film produced by David De Silva and directed by Alan Parker in 1980. The film follows a group of Drama students through their studies at the New York School of Performing Arts. The film is split into sections of auditions, freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years. The film inspired the younger generation and was very popular, getting a television series, a spin-off, a musical, a reality series and a film remake in 2009.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is an American romance film written by Eleanor Bergstein and Directed by Emile Ardolino in 1987, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. The story is a 'coming of age' drama that documents a teenage girl's relationship with a dance instructor. Dirty Dancing was a massive box office hit, earning over $214 million worldwide, as well as the soundtrack generating two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles.
Flashdance
Flashdance is an American romantic film directed by Adrian Lyne in 1983. The film tells the story of Alexandra Owens, an eighteen-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an exotic dancer by night. She aspires to become a professional dancer. Contrary to the negative review by professional critics, it had a surprise box office success. It's soundtrack spawned several hit songs, including Michael Sembello's "Maniac" and Irene Cara's "Flashdance... What a Feelin", which was written for the film.
Footloose
Footloose is an American Musical film directed by Herbert Ross in 1984, starring Kevin Bacon. It tells the story of Ren McCormack, an up-beat Chicago teen who moves to a small town where dancing and rock music has been banned. Though he tries hard to fit in, Ren initiates a battle to abolish the ban. The film is loosely based on the events that took place in the small, rural and religious community of Elmore City, Oklahoma.
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The music of the goth subculture comes in a number of different styles includinggothic rock, post-punk,deathrock,darkwave,Industrial Music, Etherealandneoclassical. Gothic rock combined dark, often heavy keyboard music with dark lyrics. The bands and Singers that adopted the Gothic Rock genre included Bauhaus, The Cure, The Damned, Adam and the Ants, Depeche Mode, The Birthday Party, Southern Death Cult, Specimen, UK Decay, Sex Gang Children, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy,The Mission, Alien Sex Fiend and The March Violets.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was an English rock band formed in 1978. Their dark sound, and gloomy image are what caused them to be considered as the first Gothic Rock group. Bauhaus combined a number of influences including Punk, Glam Rock and even Krautrock and funk. Their sound appealed to many fans, and after breaking up in 1983 the band reunited again 1998 and 2005.
The band chose the name Bauhaus 1919, a reference to the German Bauhaus art movement of the 1920s, because of its "stylistic implications and associations", according to David J.The band also chose to use the same typeface used on the Bauhaus college building in Dessau, Germany.
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1976. The band first began releasing music in the late 1970's as part of the Post-Punk and New Wave movements and their dark music helped form the Gothic Rock genre during the early 80's. The Cure's popularity increased throughout the 80's decade, especially in the United States. Their songs "Just Like Heaven, "Friday I'm In Love" and "Lovesong" were entered in the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
The Cure were one of the first alternative bands to have commercial and chart success before alternative rock was out in the mainstream. In 1992 NME announced that The Cure, during the 1980s became "a goth hit machine, an international phenomenon and, yep, the most successful alternative band that ever shuffled disconsolately about the earth".
Specimen
Specimen were an English band formed in 1980. Their music spanned over many different genres, including glam, goth and post-punk. Specimen is widely credited as one of the main influences of the Gothic movement. Members of the band Ollie Wisdom and Jon Klein ran the club The Batcave which was at the forefront of the Goth era.
The face of the band Jonny Slut became it's most famous member despite only being the keyboardist, largely due to his striking image and fashion sense. Unofficially credited with inventing the Deathhawk hairstyle. Ian Astbury, Lead vocalist from The Cult, described Specimen's unique combination of punk and glam as being "like a Death Bowie."
Sex Gang Children
Sex Gang Children were a post-punk and gothic rock band formed in England in 1981. Although the original group only released one official studio album, their singles and various other tracks have been packaged into numerous collections, and they remain one of the more well-known bands of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring at various times since the early 1990s.
"One of the groups coming up at the same time asSouthern Death Cultwas Sex Gang Children, and Andi - he used to dress like a Banshees fan, and I used to call him the Gothic Goblin because he was a little guy, and he's dark. He used to likeEdith Piafand this macabre music, and he lived in a building in Brixton called Visigoth Towers. So he was the little Gothic Goblin and his followers were Goths. That's where goth came from." - Ian Astbury, The Cult, 1994.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees was an English rock band formed in 1976 by Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin after meeting at a Roxy music concert. Originally associated with the Punk rock scene, the band evolved combining elements of pop and avant-guarde sounds, providing inspiration for the upcoming gothic rock genre.
They disbanded in 1996, with Siouxsie and drummer Budgie continuing to record music as The Creatures, a second band they had formed in the early 1980s. In 2004, Siouxsie began a solo career.
Alien Sex Fiend
Alien Sex Fiend was a deathrock band formed in England in 1982 by Nik Fiend (Nik Wade) and Mrs. Fiend (Christine Wade) whilst Nik was working at The Batcave Club. The couple was joined by guitarist David James and Johnny Freshwater on Drums. The band became known in the gothic scene for it's dark electronic, psychobilly, industrial sound and manic vocals. The band was immediately successful with their first single "Ignore the Machine" reaching number 6 in the UK Independent Chart and a further eleven singles and five albums reaching top-twenty positions in the chart up to 1987.
The March Violets
The March Violets were an English rock band formed in 1981 in Leeds. The original band members met whilst at Leeds University; Tom Ashton and Laurence Elliot played lead and bass guitar, Simon Denbigh and Rosie Garland were the vocalists.
They combined drum machine rhythms and electric guitar, similar to fellow Leeds band The Sisters of Mercy. Seven of the bands singles made it into the UK Indie Chart.
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7. Emma Cook Print Diary - Topshop So i thought i'd make a little post to show off some gift ideas this christmas. Being ill i didn't really have much to do with my day. As well as linking to the website if it's possible i've linked to an alternative cheaper place to get them, y'know if you can get it cheaper why not eh? After realising there was a 20% off sale in Urban Outfitters last night i was straight on it! They have so much to choose from, i was literally on their website for like 3 hours! I found this cute soap on a rope, and i know soap is just a typical thing people buy each other for Christmas which is the reason i tell people please don't buy me it. But i want it. I know i'll never use it, it's just too pretty! It would make a great gift, but even better than that would be to make it yourself. I'm already looking for moulds. I'm a fashion student, it's a fashion book. I don't really need to explain. I died when i saw the pug bag. I love pugs so much, there are the cutest things ever! (Apart from my cats, and sloths of course!) But i got a little hand mirror on Valentine's Day with same photo, perfect match. No 4 looks a lot like a cosmetic bag i wanted from Topshop a couple of months ago and i think it would make a great present, even as a pencil case? I've like Strathcona stockings for quite a while now, they're just so pretty! Unfortunately i do not wear socks. They are quite pricey at $36 but i don't think you'd be able to find any others as lovely as these. I lost my favourite ever watch since moving to Leeds, i have been trying to find a replacement but none seem to be good enough. The watch didn't even work, but it was just so pretty it didn't matter. I would like to find a good one, but i would much prefer to have a vintage/secondhand one, they have more character (working or not). And No 7 is cute. I like it. Kinda Christmassy!
Several music performers adopted the New Romantic
style and further cemented it in popular culture as a memorable trend. The most popular of these bands being Ultravox, Duran Duran, Visage, ABC, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club. Japan and Adam and the Ants were also labelled as New Romantic artists, although they had no direct connection to the original scene.A number of these bands adopted the use of synthesisers and helped to develop the Synthpop style of music in the early 1980s.
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English New Band formed in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands in the 1980's. The band's controversial videos, which included partial nudity and sexual suggestions, became popular in the early 1980s on the new music video channel MTV.
Since the 1980s, they have sold more than 100 million records had 14 singles in the Top 10 of theUK Singles Chartand 21 in theBillboard Hot 100. Throughout the 80's the band were considered to be part of the New Romantic scene until the movement became too mainstream, where they then shed the look to be replaced by a more elegant image.
Visage
Visage are an English New Wave rock band formed in 1978. The band was founded by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan who were hosting club nights at Blitz nightclub in Great Queen Street, London. They were eager to find new music to play in the club and opted to create it themselves.
The band's most popular single, "Fade to Grey", was released in 1980 and became a huge hit in early 1981. It made it into the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart as well as in several other countries, and reaching no.1 in Germany and Switzerland. The album also became a Top 20 hit in the UK and was certified Silver by theBritish Phonographic Industry. Lead singer Steve Strange was an icon of the New Romantic movement, if not the most iconic.
ABC
ABC are an EnglishNew Romanticband that was formed in 1980. The band formed when Martin Fry interviewed the band Vice Versa for his own fanzine, Modern Drugs, in the 70's. The two musicians asked Fry to join the band as the lead vocalist and he soon took control of the electronic band. The band changed their name to ABC and became more pop-orientated.
ABC had ten UK and five US Top 40 Chart Singles between 1981 and 1990. Their most famous being "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love" and "When Smokey Sings". They're known for having theatrical videos, wearing decorative suits and a camp style.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet are an English New Wave band that formed in 1979. The band were frequently spotted in The Blitz Club as they were inspired by the New Romantics and became an integral part of this movement.
The band was one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, achieving ten Top Ten singles and four Top Ten albums in the UK between 1980 and 1990 where they split. The band have later reunited in 2009.
Culture Club
Culture Club was an English New Wave band that was part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. Their lead vocalist Boy George was a fashion icon in the 80's being a frequent visitor to The Blitz Club and a former employee (Read more here). The band's second album, Colour by Numbers, sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and they had several international hits.
Culture Club's music combines many styles including New Wave, American soul and Jamaican reggae. For the five years the band were together initially, Culture Club had hits in several countries around the world, including ten Top 40 hits in the US, most of which went Top 10. In 1984 the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and a Brit Award for Best British Group. Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants were a British rock which formed in 1977 and later again in 1980. The band became popular during the transition from the punk rock era to the post-punk and New Wave era. The band were known for their highly camp and overtly sexualised stage performances.
Adam & the Ants' 1980 album Kings of the Wild Frontier was Number One in the UK Album Chart for a total of twelve weeks. The album Prince Charming produced the biggest hit singles with Stand and Deliver and the title track achieving five weeks and four weeks respectively as Number One singles on the UK Singles Chart.
Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive was a British New Wave band that formed in 1980. The band had seven Top 40 UK singles and three Top 30 UK albums. Dead or Alive, have released eleven albums, and became popular in Japan. Two of the group's singles reached the US Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100; "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and "Brand New Lover".
"You Spin Me Round" charted in 1985 in the UK, then again in 2003 and 2006 following lead vocalist Pete Burns' appearance on the reality television show Celebrity Big Brother.
