Siouxsie And The Banshees: Join Hands (Polydor)
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, September 1979
(IT'S MY party and) I'll mystify if I want to! ...

The Cure: Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, September 1979
THIS GIG with The Cure supposedly supporting the Banshees had a somewhat surprising outcome which you'll have read about last week in this journal but lest ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Haul Of Mirrors
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1980
SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES MAY CALL THEIR NEW LP KALEIDOSCOPE, REFLECTING THEIR NEW, MULTI-FACETTED STRENGTH. HERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE NEW SONGS AND PLANS... ...

The Cure: Seventeen Seconds (Fiction) ****½
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, May 1980
REALLY HANDY for you isn't it, reviewing an album a month after release when it's already up to 20 in the charts? Sorry. Don't blame me ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, 1982
WITHIN STRAIGHT-LACED Vienna at the turn of the century, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were producing graphic works which rebelled against the dying vestiges of an ...

Bauhaus
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, February 1982
DARKNESS AND DEGRADATION IN SOUND AND WORD!

But first let’s talk about ...

Christian Death: Only Theatre Of Pain (Frontier)
Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, April 1982
HERE I sit, twiddling my thumbs, meanwhile – "Incurable disease on the day of rest/Walking on the water in a sea of incest/I've got the image ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss in The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Richard Cook, NME, November 1982
IT'S RARE for a group to make their fourth LP and still be provocative, still be interested in themselves, let alone break any substantially new ground. ...

Razor Shock: Sisters of Mercy
Report and Interview by Don Watson, NME, 1983
HOW ODD this all looks, reflected in the opaque black lenses of Wayne Hussey's absolutely Ian Hunter ...

Sisters Under The Scales: The Reptile House EP
Review by Mat Snow, NME, July 1983
DEEP IN the woods a funeral is swinging ... ...

Play Dead: Dead Certs
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, August 1984
"WE'RE ABOUT as gothic as goldfishes," pin-points bassist Pete, pulling on his can of Special Brew, deep within the bowels of Blackwing Studios. ...

Coil: The Soil And Spoil Tactics Of Coil
Interview by Biba Kopf, NME, April 1985
WHEN YOU'RE up to your nose in shit, goes the Spaghetti wisdom, keep your mouth shut. ...

The Cure: In Search Of El Dorado
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, July 1987
EARLY IN THE evening of 27 March 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Robert Smith is sipping tea in the air-conditioned cool of The Cure's luxury coach ...

Sisters of Mercy: Floodland
Review by David Sinclair, Q, January 1988
WHILE ANDREW ELDRITCH has been away, all sorts of musical mice have been out to play. In the wake of the first and last Sisters Of ...

The Curious Case Of The Cure
Interview by Johnny Black, The Times, April 1989
IF ANY ROCK millionaire other than Robert Smith claimed not to know the chart position of his latest single, it would be impossible to believe. The ...

Fields Of The Nephilim: Attractions Fatalist
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, May 1989
THE THING I most enjoy about Carl McCoy is his refusal to jump through the traditional music industry hoops. ...

The Cure On Tour: Mope Rock For The Masses
Interview by Michael Azerrad, St Louis Post Dispatch, August 1989
THINGS DON'T LOOK good. A couple of days after two extraordinary sold-out concerts at Paris' 15,000-seat Bercy Auditorium, The Cure is getting ready to play a ...

Alien Sex Fiend
Interview by Christine Natanael, Metal Mania, September 1989
WHAT DO you get when you cross Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper, Grandpa Munster, Skinny Puppy, The Cramps, Batman, Tarzan, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and a beatbox? ...

Searching For The Cure
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, September 1989
Can the masters of "mope rock" enjoy life at the top? ...

Fields Of The Nephilim: The Nod Corner
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, December 1989
THE MOMENT IS breathtaking. One minute, he's Nod, drummer of Fields Of The Nephilim, chatting placidly of a pint of Flowers Best. Next minute, he's Nod, ...

The Mission: It's For You-Hoo!
Profile and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, February 1990
IN A CRAMPED loft-conversion on the outskirts of Leeds, something of a party atmosphere prevails. Ring pulls are being pulled, Silk Cuts smoulder in ashtrays, in-jokes ...

The Mission: Carved In Sand
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, March 1990
THE GOOD NEWS is that The Mission's third album is easily their best. ...

Sisters of Mercy: Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, June 1992
"I LIKE to think it was the songs that made this band," Andrew Eldritch writes in the sleevenotes, "I know it wasn't." And as this comprehensive ...

Various Artists: Gothic Rock
Review by Mat Snow, Q, July 1992
GOTH, HAS ALWAYS BEEN more of a fashion statement than a musical ...

The Mission U.K.: Angst And Ecstacy
Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, August 1992
IT'S A GRAY DAY in New York City, and God's pissing on the midday masses as they hustle to their power lunches. The weather matches the ...

AUDIO: The Cure's Robert Smith (1995)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1995
Johnny Black quizzes the Cure frontman on being childlike, on the album Disintegration, his 30th birthday crisis, stories from the touring front, and the exit of ...

AUDIO: The Cure's Simon Gallup (1995)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1995
The Cure's bass player Simon Gallup's take on the Lol Tolhurst affair, getting married, plus stories from the ...

Curve: Arc Psychosis
Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, September 1996
HOLLYWOOD IN THE 1930s wasn't the ideal environment for a feisty, independent actress with an inquiring mind who couldn't stomach the iniquities of the studio ...

Siouxsie Sioux: 100 Club, London
Live Review by John Doran, Classic Rock, December 2004
Two shows in one week for the iconic 'anti-Blondie' – one a lo-fi hits set, and one with 18-piece orchestra . Hark at her! ...

Goth: Back to the Batcave
Overview by Jenny Valentish, Guitar, October 2005
"WE HATED BEING called goth," muses the impeccably suave Flesh For Lulu frontman Nick Marsh. "If they called you a goth then you couldn't be taken ...