/Gig /Wakefield /Rhombus, The Golden Age of Nothing & The Exceptional Mr Hyde – Gothica Wakefieldia
A evening of gothic symphonies with Rhombus, The Golden Age of Nothing & The Exceptional Mr Hyde.
Tag: The Golden Age of Nothing
/Countdown /2022 /Gigs
Back to writing about the best gigs of the year for the first time in three years. Some statistics for my gig-going in 2022. I went to 36 shows (each […]
/Memory of a Festival /035 /Goth City 6 /Leeds /07-10 Jul 2022
It’s been a long time since I was last at any kind of festival in person. The last one I went to was the all-dayer 10 Ten Years of Chaos […]
/Festival /Leeds /GOTH CITY 6: THE VAMPIRE STRIKES BACK (WHARF STAGE)
Back from the dead! After the runaway success of our last event, Leeds’ goth festival Goth City returns renewed & refreshed for another weekend of live music, DJs, stalls, spoken word & social events throughout the city – and now in our new summer schedule!
/Gig/Whitby/Marquis Masquerade Presents ‘The Dark Circus’
Goth bands at the Met
/Welcome to the Future/121/Events, gigs, livestreams and new release round-up/10-Apr 2020
We keep going in the lockdown. There are new releases, and still new music is coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. The […]
/Countdown/2010s/Albums /80-61
Continuing the process of wrapping up the last decade before it disappears too far into the rearview mirror, this is the second part of the best albums of the 2010s.
/Countdown/2019/Albums
Onto week three of /Countdown/2019 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat the “year” as […]
/Countdown/2019/Tracks
Onto week two of /Countdown/2019 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best tracks of the year. These might be the singles, they might be album tracks, they […]
/Talk Show Host/056/The Golden Age of Nothing
Many bands fly under the radar somewhat. Perhaps they never make the mainstream – and maybe they never wanted to. Perhaps they’ve decided that a particular niche is for them, […]
Welcome to the Future: 076: Events, gigs and new release round-up 22-March 2019
It’s Friday, therefore time for the usual amodelofcontrol.com round-up of new music coming your way this week and soon, as well as a look at the events and gigs in […]
Welcome to the Future: 075: Video Exclusive – The Golden Age of Nothing
An exclusive on amodelofcontrol.com tonight. Site favourites The Golden Age of Nothing (think exceptional, downbeat, rain-sodden goth rock from the North East by way of eighties Berlin) released their third […]
Welcome to the Future: 073: Events, gigs and new release round-up 01-March 2019
It’s Friday, therefore time for the usual amodelofcontrol.com round-up of new music coming your way this week and soon, as well as a look at the events and gigs in […]
/Tuesday Ten/353/Tracks of the Month/Dec 2018
In the past, I’ve generally not posted a “tracks of the month” post at the beginning of the year, instead of waiting until early February. This year is different, partly […]
/Countdown/2018/Gigs
This year’s statistics – I saw 51 days worth of gigs and 156 live sets. It featured 140 different bands, and I saw sixteen twice – and all that lot […]
Welcome to the Future: 062: Events, gigs and new release round-up 09-November 2018
Another Friday, another round-up. As always this is a look at upcoming releases, relevant music news and upcoming events and gigs worth spending some of your time at. It is […]
Memory of a Festival: 031: Goth City 3: Season of the Witch
I don’t often go to Goth Festivals for music. There, I said it. Whitby, for me, long since became a social holiday, where I catch up with old friends and […]
/Countdown/2017/Albums
Onto week three of Countdown: 2017 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. Despite the move towards, it seems, streaming services and a […]
/Countdown/2017/Tracks
Onto week two of Countdown: 2017 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best tracks of the year. These might be the singles, they might be album tracks, […]
/Tuesday Ten/301/Oh My Goth!
I made the mistake of asking “What is Goth to you” on Facebook recently (after being asked the same question by French journalists at Whitby, in my role as (co-)captain […]