Goth Shop

Goth Shop talks to Cathi Unsworth about her new book Season of the Witch, a chronicle of UK Goth, capturing the bands, performers and political forces that drove and defined our Gothic ideology.

https://www.gothshop.co/stories-archive/rare-creatures-season-of-the-witch-cathi-unsworth

Interview by Dave Darcy Edmond and featuring photography by David Arnoff, Caroline, Tony Bock, George Dubous, Kevin Haskins, Dino Ignani, Richard Kern, .one.studio.london, Derek Ridgers, Ray Stevenson, Mick Mercer, Innes Reekie, and Gena Tuso🖤

Come join us this Friday for a special late opening at The Horror Shop!

From 6-8.30pm Goth Shop is hosting an evening of book signing and archive, and a chance to meet artists and designers from the exhibition.

Artist Gavin Turk will be signing books and copies of ‘Cave Drawings’ - a limited edition book of drawings created during the pandemic.

Iconic brand The London Leatherman will present for the first time rare looks from its archive includes the leather body suit punk rocker Linda Ashby wore in Ray Stevenson’s legendary Bromley Contingent photoshoot from 1976, and their bespoke leather head masks.

Derek Ridgers will be signing books including Dark Carnival, Punk London and In The Eighties.

Cathy Ward will be signing her book Liberty Realm, published by Strange Attractor Press.

And meet the creative duo Jonathan and Anil Barnbrook who created the identity for the show, who will be signing copies of the catalogue and their ‘Fragile Self’ books and vinyl.

Tickets to the show are available from Somerset House

We hope to see you there 🖤