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I live in the Maltepe district on the Asian side of the city. That beer would always be welcome :kickass: I do not think crossing the border to Xanthi would be a big issue as a simple tourist visa would do and I cannot imagine this would cost any money worth mentioning. Maybe I am wrong...

The Cure were amazing back in the eighties but I don't get enthousiast about anything beyond that. Still I hope to see them live someday as they will still play the great stuff from their best days. Even the more commercial Wish album still had some very decent songs.

Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean rain My favourite song ever from my favourite album also.

It is true that gothic music is not defined as clearly as many other genres, I guess what is goth and what is not mainly depends on seperating the music from the rest of the subculture or not. If not, then you can consider bands gothic if they have a following in the goth subculture and then you...

The bands should not be compared really but it is sometimes inevittable it happens because Maynard cannot really be in two places at once and seems to no longer want to combine two bands. Apart from that it is indeed needless to compare the bands. As for the mainstream thing... I agree lot of...

The only lyricists that truly made a difference in the way that I viewed and practised arts are Morrissey, Ian McCulloch and Maynard Jaöes Keenan. In the metal world MJK is the most in-depth lyricist with miles ahead. I could write some examples when wished although the line between...

I was wondering if anyone heard any rumours (from reliable sources?) about a possible new APC tour? I know Maynard said it was over but he also refused to really say the band had split, and as we all know Maynard likes to keep people guessing about how true his words are... I heard the...

Sagol, merhaba! (I picked up only a few words yet , but hope to learn Turkish soon while living here!) I forgot to add one thing about myself: my nickname comes from a Bauhaus song. Bauhaus are amongst my favourite bands and the name comes from a line in the song "The Passion of Lovers". I...

Been a Manson fan since about 8 years now. Have seen him 4x live and about to see him again when he performs in Istanbul next month. I mainly did not like the Holy Wood album with a few exceptions (The Nobodies) but Mechanical Animals is still one of the best albums in my collection. That...

People say I look like Robert Smith. Probably just the fuzzy hair and the eyeliner, that's all I have in common with him really. But as a goth, I see it as a compliment. I like the early Cure, when they were still dark and gothic. The nineties work does not move me that much. Charlotte...

To answer the question and recommend bands: - Silke Bischoff, or 18 Summers as they are called nowadays. Very dark music, even haunting, in their first two albums (listen to "666 Hellbound" and "The church-bells and razorblades"). Later on they evolved more into elektronic music but still...

This has absolutely nothing to do with real goth music (apart from maybe Daylight Days, I don't know those). I am into the goth scene for many years and quite fanatic despite my "advanced age" (well...) and trust me, none of those modern "goth" bands is actually goth. Gothic metal is not the...

The only punk band I am into is The Damned (unless you call Siouxsie punk) - must admit I only discovered them through the vocalists Goth style. However, I was surprised to discover a band with excellent music. There are punk songs like New Rose and Smash It Up who are about 30 years old but...

I know but is does "too many" exist when it comes to good concerts? :rock: Anyway, Xanthi is very close to the border so for Istanbul based people it is as easy to get to as Ankara. If anyone feels like the carpool, let me know, would be cool to meet some people here with similar interests...

Brief introduction of myself... I am a 25 year old man from Belgium who just relocated to Turkey after having spent 3 years in Ireland before. I was born in Ghent and grew up in that area, I travelled all over my own country and neighbouring countries first and then decided to take on the...