Cathi Unsworth - Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth Format:Paperback Conor has always sung in

Conor has always sung in a voice that conveys a sense of life-or-death gravity

and 'Poison Dart') in that scene

(1) the line "come back

he has permeated both underground and mainstream music culture with an authentic and ever-evolving persona and a sound wholly his own

and Steven Carpenter’s pile-driving guitar work

Cathi Unsworth - Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth Format:Paperback Conor has always sung inAs Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, a handful of bands born of punk Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and the Cure find a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked and dancing with the fetishistic, all will become global stars of goth. By the time Thatcher is cast out of office in 1990, the arrival of goth will have imprinted on the