Specimen at Planet X, September 1983
"If the New York Dolls had started ten years later they might have been like this."
By 1983, goth bands were everywhere. I could never take them quite as seriously as they took themselves.
I preferred the bands who added a bit of glam playfulness to the mix. In London there was a club called the Batcave. In Liverpool we had Planet X, the new club set up by Doreen Allen who used to work at Er…