BOOK WEEK: John Robb on Goth
Musician, DJ and author John Robb about his book The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth.
As part of Book Week 2026, Stephen revisits an interview with musician, DJ and author John Robb, first broadcast in October 2023, about his book “The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth”. They explore the music and the sound, the fashion and the aesthetic, the key themes and characters while playing tracks from The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees and loads more. Plus, Stephen selects some music themed around literature, authors and books, in general, from Therapy?, Bodega and loads more.
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Music Played
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Robyn
With Every Heartbeat
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Hot Chip
Random Violence
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Stereolab
French Disko
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Planxty
The Blacksmith
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Sometimes Always
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Fontaines D.C.
You Miss Me
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Ana Palindrome
A Man A Cure
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The Divine Comedy
Achilles
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Our Krypton Son
The Last Man Killed In The War
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Aphex Twin
Avril 14th
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The Bothy Band
The Maids of Mitchelstown
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Michael Kiwanuka
California
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Therapy?
Stories
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BODEGA
Literary World
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The Smiths
Handsome Devil
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The Beatles
Paperback Writer
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The Velvet Underground
Venus in Furs
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Manic Street Preachers
A Design For Life
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Fat Dog
Heart of Darkness
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Jealous of the Birds
Tonight I Feel Like Kafka
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Radiohead
Paranoid Android
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The Streets
Turn The Page
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Broadcast
The Book Lovers
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Jetplane Landing
Song For Sonia Sanchez
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Joy Division
Atmopshere
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Dead Can Dance
Ascension
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Spellbound
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The Cure
A Forest
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Fields of the Nephilim
For Her Light
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Killing Joke
Love Like Blood
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Red Right Hand
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Depeche Mode
Ghosts Again
Broadcast
- Friday 19:04BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle