FGFC820

FGFC820 (no fucking idea) are quite a sample heavy industrial beast reminiscent of lots of late 80s bands that  put stuff out on Play it Again Sam.

Fiction 8

Very colony 5. The blurb of Cryotank 2 suggests they are pretty unproductive but I think that must only be in the sense of a band that does not have royalties coming left right and centre. Quite a ghost dance feel in the females vox on this one

Fifteenth, the

I’m not a big fan of music  being freely available over the net. It is without a doubt the reason my two favourite record shops have closed down after 50 years trading between them.

However there are some exceptions. My only exposure to the Fifteenth had been as stand out track amongst the unknowns on Grebo/Goth comp “Jut Say Yeah,” She Isis a bass heavy early U2/Chameleons affair that probably explains why the 12” it stems from seems to change hands for around £20 a time.

Having said that someone has very kindly placed all three tracks on Myspace so you can try before you buy and this has allowed my knowledge of the band to expand three fold to incorporate “Marble Shine,” and “Walk in the Garden.” A wider exposure evokes the feel of Lloyd Cole or perhaps even a less slinky Gene Loves Jezebel.

Filter

I think I have previously referred to these as industrial Grunge and I think “the amalgamut,” album comfirms that. Perfectly well done but you imagine them skating to board meetings wearing Pearl Jam t-shirts.

Final Scream

“Live at Peterborough Glasshouse,” was recorded in 1983 and has been released by Senex Records in 2020.  I suspect this is some long forgotten master tapes rather than a re-release looking at the minimal information on the packaging. The music sounds exactly like you’d imagine a band from 1983 who looked like they belong in the batcave might sound like which is to say pretty ace if you like early 80s positive punk as I believe used to be the phrase (which I do)

Finitribe 101
I seem to remember reading in the NME that this lot were forced to drop the 101 suffix having been sued by the pisspoor but apparently longer standing Electribe 101. Given that presumably the 101 came from a synth they both own one wonders why either cared that much but all's fair in love and band names.
I always expect Finitribe to be a lot heavier than they ever seem when I do listen to them but they do a fairly acceptale brand of synthy industrial techno.

Fire and Ice

Sound like a dragon eating a dice and that is about as positive as I can be.

World Serpent are kind of the Ronseal of Goth in that they sound exactly as it says on the tin or at least pretty much all their acts sound exactly as you’d expect but just as Ronseal must have made some treatment or other that whilst technically doing what it said it would didn’t do it very well or added anything to their existing range Fire and Ice do World Serpent in exactly the same way.

Flesh for Lulu

Courted controversy with two nuns snogging on the cover of EP blue sisters swing, musically fairly dreadful for the most part although “Decline and fall,” could be REM.

Fletch Cadillac

Do you remember split EPs? Well Fletch Cadillac have done one with Destructors 666. Fletch appear to be very much of the Grebo Rock school of Goth and sound as though they would fit in perfectly well somewhere on the bill with Crazyhead et al.

Flint Glass

This was a charity shop chancer that really came good. Excellent Dark Ambient/Industrial. Absolutely well worth a listen

Flowers and Machines

Foetus (in all their wonderful guises)

The multi-monikored foetus cannon were all a nom deplume for J G Thirwell. Good old fashioned industrial in the sense that the drums sound like building sites (how it ought to be)

Follow, the
Brilliant mix between 80s alt rock, a la U2 and nineties electro-Goth. Nothing here to knock

Fontaine, Louie
A kind of gothic Tom Waits. I’m sure he/they’re great at what they do but they’ll never be my kind of thing.

Forbidden Colours

Quality 80s style alt-pop. Shades of Ultravox etc.

Foreign Resort, the

I can count Danish Goth bands and tend to as my wife has Danish routes. These are very good in a fairly trad guitar Goth with a bit of moodiness thrown in for good measure an some nice androgynous vocals.

Former Humans

Have a very cluttered echoey sound that reminds me of some of the less effective mid-90s bands. Tunefully adequate

Forrest Fang

“Anninism” is a Projekt records Band Camp freebie. Initially sounds like Peter Gabriel’s “Passion.” Goes a little bit flamenco in places but for the most part is nice dark ambient but with the Passion running all the way through.

Forthcoming Fire

Quality high tempo guitar lead mid 90s Goth. Almost a mid-90s electro Gene Loves Jezebel with hints of U2. A bit Sandstormy

Fortification
I must be mistaken for thinking this is perfectly good uplifting trance as otherwise Trev would have been pulling a fast one when he bundled it up with his Goth clearance stock so I better say, imagine a dark Enigma. I might be able to tell you more about them but the blue on black printing is impossible to read in the dingy kitchen of Gothapedia towers. OK to be fair “Experience Virtual Reality,” when it does kick in after 4 mins does have a bit of a German electro Goth feel but also some wailing Enigma vocals as well

Fourth Sign of the Apocalypse

Four Watchmen

Female vocalled dark electro indie with a bossa nova beat

Framheim

Quite electronic, a bit almost Dresden Dolls in the vocals  

Frankenstein
Quite an early 8i0s sound for a much more modern band full of echoey atmosphere. Bits of Bauhaus, Chameleons and their ilk resonate throughout.

Frank the Baptist
“The New Colossus,” album all looks very Gothy although I can’t say I’m entirely convinced anything this bouncy could be Goth. They try and look the part but the instruction wear a black hat which in a bowler or top hat conveys elegant steam punk looks frankly shit if it is a trilby.
Some tracks such as “Harlot of Nations,”  fall closer to what you might traditionally expect and it is all perfectly listenable. Quite a lot of this feels like it has an almost Dresden Dolls swagger. and “Beg, Steel and Borrow,” has a bit of a feel of mid 70s Tull about it.

Free And

Kind of soft Play it Again Sam type industrial

Freudwerk

Barely musical dungeon drone

Friday, Gavin
Kind of reminds me of Lou Reed a bit and look mad as the proverbial box of frogs from the photo on the back of “Falling off the edge of the world,” Strange mysterious pop. Tracks like “Sibyl Vane’s Suicide,” evoke a kind of Sexgang Queen. Interesting but fuck knows how he ended up on a major (Island) by the early 90s.
Of the track on the “…Edge of the World,” 12” the final one “Wake up screaming,” is the one that pins it’s heart to the Goth flag and could be 101 European Goth/electro bands of the mid 90s with a bit of eastern wailing a la Ofra Haza.

​​ Fright, the

Dark Horror punk end of Goth. Sound like the Damned look like the Misfits

Fright night

Fright night seem to have cliches in abundance but I have to say I rather like their guitar heavy gothic rock They look the part, they sound the part, nice blend of male and female vocals but not in a crap new metal way. They have synths like violins and a song called Christopher lee

Frolic

When I first listened to “Permafrost,” I began to think that the whole shoe-gaze Goth cross over was a predominantly American phenomena driven in part by Projekt records and in the UK there was only really the 4th All About Eve album and the odd band like Sunshot, oh yes and Curve, and a lot of Goths like the Sundays and the Cocteau Twins were pretty much proto-shoe gaze and at that point I thought, oh yes its us as well. Anyway Frolic are lovely with a bit of a dreampop vocal and more soft atmoshpherics than full on fuzz but pretty ace.

From the icy coast

I once discovered that if you play three notes on a keyboard, switch on the arpeggiator and replicate the notes as power chords on an electric guitar you’ve pretty much got a Goth backing track. So did FTIC.

Frontline Assembly

One of the most interesting industrial electro bands that can get a real dance vibe going that could rub shoulders quite comfortably with heavy techno.

One of the few bands of the genre I seek out in terms of recorded material rather than wait to stumble across.

Front 242

Electro industrial pioneers from gallant little Belgium. Wrote the rule book as far as i can tell and wear it well. Can’t blame them but would listen all day long.

Funhouse

Very similar to the Merry Thoughts in a mid 80s Sisters kind of way

Funker Vogt

high octain drum driven electro industrial but with an intermittent softer edge

Hard, heavy and eminently bouncy, Funker Vogt have put out music on all of the premier industrial labels, Metropolis, Bloodline and Zoth Ommog. Much of their output has a very crisp classic graphic design and their music kind of matches.

Furyo

Only recently stumbled across these possibly courtesy of one of the 33 Goth Bands you must here downloads but turns out these are something of a UK Decay spin off. Very early 80s sounding and a bit of a Sex Gang feel. The CD I bought was one of the Anagram Goth compilations which I think comprises an EP and Mini Album.

Fusspils 11
Perfectly competent DM inspired electro-pop and a number 11 for my list of bands with a number in their title getting me closer to an unbroken run to 15. and “WEM” is growing on me as i write this. Appear to dress as comedy airline pilots.

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