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QEK Junior
One of those
rare things a Goth band that begins with the letter Q but musically quite run of
the mill. Quite a retro sounding drum pattern and minimal use of synths but not
unpleasant just perhaps under developed or perhaps anything more would be too
much.
Qntal
I’m coming to the
conclusion I rather like Qntal and not just because they seem to take the Peter
Gabriel approach to album titles. Neo-medieval I think is the usual description.
“Ecce Gratum” could almost be Medieval Baebes over drum machine sped up with the
Enola Gay keyboard line
Queen Adreena
I
still remember a Sunday vividly driving along the A453 out of
Nottingham the top 40 on the car stereo having just watched my mighty
Reds (who presumably won because it was one of those idyllic
childhood days where Christmas brought snow, summers were long sunny
and Forest could be guaranteed to knock at least a couple past anyone
outside the top three at the city ground) and having both “You Love
Us,” by the Manics and “Love Your Money,” by Daisy Chainsaw on the same
countdown, presumably having both charted that week. I sat there
thinking rock and roll had found its feet again.
Fast forward twelve
or thirteen years and I’m at Whitby gothic somewhat surprised by the
Saturday night line up but I am reliably informed Queen Adreena is
Katie Jane of DS fame and the kids seem to love her.
Spin forward
another seven years and someone has the decency to donate 3 cd’s to
Oxfam and I can give them the slightly more critical airing they
perhaps deserve.
QA is certainly not Daisy Chainsaw mark two
although part of me wishes it was. Neither is it AAE or Ghost Dance but
there is enough noisy atmospherics to hold its own against a variety of
goth type releases but equally you’d not be surprised if they turned up
on a punk comp.
Queue Up
Q[up]
are a kind of brutal sounding Siouxsie
meets Ghost Dance kind of act that have an almost new wave of new wave
(ie elastica)
vibe. At times there are touches that make you think back to early
Batcave
bands such as ASF. I suspect they are American and LP Posession
contains a
cover of Marianne Faithful’s “Broken English.” What is more exciting is
their
name begins with Q and 250 odd bands in I have finally covered all 26
letters
of the alphabet.
Quinn
I’m not entirely sure who decided that Quinn were a Goth
band although the cover of their apparently eponymous LP does appear to be
based on a cathedral albeit with a mysterious eastern type figure floating in
mid-air. Song titles are suitably Goth though with tracks such as “the
prophecy,” and “in reverie,” although musically they remind me more of Deep
Forest and Enigma. The sleevenotes
give little away although they do give Queue Up some company on the “Q” page so
they make it into the Gothapedia.
Qwert
Bassy synths and samples before the drums kick in and
Depeche Mode vocal stylings. Chorus goes a bit more shouty industrial