»It could be closer than you think.

Running errands earlier this morning, I stopped in the record store on a lark. A colourful display marked "Classic Goth" caught my eye, and I laughed aloud at the name. But I stopped laughing when I noticed some of the on-sale titles: Bauhaus' Mask; Love & Rockets' Express: remastered and with the excellent bonus tracks, including a cover of Syd Barrett's Lucifer Sam. Hey, Bauhaus had already covered T. Rex's "Telegram Sam", and this song logically followed.

After hearing "Double Dare" at the jukebox at the Edinburgh Castle on Weds., I've had bauhaus and related on my mind. It's all in my mind.

In addition to the L&R, of which I have a vinyl copy gathering dust, I got a copy of the new Killing Joke album with Mr Dave Grohl, and a copy of Rough Trade's Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before anthology, with young bucks covering old toons by the likes of Cardiff's favourite brawlers, The Young Marble Giants and The Fall (no hyperlink; who'd put together a web site for these punters?). And Elizabeth Fraser singing Robert Wyatt.