Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Months of industrial action throughout the winter have left the dead unburied & mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets.

After ten brutal homicides & the biggest police hunt in history, the Yorkshire Ripper is still at large & preparing to strike again.

Punk has reached its bleak climax with the fatal heroin overdose of Sid Vicious while awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend.

Unlikely alliances of outsiders prepare to seize power, set the political agenda & write the soundtrack for the years to come. Their figureheads are two very different kinds of dominatrices...

As Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, four bands born of punk - Siouxsie & the Banshees, Joy Division, the Cure, & Magazine - find a way to distil the dissonance & darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked & dancing with the fetishistic, all will...