Adam Carrington is a writer of journalism, essays, and literary fiction.
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"In England, it was just so hard to make ends meet, and I knew that it was unnecessarily hard because I could see my friends were doing so well here [in Leipzig]. They were living in these flatshare mansions, and still had so much free time to put into their music, and were actually making
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"At the advent of the WGT festival, catching The Jesus and Mary Chain was my highest priority. The Reid brothers, Jim and William, are internationally-acclaimed figureheads, but also local heroes for a Paisley boy like myself who grew up around scheme rats with Dads with their records."
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"The population of Dölitz is 4,734. The number of tickets sold for this year’s WGT is somewhere in the region of 18,000, and the scale of change in neighbourhood demographics in Dölitz during this time is spectacular."
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"First I have to know what I’m going to say, then we have to find a way to make it sound beautiful. Beautiful can also be screaming at the audience!" Feline and Strange tell Adam Carrington what "goth" means in 2018. Catch them playing this evening, even if you don't have a WGT wristband.
More"Despite a career recording and producing household-name acts like The Strokes and Regina Spektor, 'Sleep on the Radio' is Gordon Raphael’s first full-length album, the first one with his songs and his name on the front cover." (Interview & album review by Adam Carrington) Check out Gordon Raphael & the Half Full Flashes @ Leipzig's
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As more and more goths begin to descend from the unseasonably darkening skies above Leipzig airport, anticipation in the city rises to a level that may actually be tactile. Leipzig is about to be rocked once again by alternative music’s most famous summer holiday.
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