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The Batcave was a weekly club-night launched at 69 Dean Street in central London in 1982. It is considered to be the birthplace of the Southern English goth subculture.It lent its name to the term Batcaver, used to describe the early fans of gothic rock music, who would adorn themselves in Batwing coffin necklaces to distinguish themselves from other goth clubs.
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In the early 1980s Wisdom was the singer in the theatrical glam and gothic rock group Specimen, and co-founded [4] and ran The Batcave, London's weekly goth club-night at the Gargoyle Club. [5] Before forming Specimen and opening the Batcave, Wisdom was the frontman for the punk band The Unwanted. [6]
Alien Sex Fiend recorded a cassette (The Lewd, the Mad, the Ugly and Old Nick) with Youth of Killing Joke, which brought them to the attention of the UK music press, [7] along with the appearance of their track "R.I.P." on the Batcave club compilation, The Batcave: Young Limbs and Numb Hymns 1983, released by London Records in 1983.
In 1982, the band relocated to Soho, London, where Wisdom founded the infamous Batcave weekly club-night. [3] Ian Astbury described the band's unique hybrid of punk and glam: "Specimen were very dark, but they were as much German as they were The Addams Family. They were like a Death Bowie." [4] [5]
In 1982, after moving in London and renting a place in Soho, [1] Klein co-founded with Wisdom the club the Batcave, which was a party on Wednesday nights at The Gargoyle. [2] Klein and Wisdom then opened a Batcave club night in New-York. [1]
The Batcave was a nightclub in London, between 1982–1986, that hosted live music and paid homage to all things goth. The interior, as described by Kelly Rankin, included cobwebbed ceilings and a real coffin at the entrance. She says that "The Batcave became iconic because it aided the progression of this movement." [13]
During the 1980s, during the New Romantic movement, London had a vibrant nightclub scene, which included clubs like The Blitz, the Batcave, the Camden Palace, and Club for Heroes. These clubs grew out of the earlier Mandrake and Billy's (later Gossip's) [82] [83] at 69 Dean Street, in the basement below the ground floor Gargoyle Club. Both ...