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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.
The Batcave is Batman's secret hideout. Batcave or Bat Cave may also refer to: Batcave (club), a gothic rock nightclub in London; Bat Cave, Nepal; Bat Cave, North Carolina; Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves, a nature preserve in Kentucky dedicated to protecting the endangered Indiana bat; Bat Cave mine, a cave in Arizona
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, 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]
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Sex Gang Children are an early gothic rock and post-punk band that formed in early 1982 in Brixton in London, England.Although the original group only released one official studio album, their singles and various other tracks have been packaged into numerous collections and they remain one of the more well-known bands of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring at ...
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