Many many blue moons ago, back when I had more hair and more teeth, I was a Goth. My gateway into Goth was The Mission and my introduction to The Mission was via the rather surprising route of the late lamented pop mag Smash Hits. They loved the “mish” (as they called them) and stuck frontman Wayne Hussey on the cover in March 1987. I was entranced by dark romance of the whole thing and spent my accumulated pocket money on their debut album “God’s Own Medicine”. This sent me down a gothic rabbit hole that, whilst I don’t have the hair and clothes anymore, I am still yet to emerge from.

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