Sex Gang Children is one of the pioneers and co-creators of the so-called goth phenomenon, which in its original shape was a new phase of the punk explosion. The style would quickly become one of the great attractions the UK gave to the world in the last decades of the previous century. Sex Gang Children were an inseparable part of the scene associated with the legendary London club Batcave, which defined the phenomenon. The unique atmosphere of Sex Gang Children’s music was owed to an exciting combination of demonic post-punk, new wave, cabaret-style music, and satirical folk songs. Theatricality, the evocation of the tragi-grotesque and horror aesthetics, mixed with the symptoms of the urban apocalypse; Andy’s voice – disturbing, unfakeable, and rich in mannerism; as well as the fruity music full of colours made up a sensational manifesto of the real goth genre. It was the album entitled Song and Legendthat gave us the fullest dimension of Sex Gang Children. Released in 1983, the record truly deserves to be called essential. Shortly afterwards, the brilliant band fell victim to rivalries and rifts, after which it disappeared into the darkness of the past. Despite the reefs and hindrances, Sex Gang Children took on different guises and continued its activity in many line-ups. Andi Sex Gang was also a prolific solo artist. The initial Sex Gang Children was brought back to life in recent years as the beautiful music of the past began to be remembered. The value of the legendary idea is proved by the fact that during the several dozen years since the flash and relative twilight, a group that would even partly resemble the original Sex Gang Children never came into being. [ws]
SEX GANG CHILDREN (UK)
