Bands like The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy and Siouxsie and the Banshees wouldn’t tip toe outside their respective front doors without being daubed head to toe in the darkest of dark materials as if they’d spent the last 5 weeks rehearsing in a coal mine.

Today, a new breed of goths are hoping to change things. Their online goth help us campaign would have you believe that todays gothic is not a maudlin, monchrome moaner but a caring, sharing, multi-coloured personality.

It’s about time peoples perceptions of Goths were changed but bands will find it difficult to wave the white flag. Although, I am looking forward to seeing Robert Smith performing in a lime green tracksuit.