TheShadowsSmile 🦇🖤🦇
@theshadowssmile.bsky.social
She/her LGBTQ+ ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Goth. Since 1986: Keep The Faith 🖤
Music lover, ex-teacher, German speaker
Ändere die Welt, sie braucht es (Brecht)
Goth. Since 1986: Keep The Faith 🖤
Music lover, ex-teacher, German speaker
Ändere die Welt, sie braucht es (Brecht)
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#90sTop30
I felt even more nostalgic doing this challenge than the 80s one, it has been a wonderful trip down memory lane... Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for organising
My final choice goes to the inimitable Mr Carl McCoy 🖤
Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light 🖤
youtu.be/6OrsxYevlgw?...
I felt even more nostalgic doing this challenge than the 80s one, it has been a wonderful trip down memory lane... Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for organising
My final choice goes to the inimitable Mr Carl McCoy 🖤
Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light 🖤
youtu.be/6OrsxYevlgw?...
Fields of the Nephilim - For Her Light (Official Video)
YouTube video by Malo Te
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#90sTop30
I felt even more nostalgic doing this challenge than the 80s one, it has been a wonderful trip down memory lane... Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for organising
My final choice goes to the inimitable Mr Carl McCoy 🖤
Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light 🖤
youtu.be/6OrsxYevlgw?...
I felt even more nostalgic doing this challenge than the 80s one, it has been a wonderful trip down memory lane... Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for organising
My final choice goes to the inimitable Mr Carl McCoy 🖤
Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light 🖤
youtu.be/6OrsxYevlgw?...
Reposted by TheShadowsSmile 🦇🖤🦇
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
🖤 It's a gig night! The absolutely brilliant Nasty Fishmonger with Black Water County at @bodeganotts.bsky.social 🖤
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🖤 It's a gig night! The absolutely brilliant Nasty Fishmonger with Black Water County at @bodeganotts.bsky.social 🖤
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea 🖤
I wish I could just stop
I know another moment will break my heart...
youtu.be/VEaEaPreit4?...
Unranked, one song per artist
The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea 🖤
I wish I could just stop
I know another moment will break my heart...
youtu.be/VEaEaPreit4?...
The Cure: From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (AOL Sessions)
YouTube video by Rudolf Dethu
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea 🖤
I wish I could just stop
I know another moment will break my heart...
youtu.be/VEaEaPreit4?...
Unranked, one song per artist
The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea 🖤
I wish I could just stop
I know another moment will break my heart...
youtu.be/VEaEaPreit4?...
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Here begins the inevitable Goth section... albeit far fewer in number than on my 80s list. Firstly a combination of two loves - Goth and Germany
The Merry Thoughts - Pale Empress 🖤
youtu.be/OT8c9p8Zuys?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Here begins the inevitable Goth section... albeit far fewer in number than on my 80s list. Firstly a combination of two loves - Goth and Germany
The Merry Thoughts - Pale Empress 🖤
youtu.be/OT8c9p8Zuys?...
Pale Empress
YouTube video by The Merry Thoughts - Topic
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Here begins the inevitable Goth section... albeit far fewer in number than on my 80s list. Firstly a combination of two loves - Goth and Germany
The Merry Thoughts - Pale Empress 🖤
youtu.be/OT8c9p8Zuys?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Here begins the inevitable Goth section... albeit far fewer in number than on my 80s list. Firstly a combination of two loves - Goth and Germany
The Merry Thoughts - Pale Empress 🖤
youtu.be/OT8c9p8Zuys?...
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Throwing Muses - Ellen West 🖤
My mouth is full of demons
I swear to god...
youtu.be/xLatSb39oQA?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Throwing Muses - Ellen West 🖤
My mouth is full of demons
I swear to god...
youtu.be/xLatSb39oQA?...
Ellen West
YouTube video by Throwing Muses - Topic
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Throwing Muses - Ellen West 🖤
My mouth is full of demons
I swear to god...
youtu.be/xLatSb39oQA?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Throwing Muses - Ellen West 🖤
My mouth is full of demons
I swear to god...
youtu.be/xLatSb39oQA?...
Loved it 🖤
Calling all Killing Joke fans...
#MusicSky
#NowListening
#LightOfEternity
#CollateralEP
Explosive comp of the first EPs from Killing Joke's Big Paul Ferguson & crew & his new band is as colossal & ferocious & beautiful & wired to the warped human psyche as you could hope for. Thrilling, brilliant & so good to hear him again 😎👍😉🖤
#NowListening
#LightOfEternity
#CollateralEP
Explosive comp of the first EPs from Killing Joke's Big Paul Ferguson & crew & his new band is as colossal & ferocious & beautiful & wired to the warped human psyche as you could hope for. Thrilling, brilliant & so good to hear him again 😎👍😉🖤
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Loved it 🖤
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Another busking favourite...
Levellers - The Likes Of You & I 🖤
youtu.be/gmF4ovx6Eh0?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Another busking favourite...
Levellers - The Likes Of You & I 🖤
youtu.be/gmF4ovx6Eh0?...
The Likes of You & I (Remastered Version)
YouTube video by The Levellers - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Another busking favourite...
Levellers - The Likes Of You & I 🖤
youtu.be/gmF4ovx6Eh0?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Another busking favourite...
Levellers - The Likes Of You & I 🖤
youtu.be/gmF4ovx6Eh0?...
My true love, my best mate
33 years
🖤
33 years
🖤
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My true love, my best mate
33 years
🖤
33 years
🖤
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
As I sat listening to you busk this in that long-lost Leicester underpass, I could never have known we'd still be singing it together 33 years later...
Happy anniversary @sffofg.bsky.social
New Model Army - Marrakesh 🖤
youtu.be/6j_SEuxhG-w?...
Unranked, one song per artist
As I sat listening to you busk this in that long-lost Leicester underpass, I could never have known we'd still be singing it together 33 years later...
Happy anniversary @sffofg.bsky.social
New Model Army - Marrakesh 🖤
youtu.be/6j_SEuxhG-w?...
Marrakesh (2005 Remaster)
YouTube video by New Model Army - Topic
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
As I sat listening to you busk this in that long-lost Leicester underpass, I could never have known we'd still be singing it together 33 years later...
Happy anniversary @sffofg.bsky.social
New Model Army - Marrakesh 🖤
youtu.be/6j_SEuxhG-w?...
Unranked, one song per artist
As I sat listening to you busk this in that long-lost Leicester underpass, I could never have known we'd still be singing it together 33 years later...
Happy anniversary @sffofg.bsky.social
New Model Army - Marrakesh 🖤
youtu.be/6j_SEuxhG-w?...
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now? 🖤
Do you think of me like I dream of you...
youtu.be/ZtCTKDG_4Gk?...
Unranked, one song per artist
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now? 🖤
Do you think of me like I dream of you...
youtu.be/ZtCTKDG_4Gk?...
Do You Love Me Now? (2023 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Breeders - Topic
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now? 🖤
Do you think of me like I dream of you...
youtu.be/ZtCTKDG_4Gk?...
Unranked, one song per artist
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now? 🖤
Do you think of me like I dream of you...
youtu.be/ZtCTKDG_4Gk?...
Reposted by TheShadowsSmile 🦇🖤🦇
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
I am utterly lost in nostalgia and memories, especially for 1992. This is one of my absolute favourite songs
PJ Harvey - Dress 🖤
I'm going out dancing...
youtu.be/4lS5jTedHBg?...
Unranked, one song per artist
I am utterly lost in nostalgia and memories, especially for 1992. This is one of my absolute favourite songs
PJ Harvey - Dress 🖤
I'm going out dancing...
youtu.be/4lS5jTedHBg?...
PJ Harvey - Dress
YouTube video by PJHarveyVEVO
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
I am utterly lost in nostalgia and memories, especially for 1992. This is one of my absolute favourite songs
PJ Harvey - Dress 🖤
I'm going out dancing...
youtu.be/4lS5jTedHBg?...
Unranked, one song per artist
I am utterly lost in nostalgia and memories, especially for 1992. This is one of my absolute favourite songs
PJ Harvey - Dress 🖤
I'm going out dancing...
youtu.be/4lS5jTedHBg?...
Only Happy When It Rains (2015 Remaster)
YouTube video by Garbage - Topic
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts) 🖤
youtu.be/gyBo1SpuA2g?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts) 🖤
youtu.be/gyBo1SpuA2g?...
Twisted (Everyday Hurts)
YouTube video by Skunk Anansie - Topic
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts) 🖤
youtu.be/gyBo1SpuA2g?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts) 🖤
youtu.be/gyBo1SpuA2g?...
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television 🖤
youtu.be/xPA0gR1ctQ4?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television 🖤
youtu.be/xPA0gR1ctQ4?...
Kill Your Television
YouTube video by Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Topic
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television 🖤
youtu.be/xPA0gR1ctQ4?...
Unranked, one song per artist
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television 🖤
youtu.be/xPA0gR1ctQ4?...
Quote post with your own dramatic selfie in black and white...
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Quote post with your own dramatic selfie in black and white...
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
This transports me back to the dancefloor of Sector 5, Leicester... Whilst the 80s is my favourite decade musically, I definitely had the most fun in the 90s.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get 🖤
youtu.be/EZpcUK6Kxo8?...
Unranked, one song per artist
This transports me back to the dancefloor of Sector 5, Leicester... Whilst the 80s is my favourite decade musically, I definitely had the most fun in the 90s.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get 🖤
youtu.be/EZpcUK6Kxo8?...
The Impression That I Get
YouTube video by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#90sTop30
Unranked, one song per artist
This transports me back to the dancefloor of Sector 5, Leicester... Whilst the 80s is my favourite decade musically, I definitely had the most fun in the 90s.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get 🖤
youtu.be/EZpcUK6Kxo8?...
Unranked, one song per artist
This transports me back to the dancefloor of Sector 5, Leicester... Whilst the 80s is my favourite decade musically, I definitely had the most fun in the 90s.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get 🖤
youtu.be/EZpcUK6Kxo8?...