Artist
UK Decay
Luton band whose frontman Steve Abbott coined the term 'punk gothique' in 1981, giving the scene its first name before NME settled on simply 'goth' by 1983. Though less commercially successful than their peers, they were crucial in crystallizing the movement's identity through press coverage and their dark, aggressive sound. They appeared on NME's February 1983 'positive punk' cover alongside Bauhaus and Theatre of Hate, helping legitimize what had been scattered impulses into a coherent scene. By June that year, John Peel noted the magazine had 'dropped the term positive punk and had now opted for goth.'