Live show by the 1980s indie band Skeletal Family, with Salvation and The Go Go Cult, at The Face Bar in Reading.
Skeletal Family play The Face Bar on Saturday 20 March, with Salvation and The Go Go Cult on the bill. It's a Reading night that pulls from a few different corners of the alternative scene, with the headliners bringing a history that goes back to the early eighties.
Skeletal Family were one of the more prominent indie and alternative bands of that era. Their debut album, Burning Oil, topped the National UK Indie Charts for three weeks in autumn 1984, sitting ahead of contemporaries like The Smiths and New Order. They also recorded seven BBC Radio One sessions for John Peel, Janice Long and Kid Jensen, so they've got a fair bit of history behind them.
They're not just playing the old stuff, though. During the 2020/2021 pandemic, vocalist Anneka Latta and drummer Adrian 'Ozzy' Osadzenko recorded 19 new songs at Paul Weller's Black Barn Studios in Ripley. That became Light From The Dark, released on 22 April 2023 to critical acclaim. Since then they've played Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig and Darker Waves in Huntington Beach, California, as well as dates across the UK and USA, so this is one of their British stops.
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The support acts add their own weight to the night. Salvation come from the original Leeds-based goth scene and released on The Sisters of Mercy's label, Merciful Release. The Go Go Cult are a local Reading go-go/sleaze band formed in 2010, so there's a bit of the town's own scene on the bill alongside the visitors. It's a three-band lineup, with the night starting at 8pm at The Face Bar on Chatham Street, RG1 7JE, and tickets from £20.
