…bathe him first, I suppose
The Doclopedia #3,045
The Alphabet: L Is For…Love In The Dark
One of the most popular of the early 90s Goth Romance bands, Love In The Dark was active from early 1990 until winter 2011.
The group formed in Portland, Oregon when singer/songwriter Abbie Blackrose and her guitarist husband, Dirk, joined up with bassist Cleo Mist and drummer Jonny Dream, in December of 1989.
The quartet played goth and other clubs in Western Oregon and Washington before cutting their first album, “Silent Kiss”, in the fall of 1991. To promote it, they toured the length of the West Coast. When the title song hit big on MTV, they were invited to go on the “Dark Romance” tour with The Moonlight Waifs, The Wednesdays, and Sylvie & Celine.
Over the next 5 years, they toured pretty much non-stop, taking time off only to record 5 more studio albums and a live album. In late 1996, they announced they were taking a year off to “decompress, write songs, and record a new album”.
When they started touring again in spring of 1998, they were riding high on their best selling album “The Touching Flesh”. They toured the world twice over the next 4 years, stopping only due to the “Russian Flu” pandemic that hit in summer of 2002 and shut down most travel for 3 years.
Sadly, in 2004, Jonny Dream died of the flu and the Goth Romance musical genre was waning in popularity. Despite having recorded 3 albums and a dozen videos, the band struggled for the next several years before calling it quits in February of 2011.
Abbie and Dirk moved on to composing music for movies, while Cleo became a session musician.
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