The goth father

The goth father

A CAMBRIDGE church that holds special services for goths features in a movie about Depeche Mode's fans.

Canon Fraser Watts, seen preaching in the film, is helping to show young darkly-dressed music fans the light.

Now the unusual fortnightly service, at the Church of St Edward King and Martyr, in Peas Hill, stars in a film The Posters Came From The Walls, about the band, and will be screened at Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge on December 1.

The services feature hits by the band, whose singles include Personal Jesus and Blasphemous Rumours, blasted through the sacred vault of the church's Clare Chapel - which may shake a few of the church's older congregation.

Mr Watts said: "I am delighted that the church will be in the movie. I held a service for goths last night and we had about a dozen turn up.

"The showing of the film does clash with our next service but I plan for everyone to go to the movie together and have the service before or after.

"We have had some criticism from some members of the Christian community about the services. Some people think goths are Satan worshippers but that's not the case.


It's about music and fashion mostly."

The exclusive one-night-only screening is at a number of cinemas across the UK, including Cambridge.

It is co-directed by Turner Prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller and filmmaker Nicholas Abrahams.

Mr Deller said: "The church is a little gem in the film, and puts a particularly British take on the influence of Depeche Mode."

Jacqui Edenbrow, producer of the movie, said: "That's brilliant that some of the congregation from St Edwards are going to see the film, we hope they enjoy it."

It is partly shot in Russia, where on May 9, Victory Day, is a national holiday. It's also the birthday of Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode, and a group of Muscovite fans have declared it 'Dave Day'.

The band's music has been treasured since it was only available on illegal bootlegged cassettes in the 1980s and it formed the soundtrack of the march toward freedom those countries embarked upon following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The gothic eucharists are held on Tuesdays at 8.30pm with "contemporary music and challenging sermons".

The sermon on December 1 will be by Malcolm Guite on money.



Somewhere in this subforum I posted a story about this man and his church services for Goths awhile ago,I thought this was an intresting follow up to that.

^^ I remember that post. Good to see the church will get a little more well-known thanks to the film.