Thank you for this, I have been unable to attend due to family illness at the moment.. Really enjoyed your footage. I also enjoy being British. What fantastic people we are!! Thank to everyone who took time and trouble too.
What Beautiful Wonderful People where would the World be without Characters like this, I am determined to visit Whitby during Goth Week absolutely loved the vids ❤❤
I'm not goth just ended up there by chance with my wife and kids. We loved it. Loved the atmosphere and loved the outfits and effort people had put in. So much so we'll go back next year. Brilliant
Thanks for the video. Wished I could been there, but I am in wrong country! Loved all different looks and ages... And I know Whitby is a beautiful place to be. Specially around the graveyard and the Abbey. 🦇🖤🖤🖤🖤🦇
I’m a football casual type of bloke,but I respect these guys big time.Great effort and imagination put into their suit,costumes,make up ect ect .My favourite has to be the Mona Lisa .
Some amazing costumes that people have clearly spent a lot of time and effort into. A pity the weather did it’s thing on Sunday. I know what you mean about those reflectors, I love the effect the gold reflectors make.
My mother is from Whitby and it's a beautiful place that I used to spend my summer holidays at in the old family home. The Goth scene is in the perfect place with Whitbys rich history and links to Bram Stoker. 🧛♂️
Fabulous! Thanks for videoing this. I couldn't make this w/end but hopefully the next one later in the year as I did last year & the year before. Again. Thanks! 🖤
I would have loved to have been there. I’m not a goth but I am fascinated by that culture and absolutely love their dress style. I must go next year. Thanks for uploading this. I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise.
Great video! We played the pavillion in 2004 _ GLASS - after a little support tour with All About Eve. It was a brilliant weekend, met so many cool peeps. Great to see its still going strong.
Brilliant news, although Im not sure how much longer it will be going on. The last two event Organisers have now been booted from the Metropole and Spa Pavilion, for bad behaviour.
They looked great and must spend hours getting ready. Some of those Ladies were really Glamorous and I could see why everybody wanted their photos. I`d love to know what the locals make of it all and I bet it`s very lucrative for Whitby as well.
Thanks Glenn...great vibe as always and some truly spectacular costumes! Glad I can watch from home 😉I especially loved the sea shanty guys, the couple with the bat necklace (awww) and the Green Man, but overall really impressive costumes this time. Bloody rain, as usual!
I couldn't disagree more. Rain's great. It's atmospheric which really suits the goth vibe. Blazing sunshine would be too sterile and boring. Leave that to the tattoo and burger brigade in Benidorm, the goth weekend and Whitby should be brooding, dark and tense.
Never there for the Goth weekender, but am there for the Steampunk one. We never tire of spending our holidays in Whitby and hope to do so for many years to come.
I am not a goth but I've met quite a few. Without exception they were thoroughly nice and decent people. I'm sure everyone had a lovely, trouble -free time.
@@midnightmosesuk Dont know. Just read it on Facebook, The lady who organises the event said she had been thrown out and banned from returning. So not as loving and peaceful as some would believe.
They're straying away from the original intention of the meet in my opinion. I'd rather it stay a goth weekend than people turn up in over-the-top Halloween and steampunk costumes.
Looks quieter than normal and wet. I believe no bands where playing at the Whitby Pavilion either. Too many photo leaches. Whitby still looks good though.
There's one running 01 - 03 NOV 2024 in Whitby also if you missed it. Got a question though, are there any major differences between the two events ? e.g. numbers or types of people attending ? is the April event more Steam Punk than Goth ? etc
My Mum took my 12yr old Daughter on the Sunday. Her red and black outfit looked amazing, she'd done her own makeup beautifully, she was so excited to go and my poor girl ended up absolutely crestfallen.. It did nothing but rain all the time she was there and she was soaked through to the skin. It wasn't all bad. She bought some lovely things, she got some nice comments on her makeup from some of the shop owners and a photographer asked if he could take her picture, but she was pretty much broken at that point so she politely declined. Whitby.. We are not done with you.. 🖤
@@thewhitbyphotographer We've told her we're going to come and book into a B&B some time in the summer and we'll make a weekend of it. She cheered up once she got home was warm and dry again and getting cuddles from her Dad. 😊
Totally agree with the Mister Touchy comment, why couldn't that GWC just explain to her how he wanted her to pose, WTF, it's not even a good concept "mobile phone in hand".
That one was not the goth weekend that was the steam punk festival in whitby the goth weekend is in November seampunk and goth are 2 completely different subcultures the goth weekend is this November ill be there
How I miss going. Will he be taken that piano up the steps that police man could make a booby or too charging for photos yes to many small people impersonating children and I think Lisa was framed brilliant collection of People broken free from conformity every day should be a goth day
I agree. Jo has always been pleasant and supportive of what I do. I get nothing but extreme bad vibes from the people who run the events at the spa now. Would appear they dont like many people at all.
@@thewhitbyphotographer Feeling I got as well, went to the tommorrows ghost festival when they had took over for October 2018. Had definately lost its spark and where people were mingling beforehand, it was like everyone had seperated into their own little groups in the spa.
I am probably going to get called a gate keeper (usually by people not on the Goth scene) but I don't care, if there was more gatekeeping this would still be an actual music festival not some unorganised costumed gathering. This is no longer a 'Goth' weekend or more accurately a Goth Music Festival, especially when people refer to those as wearing a 'costume'. This is joe public in Halloween cosplay, which normally I wouldn't have nothing against if it hadn't warped the original Goth weekend. It's overpriced and too busy now. I used to go for 5 nights of clubs, bands, markets not to get my photo taken and told by people with no idea about the scene that they 'like my costume'. I went to Whitby to get away from you. If all your going for is to dress up, why can't you go to York, or Bath or any other nice city? People don't have the guts and knew they wouldn't stand out in Whitby. And that is the difference between wearing a costume and been part of a subculture. Goths don't dress any different at home then they did at Whitby. Would these people wear this in thier own city, town or village, tomorrow?
Im always interested in Gatekeeping. Can you explain how you tell people they can't go to Whitby and walk around the streets at times of thier choosing. Serious question, how are you stopping them, and from a residents point of view, what right do you think you have to stop people coming here.
@@thewhitbyphotographer Its funny, when Goths first started attending Whitby, some B&B proprietors put signs saying 'No Goths'. Probably the same backwards mindset who would put 'No Blacks' or 'No Gays' once upon a time. Then they realised just how much money Goths brought to the town, so reluctantly embraced/tolerated them. Although I and others suspected that many would happily see the backs of us if we were replaced by more 'normal' clientele, eg a Halloween/Parade Disco, which seems to becoming true. Most Goths, at least those who still go, generally avoid old town over the weekend, as they don't wish to associate with these people and was the exact reason why they originally came to Whitby - to get away from them. It was cheap and quiet and they did not go for thier photos to be taken by strangers. Saying Whitby is not a Goth Weekend and just some mass unorganised Halloween Parade is enough to be called a Gate Keeper. Usually by people not on the scene or have never been to a Goth club thier whole life. Goth is a subculture not a bad 'costume' you put on once a year.
@@thewhitbyphotographer I can't be bothered to reply again, my comments vanish because someone is scared that someone will get offended. This is not a Goth weekend anymore. Half the people on the WGW Facebook group look completely normal.
@@Delabane Did you manage to work out how you are going to stop people entering Whitby because they dont fit your idea of the perfect goth ? Thats the bit Im really interested in. Will you be turning them around at 4 lanes end on a Friday tea time ?
@@thewhitbyphotographer I'm not going to respond to a stupid question like that. I always found it strange that just because photographers take a few pictures of the 'Goth Weekend' they are experts in the Goth scene, leering at the girls, hoping to try your luck? This is a fancy dress, a comic con. A real shame it was good 15 years before all you normals turned up.
Please remove the footage shot in the private yard invaded by togs at 10 minutes in, with the couple in the window. You, along with everyone else who swarmed in, violated our privacy. This was not street photography. We do not give you permission to use our image. The yard invasion caused distress. Stay on the street with the people who want to be filmed.
You are close to the girl in white who is literally by the car port at the back of the yard. I have trauma induced PTSD and what you see in that window is me having a panic attack at everyone swarming in. I would really appreciate you editing us out as seeing it is very uncomfortable.
@@jroberts2024 Hi, I think I can edit you out from within the you tube user interface. If it's possible I will for sure. Im sorry they made you feel uncomfortable. However I can say with 100% certainty, I stayed on the public highway.
@@jroberts2024 Hi, I think I have edited you out. Should take a couple of hours. I'll check it later. Might be a good idea for you not to watch it again if its causing you distress.
I'm learning something here, probably that I have no soul, but I just don't get it. Is it telling me there are people who enjoy putting looks together and dressing up? Is it really about fashion? What do they get from doing it. But I can see the event is where you can encounter the unusual. Great for photographers.We humans really are complex.
