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This slogging around the country, reaching kids who—like the band members in their youth—didn't have the best access to the kind of music they were actually into, went on for months. A recruitment tour, if you like, bringing the FVK world to teenagers who had previously been looking for an escape, and not finding it in what was offered to them locally.On their return to London, the disciples they had picked up around the country flocked in their droves to the band's homecoming gig at the Camden Barfly. The venue was nearly at capacity, and with every member of the audience singing every lyric, Kerrang! magazine gave them a full page review in its following issue.The band's theatrical and gothic leanings—from their dress sense to the prose in Laurence's novels—are clearly part of the appeal to FVK devotees. The fans I met at a recent gig may belong more to the Monster Energy brand of goth, as opposed to the types who spend their free time taking solemn walks alone in graveyards, but they all clearly had an infatuation with the darker elements of life and art.READ ON NOISEY: Loads of Huge UK Rock Bands Still Have Day Jobs
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