Old Friends in New Skins

These are the show notes that go with the final episode of Season Four of The Infected, where we close off another epic set of shows with a themed episode. This one is all about alternative mixes and cover versions! We hope you’ll enjoy meeting these old friends – in their new skins. The Cure […]

Why The Infected?

It may not be obvious but… We are called the infected because we first started this podcast during covid. Instead of talking about that infection, we wanted to talk about another infection that we share and want to pass on: our love of dark and alternative music. We hope we can infect you with this […]

Something that’s not meant to be

Featuring Vision Video, Double Echo, Summore, Solomun & Isolation Berlin, Yello and Play Dead. Chapters 0:00:12 Welcome to The Infected – A Mysterious Discovery0:03:47 Vision Video: Stark Divide between the Haves and Have-Nots in America0:06:07 Visiting the Glittering Tunnel in Los Angeles reveals Sad Reality0:11:47 Double Echo: Danceable Post-Punk with Distant Vocals0:16:20 Summore: Dark, Existential […]

The Crazy Face Factory

These are the shownotes that go with The Infected Season 4 Episode: Here we go! HN03 – Doughnut Dollies We’ve played some New Beat before from Shakti with the track “Forbidden Dreams” I’m not sure if you remember.  A nice and dark one again. The track was made by a famous Belgian DJ from the […]

Children of the night

These are the shownotes for this episode, number 7 of our fourth sesason: Of Blood and Wine – Evelyn (2023) Gothic Rockers Of Blood and Wine are friends of the show, and they have done it again with Evelyn – as far as I am concerned, one of the finest Goth Rock tracks to have […]

S04E02 – A Cold Spring

I believe we covered Lycia somewhere in our first or second season of The Infected. They popped back on my radar last week when I saw they are also on Spotify and seemingly I missed 2 EPs they released recently. They make the kind of music that really evokes goosebumps with me. I can’t name […]

Landed on the bell tower

Shriekback – All Lined Up (1983) Shriekback was an English rock band formed in 1981 in Kentish Town by Barry Andrews, formerly of XTC and League of Gentlemen (keyboards/synthesizers/vocals), and Dave Allen, formerly of the Gang of Four (bass). They had many band members over the years, including the infamous Luc van Acker, who joined […]

Missing Man

These are the shownotes that go with Season 4, Episode 0 – The Pilot Episode Once again the gates are unlocked and the bar is raised, for this pilot Episode of season 4. This is The Infected – A podcast from the heart of the darkness. Your hosts select the finest Post-Punk, New Wave, Goth […]

Interview: Of Blood and Wine

On the occasion of their new “Of Blood and Wine” EP release and the track Of Blood and Wine, released for the first time in our Podcast The Infected, episode S02E12, “Love, Blood and Wine,” The Infected visited Of Blood and Wine in their remote manor in the dark Finnish woods. It is a waning […]