Alien Sex Fiend — Bun Ho

JUL 01 1988 · 12:00

Alien Sex Fiend — Bun Ho (1988) Era: Late 80s UK Gothic-Industrial Transition (1988) - Period marking Alien Sex Fiend's pivot from Batcave goth theatrics toward synth-driven electronic dance, documented on the album Another Planet (Anagram Records, November 1988). High curatorial value as a rare surviving official promo from Alien Sex Fiend's pivotal 1988 transitional period. The video preserves a specific performative and visual moment — the band's Batcave-derived theatrical identity being refracted through early electronic-dance energy — that is under-documented in audiovisual archives. Its extreme editing pace (1017 cuts / 316.72s), analogue colour characteristics, and VHS-era production fingerprint make it a primary source for scholars of UK goth, post-punk, and independent video culture. Context: Alien Sex Fiend emerged directly from the Batcave club — widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Southern English goth subculture, opened in July 1982 at 69 Dean Street, London. By 1988, the band had evolved from their foundational Batcave horror-camp theatrics into a more electronics- and sampling-driven sound, as documented on Another Planet. 'Bun Ho!' represents this transitional moment: the band, now effectively a duo, was incorporating electronic dance music structures before many of their goth and industrial peers. The video's hyper-saturated warmth and relentless fragmentation reflect both the limitations and creative energy of the late-80s UK independent video economy, translating the band's ghoulish spectacle aesthetic into the rapid-fire visual language of the VHS promo era. Director notes: The video accompanies 'Bun Ho!' (also titled 'Bun Ho! (Time Gentlemen Please)'), the opening track from the 1988 Anagram Records album Another Planet — the sixth studio album by Alien Sex Fiend, released November 1988. The album represented the band operating as an essentially duo formation (Nik Fiend and Mrs Fiend) with electronics and sampling foregrounded. No production house, director, or cinematographer credit has been publicly documented for this specific promo.