Mondays Will be MANIC From Now On… Every Other Monday That Is!
This Monday we’re proud to bring you a new bi-weekly party called Manic.This is the brainchild between Passions (T&B), Star Eyes (T&B) and myself. The three of us have had a longtime obsession with goth/industrial (and all of it’s sub sects) but couldn’t stand the costumed vinyl vampire fetish association it’s developed thanks to most parties catering to it. So we decided to create a relaxed night playing the music we grew up on and have slowly been championing it to anyone willing to look past the negative and corny connotations that have unfortunately been attached to it over the past decade or so. We’ll be playing everything from Post-Punk, Death Rock, Goth, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Coldwave, New Wave & any other wave you can slap an adjective in front of!
We’re also beyond happy to be bringing this night to the Trophy Bar, which sits on our little stretch of Broadway in Williamsburg which is slowly but surely turning into quite the little scene!
So if you’re around with nothing to do on a Monday night come by, have a drink and enjoy some good dancy albeit very melodramatic tunage!
Trophy Bar
351 Broadway
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
J/M/Z to Marcy Ave.
L Train to Lorimer
G Train to Broadway
May 10th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
That sounds reallu decent. Why does every goth party automatically turn into a pervert party with that guy who puts on the rubber sleeping bag and then hides near the bar so that people step on him?
May 10th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Because at some point in the 90s the Goth/Industrial scene became the fetish scene. I don’t know why exactly. I guess those elements from early on just started appealing to more and more people who were less into the music and experimentation and more into pretending to be vampires and dressing in rubber. the music became second to it all and kind of adopted itself as the soundtrack for their lives. I mean there’s also a reason why I don’t think there’s been a good or great album (Depending on where you’d classify The Knife) out of this whole scene since the mid 90s or so when the better bands still around adopted themselves more into a kind of an aggro-IDM.
There have been attempts at “good” goth/industrial parties, but usually they either spin the same 50 songs every week or they them-selves de-evolve into a huge pissing contest of who knows/has the rarest of 7″ totally disregarding the those songs might totally kill the vibe at a bar, club or lounge.
I guess we’ll see what this evolves into, but for the most part it’s just an outlet for Ben, Vivian and myself to have a good time listening to shit we love.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:32 am
I must admit I like Goth rock, or whatever you would like to call it, some of it is some great music but the bands that suck, suck hard. I have found that dabbling in the Goth music realm can be risky but rewarding sometimes. One thing that is always certain is that the gothic fashion will always be tacky and just god awful, worse than black metal and that’s pretty bad. I always got a kick out of the Goth Talk skit on SNL; Jim Brewer was bad ass in that bit.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Ya’ll gonna play some Skynard?