Heh, thanks! Are there any regular events like this in Toronto? One thing I always do when I am going to travel to another city is check out what might be going on whiel I'm there... cf. last month's trip report for Montreal. Fun nights but I also came away with the idea that we don't do too badly for ourselves here, just with smaller numbers. (And people in Victoria generally don't dance until they're good and liquored up...)
There are, but they tend to be on weeknights and/or tend to be more on the EBM side of things. People went apeshit for the Montreal DJ at the last event I was at because they were all old school goth-industrial types and he totally played to that. We lost a different awesome DJ to Montreal as well.
People in Toronto don't dance at shows, but they will at clubs. Actually, I think the not-dancing-at-shows thing is changing because so many bands complain about how Torontonians don't dance.
Well, as you can see from my setlists I normally start my set with some older industrial stuff and work up to the EBM. I take the first set of the night (from 8 pm) so it doesn't matter if what I play is really danceable, at least at first because people are still arriving and saying hi over a drink.
I haven't gone to an actual show for a long time since not many really interesting groups come to Victoria, and getting to Vancouver or Seattle is a real hassle. So mostly I see clubs in different cities. I don't think I will have time to see one in London when I go there this September, but I would think that would be something... the city that once had the Batcave? Well, maybe not... David Cameron's dead hand seems to extend to most things.
Yeah, you'd think that London is big enough to have things like that going on still. But last summer we went to Washington, a city of over 3 million people and eight universities, and did not find one thing EBM/Industrial/Goth/whatever going on. (though, in searching out what might be going on, I kept running into what seemed to be an unusually large number of BDSM clubs and events in the area (since online, Goth stuff keeps getting lumped into kink). "Power exchange" - hah, yes, that seems about right for that town....)
But London is one of the birthplaces of goth! There has to be stuff.
I am pretty chill about BDSM in general-not my thing, but I appreciate how it's other people's thing-but the idea of BDSM in Washington is kind of terrifying.
Not my kind of thing either, but I can absolutely see the appetite for it in Washington... all those power-mad types spend their days pushing buttons and agendas, but spend their nights as squirmy mewling bottoms... that is, where these kinds of people seek a sexual outlet at all; you wonder if for example Condoleeza Rice had much of a need for it, just the exercise of power and influence might have been satisfying enough. Anyway...
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Are there any regular events like this in Toronto?
One thing I always do when I am going to travel to another city is check out what might be going on whiel I'm there... cf. last month's trip report for Montreal.
Fun nights but I also came away with the idea that we don't do too badly for ourselves here, just with smaller numbers.
(And people in Victoria generally don't dance until they're good and liquored up...)
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People in Toronto don't dance at shows, but they will at clubs. Actually, I think the not-dancing-at-shows thing is changing because so many bands complain about how Torontonians don't dance.
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I haven't gone to an actual show for a long time since not many really interesting groups come to Victoria, and getting to Vancouver or Seattle is a real hassle. So mostly I see clubs in different cities. I don't think I will have time to see one in London when I go there this September, but I would think that would be something... the city that once had the Batcave? Well, maybe not... David Cameron's dead hand seems to extend to most things.
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...second time the Batcave has come up in two days. Hah.
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But last summer we went to Washington, a city of over 3 million people and eight universities, and did not find one thing EBM/Industrial/Goth/whatever going on.
(though, in searching out what might be going on, I kept running into what seemed to be an unusually large number of BDSM clubs and events in the area (since online, Goth stuff keeps getting lumped into kink). "Power exchange" - hah, yes, that seems about right for that town....)
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I am pretty chill about BDSM in general-not my thing, but I appreciate how it's other people's thing-but the idea of BDSM in Washington is kind of terrifying.
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Anyway...
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