Upcoming changes at Necropolis
Looks like I'm actually going to DJ the main night tonight for the first time since last year. So come out and see me.
Don't forget to plan for the Necropolis BLACK HEARTS' BALL. It's on Valentine's Day and whether you have a significant other or not, come out and spend time with everyone. I gave Holly a budget so we're actually going to decorate. Of course, as always, dressing up is encouraged but not needed so get out your best duds and get all prettied up and come celebrate the most depressing and darkest of holidays...Valentine's Day.
Also, the Black Hearts' Ball will the last time I DJ a Necropolis Thursday night for quite a while or maybe ever. As most of you regulars know, I have had an increasingly hard time walking over the past year and a half. Turns out I need to have my left hip completely replaced. So I'll be having surgery on March 11th for that and it will take 2 months to recover in which time I can't drive, work or really do much of anything. So definitely no DJing.
I'm turning things over to DJ's Stefan and Nothing. Nothing will be handling Thursdays while they will switch off on Saturdays. Sundays will be a rotation of DJ Lost, DJ Rot and DJ Synthestruct, however they choose to set it up. I'll keep the sites up, radio station, podcast, etc. and keep posting, but that's about all I can do.
Now here's the long part that will probably get me in trouble as all the little narcs out there will run to the management and tell on me, but I don't care.
As for returning, I don't know if I will. I would like to continue doing Saturdays as I still enjoy them, but the changes the management of the club forced upon my main night back in October made it clear that I WASN'T in charge of my main night. Although they tried to make it seem like I had a say in it, it's obvious now that the changes were already decided upon before I ever entered the office. And every since that night when I was forced to tell Stefan and Sean they weren't needed on the main night it ceased to be fun to me. Two people who had been with me for five years and helped build Necropolis into the respected club it is were tossed to the curb like they didn't matter, all to bring in someone else in hopes that the change would bring more people to the club. It didn't. The holidays hit and our numbers would have gone up anyway. And this has bugged me every since making me not enjoy the night I worked so hard to establish. And if I'm not having fun or making a buttload of money, then as far as I see it I don't need to be doing it.
Please don't take this as an attack on Wookie. I like Wookie, he's an incredibly nice guy. But it wasn't necessary to bring him in when all three of us had already started integrating older music into our sets. And no matter how many people say they want to hear old stuff, it WILL NOT drag the older people out to the club consistently on a week night. Yes, our numbers had dropped, just like they always do in the fall, but they always come back up. Plus I'm still pretty bitter about the anniversary being fucked. We have two big nights a year there, nights where we know there will be a huge crowd to spin to, The Massaquerade Ball and the anniversary. Well, as everyone knows, this past anniversary SUCKED because it was on Thanksgiving. Hell, even our guest DJ didn't show up. And seeing as how the whole switching the nights thing failed miserably for Wednesday, the switch was pointless and fucked us. The only way to get more/new people in is to advertise. And since I don't have the extra cash for that anymore, and the club refuses to buy ads, we're kind of screwed. Stefan had set up some serious co-op advertising with contacts at his job. They would have paid for a lot of ads we could never had afforded alone. But when he was forced out, we lost all that advertising and therefore lost what I feel was a serious chance at increasing numbers significantly. Once again screwed, by not thinking everything through.
DJ Nothing has been cool enough to fill in for me as I've had other priorities of late. Although I do think the extra cash is a bigger draw. And DJ Stefan will not set foot in there on a Thursday night and honestly I don't blame him. He and Sean are both owed a serious apology for what happened. And it's also a shame, because I think Stefan is an excellent DJ who really has care and concern for every set he does. Again, two people who not only supported Necropolis, but IBar in general, were fucked by the place they supported and defended onlin repeatedly.
So there you go. My hopes are to be back in the booth by the time the Massaquerade Ball hits in early May. But who knows, I'll probably be pulled aside tonight and talked to about this post and told not to come back. Which WOULD suck, but I've remained quiet about all this for over 3 months now, which for me is pretty good.
No matter what happens to me, I'm sure there will always be an industrial night at IBar and I hope you all continue to support it whether it is Necropolis or something else...support the scene. Necropolis and IBar have been an important part of my life since I started going there in 1987 and DJing on and off since 1990. It's my second home and the only place I feel safe and comfortable downtown. I've put a lot of myself into Necropolis. But I no longer feel that it's mine. Which is sad.
So I hope to see everyone tonight and hopefully I'll be back again if I'm not banned from the club. LOL
Later
L.D.
Don't forget to plan for the Necropolis BLACK HEARTS' BALL. It's on Valentine's Day and whether you have a significant other or not, come out and spend time with everyone. I gave Holly a budget so we're actually going to decorate. Of course, as always, dressing up is encouraged but not needed so get out your best duds and get all prettied up and come celebrate the most depressing and darkest of holidays...Valentine's Day.
Also, the Black Hearts' Ball will the last time I DJ a Necropolis Thursday night for quite a while or maybe ever. As most of you regulars know, I have had an increasingly hard time walking over the past year and a half. Turns out I need to have my left hip completely replaced. So I'll be having surgery on March 11th for that and it will take 2 months to recover in which time I can't drive, work or really do much of anything. So definitely no DJing.
I'm turning things over to DJ's Stefan and Nothing. Nothing will be handling Thursdays while they will switch off on Saturdays. Sundays will be a rotation of DJ Lost, DJ Rot and DJ Synthestruct, however they choose to set it up. I'll keep the sites up, radio station, podcast, etc. and keep posting, but that's about all I can do.
Now here's the long part that will probably get me in trouble as all the little narcs out there will run to the management and tell on me, but I don't care.
As for returning, I don't know if I will. I would like to continue doing Saturdays as I still enjoy them, but the changes the management of the club forced upon my main night back in October made it clear that I WASN'T in charge of my main night. Although they tried to make it seem like I had a say in it, it's obvious now that the changes were already decided upon before I ever entered the office. And every since that night when I was forced to tell Stefan and Sean they weren't needed on the main night it ceased to be fun to me. Two people who had been with me for five years and helped build Necropolis into the respected club it is were tossed to the curb like they didn't matter, all to bring in someone else in hopes that the change would bring more people to the club. It didn't. The holidays hit and our numbers would have gone up anyway. And this has bugged me every since making me not enjoy the night I worked so hard to establish. And if I'm not having fun or making a buttload of money, then as far as I see it I don't need to be doing it.
Please don't take this as an attack on Wookie. I like Wookie, he's an incredibly nice guy. But it wasn't necessary to bring him in when all three of us had already started integrating older music into our sets. And no matter how many people say they want to hear old stuff, it WILL NOT drag the older people out to the club consistently on a week night. Yes, our numbers had dropped, just like they always do in the fall, but they always come back up. Plus I'm still pretty bitter about the anniversary being fucked. We have two big nights a year there, nights where we know there will be a huge crowd to spin to, The Massaquerade Ball and the anniversary. Well, as everyone knows, this past anniversary SUCKED because it was on Thanksgiving. Hell, even our guest DJ didn't show up. And seeing as how the whole switching the nights thing failed miserably for Wednesday, the switch was pointless and fucked us. The only way to get more/new people in is to advertise. And since I don't have the extra cash for that anymore, and the club refuses to buy ads, we're kind of screwed. Stefan had set up some serious co-op advertising with contacts at his job. They would have paid for a lot of ads we could never had afforded alone. But when he was forced out, we lost all that advertising and therefore lost what I feel was a serious chance at increasing numbers significantly. Once again screwed, by not thinking everything through.
DJ Nothing has been cool enough to fill in for me as I've had other priorities of late. Although I do think the extra cash is a bigger draw. And DJ Stefan will not set foot in there on a Thursday night and honestly I don't blame him. He and Sean are both owed a serious apology for what happened. And it's also a shame, because I think Stefan is an excellent DJ who really has care and concern for every set he does. Again, two people who not only supported Necropolis, but IBar in general, were fucked by the place they supported and defended onlin repeatedly.
So there you go. My hopes are to be back in the booth by the time the Massaquerade Ball hits in early May. But who knows, I'll probably be pulled aside tonight and talked to about this post and told not to come back. Which WOULD suck, but I've remained quiet about all this for over 3 months now, which for me is pretty good.
No matter what happens to me, I'm sure there will always be an industrial night at IBar and I hope you all continue to support it whether it is Necropolis or something else...support the scene. Necropolis and IBar have been an important part of my life since I started going there in 1987 and DJing on and off since 1990. It's my second home and the only place I feel safe and comfortable downtown. I've put a lot of myself into Necropolis. But I no longer feel that it's mine. Which is sad.
So I hope to see everyone tonight and hopefully I'll be back again if I'm not banned from the club. LOL
Later
L.D.