Straight from work to dinner at the Liquid Lab
with the Purists - a lovely time (and good food, and at least they had
Hoegaarden to drink) with mircea,
kitty_goth,
incy,
squiddity,
childeric,
zoo_music_girl, Dan Abel and
denalyia. Mircea and Simon
are such a cute couple. And her balls are so big!
zoo_music_girl and I then departed for Dead and
Buried at
Gossips. D&B was a TOP NIGHT. From 10pm (when we got there) to 11:30 or so,
they played OLD school goth. I mean, pre-Sisters Of Mercy stuff. Back when
goth was just emerging from punk and post-punk. Back before the Sisters turned goth rock into
a load of guitar-and-drum-machine bands and fucked up everything for
everyone ... We danced our little socks off. As in, "will the bastard
start sucking any time soon? I'm dyin' here!"
By 11:30pm it was turning into crappy nu-mettul, and when Marilyn Manson came on Fiona decided it was time to end the night on a high note and Tube home. Of course, when she saw the setlist, she wished she'd stayed ...
The place filled up nicely, and the bar staff say they rented a lot of beer.
Harassed mercilessly with the camera were cyberpunkgrrl,
untermensch,
corsetboy,
perverse_idol (report),
crystalfayre,
sheridanwilde,
zeke_hubris (report),
gothstevek,
silverfiligree (report),
djpsyche and
sx23, Louise who I think doesn't actually have an LJ ...
Cigarettes: trad-goth glowsticks.
Handy hint for incredibly quick bar service at Gossips: tip. A pound coin on each round does the trick nicely. Saves so much valuable time on a serious night's beer rental.
Some biker-looking guy made a point of telling me I looked like Biff Bifford. Bah!
I will never have a gym membership. So I just need to go out dancing three or four nights a week. Of course.
The next D&B is unfortunately up against B-Movie. They know this and know they may be fucked. But the club should have the third Friday each month thereafter. Let's hope they survive February's.
Tonight: Looks like I'm Sliming. Still a bit trashed from last night, but hey. You?
Update: Two pics up now,
as prosecution evidence in the case of "perverse_idol and
corsetboy: Cute or What?"