Sunday Nights at Sudsy's

I aim to go out to places called 'SUDSY MALONE's' to goth out in.

For that to be an intelligent assessment, I guess you would have to have been there before.

We don't have all goth clubs down here, we have goth nights at various clubs - the name of the establishment has no bearing on the night itself, just whether or not they are willing to host it, and put the necessary work towards making it decent.

Not that I expect much from Cincinatti.

Well, we have had small venues with weird names have some pretty damned good nights, though years ago, and huge venues with nifty names advertise 'gothic' music and play nothing but synthpop crap (for examples, please see about half your LJ interests), but being that Ohioans make up for a very good number of the active gothic bands Ohio, as well as the fanbase - Ohio tends to be a pretty decent place for gothic-format nights.

Though we do not typically have the huge budgets and lots of people with a heavy amount of misplaced and unjustified snootyness, we do pretty well with devoted people and avid artists.

... And not only can we spell 'Cincinnati', but New York City as well!

I believe the Wake was from Ohio, around your parts. They were a good band.. I liked hanging out with them when the came to NYC when I was a DJ and promoter here.

So what other goth bands are from CINCINNATI?? I cannot recall any goth bands, other than The Wake coming out of Ohio.

I take it you do not like Synthpop.. shame.. a lot of goth bands got inspiration from synthpop bands of the 80s.

Hmmm. snooty... yeah, don't sense any snootiness coming out of you.
Now is this goth as in goth or Marilyn Manson type crap??

Unfortunately, Cincinnati is heavier on the metal - though this means our goth bands are less on the synthpop than most of the hotspots in Ohio - Clevo, Toledo, Columbus, and especially Dayton. Examples being N/A, Crimson Sky Falling, When You Fail, Refraktur, the Vladimirs, but as far synthpop as Hungry Lucy... whereas upper and middle Ohio have the Azoic, Gossamer, ThouShaltNot, etc... and a lot on the industrial edge - NIN, et al.

As for fanbase, there is a good reason Switchblade played this region so often, and Bella Morte and Cruxshadows play so regularly that I typically see them several times a year - Rasputina has been pretty regular about appearances here as well.

I have to admit that my fave bands come from the New York area, Unto Ashes, Scarecrow NY, the Naked and the Dead - and oddly a lot from Indianapolis - with my favorite overall scenes being Baltimore MD, New Orleans, and Seattle.

And Ick... seriously.. Ick on the Marylin Manson.

And I am just coming off as snooty. Really, I am a painter and designer by trade, with some time as a tattoo artist and as a bartender - me ending up as a DJ was sheerly accidental. I just ended up taking control one night when everything fell apart for the former people in charge of the night, crash course in DJing.

I really don't mind the synthpop overall - but we have had so many nights down here bill themselves as "gothic" or "gothic/industrial" and play nothing but New Rock, Synthpop, EBM, and Industrial music - drawing a crowd of ravers, vinyl-clad fetish people, and hot-topic dress-dummies - it has worn on me over the years to the point where I feel physically ill every time a DJ spins DVD Nation (which is several times a night anymore). If someone draws me out for a gothic night, there had damned-well better be some gothic music played, and my main reason for doing this night is to show local DJs how to make the format work.

And I hate hate hate Cincinnati. Everyone here does. Some of us stick around completely because we want to be here to see it when the city destroys itself, some because we want to be a part of that, and some simply because the cost of living offset makes it hard to move the hell out of here. But it is Cincinnati's citizens hatred for the leadership and the conservative right in power... and really that could go for all of Ohio as well, that makes this a breeding ground for dark culture.

And I guess I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it. Go most anywhere in the world and get judged for being an American, andwhere in the Country and the same for being from Ohio, and anywhere in the state and much of the same for being from Cincy.

We spend every day stuck with possibly the most hated, backwards, and stupid people in the world, and have to deal with this sort of crap simply for where we live or where we come from.

The Wake was from Columbus.

totally unrelated but i love your spider icon!

Thanks. Did you know that Warren Ellis has two live journals? mrsleepless and warren_ellis.

i didn't know that! thanks =)

Good luck with your night. I'm in Columbus, so it's a haul for me....