Gothing it up
Jun. 3rd, 2013 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyEee! Last night, I finally made one of the Salon Noir events, which is an evening of cabaret and gothy awesomeness. It was apparently the right one to start off with because it featured the Sex Gang Children playing their first Toronto gig in 30 years. (As precocious a darkling as I was, I was not quite cool enough to hit up their show when I was 4.)
So the deal with Salon Noir is that it's held at a lovely venue, there's a strict dress code (hilariously reminiscent of the dress code at the Sanctuary Vampire Sex Bar, where I misspent much of my adolescence sneaking in underage), and everything and everyone is dazzlingly pretty. So, tamales and red wine and goth music and hangouts with friends old and new. I hadn't heard of the opening act, Scarlet Fever, but they were quite good. Amusingly, their singer looks exactly like Viserys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, but is a much nicer person. They were followed by DJ Uriel, spinning all of the songs that I like, two burlesque acts, including the drop-dead gorgeous Coco Framboise, and a sideshow act. Sex Gang Children were actually more awesome than I might have imagined—incredible stage presence and energy, and their new album is quite impressive.
I regret that I don't have photos to post, but I got the most awesome compliment on my outfit ever from a drunk girl who mistook me for one of the burlesque dancers. Heh.
And speaking of Sanctuary, I ran into Lance, the former proprietor of said establishment, who back in the day was kind enough to turn a blind eye to my underage ass sneaking into his club every weekend. He's a mortician now. I was vastly amused.
So yeah, that was a blast. And thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_axel for finally dragging me out to one of these events, given that for a year and a half I keep saying Maybe to them on FB and then not managing to get tickets.
So the deal with Salon Noir is that it's held at a lovely venue, there's a strict dress code (hilariously reminiscent of the dress code at the Sanctuary Vampire Sex Bar, where I misspent much of my adolescence sneaking in underage), and everything and everyone is dazzlingly pretty. So, tamales and red wine and goth music and hangouts with friends old and new. I hadn't heard of the opening act, Scarlet Fever, but they were quite good. Amusingly, their singer looks exactly like Viserys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, but is a much nicer person. They were followed by DJ Uriel, spinning all of the songs that I like, two burlesque acts, including the drop-dead gorgeous Coco Framboise, and a sideshow act. Sex Gang Children were actually more awesome than I might have imagined—incredible stage presence and energy, and their new album is quite impressive.
I regret that I don't have photos to post, but I got the most awesome compliment on my outfit ever from a drunk girl who mistook me for one of the burlesque dancers. Heh.
And speaking of Sanctuary, I ran into Lance, the former proprietor of said establishment, who back in the day was kind enough to turn a blind eye to my underage ass sneaking into his club every weekend. He's a mortician now. I was vastly amused.
So yeah, that was a blast. And thanks to
the_axel for finally dragging me out to one of these events, given that for a year and a half I keep saying Maybe to them on FB and then not managing to get tickets.
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Date: 2013-06-03 03:09 pm (UTC)He seems very happy. I'm glad.
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Date: 2013-06-03 10:15 pm (UTC)You know, even if we haven't been LJ friends for all that long, it's vanishingly unlikely we haven't been in the same room at the same time at some point in our lives -- if not at Sanctuary, then at one of the *cough*many*cough* Skinny Puppy shows I attended, or the other millions of places I used to go to see bands (the Rivoli? RPM? the Lizard Lounge?). I don't miss Toronto all that much (especially lately, har har) but your posts give me a lot of nostalgia for my old nightclubbing days. I'm a little older than you but not so much so that we missed each other entirely, I bet.
I went to see Jarboe at the Salon a couple of years ago, and you're right, that venue is a good time.
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Date: 2013-06-04 01:28 pm (UTC)In 1986, I was 7, so not into them yet. :) I heard them for the first time in—well, probably '92, on that same life-altering MuchMusic special where I first heard Neubauten and Ministry (and NIN, but my 13-year-old music snob recognized that the other three bands were much better). But then Dwayne Goettel died and they broke up before I could see them play, and I was full of the sads because yet another band whose music affected me in powerful ways and I'd just missed seeing them.
And then they got back together and they actually tour and stuff and remain one of those bands that I will drop whatever else I'm doing and go see every time they're in Toronto.
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Date: 2013-06-05 02:11 am (UTC)I used to stay up late to listen to Beyond The Gates of Hell. I loved how he played up the cheesiness of it all while playing really awesome music.
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