Thursday, November 18, 2010

UNDERWORLD:
THE GREAT NIGHTMARE BEFORE THANKSGIVING III

Deep within the Night time Rushes
Feel the quickening pace of Fear,  Taste the copper scent of Blood, See The flicker of Mortality and The Gobbles of woe and gone!

Wednesday November 24

DJS
Templar
Bride of Wire
V-Christ

Our Dark Turkey Lords:
Xris Smack (Stimulate, Smack))
Michael T (Oh You Pretty Young Things)
CYN (Salvation, Red Party)

SPINNING THE BEST DAMN
DARK DANCE • ELECTRONIC • GOTH • POSTPUNK
ALL NIGHT LONG!

Mega Drink Specials and treats All Night!!!

Large Dance floor & Bar
Mad Drink Specials
Beautiful space
Video Nastys
Friendly Staff
Private Lounges on the Upper deck
Remember 2 for 1 Drinks from 10 -11

Host: Francine
Door Goddess: Madam M

Sullivan Room
218 Sullivan St
between Bleecker & W3rd

$8w/pass $10w/o
Doors 10pm - 4am
Quality over Cruelity

Our Official Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNDERWORLD/168459689763?ref=ts


A trick of wrists

This my weary gait shall we shuffle through
standing stagger driven  and wrecked clear
much is needed to make this work
servant or sacrifice to this end I must twist
to what wonder wretched speak, then speak

waxen and held precious a form uniformed
starved for real food and divinity
I will refuse to cast a shadow here
No more art for we are all artists now
No more God for we are all Gods now
Zenith high a Tower stands

Tinder be the thrones of old
So child bow your head and humbly blind thyself
then rise proud fool and praise the still womb
If it burns then let us sing of its ash
And we the plastic scions of Babel to this we reel

The shoulder broken and atlas dosed
Sifting through the blood of nighttime follies
to many cigarettes bring the silence that whiskey can only comprehend
So we can sink and still say we swam, for the glory of nothing
we will cast nothing into the world, yet we shall cast it all
explain for what matters most matter rots

Without kindness we sing of nothing but sound
we do not breath nor allow our self the fear of self
Zero breeds zero from the first kiss to the scalpel prime
A tower to high topples wholly and let its bones be a monument to our new age
spread wide we will all pay for the same transgressions as the first

Joy now and everyone is an artist
Joy now we are all Abortionist
And with eyes blackened by the whole
nerves like tinsel glass and a frame wrecked by humanity
let us ascend victorious on wings of invisible worth

So crash and debris obvious yet still
with tactile and fine words, what greater erections do we aspire
Grand napalm skies dried bitter to the cusp of ego
nothing sifted clean
all is mirror bleached and we are all Human now

Vomit out the life only lived inside
En masse to no mass, A temple to self sustaining guile
We will be joined at the wrist fastened by snakes
pervert our own and leave a depth so malign
focus now wanton and seized

As our ancestors sit writhing and apoplectic
We shall show no care or dwell in a state of grace
Yours will be a garden of roses, lest to outsiders a nest of wasps
Burden, no burden a lift of self to know self
Slender is the hammer until it is met.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Good Bye You Bastard!

The Bank was the most important club of my waning youth. I mean there were others don't get me wrong. There was Limelight and there was The Building. But The Bank fit me like a glove and that glove was leather and it was tight. It was at the right time and the right place. LES and proud.

I Never got to DJ at the Bank and that was lucky for me (and probably those who attended as well). Instead I got to experience the Realm or Exedor first hand.
Me and my crew would stumble in around 1am after drinking down the bar across the street (RIP Spiral) and live up the remaining hours getting even more viking like chugging down drinks by The Blue Medusa Jean and the evil bastard Gerard while dancing to The Sisters, The Cure, Depeche or yes even Fictional. Come to think of it I have heard alot of songs for the first time at The Bank. Waking up many times with that dread of 'What the hell did I do last night' that would be followed by a devilish smile. Capricious youth indeed!

What alot of people don't know are all the really good people who made it happen. They weren't the stereotypical seedy promoters. They were nerds, outcasts and British. You had the top DJS like Ian Fford, Xian, Hellraver, Father Jeff, Patrick, Ash in the Crypt! Even some angry long hair named Cyn I believe made his debut there. I bring this up because the ingredients were so fine and precious. All the same it tasted great. All that Industrial, All That EBM (wtf was EBM) and Goth (lots and lots of Goth) oh and synthpop for all you girls :)

I met alot alot of friends there. Friends who still to this day believe it or not still want to be friends with me for some reason. Also a little know factoid - I met Mandana there 12 years ago!!! So its safe to say that the bank gave and gave.

All good things come to an end, and that's fine. It allows new people room to make their own beginnings on their own turf. And that's the way it should be. So the Bank got sold, it got turned into a hip-hop club, and when that inevitably failed even a strip club. But in its near demolished heart it was made for us and us alone.

The Proof was with 2 very special and yes I will even say it 'magical' nights. These 2 reunions proved that I was not the only one with blurry fond memories. I have seen friends who moved states away come back because they were compelled. Lightning in a bottle kittens. But I never saw The Bank as something that ever went fully away. Albion(Where I stumble in) which started at The Bank, moved to Rebel and enjoyed even greater success and is a cause for even further woolgrazing and praise.

Sunday November 21st. I will with all humility be spinning some music at the final ever Bank party. The Building is being torn down, but not its memories those cant be killed. (as much as I wish some could). I really cant put emphasis on this matter. For what little scene we have here in the Great State of New York, We threw some pretty spectacular shindigs. This Party is going to be one of them.

Mad Love and Praise go to all whoever worked at The Bank, you serviced us all so well


Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Underworld Wednesday November 10



THE UNDERWORLD BASH!

Wednesday November 10
DJS
Templar
Bride of Wire
V-Christ

Special Guest
Dj Avi!

SPINNING THE BEST DAMN
DARK DANCE • ELECTRONIC • EBM • GOTH • POSTPUNK
ALL NIGHT LONG!

GIVEAWAYS for STIMULATE Nov 20th w/DAS ICH, MANUFACTURA & CENOTYPE http://STIMULATE-ME.com/

Plus A Birthday Celebration for Underworlds Favorite Scuba Instructor 
(Please Dont let me be eaten by a Shark)

•••SCUBA JOE•••

Large Dance floor & Bar
Mad Drink Specials
Beautiful space
Video Nastys
Friendly Staff
Private Lounges on the Upper deck
Remember 2 for 1 Drinks from 10 -11

Host: Francine
Door Goddess: Madam M

Sullivan Room
218 Sullivan St
between Bleecker & W3rd

$5w/pass $7w/o

Our Official Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNDERWORLD/168459689763?ref=ts

Quality over Cruelty