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Glossary for Translating Club Flyers and Posters


This is copied from the "Gothic Royalty" facebook group. I'm sure most of you can relate to this! Take it with a grain of salt. Author unknown, but I love them, whoever they are.

  • "All ages" = as if telling someone's age in
    zombie inspired make up and near dark conditions weren't difficult
    enough already

  • "All night long" = or until 2 a.m. when the
    city's bar closing ordinance kicks in, which ever comes first

  • "Blisspop" = we made up this genre just to
    see if you were paying attention to our flyer

  • "Costume Contest" = be prepared to hear at
    least three different DJs spin "Everyday is Halloween" and
    claim they didn't hear it when the other DJs played it

  • "Dark Alternative" = we have no idea what to
    call half the songs we're going to play tonight

  • "Dark/Fetish attire encouraged" = if you
    pretend to be a goth, we'll pretend to play goth music

  • "Darkwave" = we think this is somehow
    related to goth

  • "Deathrock" (when placed last on the
    list of music genres) = we'll play that song by the Virgin Prunes,
    but you have to listen to 3 hrs. of VNV Nation before we get to it

  • "Deathrock" (when placed first on the
    list of music genres) = we'll play two Rozz-era Christian Death
    songs in a row at some point during the evening

  • "Deathrock/Psychobilly/Horror Punk" = we
    hope you like songs about zombies, dead girlfriends and spooky
    things in the woods enough to listen to 4 hours of them

  • "Deathrock/Punk/Old School
    Goth
    " = we firmly believe the only music worth listening to
    was recorded between 1977 and 1983

  • "Deathrock/EBM" = never draw up a flyer when
    you're high on crack

  • "Deathrock/Metal" - never draw up a flyer
    when you've doing crystal meth for 5 days straight either

  • "Dress code is black" = the people who come
    here don't know enough about Goth to know what to wear so we have to
    remind them

  • "Dress to impress" = the court order
    regarding cameras in the Club was lifted after the lawsuit was
    settled out of court

  • "EBM" = like techno, but with less musical
    ability and more glow sticks.

  • "80's" = we hope you like "Karma
    Chameleon" a lot because we have 13 different versions of it

  • "Electro" = *beep* music

  • "Enjoy our drink specials" = our landlord
    turned off the air conditioning so it gets really hot in here

  • "Ethereal" = we own the entire Cocteau Twins
    back catalog

  • "Experimental" = Synth-punk performed by
    people don't know how to play an instrument, but it sounds classier
    if we call it "Experimental"

  • "Fetish wear encouraged" = lots of *oontz
    oontz* music, latex club wear, and a some guy running around with a
    whip

  • "$5 cover before 10 p.m." = the cops never
    show up to raid the place before 11 p.m.

  • "Free give aways" = we still have lots of
    "Saw II" and "the Hills Have Eyes" posters left
    from last year's give away

  • "Full Bar" = our bar is twice as big as the
    dance floor

  • "Futurepop" = music not good enough to be
    classified as "EBM"

  • "Glam" = in case you thought deathhawks,
    ripped t-shirts and torn fishnets were too modest of a fashion
    statement

  • "Go Go Girls" = our music will sound better
    if you're staring at a half naked chick

  • "Goth" = our DJ knows who Peter Murphy is

  • "Gothic Industrial" = lots of *oontz oontz*
    music, latex club wear, and some girl with big, poofy pigtails
    running around with a couple of glow sticks

  • "Harsh EBM" = when regular EBM isn't awful
    enough

  • "Impressive selection of beer" = just in
    case anyone ever comes to a Goth club to be impressed by the beer,
    we've got you covered

  • "Industrial Decadence" = overweight EBM
    chicks in midriff baring fetishwear

  • "Just off the freeway" = we're located next
    to the abandoned medical waste disposal plant in a section of town
    not patrolled by police

  • "Legendary" = selling my soul for a steady
    club night 23 yrs. ago seemed like such a good idea at the time...

  • "Live Bands" = real musicians aren't
    embarrassed to be seen in our club with our patrons

  • "Mash Ups" = someone got a Mac with Garage
    Band for their birthday, but can't figure out how to use it

  • "New Romantic" = Adam Ant, Duran Duran and,
    ahhh, ummm, errr.... more Adam Ant and Duran Duran

  • "Neofolk" = Der Furher's music, unplugged

  • "No Cover Charge" = our venue is a classic
    dive bar with a decent sound system

  • "Nu Wave" = I'm 2 lazy to spel check my
    flyerz be4 I hand them oot

  • "Old School Punk" = we specialize in mohawks
    and mosh pits

  • "Old School" (genre unspecified) = we bought
    a crate of vinyl at a garage sale

  • "Our DJ brings you the best in..." = our DJ
    will spin whatever his girlfriend left him after they split up

  • "Old School Goth" = our DJ's roommate went
    to school with Peter Murphy

  • "Plenty of available parking" = the
    neighborhood is so bad that no one is else is willing to park on the
    streets here

  • "Powernoise" = we play music so obnoxious
    that even the rivetheads will complain

  • "REAL Alternative" = our DJ interned at KROQ

  • "Remixes" = someone got a Mac with Garage
    Band for their birthday and figured out how to use it

  • "Remodeled" = they painted the walls after
    they were closed down for health code violations

  • "Request Night" = we got off work late and
    didn't have time to come up with a proper setlist

  • "Retro" = Our DJ found a bunch of 80's comps
    at a second hand store and most of them aren't too badly scratched

  • "Smoking Patio" = forget about sneaking in
    through the back exit

  • "Two dance rooms" = our Gothic Industrial
    club plays both kinds of music, gothic and industrial

  • "Underground" = our DJ really likes She
    Wants Revenge

  • "Indie" = Our DJ eventually got burned out
    on She Wants Revenge and is now on an Interpol kick

  • "Vampire" or "Vampiric" =
    douchebag or douchebagic

  • "Vendors" = we have a girl selling
    bat-themed jewelry and spiderweb necklaces at a table next to the
    dance floor

  • "VIP Lounge" = in case the people on the
    dance floor weren't pretentious enough for you

Comments

star child wishes she could fly
First of all life is like that we volunteer our time and sometimes one thinks knowone cares Wrong some do some dont yet in the end what we do in life for others usually comes back in some other way . Life is not a bowl of roses but rather think of life as what we accomplish we know we did it on our own . Sometimes in life today money is so short and its a choice of eating or spending or icbc or walking . Yet all the people at Gothic BC do there best to make there concerts there work or just simple things to help .
Life is like that we make choices good or bad its our own path we choose With life with family with friends or with our dreams and paths . So Anything anyone does there are many who will smile and say yes that was special so put a smile hope that you did what you did and accept the fact that life today is changing everyday . Things are changing fast every day just do your best that is all anyone or anything you wish for to be glad you are alive and well and most of all fly with eyes wide open and heart with your smile and know every day we can give of the heart follow it and be glad we walk breath and make one person aday happy then we know its all worth while
love Starchid see you in the stars .lol

star child wishes she could fly

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