hi i’m (f19) located in an area where there’s literally no goth nights/clubs/events at all and i really want to go to one. the closest one that i’ve heard about are hours away and it’s not that frequent so that’s just not an option for me. i was watching one of my favorite youtubers and she said something along the lines of “if there’s no goth nights near you, consider just making your own.” and i was like “yeah let’s do it.” i asked some of my other alternative friends (metal heads,grunge,emo,etc) if they’d be interested and they’re down too. i guess it’ll just be more of an alternative party now since everyone has their own niche. anyways enough rambling, i don’t know how to go about this. i can’t have it at my house and i’m pretty sure they can’t have it at theirs. i don’t have enough money to rent out a space and it’s too cold to have it outside at like a park or something. i’m also very shy i’ve always just kept to myself growing up although i really did want more friends, i’m nervous that people would say that they’d show up and then it’s only me and my best friend there (that’s happened to me before). the people i invited it’s like we talk every now and then but that’s really all yk ? i’m feeling quite discouraged idk what to do i’ve never done this before. i’m working on the playlist and atm it’s mostly goth songs that i like, but now i’m worried that everyone else won’t like it and then they won’t dance. i’m so confused 😭 i apologize for this being all over the place i just- yeah.

TLDR: i don’t have a place to have the party, i’m not sure if anyone would come, and i’m not sure if they’d like the music. i’m very confused and conflicted.

“Desire somewhere inside me Is so close and so far anyway It makes me see in white and black This fucking endless movie I call life”

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The sinister return of The Long Losts. Saturday at The Red Party!

As the title states 🙂

I started listening to a "goth essentials" playlist last year b/c I've always been interested but had no idea where to start really, and among others Rosegarden really burrowed into my brain so if anyone has suggestions based on that I would love to hear them.

Dark greetings of the damned morning,

Too Long; Please Stop Being So Verbose

In short, I'd like to host a goth event at my place around WGD (22nd May, a monday sadly so I'm thinking celebrating on the 20th instead). The event would entail introducing some of my closer friends to the general vibe of both the music and other famous media via a dinner, a movie and then dancing/listening to music.

The Victims:

My friends/closer acquaintances are typically involved in some proximity to the local poetry slam scene, and one even listens to The Cure already, so that's fun. We're all artists of some shade, so I don't think dedicating a night to appreciating this subculture would go to waste. Also helps that we are generally a queer bunch living in a rural locale so there's already that element of outsider-ness running through our daily lives. Most of us are bilingual (EN/FR).

The Scene:

As far as I'm aware, there is no scene around here (and "here" as in "middle of buttfuck nowhere, Quebec, Canada"). Maybe a few individual "alt" people here and there, but none that I've encountered using the goth label personally. Boo.

I'm hosting at my place. It's a standalone house, and I did a speaker test the other day and I don't think noise will be much of an issue… hopefully.

The Crimes:

As mentioned above, I'm thinking a meal/movie/dance. Contents of the meal would be potluck/my cooking (this cannot go wrong), and as for the movie I was thinking Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi (for obvious reasons), but I'm open to changing this choice as I (regrettably) haven't watched it yet myself. A runner-up I considered was Metropolis (1927) but it has twice the runtime and is less directly relevant to the community.

I've begun a playlist some time ago of everything that might be interesting to play, and I'd like to put more thought into organising what goes in which order– by this I mean that I'm used to curating playlists of about an hour centred around a given thematic, and I was thinking of applying the same concept of thematic hours throughout the night, like subtly going through a musical odyssey of the goth subculture. I'd think we can organise this into roughly four thematics to start with, or each of the complete decades of music (80s, 90s, 00s, 10s). Open for recs of things to get people moving/chatting. Bonus points if there's franco-Canadian stuff in there (already love the 39 Steps, actually have them on vinyl) because my knowledge in this area is seriously lacking.

The Letter of Confession:

So my initial "in" to this group of friends was actually zine-making, then it spread to poetry, and the rest is history. As a result, I'd like to completely overextend myself and make a little invitation zine thing outlining the who/what/where/etc. Graphic design is my passion job, actually– for what little work it brings in, but that's a story for another day– so the actual layout of the thing is something I can handle, as well as maybe making a doodle or two to spice it up. I suppose I'm wondering if making a little physical invite to this damned thing is worth it or not, and why the answer is yes.

Just looking for validation in this section, don't mind me.

The Perpetrator:

Hi, I'm Mera. Baby bat of like 2-3 years by this point. My Spotify metrics are horrifying. They/she.

I have some experience in hosting events, but it's all pre-Plague so assume I know nothing. I've been reading what I can find on the Internet to help me out (see this series of articles which for now has a bigger net than what I'm trying to achieve), and since there's not really an established scene I'm essentially wondering if there's any best practices/things to watch out for when planning this sort of event.

Thanks for your input in advance!