Teen Gothic

It being Event Tuesday I thought I’d do a post about my night! I host Dark Wave Dance Cave here in Cleveland along with my co-host Mimi Dromette. Post covid we wanted to do something different from the gothic-industrial nights, so we created a night that was a mix of modern darkwave with new wave, synthpop, goth, and post-punk. We do lots of themed events, too, like World Goth Day and Discothèque Gothique, and Mimi designs a unique flyer every month. We always bring decorations to fit the theme and lots of lights – we turn The Winchester into a goth club for the night!

We’ve been lucky to have great crowds and a supportive venue – our regular nights usually attract over 300 patrons. It’s a diverse crowd… lots of goths, but also people from the LGBTQ community and other alt folk, too. So if you’re in Cleveland, passing through, or within road trip distance you should come check us out! The best way to keep up with us and learn more is our Instagram, and we put our setlists on Spotify (they vary a lot by event theme).

Our next event is this coming Saturday. There are also other fun Cleveland events like Nocturnal, I put together a guide to Cleveland events to help people keep track of things.

I’ve seen posts/comments that divide them for example, “goth and darkwave” “goth and deathrock”, I thought they were all together considered goth music?

It just gets frustrating when you’ve listened to a lot of the genres, find a song you think is goth and someone says “no that’s post punk” “no that’s darkwave” are those.. not all goth?

I absolutely cannot wait for La Bande Son Imaginaire, Lux Interna…

For me, it’s definitely the Second Wave. I just love bands that mix the goth sound with rock, especially hard rock. I wish we had more modern bands following this path.