Something Else
Aug. 13th, 2004 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darren_strangerGrrlock posted about this event happening in Perth, which seems to combine a rave party with roleplaying, LAN gaming and a cybergoth theme: http://www.outbreed.org/linked/DIposterweb.jpg
While that's immensely Not My Thing, the novelty of the idea, and a misinterpretation of something patchworkkid was saying, got me thinking about special events in general, and possible alternatives to the 'same thing different week' cycle of clubs.
There's always been 'special events' going on, in fact you can't have a public holiday in Melbourne without two or three popping up to jostle for your attention. But they still usually end up just another club in a different venue or with different DJs. Perhaps some of the Cyberball type things have come close to breaking the mould, but there seems to rarely be anything that has a consistent theme running through it. Something that covers everything from the music to the dress code to the decorations to the sideshows, with things like dresscode discounts to bribe people into getting in the spirit - eg if it was, say, a pirate night, the music would be all or mostly piratey, the place would be done up like a pirate ship, you'd have pirate movies playing, games of (ummm.. whatever's a piratey game) and you'd get in half price for being dressed in pirate style - that sort of thing.
This Lychnobyte thing sounds like the closest, though it's not quite my cup of saki (i have a passing interest in anime and Japanese fads but not enough to counter my EBM phobia), but i can think of a lot of themes that would be my kind of thing. Admittedly, the themes that come to my mind are the sorts of things i'm into anyway, like a '50s b-grade horror theme (50s/horror dresscode and decor, psychobilly and deathrock music, b-grade films, maybe even held at a bowling alley or something) or a swing/noir thing (gangster dresscode, jazzy music, cabaret singer, crap games and poker, maybe a mini-casino, though all with a goth flavour) and so on, but if there were themes that appealed to enough people..
i guess that's the cue to a poll of sorts - what kind of theme would get your interest?
While that's immensely Not My Thing, the novelty of the idea, and a misinterpretation of something patchworkkid was saying, got me thinking about special events in general, and possible alternatives to the 'same thing different week' cycle of clubs.
There's always been 'special events' going on, in fact you can't have a public holiday in Melbourne without two or three popping up to jostle for your attention. But they still usually end up just another club in a different venue or with different DJs. Perhaps some of the Cyberball type things have come close to breaking the mould, but there seems to rarely be anything that has a consistent theme running through it. Something that covers everything from the music to the dress code to the decorations to the sideshows, with things like dresscode discounts to bribe people into getting in the spirit - eg if it was, say, a pirate night, the music would be all or mostly piratey, the place would be done up like a pirate ship, you'd have pirate movies playing, games of (ummm.. whatever's a piratey game) and you'd get in half price for being dressed in pirate style - that sort of thing.
This Lychnobyte thing sounds like the closest, though it's not quite my cup of saki (i have a passing interest in anime and Japanese fads but not enough to counter my EBM phobia), but i can think of a lot of themes that would be my kind of thing. Admittedly, the themes that come to my mind are the sorts of things i'm into anyway, like a '50s b-grade horror theme (50s/horror dresscode and decor, psychobilly and deathrock music, b-grade films, maybe even held at a bowling alley or something) or a swing/noir thing (gangster dresscode, jazzy music, cabaret singer, crap games and poker, maybe a mini-casino, though all with a goth flavour) and so on, but if there were themes that appealed to enough people..
i guess that's the cue to a poll of sorts - what kind of theme would get your interest?
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Date: 2004-08-13 05:59 am (UTC)I like to have the theme with music stuck to a bit more as well to make it a real different even.. other wise yeah its just the club but with a different flyer
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Date: 2004-08-13 06:40 am (UTC)Sometimes it's the crowd too - i've lost count of the number of times we've been close to the only ones to get dressed up for a theme. i remember one Halloween party at Psychonaut, they'd gone to lots of effort and dressed the place up all halloweeny and tacky, but there were only about three people we spotted (including us) who even bothered to wear anything other than what they'd normally wear (probably figured goth = halloweeny enough so come as you are). Still, we did win a showbag full of Redresser stuff for our effort, so it wasn't all bad. :)