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05/22/2013 - Hanzel und Gretyl at DNA Lounge (San Francisco)
It's time to fich dich mit fire!
The original Iron Star Outlaws are hitting the DNA in support of their "Born to Be Heiled" tour, bringing to you their unique blend of pseudo-Neue Deutsche Härte industrial metal.
Are you ready to get more German than German?
Accompanying act is Slave Unit.
Doors open at 7:30. Show starts at 8.
$10 + fees in advance. $13 at the door.
The original Iron Star Outlaws are hitting the DNA in support of their "Born to Be Heiled" tour, bringing to you their unique blend of pseudo-Neue Deutsche Härte industrial metal.
Are you ready to get more German than German?
Accompanying act is Slave Unit.
Doors open at 7:30. Show starts at 8.
$10 + fees in advance. $13 at the door.
05/23/2013 - Unwoman and Victoria & the Vaudevillains at DNA Lounge (San Francisco)
An evening of decadent demoiselles at the DNA!
Unwoman celebrates the release of her latest CD, accompanied by Victoria & the Vaudevillains and the Blah Boutique.
Come out for an evening of elegant entertainment and cabaret cacophony!
Doors open at 8 and the show kicks off at 8:30.
Tickets are $8+fees in advance or $12 at the door.
Unwoman celebrates the release of her latest CD, accompanied by Victoria & the Vaudevillains and the Blah Boutique.
Come out for an evening of elegant entertainment and cabaret cacophony!
Doors open at 8 and the show kicks off at 8:30.
Tickets are $8+fees in advance or $12 at the door.
05/24-26/2013 - Vespertine Circus' "Important Business" at Creativity Theater (SF)
Those amazing performers and mad vaudevillians, the Vespertine Circus, are hitting San Francisco again with their latest show: "Important Business".
Devilish daredevilry, scintillating stunts, and madcap mayhem are like to abound!
Both evening and matinee shows are promised! Specific times and details to be released!
Devilish daredevilry, scintillating stunts, and madcap mayhem are like to abound!
Both evening and matinee shows are promised! Specific times and details to be released!
05/24-27/2013 - Clockwork Alchemy at FanimeCon at the San Jose Convention Center
Want to spend a weekend getting your Steampunk on? Clockwork Alchemy is the place to be!
A co-con of FanimeCon, both events will be taking place at the San Jose Convention Center!
Artist galleries, Bartitsu demonstrations, dancing, music by the vaudevillian robots of Steam Powered Giraffe, and so much more!
Registration prices can be found here.
A co-con of FanimeCon, both events will be taking place at the San Jose Convention Center!
Artist galleries, Bartitsu demonstrations, dancing, music by the vaudevillian robots of Steam Powered Giraffe, and so much more!
Registration prices can be found here.
05/26/2013 - May Gothnic at Woodlawn Cemetery (Colma)
Bring food, drink, your eyeliner, and maybe a parasol or large umbrella for one of those rare daytime outings of the undead. We all know what an evil thing sunlight is.
Join your fellow darklings at a pleasant outing to the corpse-fields!
Starts around 1 p.m. and goes until 6.
Join your fellow darklings at a pleasant outing to the corpse-fields!
Starts around 1 p.m. and goes until 6.
05/31/2013 - Shadow Society at DNA Lounge (San Francisco)
Vernian Process, Roadside Memorial, Sorrow Church, and Michi0n perform at the DNA for Shadow Society -- giving you a mix of steampunk, goth-rock, industrial, and ethereal music to dance to.
It's like getting four flavors of evil ice cream in the same bowl!
Accompanied by DJs Fact.50 and C_Death.
Door sat 8. Show at 8:30.
$6 at the door.
It's like getting four flavors of evil ice cream in the same bowl!
Accompanied by DJs Fact.50 and C_Death.
Door sat 8. Show at 8:30.
$6 at the door.
06/01/2013 - PEERS The Doctor Dances Ball at San Mateo Masonic Hall
1940s London. The Americans have just joined the war and have sent over swing maestro Lee Presson & the Nails to raise our spirits!
There also seems to be a mysterious Doctor and a Captain Jack Something-or-other milling about. Are they Nazi spies? Or are they pursuing some other agenda?
Dance lessons from 7 to 8. Ball gets into full swing (get it?) from 8 to midnight.
$15 in advance. $20 at the door.
There also seems to be a mysterious Doctor and a Captain Jack Something-or-other milling about. Are they Nazi spies? Or are they pursuing some other agenda?
Dance lessons from 7 to 8. Ball gets into full swing (get it?) from 8 to midnight.
$15 in advance. $20 at the door.
06/04/2013 - Fear Factory at the DNA Lounge (San Francisco)
A night of industrial-gothic heavy metal, featuring:
Fear Factory
Hate Eternal
Kobra and the Lotus
Plus other guests to be announced!
Doors open at 7. Show starts at 7:30.
$20+fees in advance. $25 at the door.
Fear Factory
Hate Eternal
Kobra and the Lotus
Plus other guests to be announced!
Doors open at 7. Show starts at 7:30.
$20+fees in advance. $25 at the door.
06/10/2013 - Nekromantix at Slim's (San Francisco)
Danish Psychobilly band, the Nekromantix, will be playing at Slim's.
No word of accompanying acts, as yet.
Doors open at 7. Show starts at 8.
Tickets are $15+fees in advance and $17 at the door. Or $39.95+fees in advance for dinner and show.
No word of accompanying acts, as yet.
Doors open at 7. Show starts at 8.
Tickets are $15+fees in advance and $17 at the door. Or $39.95+fees in advance for dinner and show.
06/15/2013 - Club Nocturne at the Prop Box Studio (Oakland)
Nocturne returns!
Classic goth, deathrock, post-punk, and new wave, spun by resident DJ Burning Skies and guest Dire Delorean!
With a special, midnight performance by that diva of dark dance herself: Ariellah!
No cover to get in!
Ages 18+ !
Classic goth, deathrock, post-punk, and new wave, spun by resident DJ Burning Skies and guest Dire Delorean!
With a special, midnight performance by that diva of dark dance herself: Ariellah!
No cover to get in!
Ages 18+ !
06/15-16/2013 - Northern California Pirate Festival at Vallejo Waterfront!
The Pirate Festival enters its 7th year!
The largest pirate-themed festival in the United States and featuring actors and vendors from across Northern California (and further abroad), come down to wench and plunder and pillage, me hearties!
Tickets for adults are $10 at the gate (children 11 and under are free) this year to help cover improvements to the festival in the coming years!
If you want to help them out some more, support the Kickstarter before April 30th!
The largest pirate-themed festival in the United States and featuring actors and vendors from across Northern California (and further abroad), come down to wench and plunder and pillage, me hearties!
Tickets for adults are $10 at the gate (children 11 and under are free) this year to help cover improvements to the festival in the coming years!
If you want to help them out some more, support the Kickstarter before April 30th!
06/16/2013 - Project Pitchfork and Ayria at DNA Lounge (San Francisco)
Covering over 20 years of intense electro-industrial, Project Pitchfork returns!
Accompanied by future-pop diva Ayria!
Tickets run $15+fees in advance and $20 at the door.
Doors open at 8 p.m. Show is set to kick off around 9!
This is an ALL AGES event!
Accompanied by future-pop diva Ayria!
Tickets run $15+fees in advance and $20 at the door.
Doors open at 8 p.m. Show is set to kick off around 9!
This is an ALL AGES event!
07/12/2013 - Club Solace at the Prop Box Studio (Oakland)
Mr. M's favorite gothic salon/club strikes again!
This night rejoins core Solace DJs Persephone and Darkmoon for a night of gothic and ambient music, polite conversation, excellent company, diverting dancing, lovely cocktails, and probably some tasty treat or other.
As always, gothic dress code is enforced: no jeans or sneakers allowed within these hallowed halls!
This night rejoins core Solace DJs Persephone and Darkmoon for a night of gothic and ambient music, polite conversation, excellent company, diverting dancing, lovely cocktails, and probably some tasty treat or other.
As always, gothic dress code is enforced: no jeans or sneakers allowed within these hallowed halls!
07/27-28/2013 - Steamstock at the Craneway Pavilion (Richmond)
The second installment of last years positively AMAZING Steamstock strikes once again at the old Ford Motor Factory that is now the Craneway Pavilion! This time FOR TWO DAYS!!!!
Vendors galore, along with performances by: Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer (Straight out of Surrey, UK), Frenchy and the Punk, Psyche Corp, This Way to the Egress, Good Co, The Cog is Dead, Unextraordinary Gentlemen, Poplock Holmes, 5 Cent Coffee, Vagabondage, Brass Farthing, Victoria and the Vaudevillains, Hobo Goblins, Parlor Tricks, and many more!!!
Ticket prices not yet announced.
Vendors galore, along with performances by: Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer (Straight out of Surrey, UK), Frenchy and the Punk, Psyche Corp, This Way to the Egress, Good Co, The Cog is Dead, Unextraordinary Gentlemen, Poplock Holmes, 5 Cent Coffee, Vagabondage, Brass Farthing, Victoria and the Vaudevillains, Hobo Goblins, Parlor Tricks, and many more!!!
Ticket prices not yet announced.
07/30/2013 - Dym and Fractured at Elbo Room (San Francisco)
Industrial acts Dym and Fractured will be playing the Elbo Room as part of their "B.E.A.T. Crusher" tour, accompanied by DJ Starr.
No details yet on ticket prices or showtimes.
No details yet on ticket prices or showtimes.
08/02/2013 - PEERS Pre-Raphaelite Artists' Picnic and Dance at Lincoln Park (Alameda)
A lovely afternoon in the park, eating, sketching, and dancing.
Music provided by Bangers & Mash!
It's a BYOF luncheon that starts at 11 a.m. with music and dancing running from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is free. All you have to do is dress up and show up!
Music provided by Bangers & Mash!
It's a BYOF luncheon that starts at 11 a.m. with music and dancing running from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is free. All you have to do is dress up and show up!
08/05/2013 - PEERS Steampunktoberfest Ball at San Mateo Masonic Hall
Come to a Victorian age that never was! Where great and awful things are done all in the name of SCIENCE!!!!
With music provided by the amazing Bangers & Mash!
Lessons from 7 to 8. Dancing from 8 to midnight.
$15 in advance. $20 at the door.
With music provided by the amazing Bangers & Mash!
Lessons from 7 to 8. Dancing from 8 to midnight.
$15 in advance. $20 at the door.
09/07/2013 - PEERS Empress of India Ball at San Mateo Masonic Hall
An evening in the British Raj during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Waltzing, mazurkas, and set dances for all with music provided by Bangers & Mash!
Lessons from 7 to 8. Dancing from 8 to midnight.
$15 in advance. $20 at the door.
Waltzing, mazurkas, and set dances for all with music provided by Bangers & Mash!
Lessons from 7 to 8. Dancing from 8 to midnight.
$15 in advance. $20 at the door.
09/13/2013 - The Mission UK at Regency Ballroom (San Francisco)
Classic British goth rockers the Mission UK will be hitting SF in September on their "Keeping the Faith" tour.
Spun off from Sisters of Mercy in the mid-80s, the band is hitting the road one more time.
No word on other acts at this time.
Doors open at 8. Show starts at 9.
Tickets start at $29.50 (plus fees) and go up to $43 (plus fees).
This is an all-ages event!
Spun off from Sisters of Mercy in the mid-80s, the band is hitting the road one more time.
No word on other acts at this time.
Doors open at 8. Show starts at 9.
Tickets start at $29.50 (plus fees) and go up to $43 (plus fees).
This is an all-ages event!
09/26/2013 - Depeche Mode and Crystal Castles at Shoreline (Mountain View)
Find your own personal Jesus... and take them with you to see Depeche Mode in September!
Accompanied by electro-experimentalists Crystal Castles.
Show starts at around 7:30 p.m.
Tickets range from $35.50 to $129.50 (plus associated online fees).
Accompanied by electro-experimentalists Crystal Castles.
Show starts at around 7:30 p.m.
Tickets range from $35.50 to $129.50 (plus associated online fees).
11/02/2013 - Le Bal des Vampires at the Alameda Elks Lodge
PEERS annual Night of the living Undead.
Contredances, waltzes, and mazurkas upstairs in the ballroom accompanied by Bangers & Mash; with modern dark music of the night downstairs at the Nightfall Club spun by DJs Dark Moon and Persephone.
Come dressed as your favorite immortal from whatever age of history you were "reborn to darkness" in.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m, along with the Nightfall Club downstairs.
Dancing lessons begin at 7 p.m. upstairs with formal dancing starting up around 7:45 p.m. and going until the Witching Hour.
Unlike most PEERS events, tickets to le Bal des Vampires must be bought in advance. No tickets will be available at the door.
If you get them before September, tickets run around $20, but range up to $30 the later you wait. So, immortal or not, don't wait around too long.
Contredances, waltzes, and mazurkas upstairs in the ballroom accompanied by Bangers & Mash; with modern dark music of the night downstairs at the Nightfall Club spun by DJs Dark Moon and Persephone.
Come dressed as your favorite immortal from whatever age of history you were "reborn to darkness" in.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m, along with the Nightfall Club downstairs.
Dancing lessons begin at 7 p.m. upstairs with formal dancing starting up around 7:45 p.m. and going until the Witching Hour.
Unlike most PEERS events, tickets to le Bal des Vampires must be bought in advance. No tickets will be available at the door.
If you get them before September, tickets run around $20, but range up to $30 the later you wait. So, immortal or not, don't wait around too long.
