The Goth Floor

[Alexander]

Just wondering but, it seems that the majority of the regular posters here seem to be "upstairs people". Where are all the people that hang out on the one true goth floor? :P

FAO Cyber types: That's the floor you pass on your way up to noisy bleepy land.

[Crash_Dark]

Just wondering but, it seems that the majority of the regular posters here seem to be "upstairs people". Where are all the people that hang out on the one true goth floor? :P

FAO Cyber types: That's the floor you pass on your way up to noisy bleepy land.

Heh, you'll find me on the middle floor (or the trad floor) a fair amount. I used to spend all of my time there, but tend to wander between both floors now I have some 'upstairs' friends....I tend to like a bit of bleepy bloopy sometimes, but I miss my trad stuff if I don't get my fix...

[Rivetmike]

Often have a wander about downstairs chatting to folk and to have a sit down sometimes but most of my "dancing" is done upstairs (unless of course somelone like Francesca is DJing downstairs).

Rivetmike

[snoww_wwhite]

Just wondering but, it seems that the majority of the regular posters here seem to be "upstairs people". Where are all the people that hang out on the one true goth floor? :P

FAO Cyber types: That's the floor you pass on your way up to noisy bleepy land.

i uswed to like trad goth a lot but i guess i have moved on... sometimes when i hear a very underplayed tune i dance even to trad goth (yeah, now i trashed my reputation as hardknock rivet ;) )


though industrial... well i started to like it when it became more electro industrial as i am not a fan of real guitars either ( only a smapled guitar is a good guitar) though there are exeptions.

EBM is alright if its not the usual overplayed shite, which gets tedious if you live in brighton particularly, where the DJ s only ever seem to play the same old songs.

so EEVIL NOIZE it is.. i love it!!! i like othe rmusic styles too but those are rarely played at slimelight and its gotta be a bit sick and twisted :twisted: :twisted: 8O :D :wink:

http://media.hamncheez.com/pictures/boot_up.jpg

[Guy13]

I used to listen to "trad" goth years ago (late 80s to early 90's) whilst I used to listen to earlyish modern-style industrial (Wax Trax bands, FLA etc.). Trad goth music seemed to stagnate a bit (only my opinion) while the Industrial scene grew with the new recording and playing technology as it became available.

I still like a bit of trad goth now & and again, but my enthusiasm for Industrial has far outstripped my liking for goth. I like to hang around for a bit on the trad goth floor when 3 floor specials are on, but the middle 2 and especially the top floor is where I am most likely to be found.

[snoww_wwhite]

I still like a bit of trad goth now & and again, but my enthusiasm for Industrial has far outstripped my liking for goth. I like to hang around for a bit on the trad goth floor when 3 floor specials are on, but the middle 2 and especially the top floor is where I am most likely to be found.

oh and i thought you were a
http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/industrial/ind.jpg

now youre saying youre sometimes a
http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/traditional/trad.jpg

next revelation will be that youa re an ex

http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/80s/80s.jpg

on the other hand, as long as youre not a

http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/rasta/rasta.jpg

or even a

http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/sunshine/sunshine.jpg


cos we all know that sunshine makes silly:

http://www.spreadshirt.de/image.php?type=image&partner_id=8989&product_id=62 0475&img_id=1&size=huge

[Guy13]

I still like a bit of trad goth now & and again, but my enthusiasm for Industrial has far outstripped my liking for goth. I like to hang around for a bit on the trad goth floor when 3 floor specials are on, but the middle 2 and especially the top floor is where I am most likely to be found.

oh and i thought you were a
http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/industrial/ind.jpg

now youre saying youre sometimes a
http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/traditional/trad.jpg

next revelation will be that youa re an ex

http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/80s/80s.jpg

on the other hand, as long as youre not a

http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/rasta/rasta.jpg

or even a

http://jupiter.millikin.edu/~dlackamp/normal/sunshine/sunshine.jpg


cos we all know that sunshine makes silly:

http://www.spreadshirt.de/image.php?type=image&partner_id=8989&product_id=62 0475&img_id=1&size=huge

:x I was actually making a serious point, Snowwy.

[SP]

I like it ALL!! 8)

[Guy13]

FAO Cyber types: That's the floor you pass on your way up to noisy bleepy land.

Oh, you mean antiquated coma-indunction land? :twisted: :wink:

[Blink]

Where are all the people that hang out on the one true goth floor? :P


I flit pretty much between the Topfloor and the Middle floor, but whenever there is a "One true goth floor" I avoid it.

[Alexander]

Well, I shall just add that...

10 years ago I first went to Slimelight, and I was well into my industrial music so I spent all my time on the industrial floor. Then by about 1996 I got back into trad goth which I grew out of 6 years previously or so when I discovered metal.

I reckon most of you will be where I am in another 5-10 years or so; on the trad goth floor, dancing to trad goth, with no glow sticks. It is the one true floor. ;)

[Blink]

Having never even owned a Sisters Of Mercy album, I hope and pray that I never end up like that!!! Although I must confess that glo-sticks have gone by the way in the last year, but I am thinking that is more to do with my abandonning of certain substances.

[Alexander]

Although I must confess that glo-sticks have gone by the way in the last year, but I am thinking that is more to do with my abandonning of certain substances.

You'll find that, all of a sudden, VNV are actually very boring. ;)

[Crash_Dark]

You'll find that, all of a sudden, VNV are actually very boring. ;)

Heh, I suspect that this probably doesn't happen to EVERYONE, Alexander. :wink:

[Blink]

You'll find that, all of a sudden, VNV are actually very boring. ;)

You mean that people think VNV are interesting?

I like some of there stuff, but have never gone as far as to own an album....

come to think of it, I don't really own many albums of anything much!!

[Rivetmike]

You'll find that, all of a sudden, VNV are actually very boring. ;)

Really? ;) Altho' they are often the bands that people discover first then move onto differnt styles of industrial.

Rivetmike

[snoww_wwhite]

You'll find that, all of a sudden, VNV are actually very boring. ;)

Really? ;) Altho' they are often the bands that people discover first then move onto differnt styles of industrial.

Rivetmike

i agree with Mike and i never liked rock or metal or anything too guitar heavy, nto even the early industrial stuff....

.. but i always liked electronic music and i have moved onto the electronic music i didnt like that much in the beginning.. the industrial stuff...

and i suspect that at some point there will be something else.. though i cannot see myself ever going back to trad goth or getting into guitar music

[Noize_Gecko]

I like most stuff but prefer the Noize, hence my name Noize_Gecko :wink:

[DISSMANTLED]

personally i cant imagine life without the joys of guitars. i'd die without nine inch nails and sulpher :cry: nope, cant beat crashy loud guitary industrial stuffy!

[star-gazer]

Just wondering but, it seems that the majority of the regular posters here seem to be "upstairs people". Where are all the people that hang out on the one true goth floor? :P

FAO Cyber types: That's the floor you pass on your way up to noisy bleepy land.
i think i tend to travel between the two floors as its something to do,but you can safely assume now that you will NEVER see me with any glow sticks. 8)

[Dane_Xoth]

Just wondering but, it seems that the majority of the regular posters here seem to be "upstairs people". Where are all the people that hang out on the one true goth floor?


I'm not a 'regular poster' (actually my first post ever) but you'll find me on the 'one true goth floor'
Why?
I consider myself anIndustrial/Goth (Ind=life style Goth = sense of aesthetics), not because of the ratio of Cure/bauhaus :NIN/skinny puppy Cds i own. that being said , i find downstairs the DJ's play sets with a passion for the music.i've noticed theme's , tones, and energies, which set moods in the crowds. Some people knock the slower, moodier,'gothier' stuff. i tell them they missed the point, (which for me is the beauty in suffering) PAY ATTENTION to what a DJ says with his set.
Upstairs the music has no character, it seems todrone on and repeat simple beats. GOod to dance to sure , but it doesn't statisfy my ... uhh..soul ...

[SheIsMySin]

i find that, generally, i like trad to listen to, but if i want to dance, its the bleep that gets me going...

[snoww_wwhite]

i find that, generally, i like trad to listen to, but if i want to dance, its the bleep that gets me going...

yes i always find that in the local clubs as well, where people constantly ask for trad stuff to be played but do not seem to dance, it makes clubbing very frustrating. why not listen to the trad stuff at home and accept that other things are much more dancable :?: :?:

[Flidcania]

it is dancable, i have watched, taken note and now teach the way to dance to the other floor that has the cloakroom on, here is my step by step way to dance "trad"

1. take 15 steps in one direction, no need to look for anybody else around

2. on 15th step swing arms up into the air wildly (bending over backwards is opional)

3.take 30 steps in anouther direction and repeat all the above (till the urge for bleepy goodness becomes too much)

[Alexander]

yes i always find that in the local clubs as well, where people constantly ask for trad stuff to be played but do not seem to dance, it makes clubbing very frustrating. why not listen to the trad stuff at home and accept that other things are much more dancable :?: :?:

I prefer to dance to trad and listen to bleep though.

Let's face it, dancing upstairs isn't really dancing for the most part. Dancing usually entails moving your feet to some degree. Most people upstairs seem to be rooted to the spot whilst practicing kung fu chops with glowsticks in their mitts. :P

If you want to see people dance to trad music then drop downstairs some time, although you might find it difficult moving in time to something that doesn't sound like my alarm clock going off. I can imagine Snowwy must wake up in the morning and still think she's at Slimelight. "*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP* where's my glow sticks?". :wink:

[snoww_wwhite]

I can imagine Snowwy must wake up in the morning and still think she's at Slimelight. "*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP* where's my glow sticks?". :wink:

nope, she wakes up mid day and thinks: oh fuck have i not taken any breaks AGAIN? then tries for the whole day to become a humanoid again, which she normsally acchieves round 10 pm.. then sleep, then get up and work ;)
being able to lift her arms usually happes around monday afternoon ;)


also i dont like beep beep all that much, i prefer boom bang and crash and if need be doof doof, but i have mistakenly thought that the sounds form next door, who were drilling something in their house, where coming form my speakers and tried to turn it up ;)

you know youre a noisehead rivetgit when:.... (see above)

[Crash_Dark]

I dance to the trad stuff, and not in the 15 paces/30 paces way :wink:

There's usually a really trad session downstairs at about 3 or 4 am (normally Loki I think), and the floor fills, so I wouldn't say no-one dances to it at Slime - maybe it's different in other clubs.

I'm just lucky that I like both the trad and the non-trad stuff I suppose, it means I can enjoy the whole night.

In my view, there's some good stuff in most kinds of music - you just have to keep an open mind.

[Guy13]

I dance to the trad stuff, and not in the 15 paces/30 paces way :wink:

There's usually a really trad session downstairs at about 3 or 4 am (normally Loki I think), and the floor fills, so I wouldn't say no-one dances to it at Slime - maybe it's different in other clubs.

I'm just lucky that I like both the trad and the non-trad stuff I suppose, it means I can enjoy the whole night.

In my view, there's some good stuff in most kinds of music - you just have to keep an open mind.

I think you missed a career in the UN, C_D. Very well put. :wink:

I like the music that's played on all floors...I just happen to prefer the top floors the most.

[Crash_Dark]

I think you missed a career in the UN, C_D. Very well put. :wink:



Cool! I could go searching for substances of mass distraction :wink:

[Guy13]

Cool! I could go searching for substances if mass distraction :wink:

If you find any, let my know please. :lol:

[Magif]

Im more of a trad goth. Though i do like songs from other dark subcultures and might even dance to some of it. However im a definate trad.

I have to agree with Alexander when he mentions his theory of trad to indust back to trad. Shortened to T.I.T. :twisted:

The T.I.T. theory seems evident in my life. 8O

So in all honesty i recon it doesnt really matter what you listen to. Just know that T.I.T. does have an effect on some and other s just prefer not to progress any further as they are happy where they are. So in conclusion i say enjoy your music and ignore those that judge. 8)