Portland Gothic

Vampire Masquerade Ball

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:29:26 GMT

Have fun at Lady Raven's Vampire Masquerade Ball tonight.

Holiday coupon code for 15% off all orders until 9pm Sunday!

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:09:41 GMT

Please spread the word!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/djnevermore

Huge Etsy update and coupon code

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:53:05 GMT

I'm going to announce my Etsy Friends and Family holiday discount code tomorrow morning, since I'm pretty much done with posting nearly 40 items. If you're interested, perhaps browse now. This code will only be available for a couple days! Feel free to spread the word. Thank you!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/djnevermore

City Limits radio....

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:19:51 GMT

Live! Every Wed. 2-4pm on the Portland Radio Authority
Goth, minimal, crime zone death disco...

Russian Industrial music video

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:06:51 GMT

Necro Stellar - The resistance ring

Sumerland / Ascension to the Sun / Soriah at Dante's May 26

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:29:08 GMT

For you Portland old-schoolers..

Legendary Portland band Sumerland reunites for this show on May 26 at Dante's. With Ascension to the Sun, featuring core members of This Ascension and Trance to the Sun, Adrian H and the Wounds, and Soriah. Not to be missed!!

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:44:40 GMT

Already sick of "Jingle Bell Rock" and the Wham! Christmas song? I know I am. Following in the footsteps of the great holiday-saving underdogs, like Rudolph and Cindy Lou Who, comes Brickbat Mansion with seasonal songs that aren't overdone, our warming mix of shoegaze, ethereal, gothic and post-punk music, and a fresh version of our holiday compilation CD as a gift for you!

Tomorrow at the Lovecraft, 10 p.m., and free! Wassail!

Cause and Effect Oct.18th

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:04:25 GMT

Mortal Clay at Lovecraft

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:45:02 GMT

An evening with Mortal Clay and DJ Maxamillion at The Lovecraft
on Friday September 23rd 2011
421 S.E. Grand Avenue Portland, Oregon

Brickbat Mansion ~Friday September 2nd ~ The Lovecraft Bar ~

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:18:03 GMT

Brickbat Mansion
Friday September 2nd
The Lovecraft Bar

www.facebook.com/brickbatmansion

Every First Friday at the Lovecraft- ^v^ A horror themed bar with spooky decor, booths and an ample dance floor!

As always spinning old and new all night along with the best in shoegaze, ethereal, goth and post-punk with deejays Curatrix and Wednesday.

Brickbat Mansion kicks off in earnest at 10pm along with heavy handed bartenders and exceptional beers on tap & in bottles! As always no cover but you can tip the DJ's if you want ^v^

Requests are welcome. Expect the unexpected.

This Sunday At Hive

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:31:28 GMT

This Sunday, the party is at Hive as Owen spins an authentic gothic club in the front, with an opening set by DJ Skully, while DJ Brian Backlash and DJ Sin provide the best in industrial dancing in the back! FREE ALL NIGHT!!!!

Hive Website

This Sunday at Hive

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:54:17 GMT

This Sunday Hive will be a maelstrom of performance. We'll have three bands performing outdoors early in the night, followed by Owen spinning your favorite dark tunes inside. Brian and Twinkletits will be playing some hard industrial tunes outdoors, and to top it all off we'll have fire performances from Weapons of Mass Distraction around midnight. 9pm and Free, what more could you ask for?

This Sunday at Hive

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:53:21 GMT

This Sunday, Owen will be off on a jaunt to Mutant Fest. Meanwhile, DJs Skully and Brian Backlash will take over the inside, while DJs Medusa and Sin and will storm the patio. We'll be rocking it up from 9pm until 2am. Free all night!

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:34:58 GMT

THE OLD LADY WHO INVENTED GOITH – the debut novel from Mick Mercer

Having written about Goth since it began, with a past in fanzines (starting in 1976) and music journalism, I guess it isn’t surprising what lies at the heart of my first novel, THE OLD LADY WHO INVENTED GOTH, but this is not a typical book. For a start the first edition is illustrated in a new way for a novel, while the story is a prequel to what we know and understand. 100 years ago Hermione M. Lee wanted what we have now, but it simply didn’t exist. As she was just fourteen, and a surprisingly foul-mouthed child, with The Great War brewing quietly in the distance there wasn’t a great deal she could do about it, or anything. That never stopped her trying, from the moment she found creativity crackling beneath her fingernails and in a busy life Hermione was rarely inert for long. A champion of darkness, and yet a vanquisher of gloom, Hermione M. Lee is a Gothic blueprint in action, living a life steeped in sin and intrigue, but justifiably so.

What we take for granted was just a shapeless pipedream for her, but with due diligence, and a blatant disregard for decency, she set about her task of trying to light the pathway to darkness, to entice others in on her shadowy obsessions, to revel in the heady realms of atmospheric adventure.

Real life would rudely interrupt the theatrical costumier, as she became, and the Second World War most of all, but here was an impish provocateur, a writer, a schemer, a therapist, a liar, and a con artist, a flirt, a wit, a physical threat.

She flourishes in the twenties and thirties, performs valiant deeds through the forties, and cosies up to the youth cults which germinate in the fifties and spread through the sixties and seventies, mocking all and sundry, wielding a contemptuous vocal scythe through any who did not appreciate what she knew was intrinsically preferable.

There is a Facebook page for anyone who wants more info and some pictures: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Old-Lady-Who-Invented-Goth/245511428799509

The book is £7.99 and only available through lulu.com – not shops, unless businesses buy in bulk from the url provided, as bulk purchases come at a discount, including combined postage.

You need to register with Lulu before you buy, which is easy, but if buying by airmail ignore their express option as that involves courier rates, and stick with the economy version which is normal airmail.

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-old-lady-who-invented-goth/16128634

Tonight: "Ash" Wednesday/Happy Birthday Bruce

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:41:58 GMT

(x-posted)

Horroregon.us and Lovecraft Bar
present
Happy Birthday Bruce!

You are invited to a birthday party!

When: "Ash" Wednesday, June 22nd 9pm till Close
Where: Horroregon's own Horror bar: The Lovecraft 421 NE Grand ave must be 21+ w/ID
Who: Horroregon's own patron saint of heelish charm, the chin that CAN kill: BRUCE CAMPBELL!

Come join in the celebration of all things BRUCE! From his Knots Landing episode to Burn Notice's Sam Axe and all things Bruce in between, the creeps at the Lovecraft Bar and Horroregon.us/Portland Hallowe'en Bazaar are very excited to invite you to a fun filled night of punch, cake, prizes, games, movies and music all celebrating "Uncle Sam's favorite son"!

Wear your best Hawaiian shirt or Bruce character costume for our prize packed costume contest at the end of the party! Bring a gift of a new childrens' book for our Portland Public School Book Drive and receive a surprise gift in return!

Tell your friends and check your boomstick at the door, because you're invited to one of the grooviest birthday parties this side of Brisco County!

Voltera at Plan B

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:33:21 GMT

Voltera, from Melbourne Australia will be performing for the first time in Portland. Local support comes from great bands Ghost Motor and Disgustitron, with Hive's DJ Owen spinning tunes through out the night. 9PM and only $5 at the door!

This Sunday At Hive

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:11:03 GMT

This Sunday come join the party at Hive as Owen spins a true gothic club in the front, with an opening set by DJ Skully, while Brian Backlash and special guest DJ Paradox provide the best in industrial dancing in the back, plus fire performances by Weapons Of Mass Distraction. (Whew... That's a lot!) FREE ALL NIGHT!

This Tuesday At Plan B!

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:58:49 GMT

Strap On Halo from Omaha, Nebraska will be playing their first show in Portland at Plan B. Supporting acts are Portland's very own Adrian H (And One Wound) and Dead When I Found Her. Hive's Brian Backlash will be playing some tunes in between performances. Cost is $5 at the door, and we'll be going all night. Hope to see you there!

Darkness Descends 2nd & 4th Fridays at Lovecraft

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:04:59 GMT

TONIGHT! STIFF VALENTINE @ FEZ BALLROOM MON JUNE 6TH!!‏

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:06:10 GMT

CORROSION RECORDS & MISSIONARY PRESENT:
STIFF VALENTINE
CHRIS PETERSON'S DARK LIVINGROOM PROJECT (FLA, Decree, Unit:187)
PRODUCT

MON JUNE 6TH 2011
DOORS AT 8:30PM
21 & OVER - $5.00 COVER

FEZ BALLROOM
316 SW 11TH AVE
PORTLAND, OREGON

STIFF VALENTINE BIO:
Vancouver-based machine rock outfit Stiff Valentine formed in 2003 around the talents of industrial music producer "Loud" Chris DeMarcus and guest members from a plethora of industrial rock bands; Front Line Assembly, 16volt, Sounds of Mass Production, Chemlab, Dismantled, Landscape Body Machine, and Left Spine Down, to name a few. The underground supergroup's volatile but groove-heavy debut, Industrial Metal Disco, was released in 2009, followed by their latest release America Bleeding in 2011, produced by Chris Peterson (Front Line assembly, Delerium, Unit 187).

SV tackles dance floors and mosh pits alike with heavy riffs, thumping beats, throat-tearing vocals and its not-so-secret weapon: a sense of humor. Don't be surprised if you see 'em screaming through loudspeakers outside of a closed-down night club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or banging out thrash riffs in a snow castle near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Known for their explosive live shows, they live up to their title of The Second Best Canadian Band, Ever

This Sunday

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:30:16 GMT

Church Of Hive

Decadent 80's 6th anniversary party

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:02:18 GMT

Decadent 80's 6th anniversary party

Friday with DJs Encrypted and NoN

In the Lounge with djs Nevermore and

Please join us in celebrating our 6th anniversary and the release of Peter Murphy’s new album NINTH in the lounge.

We’ll have give-a-ways throughout the night with a grand prize of a framed and signed booklet/poster by Peter Murphy himself.

$5 cover for both floors, 21 and over. Doors at 9pm and Music at 10pm in the Ballroom.

DJ's Encrypted and DJ NoN in the Ballroom from 10pm - 2:30am

Djs: Nevermore and Alogik in the lounge.

For more info on Peter Murphy’s new album check out.

http://www.petermurphy.info/

This will be the Last Decadent 80's at the Fez. Stay tuned for Ultragoove on Fridays with djs Encrypted and NoN bringing you the best of 80's and 90's!

The Fez
316 SW 11th Ave, PDX
9pm-230 am / 21 and up $5.00 @ The Door for both floors

The Fez http://www.fezballroom.com

Decadent 80s
Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/decadent80s

Threshold House Releases

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:36:29 GMT

Final copies of Threshold House releases -
Coil, Soisong, Threshold House Boys Choir
Available for a very short time.
Speaker Fire Distribution and Mailorder

This Sunday at Hive

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:21:55 GMT

This Sunday the party is at Hive! In the front, Owen presides over an authentic gothic club, with DJ Skully from 9-10, while in the back DJ's Brian Backlash and Mohawk Adam provide the best in industrial dance, plus fire performances by Weapons Of Mass Distraction! All this is FREE ALL NIGHT!

Church of Hive

Brickbat Mansion presents Johnny Indovina of Human Drama June 3rd

Wed, 25 May 2011 16:28:35 GMT

Brickbat Mansion presents Johnny Indovina (Human Drama) with an intimate acoustic performance.
Friday June 3rd
The Lovecraft Bar
$5 cover

Johnny Indovina (singer /songwriter) is best known for his intense and thought provoking work, both solo and with his former band Human Drama. This will be his first Portland performance in nearly a decade and not to be missed! Johnny will be playing an intimate acoustic set including many Human Drama classics.

There are no advanced tickets and all attendance will be covered at the door. $5 special event cover for this performance.

Come for the performance and stay to dance. DJ Curatrix and DJ Wednesday will be spinning an eclectic mix of shoegaze, goth, ethereal and post-punk before and after the performance ^v^

Brickbat Mansion is Every First Friday at the Lovecraft! ^v^ A horror themed bar with spooky decor, booths and an ample dance floor!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137154763020963