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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I've not listened to a note of those songs as the hilarity of the image of a bunch of pasty faced socially awkward goths melting in some hot sweaty nightclub takes away all this movements credibility.
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I've been to one of the club nights in Islington, and I can say without any hesitation that it was the most pretentious set of people I have ever had the displeasure of rubbing shoulders with. I went because I thought it'd be a club with people like myself who just wanted to experience a slightly different club vibe.
No, it was full of art students from St Martins or Chelsea with occult symbols daubed on their faces. Some were wearing 'robes', a few were even walking around proclaiming the might of some demonic entity they'd plucked from a HP Lovecraft story. They refused to dance or show any hint of enjoyment - that would be the uncool thing to do. They were just c
unts, and we left after about two hours. You're not allowed to take pictures at these events either, because the organisers want to keep it all esoteric and underground - they want to create a mythology around it.
As for the music, you have to sift through a lot of hollow, uninspiring crap to get to the decent stuff, but there a few acts that are genuinely very good.