Goth Industrial Clubs

1979

The Rosetta Stone of so many post-punk/dance-punk bands of the last 10 years, almost every one of which has tried like hell to sound like Entertainment! —including Gang Of Four itself, who capitalized on their sudden reverence by first re-recording it note-for-note as 2005’s Return The Gift , then attempting to recapture its essence on the recent Content . But like the song says, eventually everyone found that essence rare, and near impossible to replicate. Most copycatting comes down to imitations of Andy Gill’s strangled, pointillist guitar-playing: Gill often stabbed and pulled at the strings like he’d die of boredom if forced to make an honest chord—or better yet, as if he’d never learned how, which gave a lot of shitty guitar players a way in. But that seeming amateurism was deceptively complex, just like Jon King’s dispassionately declamatory, slogan-heavy statements masked a lot of heady, Situationist and postmodernist ideas about consumerism and the commodification of culture. Not that you need a deep understanding of what King is talking about to enjoy Entertainment! , as evidenced by those Microsoft Kinect commercials featuring “Natural’s Not In It.”

Another album that’s become so much a part of other bands’ DNA (including so much of the Factory Records roster that immediately followed), it’s easy to forget just how unique it was when it debuted. It was, in fact, a sound that not even Joy Division itself had heard before. Before being forced into a freezing studio with producer Martin Hannett, the group’s idiom was just as ominous but much more aggressive, a rolling thunderhead topped off by Ian Curtis’ haunted croon, yet not leagues apart from the other punk bands it shared a stage with. Hannett transformed that sturm und drang energy into a sustained eeriness—all negative space and dub-like echo, with the occasional lightning crack of processed snare drum—creating a record that’s instantly transfixing and impossible to ignore. Seriously, next time you want to trainwreck a party and make everyone shut up, pop this on. 

Cerebral and caustic over a decade before it released Cerebral Caustic , The Fall’s earliest works almost seem like inside jokes, a prodding parody of every other band around—maybe even a parody of the idea of playing in a band itself. The music is deliberately atonal, amateurish, and repetitious, the lyrics are peppered with specific digs at the music industry—with Mark E. Smith even going so far as to actually bait critics by quoting verbatim reviews of his own band—and Smith enunciates like he’s delivering everything through a smirk, the sound of a polite Salford shipping clerk who spends the whole day indulging idiots until the whistle blows and he finally takes mic in hand to seek his revenge. It’d be off-putting if it weren’t so brilliant, the work of a mad, idiosyncratic genius who’s convinced that he’s making the only music worth listening to and that everything else is utter, pandering shit. After a while, you start to realize that he’s right.

Are there any goth/industrial clubs in South Alabama/Northern Florida?

This could appear like a stupid question…but I’ve completed numerous world wide web searches and the only point I’ve identified is “Freak Fridays” at “Bedlam” in Pensacola, FL. My finest friend and I attempted to locate it but couldn’t. I enjoy industrial music and I dress the way I dress because its who I am. I don’t claim any “labels”, but goth would be the closest issue. I know I’m from Alabama, but it is certainly not by option. I was born right here. I despise almost every nation song I’ve ever heard. Most pop really gives me a headache. I won’t lie, I like rap and hip hop to an extent…but my very first option is industrial and second is dark cabaret. I understand that I am in the wrong location and my household expects me to reside here for the rest of my life. They discover all the issues that make me diverse from them and are occasionally quite closed minded. I don’t truly care that men and women stare at me when I go in public. I want to go somewhere exactly where an individual appreciates the things I like and put on and will recognize who I am…but I’m trapped right here.

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