The Succubus Club

[craigoxbrow]

So part of The Announcement was the free entry tickets to the 2010 Succubus Club, held offsite in a suitable location Saturday night 11pm-5am, with coaches running to and from the Roosevelt. I was on one of the first, along with dozens of other people including Tim Bradstreet.

No photos, the one at the head of this isn't actually mine. I figured I didn't want to be lugging a camera around a nightclub, no matter how strange.

And it was fairly strange.

Nice location, small dancefloor but split-level with multiple bars, alcoves for a temp tattoo artist among other things, VIP area on top of the main bar...

Justin Achilli DJing for the whole night. (Apart from a break at 1.30 am for some random burlesque. Considering the gender demographic, it would have seemed fair to have some near-naked guys on stage as well, but the entertainment guys were restricted to stilt clowns and the dwarf security guard on the VIP area.)

(... Yeah...)

Lots of electronica and some darkwave, first track I recognise was some VNV Nation after about an hour, then a break for some old-school-as-possible goth (albeit the Ofra Haza remix of Temple Of Love) and a big cheer for some vampire-media-related tracks. I may never again see a floor fill up so fast for the theme from True Blood.

Some requests, one from a guy who had come from Australia and got Highway To Hell played. I myself refrained. What does one ask for in such a situation, after all?

Two Lady Gaga remixes, and two other songs that in other forms have popped up on glee. ... Pop culture is weird.

Real cheap drinks, free non-alcoholic ones. So I paced myself successfully.

(Unlike the "Dead Dog" after-party the night after, where I had one JD & Coke which cost $9.25 and had enough booze in it to have me wobbly on the walk home. They do things differently there...)