Dark
Friday: Where you can stop fighting against being different, and
start embracing it. Really. Others may have forfeited these
all-too-often forgotten charms of death and decay; brutally quashed
facets of humanity hastily relegated to the stuff of nightmares and
farce.
But not you, oh no. Your dark sensibilities demand and revel in
pleasurable aspects of the morbid and macabre--nothing more than
memento-mori. So lift up your bleeding hearts and brooding brows,
and be welcome to drink, dance and speak what you may, because you
have no reason to be anywhere else, other than DARK
FRIDAY.
Come 24 April 2009, the
Singapore Dark Alternative
Movement (SDAM) will revolutionise local club culture once
more with internationally-acclaimed talent DJ Sect (Eve of Destruction) of Moscow,
Russia / Seattle, USA. As the only
club event featuring exclusively Gothic / Industrial / Electronic
Body Music (EBM) / Darkwave / Future Pop music in Singapore,
Dark Friday’s seventh installment promises another stellar night of
mayhem and misdemeanors for devotees of the Gothic and Alternative
subcultures.
Headlining April’s event is DJ
Sect (Eve of Destruction) of Moscow, Russia / Seattle, USA.
DJ Sect is multitalented, serving as DJ, composer, sound engineer
and producer for his musical projects PURGE and THE SECT.
Throughout the course of his career, he has collaborated with the
likes of KMFDM, Unter Null, Hanzel und Gretyl and Icon of Coil. DJ
Sect also organises and promotes industrial and goth parties in
Moscow, Russia as “Eve of Destruction”. His innovative DJ sets pay
homage to a wide spectrum of dark alternative sounds, ranging from
Gothic classics to industrial, EBM and noise world club hits.
Hot off the success of the December 2008 installment of ‘Dark
Friday’ featuring electro-industrial talents DJs DestroyX and ZooG
(Australia / Germany) of Angelspit fame, the SDAM has breathed life
into local club culture with an exclusive and bonafide Gothic /
Dark Alternative clubbing experience held at Night and Day Bar. The
benchmark-setting event has drawn considerable attention as the new
and emerging Mecca of Dark Alternative Music in Southeast Asia,
since hosting on other separate occasions, DJ Panic of the
notorious Slimelight Goth club in London and DJ Eskil Simonsson of
Sweden's darkwave kings Covenant.
As Dark Friday is held as a social imperative to promote the Goth
and Dark Alternative subculture in Singapore, a reasonable S$12
cover will be requested of all patrons. The uninitiated will find
their musical sensibilities bombarded with music colloquially
referred to as ‘gothic trance’ or ‘hard floor’. Yet familiar dark
alternative anthems are likely to be spun amidst new,
groundbreaking releases with local deck surgeons DJ Saito Nagasaki
(Aesgrade), DJ Mentor (X’ho in a guise) and DJ Murderfreak in
tow.
Dark Friday has also attained international sponsorship from global
publishing and promotion company NetManagement who has remained
staunch in support since the ‘Machines Against Hunger‘ launch and
charity event (Beneficiary – Action against Hunger) for Singapore
and Southeast Asia by SDAM, held on Friday, 13thJune 2008. As part
of their gracious gesture to relinquish one Friday a month to the
alternative social collective, Night and Day Bar has adapted
quickly to SDAM’s devoted denizens, serving up $18 absinthe shots
while also providing a cosmopolitan outlook on their unique and
vibrant aesthetics.
About the Singapore Dark
Alternative Movement:
The Singapore Dark Alternative Movement (SDAM), founded in 1998, is
a social collective catering to the needs of the Singaporean gothic
and alternative lifestyle community. It also functions as a support
/ help group for members within the latter regarding issues such as
suicide, gender and sexuality.
The SDAM focuses on promoting dark alternative culture through
promoting music and art genres that interest the community such as
Goth, Industrial, EBM (Electronic Body Music), and facilitates
meet-ups and events to assist in growing the social platform.
For more information:
SDAM and Dark Friday details / party pictures – <!-- m
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SDAM Portal and Forum – <!-- m -->http://www.sdam.sg<!-- m
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SDAM Official Livejournal - <!-- m -->http://singaporegoths.livejournal.com<!--
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SDAM Official Facebook community - <!-- m -->http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5512868844<!--
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DJ Sect - <!-- m -->http://www.myspace.com/syncore<!--
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NetManagement – <!-- m -->http://www.nmmv.de<!-- m
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Night and Day Bar - <!-- m -->http://www.nightandday.sg/
With love, cats and bats aflutter
Lique
