Here’s the latest news from the Dracula’s Ball team… seems to just get better. Wish I lived in the US sometimes!
Alan
To the fanged or the fang-friendly,
Our next Dracula’s Ball event will take place in just over 30 days on Saturday, May 23rd at Shampoo Nightclub, from 9pm-2am. Our live performers for this event will be legendary German band Das Ich, and a promising new group from New York City called September Mourning. Both of them are making their first appearances at the Ball. DJs Spider from North Carolina and Addam Bomb from Massachusetts are paying us a return visit, and Ohio’s DJ Fallen will be making his Ball debut. We’ll have three rooms open for your dancing pleasure, all night long (9pm-2am)
Tickets are $15 and are on sale now through IsoTank.com, Digital Ferret CDs, Ticketmaster retail outlets and Ticketmaster.com. If you have questions about where or how to buy or pick up tickets, please visit the FAQ on our website. In fact, visit the FAQ on our site anyway.
Our venue as once again our haunt of choice, Shampoo Nightclub, located at 7th & Willow Streets in Philadelphia, PA (Mapquest/Google Maps info can be found on our website). As always, the Ball is open to all ages, but you must be 21+ with proper photo ID to drink. There is a large, free, enclosed parking lot, but it fills up quick for the Ball. Personal photo cameras are welcome. Large professional rigs with unpleasant flash bulbs are not. Video cameras are not allowed.
Some more about our performers:
SEPTEMBER MOURNING: If Emily “M” Lazar looks familiar to you, it’s probably because you’ve seen her in a magazine or on a billboard in ads for Draven, Manic Panic or Coffin Case, to name a few. If you’re expecting that her band does bland fashion-runway music, you’ve got quite a surprise coming. September Mourning is metal as hell, with a bit of electronics thrown in for good measure. Their demo was produced by guys who worked with Candiria and Lamb of God, just to give you an idea. They’re from New York City and this will be their first appearance at Dracula’s Ball.
STAGE TIME – 10:35PM
http://www.myspace.com/mlazar
DAS ICH: Getting respect for your studio recordings and getting respect for your live concerts are two different things. Das Ich has consistently had both. Celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year, Das Ich has performed their driving blend of industrial music and gothic themes in several dozen countries, many of which do not speak the band’s native language (German). A Das Ich show is no mere concert; it’s a performance. Expect to hear some of the band’s best-known club hits as well as some of their most recent material.
STAGE TIME – 12:05AM
http://www.myspace.com/dasich
MySpace has changed the way that their event invitation system works. If you’re one of our MySpace Friends (and if not, go fix that right away!) you’ll receive a MySpace invitation from us in the next few days. With the new system, you can easily invite your friends to attend along with you. We’re still learning this new system ourselves, but you can see the event page for our next Ball here:
http://ms.socialplan.com/Event/View/97402#
If you’re procrastinating about getting your tickets, here’s a good incentive to pick them up right now. IsoTank is holding a special Spring Sale on the entire Dancing Ferret Discs / Noir Records catalogs. Most items are $5 off, some even more. Albums by Corvus Corax, The Cruxshadows, Eisbrecher, Neuroticfish, Qntal and many others are heavily discounted ($8.99 is the average price per album). Take advantage of the sale *now* (it only runs a few more days), and add your Drac’s Ball tickets to your order.
Finally, we’d like to ask you to visit our MySpace profile and take part in an important poll we’re conducting. We are considering changing the timing of the Dracula’s Ball events starting in 2010 so that they will be more evenly spaced apart, and your input will help our decision making process.
We’ll see you next month!
Best wishes,
[Patrick] & DB Staff
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Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998
http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
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Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998
http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
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More information on Dracula’s Ball and what it’s all about, especially info for travellers, can be found at http://www.draculasball.com
Visit us on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
I’ve just been in touch with an upcoming film director from Spain called Vick Campbell (not a particularly Spanish name!) who is a director of horror films.
Vick was born in Barcelona SPAIN in 1980 and started filming in 1997 ( horror shorts, fantastic & gore). In 2007 he filmed his first feature GRAVEYARD OF THE DEAD aka El Monte de las Animas. The film honours Amando de Ossorio’s Blind Dead series. This film appeared on DVD in September of this year in Europe and USA & Canada. His second film is “The Undertaker” aka El Sepulturero ( a history of the 1920 horror and fantastic film genre). The film was completed in August 2009. Next year he has plans to start two new films. Busy guy!
His influences are Fulci, Corman, Schnaas, Jean Rollin…
Check out the Teaser of his first film: Tombs of the Blind Dead
Always happy to promote new talent in this genre.
Hmm… as I’m also a composer, I wonder whether he needs a soundtrack scoring. Just a thought ![]()
Alan
This is going to be a long post and, I guess, of interest to all those folks who love Whitby and understand what a unique and precious town it is. If you have Whitby’s best interests at heart, read on…
I’ve just received an email from Nigel Ward, the chairman of WHITBY IN SHORTS INTERNATIONAL SHORT-FILM FESTIVAL.
Here’s what he had to say AND he’s asking for YOUR views and help:
So, there you have it. Nigel’s proposal sounds great to me AND puts control firmly in the hands of Whitby folk with the benefits being ploughed back into Whitby.
Please let me know what you think so that I can get back in touch with Nigel and pass on your opinions. This is a big issue for Whitby and I know that there are many readers of this blog scattered across the globe who passionately care about this area of the world.
Please let me know what you think by visiting the contact page and getting in touch.
Thanks for your help!
Alan