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Here’s the latest news from the Dracula’s Ball team:

Hello folks,

This is a very quick and brief update to let you know that Lords of Acid and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult will be performing at the next Dracula’s Ball event on July 31st, 2010.  We’ll be sending out more detailed announcements in the future, but we wanted our list subscribers to get the news early to ensure you’d have the first chance to get tickets.

Tickets are $16 and officially go on sale June 6th.  However, it is rumored that Digital Ferret CDs may have access to a small secret stash as early as tomorrow; it might be worth giving them a call (215-925-9259).  IsoTank.com is taking pre-orders but cannot ship tickets until June 6th.  We expect heavy demand for this event so we are recommending that you purchase your tickets in advance.

Our website isn’t even updated yet; this is just a little news flash.

Best wishes,

[Patrick]
& Dracula’s Ball Staff
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Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998

http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.facebook.com/draculasball
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

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Here’s the latest news from those lovely Dracula’s Ball people in the USA…

Dear friends,

While we are still putting the finishing touches on our announcement
for the upcoming 50th Dracula’s Ball event, we thought it would be
prudent to suggest that you save the date now.  Saturday, May 15th,
2010 will mark the occasion of the 50th Dracula’s Ball.

Tickets will go on sale March 20th through the usual outlets, and
full details will be sent to you soon.  This promises to be an extra
special occasion and we hope to see all of you there.

More to come.

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

~——–~

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

To subscribe to our e-mailing list, which generates 1 or 2 messages per month, visit:

http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/draculasball

Party                           http://www.draculasball.com
Music  & Ball tickets       http://www.isotank.com
“Accessories”               http://www.vampirecondoms.com
Music News                   http://www.asleepbydawn.com

They sound as busy as ever!

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Here’s the latest from the Dracula’s Ball team…

We know – that’s a lot of band names in one subject line.  But we also know it’s hard for some people to think about an event that “isn’t until next year” – even though it’s only six weeks away.  So we’re pulling out all the stops to grab your attention now, so that you can mark your calendars, buy your tickets, and return your thoughts to the usual end-of-year holiday chaos.

Our next Dracula’s Ball event is on Saturday, January 16th, 2010.  We have quite an array of talented performers joining us for this event.  Tickets for the Ball are $15 and are on sale now through the usual outlets (see below).

BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL: As one of the flagship bands of the Projekt record label, BTFABG was at the center of the “Heavenly Voices” style of swirly, ethereal music. With their most recent album, 10 Neurotics, Black Tape has branched out considerably, exploring more of the cabaret influences apparent in their recent work and adopting an earthier style. Spahn Ranch vocalist Athan Maroulis and eclectic soloist Nicki Jaine are part of both the studio album and the live show, helping Black Tape visionary Sam Rosenthal take the band into exciting new territory.
STAGE TIME – 10:35pm
http://www.myspace.com/blacktapeforabluegirl

I SCINTILLA: What’s better than being able to rock out and dance at the same time? I:Scintilla gives you the opportunity to do both. Fans of electro-rock with catchy hooks and female vocals (like, say, Garbage, Collide or The Birthday Massacre) will surely enjoy this Chicago group’s first Dracula’s Ball performance. I:Scintilla just released a new EP, Prey on You, in November. They also have an exclusive new track on the Metropolis cancer benefit album, Electronic Saviors. Expect a performance that will be…(dare we say it?) scintillating!
STAGE TIME – 12:05am
http://www.myspace.com/iscintilla

For this Ball, we’re very pleased to welcome Mark Jackson of VNV Nation and Joe Letz of Combichrist as our DJs on the Main Floor. Mark and Joe have toured all over the world with their bands and have amassed impressive music collections in the process. They look forward to playing some of your favorite tracks and introducing you to some of their favorites as well. In the White Room and the Velvet Underground, we are pleased to welcome back DJ Solaries from Washington DC, and Philadelphia’s DJ Dave Ghoul. 4 DJs, 3 dancefloors, all night!

Tickets are $15.00 and are on sale now through IsoTank.com, Digital Ferret CDs, Ticketmaster retail outlets and Ticketmaster.com.  Admission at the door, if available, will be $17.  When doors open, people with tickets are admitted first, so having tickets in advance is not only cheaper, but more convenient as well.  Direct links to purchasing tickets are here:
(IsoTank) http://www2.mailordercentral.com/isotank/prodinfo.asp?number=36445-0
(Ticketmaster) http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004370A7B584A2?artistid=835478&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
Remember that there may be service charges when purchasing from Ticketmaster. IsoTank offers free shipping on orders of 5 or more tickets.  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.

This Ball takes place in our favorite location, Shampoo Nightclub, 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 camera rigs with unpleasant flash bulbs are not.  Video cameras are not allowed.

Doors open at 9pm and our event ends at 2am.

Finally, photos from our Halloween event have been posted on our website.  As always, we’re amazed by all of the fantastic and elaborate costumes.  Thanks for making our event such an exciting place to be!

We’ll be in touch again to make sure this event doesn’t slip your mind during the upcoming holidays.  January 16th will be here before you know it.

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
==========================
Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998

http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
~——–~

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

Sounds good, eh?

Alan

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Here’s the latest update from the Dracula’s Ball team.  Sometimes wish I was in the US to go to these events.  On the other hand, I’d miss Whitby

Hello to all of you,

Thanks so much for bringing such fantastic energy to our September 5th event.  This was definitely one of the most enjoyable Ball events we’ve ever produced.  We’ve added a small sampling of pictures to the photo gallery on our site (www.draculasball.com); go take a look.

Although the most recent Ball is just a few weeks behind us, we’re already gearing up for the big one: Halloween.  This is always our largest Dracula’s Ball of the year, and it has sold out for the past several years in a row, so we very strongly encourage you to buy advance tickets for this event.  On top of the usual list of reasons to attend, this year Halloween is a Saturday.  It also happens to fall at the end of Daylight Savings, which means that at 2am, instead of closing our doors, we join everyone else in rolling the clocks back to 1am, making this a six-hour long event.  Finally, we have a rare US performance (Tapping The Vein) and an exclusive US debut performance (Dope Stars Inc).  In other words, this is a very hot ticket!

Our website contains all the information you need about tickets (check out our FAQ in particular) but the essential details are as follows.  Tickets are $15 and are on sale now. You can pick them up in person from Ticketmaster outlets or at Digital Ferret CDs (www.myspace.com/digital_ferret).  You can get them online from Ticketmaster or IsoTank (www.isotank.com) – and note that IsoTank offers free shipping on orders of five or more tickets.  In the unlikely event that there are still a few tickets left at the door, there will not be enough for everyone, so order now.

As we mentioned in previous bulletins, we’ll be flying in Italian electro-glam-rock band Dope Stars Inc. for their very first US concert appearance.  We’re also pleased to welcome back our dear friends Tapping The Vein, who have not played a US show in some time.

If you’ve never been to a Ball before and live bands aren’t your thing, don’t fret – we’ll have four rooms open all night long, with a different DJ in each room. If you’re not feeling the groove for some reason, there’s always another room to check out.  Our DJ lineup will be announced in our next bulletin.

Our venue for this Dracula’s Ball event is 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 quickly for the Ball. Personal photo cameras are welcome.  Large professional rigs with unpleasant flash bulbs are not.  Video cameras are not allowed. Doors open at 9pm and the event ends at 2am (sort of – see the note above about Daylight Savings).

It’s Halloween, so costumes are encouraged.  Of course, costumes are always welcome at the Ball, but this is -the- occasion for that one special outfit you’ve been saving (or saving up for).  Costumes aren’t required, but why not make the most of the opportunity?  If you need inspiration, check out our photo gallery to see some of the amazing costumes we enjoyed at previous Halloween events.  Naturally, we will have enough candy to give your dentist nightmares.

Some more about our performers:

TAPPING THE VEIN: As we’re fond of pointing out, Tapping The Vein performed at the very first Dracula’s Ball, so having them return for the 48th Dracula’s Ball is a testament to how well their music and live performances have held up over the years. Their blend of hard rock and gothic music with female vocals that can range from a haunting whisper to full blown fury is a style that many other bands later attempted. Few managed to do it with the same level of skill as TTV. Fans of groups like Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation or Garbage will surely enjoy them. Since part of the band relocated to the UK, concert appearances in the US by TTV are uncommon, so catch them while you can. Expect to hear old favorites as well as material from their recent album, Another Day Down.
STAGE TIME – 10:30pm
http://www.myspace.com/tappingthevein

DOPE STARS INC: You know we love exclusives. On Halloween, we’re very pleased to bring you the very first US concert appearance by the Italian band Dope Stars Inc. They’re flying in from Italy for this show and flying out right after, so this is your only chance to see them in the USA. Their style and sound clearly have a glitter-glam influence, with an equal mixture of electro-industrial and rock-n-roll. Their song “Fast and Beautiful” (which is also an apt description of their performances) was chosen as the lead track for the Hot Topic / Asleep By Dawn “…Underground Club Mix #2″ compilation. Their albums generated such huge sales as European imports that the band caught the notice of Metropolis Records, who gave the band’s July 2009 album, 21st Century Slave, an official US release.
STAGE TIME – 12:05am
http://www.myspace.com/dopestarsinc

Again, we can’t emphasize how important it is to get advance tickets for this event.  This is our last Dracula’s Ball event until January 2010.  And for your reference, the next time that Halloween falls on a Saturday night will be 2015.  So, be sure to get your tickets…before somebody else gets them.

We’ll see you at the end of 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
==========================
Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998

http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
~——–~

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

To subscribe to our e-mailing list, which generates 1 or 2 messages per month, visit:
http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/draculasball

Party                          http://www.draculasball.com
Music  & Ball tickets      http://www.isotank.com
“Accessories”              http://www.vampirecondoms.com
Music News                  http://www.asleepbydawn.com

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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

==========================
Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998

http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
==========================
Dracula’s Ball
Quarterly since May 1998

http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
~——–~

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

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Here’s the latest news from the Dracula’s Ball team.  As usual, it sounds great…

This weekend is a great time to pick up tickets for the Dracula’s Ball event on Saturday, March 21st. If you’re in the Philadelphia area, you can pick them up in person at Digital Ferret CDs, 732 S. 4th St., 215-925-9259, or you can get them at Shampoo during Nocturne Wednesday on March 18th.  You can also still pick them up from Ticketmaster (in person or online).  For those of you out of the area, you can order tickets from IsoTank.com.  They offer free shipping on orders of five or more tickets.  If you want your tickets delivered to you in advance, be sure to order by Monday night; that’s the deadline for IsoTank to ship out ticket orders.  Advance tickets are $15.

You know that we love bringing you special, exclusive performances that you can’t find anywhere else.  We’re doing it again at this event.  In their 10-year history of playing to massive crowds around Europe, German band Unheilig (“Unholy”) have yet to play a concert in the USA.  That changes with this Ball.  Direct from Germany, the Ball will be Unheilig’s first US performance, and the only one on this tour.  Joining them will be fellow Nilaihah Records recording artists The Azoic, who we are pleased to welcome back to the Ball.

DJs Mama C and Hardware make their first Ball appearances at this event, and we welcome back DJ Draven for a return appearance.  We’ll have three rooms open for your dancing pleasure, all night long.

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.

Doors open at 9pm and the Ball ends at 2am.

So let’s talk a little bit more about our performers.

THE AZOIC:  We’re very pleased to welcome The Azoic back to the Ball. They are a female fronted Electronic Dance / Industrial EBM band originally based in Columbus, Ohio back in 1996. Today, they have a number of albums to their credit, numerous compilation appearances, and Azoic singer Kristy has contributed guest vocals to several well-known projects. The Azoic bucks the current trend of computerizing or distorting female vocals, so you’ll hear Kristy’s actual voice as a human female, and not what she’d sound like if she were a cyborg. Put your dancin’ shoes on for this.
STAGE TIME – 10:35PM
http://www.myspace.com/theazoic

UNHEILIG: Yes, folks, it’s yet another exclusive US debut at the Ball. Despite being all over the underground and mainstream charts in Germany and touring throughout Europe during their 10 year history, this is the very first US concert by “Unholy” (as their name translates to). Their sound is built on a foundation of hard industrial rock with some gothic elements. Lead singer Der Graf (“The Count”) is known for his charisma and strong stage presence. Fans of hard-rockin’ German music and passionate, theatrical stage shows cannot miss this exclusive performance by Unheilig.
STAGE TIME – 12:05AM
http://www.myspace.com/unheilig

Don’t leave it ’til the last minute – order your tickets now.  We’ll see you next weekend!

Best wishes,
[Patrick] & DB Staff

http://www.draculasball.com
http://www.myspace.com/draculasball
~——–~

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

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