It’s All Make Believe, Isn’t It?: Whitby, the home of Dracula.

Whitby, the home of Dracula. Well, it’s been a while since i’ve done a post but i’ve been on holiday in lovely, beautiful Whitby. It was my birthday yesterday so we thought we’d have a week away and i think i needed it with work and …

Ckick the link above to read Stefanie’s account of a recent visit to the area.

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One of my favourite movies ever.

The music “Love Remembered” is from the original soundtrack…

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Here’s the latest from the Whitby Gazette…

EXCLUSIVE: Whitby to lose Grand Turk ship to France – HAVE YOUR SAY…

EXCLUSIVE: Whitby to lose Grand Turk ship to France – HAVE YOUR SAY – THE Grand Turk has been sold and will head for France on Monday 15 March, the Whitby Gazette can exclusively reveal.

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Can you picture Worthington as Dracula?

Do you think this would be a good move for him?

Would you rather see an “Avatar” sequel come first?

What do you think of Worthington’s rapidly evolving reputation as a go-to action star?

Hmm…

Sam Worthington May Be Our Next Big Vampire In ‘Dracula Year Zero …

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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

==========================
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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Click the link below for the full story…

Real Vampires The Man Behind the Legend of Dracula – CollegeTimes

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An interesting clip of film about the real Dracula…

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If you’re in the US, the latest news from the fantastic Dracula’s Ball Team is below.

If you live in the UK and need some fast ideas for celebrating the Halloween season, have a look at our new site:

Green Halloween

Don’t forget, there are a couple of tasty Halloween ideas on the Dracula-in-Whitby site too:

Ghost Stories

Halloween Games

Here we go…

Happy October to you!

Can you believe that Halloween is only four weeks away? This is always our largest Dracula’s Ball event 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 posted on our website this week.

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 the 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 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

==========================
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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Nox Arcana is derived from two Latin words, which roughly translate to “mysteries of the night.”

It is a great interest in ancient lore, gothic literature and classic horror that unites Vargo and Piotrowski in their neverending quest into shadowy and dangerous realms.

Joseph Vargo is a music composer, published author, and internationally acclaimed artist. His visions of gothic fantasy have graced the covers of several books and cds and appeared in numerous publications.

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