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[mrph]

I'm just taking a very brief break (from rewriting my scribblings into coherent sentences) to say:

Velvet Acid Christ - Collapsed
May 19th

Right. That's that. Back to the scribblings :)

Comments

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

Mmmh VAC are OK I guess, never found them to be particularly special, especially live.

It's difficult to fill a dancefloor by playing VAC, for sure.

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that. I always found "Fun with Drugs" to be quite a good floorfiller and "Futile" worked quite well as well.

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[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

It prolly depends on the venue, the crowd familiarity and what you play before it.

It just doesn't have the oomph factor of, say, IOC or Rammstein...

But then neither do Front 242 unless you're playing HeadfriggingHunter.

[kiaransalyn.livejournal.com]

I think it is mostly a regional thing and as you say it is mostly down to the taste of the crowd. If folks don't know VAC then they'll not dance. Of course, top quality DJ's like ourselves would remedy that gap in their education I'm sure. ;)

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[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

Rest assured crowd education is near the top of my Agenda.

Am still trying to teach those ruffians the delights of Industrial Power Noize. Some of them are starting to respond with twitches and occasional head nodding.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd say that same about IOC. It took ages before anyone here would dance to Shallow Nation or Regret - Spiky Dave kepy playing 'em at Disassembly until it finally got through to people. And you'd still have trouble now getting Cov goths on the dancefloor to anything from The Soul is in The Software.

Regional variations are weird.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'll disagree about the live show - only seen them once, at M'era Luna 2000, but I was definitely impressed.

As for playing 'em on CD - I think you and lhiss have pretty much covered that subject, but I should mention that Futile reliably filled dancefloors at Coventry's Damnation and Disassembly nights. I'm not sure it'd still go down so well here, as a lot of the people who liked it have moved on (or dropped out), and I'm not sure the newcomers know it, but...