An evening at Nocturnum. Boise's best (only?) goth club.

Becca at Nocturnum is like Roger Federer playing a pick up game at the Whitset golf and Tennis club

You know that a goth club is going to be interesting when:

a) doesn't have a proper web site
b) it is held in a bar that usually hosts Greatful Dead cover bands
c) is in a state that stops selling alcahol in stores after 7PM
d) you hear about from your Dad.

Unfortunately for me (but fortunately for you) Becca and I headed out to just such a club on our first night in Boise. It was...interesting. The music was a strange mix of modern stuff like Zombie Girl, musty old Classics like TKK's "Daisy Chain for Satan" and random Electro (Zombie Nation) and Metal (Rammstein). All poured into a mix. The DJ didn't really have theme or a flow...it was like a hot topic employee's ipod put on shuffle. It wasn't bad, but if I didn't already like going to industrial clubs, this one wouldn't be the one to win me over.

The highlight was the drinks. I ordered a Screwdriver, a Beer, and a bottle of water...and the guy said "that'll be five bucks" and I said, "no I wanted a screwdriver, a beer, and a bottle of water...not just a bottle of water." and the guy blinked and looked a little closer at me and said, "yeah, that'll be five bucks".

So all things considered, I bought three beers, two mixed drinks and three waters and spent less than 20 bucks includidng tips for the whole night. Fuck, in LA 20 bucks is parking for some clubs. Incredible.

Anyway, here's some pics...these poor kids don't have a website of their own and one of the chicks wanted becca to email them to her so she could put them on her myspace. Can you imagine that? No party pics site for these poor slutty goth girls? They'd double their attendance with even a simple angelfire free site.

Anyway, prepare yourself:

New Nitzer Ebb, with FLOOD behind the mixing board no less! This could be good.

According to Side Line, Nitzer Ebb is fixing to release their first studio album in more than a decade.

They've brought back Jason Payne, the drummer on the ironically titled album Big Hit to replace Kourtney Klein which is too bad because one can never have too much when it comes to sexy drummer fraus.

But the part of this story that really makes me join in the chant is the fact that this album will be produced by none other than Flood. Who, aside from working on aside from producing Nitzer Ebb's best albums also worked on arguably the best albums by Depeche Mode, U2, Smashing Pumpkins, Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, and more recently Placebo and GoldFrapp.

The icing on the cake is that this album will include the song "Once You See" which includes ol' Martin Gore from Depeche Mode on backup vocals.

Not only all that but the article mentions that this album won't effect the release of the next Fixmer/McCarthy album which is slated to come out soon.

So looks like I have a few more CDs to buy before the format totally dies.