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Velouria

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Lost in Goth/Deathrock/Punk/Post-Punk music*.Has fairly recently started DJing and has guested at various UK and European club nights and events including Dead And Buried (London), The Coven (Luton), The Graveyard Sessions (Lisbon, Portugal), Dr Fell's (Basingstoke), Evoke (Portmsouth)and Interzone (London). Also guest DJing at the legendary Gothik Pogo Party in Leipzig, Germany as part of the Wave Gotik Treffen celebrations. Defends herself against the sanity assassins by losing herself in dark classic and contemporary literature, music and gigs.Loves the hedonistic city London life but is also lured by the unspoiled Ireland, West Country and deepest Cornwall. Likes long hot baths filled with lavender, flowers, strolling through parks in summer and long, hazy nights.Finds solace in writing, be it drink-fuelled ramblings or ponering the meaning of life. Hates to be labelled or compromised and struggles against the lack of freedom in today's living and the small and narrow-minded people she daily comes up against. Sometimes it brings her down, she becomes lethargic and just wants to snuggle up indoors and hibernate. Has a fascination with death, degeneration, tragedy and the darker side of life. Loves to be scared, so she watches and reads horrors and thrillers but is disappointed that she is rarely chilled to the bone. Also enraptured by the mysterious unknown worlds of dreams and the supernatural. She also has a macabre sense of humour.Loves nothing more than to dress up Zombie Chic and head to London Deathrock haven Dead & Buried amongst the odd few other places and is passionate about the Strobelight label which is surely heralding a new era of dark music.Lives with Ray, frontman, songwriter, lead guitarist and founder of promising dark alternative act Torpedoes and has become more involved in promoting for them. Her love of Goth and alternative music has seen Velouria taking a very small and very tentative step towards putting gigs on for UK Goth bands and leaning towards DJing and the promotions side of things, having put on one successful gig in Winchester and performed a good Deathrock/Punk/Trad Goth mix at the Dr Fells club recently. She hopes to do more when she can get her lazy Libran arse in gear!* Please note that Velouria is NOT interested in rap, metal, funk, R&B, house, hip hop, and jungle music genres so please do not request her as a friend if this is your forte!


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My Interests

Music - listening, gigs, DJing. Writing short stories, poetry and keeping journals. Reading contemporary and classic literature Horror, Sci-Fi and thriller films. Black comedy. Nature, the sea, animals, trees. Galway, Cork Ireland Festivals such as Wave Gotik Treffen. DJing Wit, intellect, discussion.

I'd like to meet:

Most people I'd like to meet are no longer with us! Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Shakespeare, Ian Curtis, Lenin, Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Marx, Byron, Rozz Williams, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Beethoven, Max Weber, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake and many others who currently slip my mind but I will later curse myself for not remembering... Alive - Jean Auel, Sarah Diamond, Siousxie Sioux, Frank Black, John Lydon, Anita Roddick and again, probably a few others who I will think of laterAnd of course, and more importantly I'd like to meet anyone with a good heart, mind and soul who could become a friend or influence.

Music:

Genres: Old-school Goth/Batcave/Post-Punk/Deathrock/Coldwave/Dark Indie/Punk/Ethereal/Traditional Irish/Celtic Folk/Classical/Mediaeval/Gregorian ChantBands - The Chameleons (John Peel once described as the most underrated band to come out of Manchester), The Pixies, Danse Society, Play Dead, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Faith & The Muse, Bloody Dead and Sexy, Bats In The Belfry, Frustration, Bohemian, Children On Stun, The Other, Screaming Banshee Airecrew, Brotherhood of Pagans, Frankenstein, Antiworld, Zadera, Scarlet's Remains, New Days Delay, Miguel & The Living Dead, Passion Play, Pink Turns Blue, Dead Can Dance, The Cure, Frank The Baptist, Last Days of Jesus, Devilish Presley, Editors, Dragons, Dan Sartain, Casual, Pins And Needles, Violet Stigmartyr, Joy Disaster, Killing Joke, Object, Fangs On Fur, Chants of Maldoror, Tragic Black, Leitmotiv, Norma Loy, Jacquy Bitch, Charles de Goal, Shadow Reichenstein, Black Ice, Gotterdammerung, Torpedoes, Leisur Hive, The Deep Eynde, The Empire Hideous, Quidam, Xmal Deutschland, Sopor Aerurnus, The Doors, The Levellers, The Kinks, The Pogues, Christian Death, Swans of Avon, Dead Kennedys, The Cure, The Mission, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey,The Ramones, The Damned, New Model Army, Deadchovksy, Eat Your Make Up, D.U.S.T, Clan of Xymox, UK Decay, Lords of The New Church, Skeletal Family, The Stranglers, The Ruts, the Exploited, The Vibrators, The Adicts, The Anti-Nowhere League, Hatesex, Wermut, Caprifischer, Katzenjammer Kabaret, The Bolshoi, The Last Cry, Alien Sex Fiend, The Last Dance, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Massive Attack, Velvet Underground, Interpol, Kate Rusby, Suzanne Vega, The Dirty Weather Project/Telegram Frank, Jim Fox/Madrua Rua, Sandy Denny, Christy Moore, Capercaillie, Sharon Shannon, The Waterboys, The Saw Doctors , St Saens, Holst etc.. I also love.

Movies:

The Shining (all time favourite), horror films, in fact any dark, twisted, chilling, pyschotic and intriguing films will get my vote anytime. The Star Wars trilogy!! (but of course)

Television:

Brit comedy. Pyschological thrillers. The unexplained. Historical documentaries. Hammer Hosue of Horror. Some sci-fi

Books:

Too many to mention as I am complete book whore! 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' series is fanatsic and always makes me laugh, no matter how often I read them

My Blog

Setkists - Dead & Buried

Human Disease - Petals [R] Cranes - EverywhereGitane Demone - Incendary LoverBreath of Life - Nasty CloudXmal Deutschland - Hand in HandPins and Needles - Victims Plastikstrom - Grossstadtalarm Scarle...
Posted by Velouria on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:49:00 PST

Dead and Buried this Saturday

Dead and Buried this Saturday (August 30th)promises to be a top night as it celebrates all things Womanly! A trio of DJanes (myself, and the reknowned Gothic Pogo Party residents IT Sicko and Miss Gre...
Posted by Velouria on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:16:00 PST

More Guest DJing at Dead And Buried 30/8/08

I will be guest DJing here for Dead And Buried's 'Ladies Night' on Saturday August 30th. Expect to hear tunes from mainly female vocalists, but will be incorporated into the usual mix of Deathrock, Ho...
Posted by Velouria on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:40:00 PST

Interzone setlists

Cavey NikLeisur Hive - Try to be StillSinbeats - DurangoUltravox - The man who dies Every DayArcade Fire - No Cars GoYour Black Star - Why do I Wait?Swann Danger - Siren SongSixteens - Fancy FingersIp...
Posted by Velouria on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:30:00 PST

This Saturday-guest DJing at Interzone

This Saturday (2nd August) sees the 2nd Interzone club night of the year. The brainchild of DJ Cavey Nik (Dead and Buried) it's an electic mixture of Post-Punk, Dark Indie, New Wave, Classic Goth and ...
Posted by Velouria on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:28:00 PST

Gothik Pogo Party 12/5/08 My Setlists

Leisur Hive - The OpaqueThe Prids - The ProblemAutons - The Election SingerBloc Party - LunoEditors -Fingers In The FactoriesComplot Brunswick - Born In A CageClan Of Xymox - 7th TimeCinema Strange - ...
Posted by Velouria on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

WGT round-up Part III

 Leipzig round-up Part IIIMonday:Again, a rather late start to the day. By now it was starting to catch up with me, so didn't feel much like drinking today. Ray and I, unfortunately didn't manage...
Posted by Velouria on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:13:00 PST

WGT round-up part II

WGT round-up part IISaturday:Saturday was quite possibly my favourite day of the festival this year (if I had to choose, that is!) After a bit of a lie-in until about lunchtime, and after getting 'sui...
Posted by Velouria on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:33:00 PST

Leipzig round-up Part I

WGT round-up Part ITuesday/Wednesday:Having ummed and ahhed about how to travel, almost right up until the last minute, Ray and I soon found the Eurostar and connecting night train from Brussels to Be...
Posted by Velouria on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:00 PST

Tagged!

Tagged by DJ Martin Oldgoth 5 ’interesting facts’ about me: (Ok, so you’ll probably be asleep by the end..!) 1. When I was 17 I joined the Army and spent 6 months training to b...
Posted by Velouria on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST