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Neotribe

We are the flow, the ebb, the weavers, the web.

About Me

Somewhere out there, between twilight and and the stars and the wind, that's where I like to fly. I exist in a world of dancing by bonfires and dancing by strobe lights, a world of music made of both tribal drums and fiddles, and electronic beats and electric guitars. If it's artistic, if it shows the beauty of Nature's God or mankind's dreams, if it changes the world for the better, it's something I'm probably into. If it's oppression you're after, or senseless destruction of life or love, well, it's not my scene.

It is love and beauty and spirit that drives us as people, and they have driven me my entire life to where I am now. Where I'm going from here is East... Gradually more and more to the East. My people have believed for millennia that the East is the land of the winds of change, for all change must first take place in the mind. It is in my mind that I can see this all happening, and it will. I'm finally entering the next phase of the journey. I can feel doors unlocking and Fate sounding the great bell of the future.

I'm not a concept, I'm a person. Those with no focus on the future or the world around them are people I don't have time for. So what are you waiting for? Send me a message if you want to know what lies beneath the skin, so to speak.


I have been a musician since I was a small child, and there are and have been many professional musicians in my family, including famous Motown singer Barbara Lewis . She actually gave me the piano she wrote her first chart topping hit on so that I could learn to play piano. Suffice it to say, music has always been my life. I sing, play keyboards, trumpet, pennywhistle, and I am currently learning to play the violin. I also write Industrial music when I get the time. At the present I don't have a lot of free time, but if the right project came along I'd love to collaborate or perhaps even join a band. Current primary influences are Crüxshadows, Incus, VNV Nation, Pride and Fall, and The Birthday Massacre. You can see my musical tastes to the left.
In addition to playing music, I've also been a DJ both at nightclubs and on the radio for many years.

Upcoming DJ appearances:
Resident @ Coach and Horses Goth Industrial Night, Windsor - Now Every Wednesday!
DJing at the world famous Leland City Club, Detroit - About every other week or so...
Kill The Lights by The Birthday Massacre
This story's missing a wishing-well,
No mirror to show and tell,
No kiss that can break the spell,
I'm falling asleep.
Every (princess) a fantasy,
The witch is inside of me,
Her poison will wash away the memory.
We kill the lights,
And put on a show,
It's all a lie,
But you'd never know.
This star will shine,
And then it will fall,
And you will forget it all.
And after midnight we're all the same,
No glass shoe to bring us fame,
Nobody to take the blame.
We're falling apart.
Every story's a waiting game,
A flower for every name,
Their colours are paling in the falling rain.
Now you know it's so much better to pretend,
There's something waiting for you here,
Every letter that you wrote,
Has found its way to me, my dear.
You can make believe that what you say is what i want to hear,
I'll keep dancing through this beautiful, dilusional career.
Faking every tear,
Looking like a,
Compromised suicide,
Keeping all my dreams alive.

My Interests

activism, apple, balance, bdsm, bi, bonfires, buisiness, camping, celtic shamanism, city club, coffee, (counter)culture, dancing, detroit, drumming, dublin, environment, fantasy, fashion, festivals, film, fun, gothic, history, irish, kinky, libertarian, meade, metal, movies, nature, neotribal, neotribalism, night, os x, partying, pennywhistle, piano, psg, sacred dynamic fire circles, sociology, travel, toronto, vegetarianism, violin, windsor

I'd like to meet:

The Short Version: People. Preferably with antennae. Or purple hair. Or mongoose dogs. We like those. Don't ask me who the "we" is, as this is just a profile for me. It's all mine. You can't have it. What? Okay, here, take it.

Seriously, though: I love passion. Passionate people, passionate romance, passionate dreams, passionate beliefs, passionate opinions, passionate living. I live in a way that, while isn't reckless, will allow me not to have regrets later. You never know when you're gonna go... So live like it's your very last day, every day, while planning for the future. Live with passion.

I'm the moderator of the following group on MySpace:

Pagan Spirit Gathering

Come visit my profile on tribe.net!

Music:

Genres: Gothic/Industrial/Darkwave/New Wave, European Metal, Alternative/Grunge, Classic Rock, Classical, Celtic

Bands: (Top 13 Favourites in Bold) AFI, Aiboforcen, And One, Angels and Agony, Angelspit, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Ayria, The Azotic, Bal Sagoth, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Beyond-D-Lusion, Billy Idol, The Birthday Massacre, Bob Seger, Cesium 137, Chiasm, The Clash, Combichrist, Courtney Love, Covenant, Cradle of Filth, The Cranberries, Crud, The Crüxshadows, Cue To Recall, Culture Kultür, De / Vision, Dead Can Dance, Decoded Feedback, Def Leppard, Demons & Wizards, Depeche Mode, Diamond Head, The Doors, The Dreamside, Ego Likeness, Encoder, Evanescence, Fleetwood Mac, Flesh Field, Frozen Plasma, Funker Vogt, Garbage, The Gathering, God Module, Green Day, Grendel, Helloween, Hole, Iced Earth, Ickytrip, Icon of Coil, Imperative Reaction, In Strict Confidence, Incus, Iron Maiden, Johnny Cash, Journey, Juliana Hatfield, Kid Rock, Kittie, Lacuna Coil, Ladytron, Lights of Euphoria, Linkin Park, Lords of Acid, Lost Signal, Mad Happy, Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Metallica, Midnattsol, Midnight Movies, Misfits, Mono, The Morgans, The Murmurs, N.E.R.D., Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nightwish, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Offspring, Opeth, Peaches, Pink Floyd, Pride and Fall, Psyclon Nine, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein, Razed In Black, Reaper, Republica, Rhapsody, Rotersand, Rush, Seabound, Sinergy, The Sins of Thy Beloved, S.J. Tucker, Smashing Pumpkins, Snake River Conspiracy, Sonata Arctica, Spiral Rhythm, Sponge, Stabbing Westward, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, Theatre of Tragedy, Tiamat, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tristania, Van Halen, VAST, Velvet Acid Christ, The Velvet Underground, VNV Nation, Within Temptation, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, XP8, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Zeromancer

Of course I listen to more than that, but those are my faves, both new and old.

Movies:

The Mists of Avalon, Lola rennt (Run Lola Run), Fight Club, Final Fantasy, The Matrix Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, any Kevin Smith film, American Beauty, Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge, Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Legend, Labyrinth, Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, la folie... pas du tout (He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not), The Crow, Requiem For A Dream, Princess Mononoke, La Cit des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children), V for Vendetta, An Inconvenient Truth, El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)

Television:

TV rots your brain!

Books:

Sprial Dance, Phyllis Curott's books (especially Book of Shadows and The Love Spell), By Oak Ash & Thorn, The Fifth Sacred Thing, A Place On Earth, Good Omens, A Clockwork Orange (British edition), Blacksent: Book of the Umbra, On The Road, Mindset

Heroes:

Thomas Jefferson, Jack Layton, Steve Jobs, Selina Fox, people who make art in all its forms (music, dance, sculpture, etc.), those brave enough to make Magic happen

My Blog

Leland City Club Playlist: 3.8.2008

Leland City ClubSaturday, March the 8th, 2008DJ Void 6 and DJ Neotribe10 pm - DJ Void 6Cerphex Files - Revolution Volume 1 DirtPaul Oakenfold - AeternalWumpscut - Wreath of Barbs (Cryogene Mix)Azoic -...
Posted by Neotribe on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:15:00 PST

Leland City Club Playlist - 02/23/08

Special thanks to DJ J9 for typing this up!City Club Playlist : 02/23/08DJ's = Neotribe & J9---10:00 pm---DJ NeotribePeaches  F*ck or KillIncus  Just One ThingTiamat  Carry your Cross and Ill Carry...
Posted by Neotribe on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:18:00 PST

Now for a public service announcement.

This is a video of the Great White concert fire that happened five years ago this week. The fire killed 100 people. The video starts right next to the stage, and as the guy taking the video was one of...
Posted by Neotribe on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:13:00 PST

Coach and Horses - A Gothic Valentine 2008

DJ Neotribe's Selections:The Awakening - Leather StripDesolation - MidnattsolNot Unique (Club Mix) - AiboforcenTo Die For - The Birthday MassacreTouched - VastGirls That Swear - CrudSupernatural (Inte...
Posted by Neotribe on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:22:00 PST

The more, the merrier!


Posted by Neotribe on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:30:00 PST

City Club Playlist - Saturday, February the 9th, 2008

City Club PlaylistSaturday, February the 9th, 2008DJ J9 & DJ Neotribe10:00-10:40Random MusicDJ Neotribe10:40-12:10The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove - Dead Can DanceThe Masquerader And Phoenix (Phoenix Mix)...
Posted by Neotribe on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:40:00 PST

Coach and Horses - January Goth Night Recap

Well that was interesting...Just DJed at Coach and Horses for Goth night. I have to remember its Goth night -> these folks like a lot of old school stuff. It's a Labyrinth kind of mix, so I won't be p...
Posted by Neotribe on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:48:00 PST

I’m in the Windsor Star again...

The Windsor StarPublished: Monday, December 03, 2007What's on your iPOD?In which we ask random members of the public to hit shuffle on their MP3 players and tell us the results.Kevin Tolen, 25 U of W ...
Posted by Neotribe on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:26:00 PST

Fuck yeah Incus!

Incus rules....
Posted by Neotribe on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:47:00 PST

New Flyer - Thanks Xaina!

My longtime friend and former roommate Xaina donated this image from her extensive modelling portfolio for my guest set at Goth night at Coach later this month.Check out her site: xainafairy.com, and ...
Posted by Neotribe on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:09:00 PST