People are strange

[stillsostrange]

Last night I went to Elysium for our regularly scheduled 80s night, and witnessed something I have never before seen in my nearly 13 years of goth club attendance.

A few seconds into "Master & Servant" the DJ blew a fuse. Much booing and shouting and stamping followed, as is to be expected. Then something odd happened. A group of people on stage began stamping in time. Then they started dancing. Then they started chanting. It was...well, it was a rain dance. I don't know these people, and I don't know if they do this often, but their timing and precision were uncanny. Someone was wearing a mask that I saw at no other point during the night. The rest of the dancefloor went quiet, and people started trickling over from around the club to watch. It made my skin prickle. If one were to espouse magickal thinking, that club was an antenna to talk to god.

The the DJ got power back, and the song started, and we continued dancing with no more strangeness for the rest of the night.

That is going into a book.

Comments

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

Thought--were they the DJ's assistants/MC's? I've had that job before for friends who DJ; you have to make sure you keep the crowd into the songs and properly riled up, even during instances of technical failure.

It sounds like they did above and beyond in a very cool way.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

This is a little dive club whose floor is frequently dead. I'm pretty sure they don't have ringers (and if they did, they need to be paying me). And the DJ commented on the unusual nature of the phenomenon.

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

That's even cooler!

[artemishi.livejournal.com]

I frakkin' LOVE when that happens. Spontaneous communal synchronization is indeed a wonderful thing. :D

[caprine.livejournal.com]

How fabulous!

Austin?

[captainwhimsy.livejournal.com]

Elysium in Austin had a cadre of drumming and dancing folks that showed up to trance nights there - sounds like they may also be goth appreciators. :)