Archive for the 'Goth Industrial' Category
Sodom's Child Messiah Live
December 2nd, 2008
Sodom's Child Liva at Moulin Rouge
Duration : 2 min 50 sec
Confession of Faith-MN Battle of the Bands 1st place 1993
December 2nd, 2008
This is Confession of Faith performing to victory at the 1993 Minnesota Highschool Battle of the Bands at the Mirage. COF took sole first place. 2 bands tied for second place and 2 bands tied for third but COF one by themselves. What is amusing is that after COF performed, they immediately left the competition only finding out that they had won while they were returning their gear at home. The prize was free studio recording time. The songs we played were 'Hallowed' and 'Dominatrix'.
Duration : 10 min 28 sec
Confession of Faith-Jefferson Battle of the Bands 1993 pt.4
December 2nd, 2008
'The Sacrament' This is very Confession of Faith, dark lighting, the intense aural, industrial cascade. This song is from The Sacrament ep. The crowd seems very intense due to the fact that this was performed in the lunchroom for the 1993 Jefferson High School Battle of the Bands and most of the students probably hadn't seen or heard music like this.
Duration : 9 min 26 sec
Apoptygma Berzerk - Unicorn
December 2nd, 2008
Apoptygma Berzerk
Duration : 3 min 31 sec
How To Make it in Catering
December 2nd, 2008
The business of catering itself is pretty routine once you get the business going. A caterer is simply a restaurant in which every order is delivered. You’ll have the usual concerns of food preparation, pricing, storing, and serving, without the need for a wait staff or a dining area but with the need for delivery drivers and service staff at the delivery point.
Starting the catering business, however, takes some imagination. Your priority as a small business owner is not to change the face of business, but rather how you grow your business from one level to another level of expansion while staying profitable. By continuing to focus on a small niche while expanding, you can take the time necessary educating your prospects and customers about the advantages which you bring to the market.
There almost isn’t such a thing as a general-purpose caterer. There are wedding, bar-mitzvah, graduation and birthday caterers. There are simple party caterers. Others market to a specific field of business, such as construction and industrial. One memorable company in California specializes in catering for film crews shooting on location. Their name is “The Cast Supper”.
That’s the kind of creativity you want. A specific area where you specialize, lucrative enough to provide steady business, and with an unforgettable name and business image that will make your clients think of you first whenever they are in need. Once you develop your strategies, continue to develop them and redefine them until everybody recognizes you to be the obvious leader in your small niche. Later you can expand beyond your small niche.
Styling and theme will go a long way towards making your business be the one that stands out. If you cater to parties and festive events, consider the culture where you’ll be drawing your customers from. You can specialize in an ethnic category, such as Italian or Indonesian cuisine. You can cater to themed events such as Medieval Renaissance events or corporate business conventions.
If you partner with a mobile DJ service, you can become a mobile party on wheels! Mobile Disk Jockeys and caterers have a lot in common, and DJs specialize in a category of music and theme as well. Together, you can create a style that markets to a specific culture such as Goth, Hip-Hop, or Salsa. In addition, a caterer and a mobile DJ can refer customers to each other, and can further partner with a party decoration service such as a balloon service.
Every thing you need to plan:
Expected Income: This is a rough expectation of what you can make month to month. Identifying your market is key here; if your market tends to seasonal variations you’ll need to plan for times of year when you aren’t getting as much business.
Initial set up costs: The initial costs are moderately low compared to opening a traditional restaurant. The costs are not much and you can start pretty small, with even a home-based business if you do not have lots of capital at hand. Starting in the home may require seed money of a few thousand dollars, but by the time you’re taking contracts you’ll be up to business costs of at least tens of thousands of dollars. When you start taking contracts, you might consider to mainly cook on location, but even then lots of small stuff like cleaning and cutting vegetables will be done in your kitchen only. The main cooking could be done on location so you can first rent the kitchen equipment every time you need it instead on investing in buying everything. Utensils, china, tables, serving equipment, and such are available for renting so you can cut costs this way.
Getting a License: Usually the local health department gives the requisite permissions. The caterers have to fulfill certain minimum safety requirements for getting the license. Once you get a license there will be routine inspections performed to see if you maintain the proper health safety standards.
Planning and cooking: Catering business requires superb cooking and planning skills as well. To run the business successfully you need to be a great planner, putting thought to every detail. You need to visualize the entire event and think of all the contingencies that might happen there. On the face of it you need to be well organized but there needs to be enough flexibility in your systems so that in case there are last minute changes, you will not have problems. A good idea is to conduct a staff meeting after each event, where you collect ideas from the event that you can use next time.
Attractive menu: Now we’re talking! The more creative you are, the better you’ll do. Plan to address the needs of your customer’s such as providing vegetarian menus, menus for the allergic, menus limited for reasons of religion such as Kosher foods, or social class of the customers. Catering to the upper crust will require an elegant and sophisticated menu, while an industrial lunch-time caterer selling to hard-hats will call for more common fare.
Contract for clients: Always have a proper contract and include the relevant information before the event in a document package. State clearly the terms of your agreement. Any small business attorney can review the contract form for you.
Price your product right: Add all your fixed costs and the variable costs as well the material costs; here you may figure beforehand what it costs to serve a party of ten, a hundred, and a thousand if you’re doing events. Or you will figure pricing based on the individual customer.
Insurance: Your business insurance has to take into account the combined concerns of a restaurant, a mobile delivery service, and on-the-scene event services. This is a challenge to keep affordable, as there are so many variables to consider. Kitchen safety, safety of driving equipment, the drivers themselves, and the well-being of your staff and equipment. Think about the worst that can go wrong, like a severe storm happening as you get to the event. Chaos! Catering is an adventure in many ways, and if you listen to the old hands in this industry you’ll hear one story after another of fantastic circumstances and wild unexpected difficulties.
Alcohol: Will you serve it? If not, will somebody else? Mobile barkeeps exist, and you can either partner with them or take one onto your staff. If this is a factor, you will need to think about controlling age checking, and the possibility that you might be dealing with a disorderly guest at an event.
Are there any new goth/ industrial bands worth checking out?
October 23rd, 2008
I am looking for new music but can't seem to find anything good.
OMG! ANGELSPIT!
that's a great band!
http://angelspit.net/
listen to the song "Vena Cava"
Very good song! and check out the video on youtube too.
sorry i don't have more, i'm a gothic metal fan. if you want gothic metal, email me and i'll give you a whole list!
Im staying in Memphis now, anyone know where some good goth/industrial clubs and stores are?
October 23rd, 2008
Looking for clubs, stores and just the local hang out for the industrial people. Love to find the all night coffee shops, stores and partys here in Memphis. Im here for a week right now.
Looking for punk, goth and industrial clubs, stores, and partys here in Memphis. Staying here for a week and just looking to get into the scene. Also looking for some really good all night coffee shops (NOT Starbucks!!!)
In Memphis, it is best to just stay indoors and probably never leave the house. Sorry. Bad place.
Trafo - Rahatsiz
October 23rd, 2008
Industrial Electro gothic band from Turkey.
www.trafo-band.com
Duration : 0:5:56
industrial metal techno - Saints Of Eden - Overload
October 23rd, 2008
Taken from the third album ‘Overload’ by Saints Of Eden. This track is a true hybrid of goth techno metal industrial.. Check out www.metech-recordings.com
Duration : 0:4:55
What bands would you want to hear on a goth/industrial/dark ambient radio station?
October 22nd, 2008
I’m starting an online radio station of this sort and I was looking for some tunes by some artists I might not have already. Any suggestions?
To begin with, it'll be on Fubar.com to start out. They allow you to stream a station in your own 'lounge' which is more or less a chat room. Sometime in the coming month or so, simply look up "Tavern of the Damned". 
Ayria, Collide, Kidneythieves, L’Ame Immortelle, Amber Asylum, Artesia, Atrium Carceri, Dargaard, Dreamerion, Deleyaman, Elend, Helium Vola, Stoa, The Birthday Massacre, Emilie Autumn, and Vernian Process.
Those are some ideas off the top of my head.