So it seems tha tthe goth club that was not a goth club has made up for it with.

Gulag, the only club in town that truly looks like the sort of goth clubs that movies make you expect to see when you go to one, is once again playing the sort of music you’d also expect to hear. Crowd numbers were up to.

It’s always interesting what happens to a club when it gets popular, especially one that has no cover charge. It’s basically presented with a few options:

1. Move to a new venue with a larger capacity, and lose half of the appeal that it’s got because believe it or not, most people don’t go to the clubs to listen to the music that they already have on their playlists, but really really loud
2. Hope to god that the crowd numbers don’t increase too much, therefore allowing you to keep a really crowded club that people will still attend in the hope of it being the “in thing” now that other people have to line up… and added cool factor because they were going when no one knew about it
3. Start charging at the door to cut down on the number of free loaders, profit slightly, and thus make the club mildly more exclusive.
4. Do something to majorly piss off your club goers, and watch the numbers drop as they don’t want to come back of their own volition.

Considering the nature of the club’s promoter, I don’t think options #1 or #3 are terribly likely and #4 has already been done with the Reggae, to little affect… Leaving option #3.

At any other style of club, this wouldn’t bother me too much. But when you have a lot of goths in one room, you’ve also got a lot of hairspray in that space. And a lot of PVC and rubber, grinding against polished stone floors.

Friction of rubber against polished stone is likely to create an electro-static charge within the body that creates the friction. Numerous bodies in consistent contact will dissipiate generated charge between them. But goths often attempt to avoid touching each other whilst dancing. It would distract them from the moves that they’re attempting to pull, and put them off balance. Touching is for the toilet cubicles. This leaves a dangerous amount of potential electro-static energy building up in a confined area that has a lot of flammables and potential sources of ignition.

All I’m saying is that if you see news story about a “bondage” club in East Richmond that got to extreme, accompanied by shots of dozens of people with their heads on fire, don’t be surprised.

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