Introduce Yourself!

[B-Mac]

Morning Everyone,

So I found this Podcast after searching for something to fill my commuting time. I drive an hour back and forth to work (sometimes slightly longer depending now on the story if its a cliff hanger. lol). Really ejoying it. Up to Chapter 21 just now and really can't believe how deep the story is and the sub plots and backgrounds. Thank you to KC Wayland for an awesome production. And thank you to the Cast and Crew or there company on some very long drive homes.

Cheers
B

[scbubba]

Morning Everyone,

So I found this Podcast after searching for something to fill my commuting time. I drive an hour back and forth to work (sometimes slightly longer depending now on the story if its a cliff hanger. lol). Really ejoying it. Up to Chapter 21 just now and really can't believe how deep the story is and the sub plots and backgrounds. Thank you to KC Wayland for an awesome production. And thank you to the Cast and Crew or there company on some very long drive homes.

Cheers
B

Welcome to the addiction! At Chapter 21, you are just getting warmed up....

I also love the depth of the story and the development of the characters. The sound design and the actors themselves help put it into the top as well.

Enjoy the rest of the show....

[Expert]

Hi, I'm not going to give my real name, but you can call me EO. I live near Kelley, Iowa, which is near Ames, Iowa. I found this site after trying to find some stuff on zombies.

[zombone]

My name is private, but you can call me Zoglo the Outlaw. I'm an aspiring author and my work involves zombies. What I do for a living involves zombies in it's own way too. My recent work is a monthly series and the first issue actually came out today. I am very excited to read more posts on this site and see what it's all about. And hey, if anyone is at all interested in Better Undead #1 you can find it on Amazon.com.

[scbubba]

Hi, I'm not going to give my real name, but you can call me EO. I live near Kelley, Iowa, which is near Ames, Iowa. I found this site after trying to find some stuff on zombies.

Welcome to the addiction, EO!

[scbubba]

My name is private, but you can call me Zoglo the Outlaw. I'm an aspiring author and my work involves zombies. What I do for a living involves zombies in it's own way too. My recent work is a monthly series and the first issue actually came out today. I am very excited to read more posts on this site and see what it's all about. And hey, if anyone is at all interested in Better Undead #1 you can find it on Amazon.com.

Hey Zoglo! Welcome to the forum. Lots of folks around here do the writing thing. You should check out the Fan Fiction section if you want to see what others are doing. Look forward to seeing you work.

[turbo]

Welcome Zoglo and EO!!

[Ghost@1radio]

Hi!

My name is Bryan, although hardly anyone uses it, most prefer to call my by my DJ name “Ghost�. Im from a small pit village in the North East of England, not far from the city of Durham.

I am a self employed DJ and game designer. The games I design are the table top role playing kind, and I own the indi games company “Gethsemane Games�, writing fantasy and horror RPGs and wargame. By education I am a social scientific and criminologist, specialising in the application Of the scientific method to the social sciences, amongst other things. I also have qualifications in forensic art, of all things, having qualified just as manual Forensic art was largely supplanted by CAD programmes (typical eh?). I can honestly say I have never been gainfully employed in any of the fields related to my formal education.

I DJ and run, a Goth club night in the UK along with my wife and our business partner Kev as well as Djing various other Goth and steampunk events around the UK and Djing the Vampires Ball and the 1880s night at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in Whitby, North Yorkshire on the east coast of England.

I host a weekly show on a not for profit internet radio station, the show airs sci-fi, fantasy and horror audio drama (both OTR and new, contemporary works form various groups). Audio drama has been a passion of mine since childhood. My love of audio drama was passed onto me by my Grandmother who used to listen to the old BBC radio anthology series “The Man In Black� almost religiously. This also helped nurture my interest in horror rand ghost stories as a whole.

I discovered “We are alive� recently, after listening to “1:18 migration� and being told by another fan that if I liked that, I should check WA as well, she was right, and I owe her a big thank you!

Other than that, I am overly verbose and have a worry addiction to Peanut M+Ms as well as to Port.

[scbubba]

Ghost, welcome to the We're Alive addiction!

That's quite an interesting bio you got there. I'm curious to know how you go about getting into DJ'ing goth and steampunk clubs/events. I've never been to one and wonder how different it is from other types of nightclubs...

Anyway, good to see you here and hope to see you posting in the near future.

PS - once you've had a chance to get all the way through the 3 seasons (so far) at least once, make sure you jump into the REPtrivia game. There's a link up at the top of each page in the forum.

[Ghost@1radio]

Thanks Scbubba, nice of you to say so.

As far as getting into Djing Goth and Steampunk, well, in my case, I've been a goth since the late 1st/early 2nd generation (in around 1986). About 15 years ago the local clubs just weren’t playing anything that appealed to myself and most the Goths I knew, so we just decided to set up our own club night. It went pretty well, and before we knew it we had built ourselves a national reputation. Bands and labels started sending us their new releases, often as much as 6 months before they were due to be released, and clubs all around the UK started asking us to come and guest DJ at their clubs. They tended to report increase numbers through the doors when we played (by we I mean my wife and I).

We were then approached to DJ the Whitby Dracula society weekends and various events that were part of the Whitby Goth weekend – including the Steampunk fringe at the Goth weekend.
We went down to the big UK Steampunk weekend, “Weekend at the Asylum� held annually in Lincoln the first year, just as paying customers, and, as is my way, got chatting to the organisers, who recognised me form Whitby. The following year they approached me and asked if I could do some Djing for Asylum and help put on the sound team, which I did, and really enjoyed, they just kept booking me, so I kept showing up

Couple of years back, The Bram Stoker International Film Festival was launched, and as fate would have it they hired the people that run Weekend at the Asylum to organise the non-film based entertainment such as the vampire ball and they immediately rang me about Djing it, which I did. I've been booked to DJ it every year since and occasionally help out here and there with suggestions for bands they may like to book.

That's sort of it really, it all just kind of grew out of us setting up our own club night “The Charnel House� which has been going strong for 15 years now and snowballed from that point.

As for how they differ from other clubs, not that much really, other than the music policy. On the whole Steampunks will listen to just about anything, including Steampunk bands like Abney Park or The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing as well as actual punk bands, classical music, music hall and so on.
Goth clubs can be a wee bit trickier since the genre has been around since 1979 and has gone through phases, from the post punk period with bands like Bauhause, The Sex Gang children and so on, to the Goth Rockers like the Sisters of Mercy, the March Violets et al, then the industrial Goth, EBM and Cyber Goth, Goth metal, Darkwave, Dark Indie and so on, so you need to be able to adapt to what the room wants and be ready to throw in a fairly eclectic mix.