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.