Toronto Goth Heritage Tour T-Shirts Are Here!

They're here! Toronto Goth Heritage Tour Tshirts are IN STOCK in an extremely limited quantity. 

These 100% Cotton, Hand Silk-screened T's will be available TONIGHT at our first ever Toronto Goth Heritage Project Fundraiser, taking place at Nocturne. 

Full event Details are below:

Friday December 13th, 2013

Toronto Goth Heritage Fundraiser

w/ DJs Andrew Lochhead & Jairus Khan

@ Nocturne 550 Queen St. W.

Toronto, Canada

10PM - 3AM

$10.00 Donation

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/556457321100440/?fref=ts

Promo Mix by Andrew Lochhead: http://www.mixcloud.com/andrewlochhead/goth-heritage-mix/

Promo by Jairus Khan: http://8tracks.com/jairus/i-wasn-t-there-but-i-should-have-been

New Goth Cast

Just to get you in the mood for FRIDAY THE 13TH: Toronto Goth Heritage's very first project fundraiser event I've created a short mix of late seventies/early eighties Goth Classics including a track by these guys above, The Virgin Prunes! 

You can have a listen here: http://www.mixcloud.com/andrewlochhead/goth-heritage-mix/

Or you can hear more music like this by joining my DJ partner Jairus Khan and I at Nocturne, 550 Queen St. W. in Toronto, Canada this Friday. Full event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/556457321100440/?fref=ts

Tracklist.

Batfish Boys: The Gods Hate Kansas

The Birthday Party: Mr. Clarinet

Bauhaus: Watch That Grandad Go

Virgin Prunes: Walls of Jericho

Skeletal Family: She Cries Alone

Play Dead: This Side of Heaven (Serious Mix)

The March Violets: Grooving in Green

Kabuki (Ausgang): I Am a Horse

Joy Division: Transmission (Album Version)

Christian Death: Prayer

The Damned: Torture Me

Goth Talk

Sure to be more entertaining than the former SNL skit ... Liisa Ladouceur will be giving a talk at the Toronto Public Library (Bloor/Gladstone Branch) about the history of Goth music.

I'm definitely going to be there and if you are at all interested in the history, influences and contemporary directions of Goth music you should be too!

See you there!


http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT142104&R=EVT142104

From Bauhaus to the Birthday Massacre: Origins and Evolution of Goth Music

Wed Nov 27, 2013

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

90 mins

Bloor/Gladstone

Toronto music journalist Liisa Ladouceur, the author of Encyclopedia Gothica, explores the origins and evolution of goth music, using her book's original Goth Band Family Tree to trace its musical branches from 1970s punk and new wave to its diverse subgenres of today, with its connections to heavy metal, folk and even cabaret.

Goth Heritage FUNdraising!

Hey Folks,

It's time to take our beloved Toronto Goth Heritage Project to the next level. I've been starting to compile new interviews, map new locations and delve beyond Queen St. W. in mapping our historic community space, places and faces.

Many of you asked during Nuit Blanche if I would consider returning to the decks to spin another night and in the interests of supporting the continuation of the project I've decided, along with my friend Jairus and a few others, to give it a go!

So if you would join us in support of the Toronto Goth Heritage Project at Nocturne on the very Goth-y date of Friday Dec. 13th, 2013 we'd be most delighted! (it's okay for Goths to be delighted)

Cover is $10 and proceeds will go directly to the continuation and maintenance of the Toronto Goth Heritage Project as well as help cover expenses associated with the event.

View Event on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/556457321100440

Full Details Below:

Friday December 13th, 2013

Toronto Goth Heritage Project Fundraiser

Featuring Djs: Andrew Lochhead, Jairus Khan & Friends
Playing Gothic Rock, Industrial, Dream Pop, Synth Pop, Coldwave & More

Nocturne
550 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON
10PM - 3AM

$10

Goth Flash Mob! Nuit Blanche Video!

Well here we are official video from the night! Enjoy the memories of our very special open air goth club!

It's a Goth/Industrial DJ's Life

So this pic sourced from Imgur has been circulating amongst my friends for the last few days. but is totally hilarious enough to share again. Folks this is what it's like being a DJ, it's true. Personally I like that the request maker is very specific about which Front 242 song will get their Wiccan life partner moving, but any Nitzer Ebb will do - though you as a successful Goth Industrial DJ know they want to hear Join in The Chant amiright? 

So there you have it: "Headhunter" THE Wiccan dance floor anthem

Some Love From The Last Pogo

Our plaque for the Beverley Tavern was featured today on local filmmaker Colin Brunton's Blog The Last Pogo, a site that features images and documents of Toronto's Punk Past.

You can check out what he and Martha & The Muffins' Mark Gane has to say about our project and a plaque on the Beverley site here: http://www.thelastpogo.net/the-bev-gets-a-plaque/ and find out about the theatrical premier of his film The Last Pogo Jumps Again taking place Nov. 1st at The Big Picture Cinema at 1035 Gerrard.