Articles tagged with dancing

HERE COMES YOUR GLOOMY (Feeling Gloomy pays homage to the Pixies)

Want to feel old? Pixies’ Doolittle came out 25 years ago. Holy crap. If ever there was a band that helped us get through high school, being weird, putting up with Tyler Durden being a dick, and comprehending why bands ever reunite, it’s the Pixies. (Sorry, it’s hard sometimes to drop the “the.”) So for this month’s Feeling Gloomy we thought we’d pay tribute to one of the best pre-indie rock bands.

•    + DJs Gordon and Nathaniel Gloom will play play armloads of songs by Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey and David, both together and apart. Plus we’ll delve into our late 80s / early 90s college rock collections and play some of the gloomiest songs from their contemporaries like the Cure, R.E.M., Love and Rockets, the La’s, etc.
•    + Got a Death to the Pixies T-shirt (or the like)? Wear it and we’ll let you in for $4
•    + A Pixies-themed cake!

Here Comes Your Gloomy
(Feeling Gloomy pays homage to the Pixies)
w/DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom
Saturday, September 20 @ the Grand Victory
+ 3rd Saturdays every month
Dress to depress
245 Grand St, Williamsburg
L/G to Metropolitan
$4 advance / $6 at the door / $4 if you’re wearing a Pixies shirt
Facebook event
Feeling Gloomy NYC FB Group
The Brothers Gloom on Twitter

Crazy $ince da 90$

We’re getting crazy again on Saturday night at UNION HALL! Cause uh, DUH, the 90s was only like the raddest decade ever!

We’ll be throwin down all your favorite 90s joints to get you all nostalgic for those awesome times. All the good stuff and maybe some bad stuff. It’s gonna be da bomb and all that. No diggity. No doubt.

DJs: STEFONIX :: BRENDAN :: BIANCA

SPECIAL GUEST: DJ VINYL RICHIE

HIP HOP :: R&B :: HOUSE :: ALTERNATIVE

FREE before 11pm for the first 100 RSVPs
$5 after 11pm or w/o RSVP
RSVP: ticketf.ly/1s2CJOG

**$7 gin & juice drink special all night**

Crazy Since da 90s
w/DJs Stefonix, Brendan, Bianca & Vinyl Richie
Saturday, September 20 @ Union Hall
702 Union St, Park Slope, Brooklyn
R to Union / Everything to Atlantic Terminal

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog SING-ALONG and Joss Whedon-Themed Party

This show is so popular we already sold out! But don’t fear, we added a 2nd show at midnight: http://www.unionhallny.com/event/685659

Your application to the Evil League of Evil has been received and you (and your henchpeople) are invited to Union Hall for our Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Sing-Along and Whedonverse Party to sing along to the musical based on our newest member, Dr. Horrible! We’ll be showing Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog in its entirety with all the lyrics on screen so everyone can sing along together to their favorite songs. Come in costume as your super villain (or hero) alter ego or as your favorite character from the Whedonverse! Throughout the event we’ll have contests, prizes and surprises to make the night even more horrible…we mean, memorable.

Featuring:

• Dr. Horrible and Whedon-themed contests and trivia with cool (and evil) prizes like memorabilia from across the Whedonverse, Evil League of Evil membership cards, free drinks and gift cards for frozen yogurt!
• Drinking games paired with the movie so you can sing-along AND drink-along!
• Audition for the Evil League of Evil! Impress Bad Horse with your original super villain costume!
• Show your love of the Whedonverse and dress up as a character from one of his TV shows or movies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Angel, Dr. Horrible, Dollhouse, or The Avengers…if Whedon is in the credits it’s fair game!
• Our bartender has a Ph.D. in Horribleness…and awesome cocktails! We’ve got themed drinks like the Wonderflonium, Moist’s Lemonade, the Freeze Ray, and more!
• Soundtrack and jams provided by our Henchman Union-certified DJ, DJ BRIAN BLACKOUT!

Presented by New York Comic Con’s New York Super Week and Secret Formula

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog SING-ALONG and Joss Whedon-Themed Party
Saturday, October 4 @ Union Hall
702 Union St, Park Slope, Brooklyn
R to Union / Everything to Atlantic Terminal
FB Event

For more info, visit: newyorkcomiccon.com/New-York-Super-Week

Brokelyn High Homecoming Dance
Celebrating 5 Years of Brokelyn

Brokelyn is turning 5 and we’re taking you back to high school to celebrate!

Join us and principal Scott Rogowsky (of Running Late) at the Bell House for a night of dancing, awkward school photos, games, comedy, music, and a sweet raffle featuring hundreds of dollars in prizes from around Brooklyn, including A BRAND NEW BIKE FROM Ride Brooklyn!! Also featuring special guest homecoming committee member Danny Tamberelli (of Manboobs Comedy and Little Pete from Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete and Pete!”)

Homecoming activities include:

• Shaking your body to classic school dance tunes with DJ Brian Blackout
• A Brooklyn words spelling bee (with prizes!)
• The Hot for Teacher dance off (also with prizes!)
• Crowning the gender-neutral Brokecoming king and queen (with crowns!)
• Free awkward high school pictures photobooth

And even though it’s our birthday, we want to give YOU presents, so the Best of Brooklyn raffle will include:

• $100 towards a tattoo at NYHC Tattoos
• 4 passes to TrivWorks‘ next Pat Kiernan-hosted event
• $100 to spend at Film Biz Recycling (and an absurd naked man statue from them too)
• A new helmet and a tune up from Bicycle Roots
• Dinner for 2 at Water Table
• And did we mention: a BRAND NEW BIKE?!?

And much more yet to come!

Brokelyn High Homecoming Dance
Celebrating 5 Years of Brokelyn
Thursday, October 16 @ the Bell House
149 7th St, Gowanus, Bk
F/G/R to 4th-9th
$12 cover – 8pm til late

[All proceeds from the party go to the Brokelyn Writers’ fund and to help keep Brokelyn going for another 5 years and beyond]

More info

The Rebirth of HAPPY HOUSE

Four years ago, we created something pretty awesome in south Brooklyn. From The Bell House and Union Hall to Le Poisson Rouge and whatever gypsy bars would let us play music, we were fortunate enough to groove with so many of you. It’s almost been a year since we last played, but we’re anxious to dance with you again.

In short: come dressed to sweat and let your freak flag fly. We’ll make sure that no matter what you’re into, we’ll have something for that disco booty of yours. (Unless that “something” is dubstep. We digress.)

HAPPY HOUSE
with musical ambassadors Mister Disco & Brian Blackout
Friday, June 13 @ Tandem
236 Troutman St, Bushwick, Brooklyn
L train to Jefferson
10:30pm – 4am
No cover!
Facebook event

CRAZY SINCE DA 90s 3rd Anniversary

We’re gonna adjust the bass and let the alpine blast on Saturday night at UNION HALL! Cause it’s our 3 year anniversary and cause it’s finally SUMMER SUMMER SUMMERTIME! You can’t deny that the 90s was only like the raddest decade ever so we’re gonna keep it fresher than fresh for you tonight.

We’ll be throwin down all your favorite 90s joints to get you all nostalgic for those awesome times. All the good stuff and maybe some bad stuff. It’s gonna be da bomb and all that. No diggity. No doubt.

DJs:: STEFONIX :: BRENDAN :: BIANCA

FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST DJ ::
DJ RAICHOUS (http://djraichous.com)

HIP HOP :: R&B :: HOUSE :: ALTERNATIVE

FREE before 11pm for the first 100 RSVPs
RSVP:bit.ly/3year90s
$5 w/o RSVP or after 11pm

**$7 Gin & Juice drink special all night**

Crazy Since da 90s 3rd Anniversary
w/DJs Stefonix, Brendan, Bianca & Raichous
Saturday, June 14 @ Union Hall
702 Union St, Park Slope, Brooklyn
R to Union / Everything to Atlantic Terminal

SHAREGROOVE 10th Anniversary

Celebrate 10yrs of Sharegroove with DJ’s Duckcomb & ShakeWell bringing it on the Klipsh sound system !

Special opening/warm up set from:
BiLla (A/V Club, Dulcet Collective/ Philly)

Only $5 b4 midnight // $10 after

BYO – cups & ice available

for the address, email: sharegroovedjs@gmail.com

Space is somewhat limited, we encourage arriving earlier than later.
No reentry after 4am.

The space is located in Bushwick – steps to L-Jefferson stop

Saturday June 14th
TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY
SHAREGROOVE
@Starvue Loft
L to Jefferson
Only $5 b4 midnight // $10 after
Facebook Event

FEELING GLOOMY gets MORRISSEY FOMO

We all heard the news, Morrissey cancelled his whole dang tour. Of course he did. We had been planning on spending the evening reveling in the misery of missing the show, but now we can ALL do that, even those of us who had the cheddar to afford those ticket prices.

As such, if you can show the door person your Morrissey ticket, we’ll let you in for half off! Fate giveth, and fate taketh away…

AS YOU WERE:

Well, we’re doing a Feeling Gloomy the exact same night that Morrissey plays the Barclays Center. Some of us have seen him live, some haven’t, but none of us wanted to pay the mega-high cover charge to see him in the equivalent of a giant arena, so… we didn’t get tickets. And now we have FOMO.

WTF is FOMO you ask? For those not into internet abbreviating lingo it means Fear Of Missing Out. Like, we didn’t get tickets, but we’re also very concerned we’ve missed a life-changingly gloomy experience. So we have one course of action:

THROW A GIGANTIC MORRISSEY-THEMED DANCE PARTY!! (with)

•    + a Morrissey Soul(less) Train (exactly what it sounds like)
•    + a bad poetry contest & recital
•    + Morrissey-themed baked goods
•    + Morrissey/Smiths concert footage projected onto your writhing, dancing, oscillating wildly bodies
•    + Your favorite depressed DJs Gordon and Nathaniel Gloom playing a lorry full of Morrissey & Smiths songs, plus all your favorite anglophilic, gloomy faves

Feeling Gloomy Gets Morrissey FOMO
w/DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom
Saturday, June 21 @ the Grand Victory
245 Grand St, Williamsburg
L/G to Metropolitan
$4 advance / $6 at the door
Facebook event
Feeling Gloomy NYC FB Group
The Brothers Gloom on Twitter

HEAD ON: BOWIE vs PRINCE

Hey, who is your favorite androgynous, multi-decade, multi-genre, trailblazing, influential, possibly bisexual rock star/sex symbol? Well, we’re not really sure what you’ll say, but we feel very certain that it’s one or the other of this month’s themes: David Bowie, or the artist currently known (we think) as Prince. Between the two of them, they’ve collaborated with everyone from Kate Bush to Giorgio Moroder to Bing Crosby, tackled every genre we can think of except for polka and dubstep, and introduced more young minds to the idea of sex than you shake a stick at. BUT, which would make for a better dance party? We have no idea, but we’re going to have a blast finding out.

Head On is a monthly dance battle pitting two themes against one another. Resident DJs Brian Blackout, Spoolwork, and Lepaux will pit suffragettes against controversy, modern love against a love bizarre, Andy Warhol against Annie Christian, “Suffragette City” against “Erotic City,” and “Dance, Magic Dance” against “Batdance.” And you’ll pick the winner (by dancing).

Two DJs enter
One DJ leaves

Head On
w/residents Lepaux, Spoolwork, & Brian Blackout
Friday June 27 @ Littlefield
622 Degraw St, Gowanus, Bk
R to Union / F/G to Fulton / Everything to Atlantic Terminal
11:00 p.m. – late
no cover
Facebook Event
Head On FB page
Head On Twitter

AIR A DANSER

Air a Danser –
Every Thursday
5pm

Laid back music selections by :
Matt Brownell & Steve ShakeWell

Air a Danser is:
An “All Filler, No Killer” get together, featuring the sounds of :
– relieving the turnstile stress, smooth operating, hot sax, tranquillo, and other urban beach bar vibes
@
Battery Harris
http://www.batteryharris.com/

Happy Hr Specials til 7pm
– $ 3 select drafts
– $ 4 well
– $ 10 burger & beer
+
**Frozen Balearic Breezes
…our own signature rum drink, a take on Steve’s bay breeze
+
a tasty Caribbean themed menu

RELEASE THE BEAST

Starting in February, Release the Beast moves into regular rotation, we’ll be throwing the party every first Friday. Starting this month we’ll be showing our favorite blaxsploitation movies projected onto the stage. This month we’ll be showing Three the Hard Way, packed with guns, explosions, karate kicking, and some great songs by Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions.

We also have a very special guest coming in for February! Eugene Tambourine has been spinning sublime dance classics at events like his former Solid party for ages. He’s done more disco edits than anyone we know, including more than a few we’ve played at Release the Beast. His ability to hop around from genre to genre effortlessly should make for a fine time!

Release the Beast
Friday Feb. 7 @ the Grand Victory
& 1st Fridays
Special guest DJ Eugene Tambourine & residents Brian Blackout (Head On) & Doctor Mister (Feeling Gloomy)
spinning soul, funk, disco, arena rock, psychedelia, krautrock, garage and a little of everything in between.
+ go-go dancers & a projection of Three the Hard Way
@the Grand Victory
245 Grand St, Williamsburg
L/G to Metropolitan
NO COVER

HEAD ON: LOVE vs. LUST

Like it or not, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and we decided this would be the perfect time to pose the question: which makes for better dancing? Hot, burning love? Or hot, throbbing lust? Should V-day be the domain of lovers? Or of the sort of lovers who pass in the night? Are the best songs sung by Romeos or Lotharios?

Head On, the party that every month pits two themes and two DJs up against one another, aims to find out. Resident DJs Brian Blackout & Spoolwork are combing through their records to find the cheesiest, sappiest love songs, and the sweatiest, stickiest songs about lust. We’ll pit them against one another at midnight going head to head until the audience picks a winner by going nuts on the dancefloor. Help us celebrate the Hallmarkiest of holidays by going dancing instead!

Head On
w/residents Spoolwork & Brian Blackout
Saturday Feb. 14 @ the Bell House front room
149 Seventh Street, Gowanus, Bk
F/G/R to 4th-9th
11:00 p.m. – late
no cover
Facebook event
Head On FB page
Head On Twitter

FEELING GLOOMY PRESENTS CHEER UP, BOWIE

We fast approach the time of the year when greeting card companies like to reminds us we should all be in committed relationships that involve spending lots of money on each other. Here at Feeling Gloomy, we’re not that interested in happiness, glee, that sort of stuff. So we’d like to offer up an alternative to Valentine’s. The Saturday following V-Day, we shall throw…
…
…
(pause for dramatic effect)
THE REBOUND BALL.

Feeling Gloomy is always a dance party that focuses on the maudlin, and in rejoicing in sadness (and British-ness). This month we’re going to pay special attention to all those songs about heartache, breaking up, unrequited love, and all the emotions that get swept under the rug by this stupid holiday. This is a party for the lonely, for the dumped (or, we suppose, for the dumper, that’s tough too we’re told). We’ll be creating anti-Valentine’s hearts that you can wear (and make yourself) to show off how sad, heartbroken, or clever you are (hopefully all three).

We’re also going to hold a bad poetry competition. Anyone can enter by posting bad poetry on our Facebook wall, and we’ll choose three finalists who get free passes to Feeling Gloomy. The finalists must recite their godawful poetry on stage and the winner of those, the Superbowl of Awful Poetry,™ will win a Pathetic Prize Pack curated by FGNYC. So…

Feeling Gloomy presents
The Rebound Ball
w/DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom
+ Make and wear anti-Valentine’s hearts to show people your *real* feelings
+ Make passes at other people wearing anti-Valentine’s hearts
+ Enter and judge our Superbowl of Awful Poetry™ contest
Saturday, Feb. 15 @ the Grand Victory
245 Grand St, Williamsburg
L/G to Metropolitan
$4 advance / $6 at the door
Facebook event
Feeling Gloomy NYC FB Group
The Brothers Gloom on Twitter

HEAD ON ANNIVERSARY: BRITPOP vs. INDIE ROCK REMATCH

One year ago this January, DJs Brian Blackout, Spoolwork and Lepaux created Head On, a dance party where every month we pick two themes and pit them against one another and the dancefloor crowns the winner. In the last 12 months we’ve had some crazy packed fun parties and every minute has been a blast. We’ve done bands, countries, genres, robots, jocks, dads you name it, and we’ve had a lot of fun picking out themes. For our 1st anniversary we decided to let our fans pick one of the themes we did this year for a rematch, and you chose Britpop vs Indie Rock.

Fitting, considering that it was our first theme and still one of our favorites. Last year, Britpop reigned supreme, but will the same thing happen again? Spoolwork will take up the challenge and try to rally indie rock, while we’re bringing in two special guest DJs, Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom of the Feeling Gloomy party. We figured britpop demanded the experts. Spoolwork will take them both on. So come and see if britpop can stand the test of time or if indie rock can rally from behind. Either way, we’re gonna have a killer time figuring it out.

Head On
w/guest DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom
+ residents Spoolwork & Brian Blackout
Saturday Dec. 7 @ the Bell House front room
149 Seventh Street, Gowanus, Bk
F/G/R to 4th-9th
10:00 p.m. – late
no cover
Facebook event
Head On FB page

Head On Twitter

FEELING GLOOMY PRESENTS CHEER UP, BOWIE

Lately, David Bowie just hasn’t seemed like that same old Bowie. On his new record, he felt so lonely he could die, he lost love, he talks a lot about Berlin (Germany! Depressing!) and thinks a lot about doing stuff like setting the world on fire, or how he’d rather be high. Jesus, Bowie, you’re bringing us all down. We think we should celebrate his birthday and try to make him feel better.

Imagine, Bowie hurries over to Feeling Gloomy, a little later than his usual impeccable timing, cracks open the door to the Grand Victory, pays his $6 cover charge and hustles over to buy a Narragansett from Sean. He begins to suspect something when he notices everyone has had their faces painted like Ziggy Stardust at our Bowie face painting station (to station). Then he realizes that everyone over by the DJ booth is whirling around to all of their favorite songs of his. Hardly anyone ever plays “The Secret Life of Arabia” at dance parties, thinks Bowie! Imagine the look on Bowie’s face! His heart would swell three sizes, and clearly he’d run out on the dancefloor to find his mates and give them a big hug.

So that’s exactly how the night is going to play out. We’re pretty sure. In any event it’ll be a lot of good fun.

+ Bowie-themed cake!
+ Bowie face-painting
+ Bowie might shake your hand and give your bum a nice squeeze (if he shows up)
+ Labyrinth-style codpieces *highly* encouraged

All that AND DJs Gordon and Nathaniel Gloom spinning your favorite trainspottery (and not so trainspottery) David Bowie songs + all your gloomy, anglophilic faves

Feeling Gloomy presents
Cheer Up, Bowie
w/DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom
Saturday, Jan. 18 @ the Grand Victory
245 Grand St, Williamsburg
L/G to Metropolitan
$4 advance / $6 at the door
Facebook event
Feeling Gloomy NYC FB Group
The Brothers Gloom on Twitter

RELEASE THE BEAST

After last month’s debut of Release the Beast at a new venue, YDH2S DJs Brian Blackout and Mister Brown are excited to bring the party back to the Grand Victory, where it will be a monthly on first Fridays, starting in February. In the meantime they’re throwing one more irregular Release the Beast at the end of January. The music will range the gamut of 60’s & 70’s non-synthy genres, touching on soul, funk, disco, arena rock, psychedelia, krautrock, garage and a little of everything in between.

Release the Beast
Friday Jan. 24 @ the Grand Victory
& 1st Fridays thereafter
245 Grand St, Williamsburg
L/G to Metropolitan
NO COVER