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Come dressed to impress and win a FREE TATTOO from Visual Orgasm! (terms and conditions apply) *

Come 13 March 2009, the Singapore Dark Alternative Movement (SDAM) will revolutionise local club culture once more with internationally-acclaimed talent DJ Mini (Montreal, Canada). As the only club event featuring exclusively Gothic / Industrial / Electronic Body Music (EBM) / Darkwave / Future Pop music in Singapore, Dark Friday’s sixth installment promises another stellar night of mayhem and misdemeanors for devotees of the Gothic and Alternative subcultures.

Headlining March’s event is DJ Mini (Montreal, Canada). DJ Mini could be considered the Canadian lady of electroland, with a unique and dynamic sound like no other. Her heavy exposure to techno, new wave and German squarewave productions led her to produce her first original album release, Audio Hygiene, in October 2006. DJ Mini also holds a residency at Montreal’s Parking Club since 2003, serving as its Artistic Director and hosting the world’s leading techno / electro talents. Her deep passion for cutting-edge electronica has lent itself to innovative collaborations with France’s legendary Eighties goth-rockers Trisomie 21 and fellow Montrealers Lesbians on Ecstasy.

13 March 2009 also represents the Record Release party for the following albums:

- ENTERTAINMENT’s Gender
- FEEDING FINGERS’ Baby Teeth
- FEMME FATALITYs’ One’s Not Enough

ENTERTAINMENT, a musical project founded in Atlanta, USA draws on the sounds of the early gothic successes of the 1980s, producing a dark and disturbing soundscape inspired by Bauhaus, the Virgin Prunes and literary figure Franz Kafka.

FEEDING FINGERS, also hailing from Atlanta, USA is inspired by Gothic veterans The Cure and X-Mal Deutschland. Lead singer Justin Curfman resonates with a tragic and ethereal beauty, painting complex pictures of desolation in the vein of The Cure classic “Faith”.

FEMME FATALITY, established since 2003, consists of American brothers and duo Alexander and Monanani Palermo, blending ‘80s synth and hip-hop in a sinister and unconventional mix of biting electro-punk sentiment.

Hot off the success of the December 2008 installment of ‘Dark Friday’ featuring electro-industrial talents DJs DestroyX and ZooG (Australia / Germany) of Angelspit fame, the SDAM has breathed life into local club culture with an exclusive and bonafide Gothic / Dark Alternative clubbing experience held at Night and Day Bar. The benchmark-setting event has drawn considerable attention as the new and emerging Mecca of Dark Alternative Music in Southeast Asia, since hosting on other separate occasions, DJ Panic of the notorious Slimelight Goth club in London and DJ Eskil Simonsson of Sweden's darkwave kings Covenant.

As Dark Friday is held as a social imperative to promote the Goth and Dark Alternative subculture in Singapore, a reasonable S$12 cover will be requested of all patrons. The uninitiated will find their musical sensibilities bombarded with music colloquially referred to as ‘gothic trance’ or ‘hard floor’. Yet familiar dark alternative anthems are likely to be spun amidst new, groundbreaking releases with local deck surgeons DJ Saito Nagasaki (Aesgrade), DJ Mentor (X’ho in a guise) and DJ Murderfreak in tow.

Dark Friday has also attained international sponsorship from global publishing and promotion company NetManagement who has remained staunch in support since the ‘Machines Against Hunger‘ launch and charity event (Beneficiary – Action against Hunger) for Singapore and Southeast Asia by SDAM, held on Friday, 13thJune 2008. As part of their gracious gesture to relinquish one Friday a month to the alternative social collective, Night and Day Bar has adapted quickly to SDAM’s devoted denizens, serving up $18 absinthe shots while also providing a cosmopolitan outlook on their unique and vibrant aesthetics.

* As an added treat for Dark Friday patrons, the crew from Singapore-based tattoo studio Visual Orgasm will be tattooing live at the event. They will also sponsor a FREE TATTOO for the best-dressed guest on 13 March 2009, under the following terms and conditions:

1. The winner will be determined by DJ Mini and Visual Orgasm. All decisions made are FINAL.
2. The tattoo size and specifications are up to the sole discretion of Visual Orgasm.
3. The tattoo is not transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash.
4. To qualify, participants must adhere to outfits inspired by dark alternative aesthetics (BDSM / fetish or Gothic).

For more information:

SDAM and Dark Friday details / party pictures – http://www.sdam.asia
SDAM Portal and Forum – http://www.sdam.sg
SDAM Official Livejournal - http://singaporegoths.livejournal.com
SDAM Official Facebook community - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5512868844
DJ Mini - http://djmini.com/

Sponsors:

NetManagement – http://www.myspace.com/netmanagement
Visual Orgasm - http://www.visual-orgasm.com/
Night and Day Bar - http://www.nightandday.sg/