In the heart of darkness...

Alternatively, visit to a goth /electronic/ punk club. Quite an experience I have to say.

First the place was a well run down multi-store warehouse – yet at a quite central location: Islington, London. Supposedly it is one of the best in Europe. Slimelight.com.

Second the people. Or should I better say the costumes. Mostly people were dressed in black,few in white – bits of red here and there. Spikes, lots of garter belts, fishnets (every seen an elbow fishnet?), tatoos.

Dancing styles varied from ‘to the beat of the music’ (if you can say that), to thrashing around like an eel, rave style, and the all times favourite slow and raunchy (for the ladies).

Best costumes of the night was a blonde lady, in a Moulin Rouge style dressing but all in black – quite distinct and a bold guy who was dressed like a Vatican priest in black and wearing a huge metal crucifix – we dubbed him the exorcist. He was spooky, he would talk to people and we could actually listen to what he was saying from 5 meters away over the music and the bass… The sound of poltergeist, literally.

Quite a few people were holding multi-colour light sticks and they were giving quite a show on a couple of platforms there were available. On these platforms there were metal cages were typically ladies were getting in and dancing.. Mostly in twos – the slow and raunchy style… A friend described the whole thing appropriately as soon as we got in, she said: “Have you seen Blade II? Well the scene at the club- that is where we are” - in a nutshell.