Chicago DJ Scary Lady Sarah has been running NOCTURNA in Chicago since 1988. Her other nightclub events include: SHIMMER, LA PETITE MORT, BACK TO THE GRAVE, NOCTRONICA, etc. She plays guitar & sings in The Bellwether Syndicate and is also half of the DJ duo The Pirate Twins. #nocturnachicago
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"International Music Promoter, Impresario, Mistress of Ceremonies, Career DJ, Chicago Native,and former 7-year resident of Berlin Germany; Scary Lady Sarah (aka SLS) is the founder and owner of American Gothic Productions (AGP) in Chicago, Illinois;" and one half of the DJ Team The Pirate Twins with gothic/punk music artist William Faith (Christian Death, Shadow Project, Mephisto Walz, Sex Gang Children, Wreckage, Anima Mundi, Conflict, Faith and the Muse). "She has been DJing, booking bands and producing club and concert events for over 22 years." — AGP
"She had her first DJ experience way back in 1986 as co-host of a weekly college radio program ("Night Shift"). Her career as a club DJ started shortly afterwards when she co-founded the longest running Gothic event, Nocturna, in 1988. Since then she has been a featured DJ at some of the most prestigous Goth events in the world, including: Convergence (which she was also an original committee member of); the "C7 Rescue" Saturday night event in NYC; U.K.'s Whitby Gothic Weekend festivals; the Wave Gotik Treffen festival in Leipzig, Germany; the Jungle Club in Rome; at other large-scale Goth festivals throughout England & North America and has also guest DJed gigs in over 26 states. Aside from being a DJ, Scary Lady Sarah has presented hundreds of live bands in Chicago (and on tour), and has hosted several events including: A Gothic Affair, Whiplash, Noctronica and Saturnalia." — AltGothic.com
She currently hosts Chicago Events including: ~NOCTURNA~ held bi-monthly, Nocturna is an 18+ dance night, which features dark alternative, current and classic goth, industrial, post-punk, deathrock, ethereal, shoegaze, post-punk, new wave, ebm, electronic, electronica, aggro, darkwave, dark indie, Guitar-Driven, Goth disco, glam rock, Moody, UK, Melancholic, Rhythmic, Understated Goth, Ambient, Dark Pop, and Trance; ~SHIMMER~ is a monthly dance night of shoegaze, dreampop, psych, space rock, drone, chill, and wave music; and ~BACK TO THE GRAVE~ a quarterly goth, deathrock dance night.
Bookings / Submissions / Official Websites
http://www.americangothicprod.comhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Scary-Lady-Sarah/119531658092693American Gothic Productions
PMB 258, 2506 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60614 USA
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/scaryladysarahhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScaryLadySarahInstagram:
https://www.instagram.com/scaryladysarahTwitter:
https://twitter.com/scaryladysarahTumblr:
https://scaryladysarah.tumblr.com/Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScaryLadySarahSoundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/scaryladysarahBandcamp:
https://bandcamp.com/scaryladysarahMixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/scaryladysarah/The Pirate Twins are the DJ team of Scary Lady Sarah and William Faith.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/thepiratetwins/Chicago, Illinois
Fronted by veteran artist William Faith (formerly of Faith and the Muse, Christian Death, Mephisto Walz, Shadow Project, The March Violets, etc.) and Sarah Rose Faith (aka DJ Scary Lady Sarah), The Bellwether Syndicate are coloring outside of prescribed genre lines, pushing the boundaries of style and substance into something relevant and vital.
Website:
https://thebellwethersyndicate.com/Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/thebellwethersyndicate/Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/thebellwethersyndicate/Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BellwetherSynYoutube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BellwetherSyndicateSoundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/the-bellwether-syndicateBandcamp:
https://thebellwethersyndicate.bandcamp.com/https://www.twitch.tv/scaryladysarahScary Lady Sarah passionately enjoys & promotes good, new, dark alternative music. Since 1988 she has been a nightclub DJ, also booking bands and producing club events. Her main event is NOCTURNA, an 18+ dark alternative dance night held once every 6 - 8 weeks in Chicago at the venerated establishment Metro, and is the longest running goth event in North America.
Some other club events/parties which SLS regularly runs include: SHIMMER, monthly shoegaze/dreampop night; LA PETITE MORT, bi-monthly 21st century goth/postpunk night; BACK TO THE GRAVE, annual all goth/deathrock night; and NOCTRONICA, annual all ebm/industrial night, all held in Chicago. She has many other guest DJ spots at other clubs & festivals around town and the world, plus, she DJs the coolest alternative weddings.
She also plays guitar & sings in the band THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE (as Sarah Rose) with her husband William Faith and is half of their DJ duo, THE PIRATE TWINS.
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