Faq
The General Defiance FAQ
A. It USED to be held every third Friday EXCEPT for our Halloween event!!!! The next event is at Fat City in San Francisco!
Q. Where is Defiance held?
A. Our original home was Club Caution, Santa Cruz, California, on 516 Front Street. Phone number there is 831-425-2582. It is a sushi restaurant now... feel free to call them up and say hello.
Q. I have a hard time finding my way and need directions, can you help?
A. If you're looking for Fat City, just go to www.MySpace.com/FatCitySF and find your way around. If you're looking for Club Caution's old location - Yahoo! can always help.
Q. Are there any outlines of patron rights or rules for Defiance?
A. Yes, due to many questions about our policies, we have both rules and rights pages. We are always revising these and feel free to send us suggestions.
Q. Do you take requests? (yes)
What should I do if harassed at the club? (contact staff)
Are you going to sell my email address to Wal-Mart and/or Satan? (no)
A. See patron rights for more information on these questions and others like them.
Q. Can I distribute outside media (flyers, CDs, and etc.) at Defiance? (no)
Can I approach staff about general problems? (yes)
Can I bring weapons? (no)
Is there a dress code? (yes)
When does Defiance open? (9:00pm/21+, 9:45pm/18+)
When does it close? (1:40am sharp)
A. See patron rules for more information on these questions and others like them.
Q. Where is the DJ schedule?
A. You can find the DJ schedule at both club entrances, at the entrance to the Black Cat Lounge, and on the backdoor of the back room DJ booth.
Q. What is the format of the club, in general?
A. Actual gothic rock, deathrock, post-punk, (dark/new)wave, gothic'industrial (from WaxTrax!, TVT, and beyond,) and structured noise. Different DJs specialize in different things. Different rooms have different themes.
Q. How do I make a request?
A. Find any DJ or any member of staff. It is suggested that you submit your request to the DJ that most fits the style of music you are requesting. Read the DJ bios and make your decision.
Q. When I make a request, when/where will it be played?
A. Good question. If you made your request to a DJ, check the DJ schedule that is posted in various places around the club and check-out that DJ's set.
If you made a request to a staff member, specify where you would like your request played and we will try our best to accomodate you.
Q. Where do I submit demos? (Band and DJ)
A. Numerous ways. You can contact staff at ClubDefiance dot com and make arrangements to snail-mail or electronically transmit demos.
You can also submit them to Ðante or Mike Creep the day of Defiance.
Q. Is there any surefire way to get booked at Defiance? (for DJs)
A. No. Being good helps. If you're not good, open DJ tryouts are always at 8:00pm the night of an event or by appointment - contact staff at ClubDefiance dot com.
Defiance is and always *has* been about developing new talent.
Q. Is there any surefire way to get booked at Defiance? (for bands)
A. No. A combination of talent, (on the band's side,) timing, and luck all determine which bands we book and when.
Bothering Ðante really hard never hurts, though.
Q. I would like to be on the guest list - how do I get on there?
A. If you have to ask,..., you'll never know. (Since you were so kind to read this, *email* the correct authorities and see what happens).
No, we do not do club courtesy. Yes, we will always guest-list promoters with whom we are on good terms. We are also extremely generous with anybody who is helping the club out in any way/shape/form. You know who to call in advance.
Q. Why do you so vehemently fight for artistic freedom among DJs?
A. Some DJs are artists. Some DJs simply know how to hit play. We only deal with artists. Artists should have a space where they can play what they want with minimal interference. (We do not count requests as interference). Sometimes instructions are given, but those are usually *very* unrestrictive.
Q. Why is Defiance so successful?
A. We get this question every-other minute. We don't give up are secrets for anyone. We don't count are spelling mistakes, either.
Q. What is the best FAQ ever written for a band?
A. Probably one of the few you'll find here. They even explain what "nine while nine" means in the UK.
Q. I have heard that Meester is the #1 Latin lover of California, Ðante is an evil person, PhreakiBoi doesn't own underwear, Narce once made love in a cemetary, Creep burned down half of LA, Neshamah is a meth addict from New Orleans, Tristan von Wasserspeier is a German who kills bunnies with homemade pipe-bombs, and that everybody else in Defiance is wholly unethical and beyond redemption... is any of that true?
A. You left out a few parts.
Q. Hi, I have been to this FAQ 80+ times to read more about your club since I am a digital stalker trying to do one of the following:
1. Get more information about Meester so I can seduce him into making hot love to me since real artists turn me on so much. (Of course, I still don't get what all of those naked girls are doing on the back of his flyer - don't you people know that sex doesn't sell? When I told him to put pictures of 15-year old, emaciated women looking coy on his promotions instead of something classy, he conjured-up a demon of unholy deathrock to chase me out of the club!)
2. Whine to Narce about how he didn't play one of my 25,958 requests for second-rate futurepop bands in the middle of a set of Christian Death and 45 Grave-type artists. (I think it's offensive that he wouldn't take my request and just turn *off* that lame-ass music. Rozz who? Legendary Pink what? And tell him to stop queuing music while I'm talking to him because that offends me. I even tried getting *another* DJ to put-on that Apop CD in the middle of his set but he wouldn't - what the hell is wrong with your club?!!?)
3. Find out how to be as sauve as Mr. Creep when he already told me to stop following him for the 18th time in one month. (I tried telling him I love him since he looks just like the only gothic rock artist I know by name, "Robert Smith," but that only made him run faster to get his 2x4 out of the DJ booth.)
4. Obtain more information about what Ðante will do next since I haven't got an original idea in my body.
(Maybe he's doing an indie-rock club for post-punk rockers that involves poetry reading - I can copy that... but I won't play any post-punk or indie-rock and we won't have poetry. After we run that into the ground, we'll rape the next club format from some two-bit club in San Francisco since that is where all of the latest-and-greatest trends come from in music. NYC? New Orleans? LA? Never heard of those places.)
5. Harass PhreakiBoi because I think that Rotersand is a punk rock band from Leicester.
I mean, what the hell is with this "dark" electronic crap he plays all of the time? Doesn't he know that DVD Nation is the most important, electronic act of all time?! He needs to get with the program.
6. Ask Tristan von Wasserspeier to play the only industrial-dance song I know by every band in his musical collection. (After all, Alien Faktor, Klinik, Spahn Ranch, and Heavy Water Factory only have *one* song... you know... the one they always play at that other club we go to... wait - is Heavy Water Factory the one that wrote "Epicentre?" Didn't Spahn Ranch write that song about "once in a lifetime?" Oh wait... those bands can't be industrial-dance since they all use guitar riffs!)
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Do you think you can help me with any of those?
A. Wow. We don't know if it is any more or less funny because every one of those situations has happened. The one I find the most amusing are the comments about the girls on our Black Cat Lounge flyers - since when are 60s Bond/Playboy models considered lewd and improper?
