Nothing but the best DANCEFLOOR ALTERNATIVE / SYNTH / ELECTRO / 80's & 90'S / ROCK / NEW WAVE / INDUSTRIAL / EBM / PUNK
Some bands we love : New Model Army / Depeche Mode / Katskan / Fiendflug / Infected Mushroom / And One / Assemblage 23 / The Thin White Duke / Bauhaus / Nirvana / The Pixies / The Violent Femmes / Love And Rockets / Joy Division / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Scissor Sisters / INXS / Dead Kennedys / The Cramps / Chemical Brothers / Basement Jaxx / Cobalt 60 / Cleen / Front 242 / Skinny Puppy / Frontline Assembly / Coil / Covenant / The Cure / Siouxsie & The Banshees / Sisters Of Mercy / Mindless Self Indulgence / David Bowie / Delerium / Dulce Liquido / Einsturzende Neubauten / Kraftwerk / The Prodigy / Icon Of Coil / Angelspit / KMFDM / She Wants Revenge / Mylo / Klinik / Lords Of Acid / Ministry / Nine Inch Nails / Nizter Ebb / Sebastien Komor / Razed In Black / Rob Zombie / Stray Cats / Suicide Commando / Test Dept. / Urceus Exit / Landscape Body Machine / S.V.D / Synthetic Minister / Type O Negative / Cradle Of Filth / Underworld / Wolfsheim / Wumpscut / Yello / Collide / Voltaire / Dimmu Borghir / Trentmoller / Timo Maas
Movies
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SANCTUARY
REGULARLY ON THE
1st, 3rd & 5th SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH
CLUB 23 WEST / 23 WEST CORDOVA
GASTOWN / VANCOUVER, BC
* (SPECIAL EVENTS MAY DIFFER!)
ALWAYS THE BEST
ALTERNATIVE / SYNTH / ELECTRO
NEW WAVE / 80's / 90's / ROCK
INDUSTRIAL / EBM / SYNTHPOP
DOORS 9 PM / PARTY 'TIL 3 AM
FREE BEFORE 10 PM
STUDENTS FREE UNTIL 11 PM
TWO FOR ONE WITH CAB RECEIPT ALL NIGHT
*$5 COVER AFTER 10 PM DRESSED TO KILL ALL IN BLACK, GOTH, CYBER, PUNK, FETISH, GLAM, NEW WAVE, RIVET, MILITARY, ETC
*6 COVER AFTER 10 PM PLAINCLOTHES
Sanctuary Bio:
Established in 1997, Sanctuary Saturdays is Vancouver's longest-running night devoted to alternative culture and music, and the second longest running night in the city overall. Originally started and thriving at the Palladium before moving to well-loved residencies at The Purple Onion, Sonar, Celebrities, The Red Room and The Lotus, Sanctuary now is found demolishing the dancefloor at Club 23 West, 23 West Cordova, on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Saturdays of every month, alternating with it's sister night, the notorious Sin City Fetish Party.
Sanctuary is a place you can come dressed to the 9's in full freak regalia or insane costume and everyone will love it, or show up in jeans and a t-shirt and no one will blink, since everyone's just there to cut loose and have fun.
Attended by a huge crossover mix of freaks, punks, club kids, goths, rivets, hipsters, mods and every style under the sun and moon, there's a little something for everyone at Skank. The one thing the night ISN'T is the same shit hour after hour and week after week. What are you gonna hear? Deadly new tracks, favourite classics and shit from left field thrown in now and then for good measure. Beware!
+ occasional guests including Contrasoma, Lucent, Pyxis & more!
--> Check out these archived videos from past parties and host venues, loads of fun and full of eye candy!
Who I'd like to meet: People who aren't afraid to leave bruises on their feet from hitting the dancefloor so hard. Or on their liver from equally terrorizing the bar. Music, band and nightlife lovers of all kinds.
this S A T U R D A Y 6/20 @ the fez ballroom! ELECTRIC FEEL upstairs, DEMENTIA on the second floor! DJs rhienna, reverend of rock (from seattle!), non, valence & mohawk adam! +
ELECTRIC FEEL is every THIRD SATURDAY. featuring special guest DJs, avante garde cinema and rare film via projector, 2 floors of dancing, and more!
21:00 (Vortex) Necropolis --------------------------------- A Covenant of Thorns World in My Eyes ------------------------- Depeche Mode You and Me and Rainbows -------------- Tear Garden 18 Creature ------------------------------- Modern Jazz Gummitwist -------------------------------- Der Plan Everyday is Halloween ------------------ Ministry 1, 2, 3, 4 ---------------------------------- Feist Every Me, Every You -------------------- Placebo If Only and Sometimes ------------------ Rosetta Stone Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man - Love & Rockets Ex-Lover's Lover ------------------------- Voltaire All Night Long ----------------------------- Peter Murphy
22:00 (Pandemonium) IAE (In the Nursery remix) -------------- Attrition Travelogue -------------------------------- Null Device Savage Logic ------------------------------ Die Form Falling -------------------------------------- Mind in a Box Poetry of Angels (remix) ---------------- Soil & Eclipse Sturm + Fantasie ------------------------ Pzychobitch Dirtygirls/Dirtyboys ---------------------- Faderhead Headhunter (Apop remix) -------------- Front 242 Dare to Live (remix) --------------------- Rotersand
22:45 (Lucent) Procession -------------------------------- VNVnation Die Offenbarung ------------------------- Heimataerde Die Muse ---------------------------------- Unheilig Rebel Rebel ------------------------------- David Bowie Glamour Boy ------------------------------ Sina Rodent (DDT mix) ------------------------ Skinny Puppy Brutal -------------------------------------- c-tec Body Burn --------------------------------- Cubanate As We Fall (Bunker mix) ----------------- Imperative Reaction Just Another Part ------------------------ Synthetic Minister Deanimate --------------------------------- Promethius Burning Contorted Angel -------------------------- Grendel (You're so) Physical ----------------------- NIN Filth Healer --------------------------------- PIG