For those not in the know, the dark forces festival is an event that happens every May up in New York. Music merch and goth. For its lifetime so far, it had its share a standard challenges.
Planning for next years had already started. Merchants and bands already locked down. After the deadline, on their own social media. Two artists announced that they would be performing onstage with the band, hate department. Two artists that hadn’t been invited for their personal stances. Apparently, hate department planned to Trojan horse them into the event. Needless to say it created quite an uproar once it got out and there was a lot of push back.
But the organizers did the right thing. Dropping hate department from the event. Keeping it inclusive and tolerant. I don’t have Facebook, never have. But if you do. Good actions like this can use boosting and acknowledgement.
Damn, I wish I knew this existed back when I lived in NYC
Well, at least they don’t suffer for choice up there. Between murder of crows, dark force fest, and a number of others. There’s something regularly going on throughout most of the year, I think.
Honestly, the only reason my Midwestern ass knows about them is because I have a couple of good friends that are heavily in the scene up there. with an open invitation to come up and see the shows while helping out at their booths. Something I should take them up on one of these days.
I’ll bet you’d have a blast 😎
Well, seeing as on a number of occasions. We have been watching random strangers footage of some of the events at the Bowery. Saying, who is that in your place there by the stage? Oh, it’s you. And joking that basically she’s practically a fixture there. You are probably not wrong.