Dancing and Laughing - Post-punk and Minimal Wave Club - Sturm Café live

Name: Dancing and Laughing - Post-punk and Minimal Wave Club - Sturm Café live
Start: 2026-01-24T21:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-25T02:00:00+00:00
Location: Aces & Eights - NW5

Schedule

Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm to Sun, 25 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 am

UTC+00:00

Location

Aces & Eights - NW5 | London, EN

Dancing and Laughing: post-punk, minimal wave, dark indie, synthpop.
Live:
Sturm Café
Synthpop/EBM music with German lyrics, from Sweden!
Sturm Café was founded by the two teenage boys Gustav (born 1985) and Jonatan (born 1985) in 2001 under the name The Xenophobian Alliance. They released a couple of demo cassette tapes which were handed out to close friends. The instrumentation was a cheap digital synth with an Atari for sequencing and an analog 4 channel portable studio the quality of the songs were low but charming. Later on in 2002 they bought some analogue synthesizers and a digital portable studio and the music started to spread through mp3.com. At this time, the name of the band had been changed to Sturm Café. The name was suggested by Gustav's father. The music had moved to a definite EBM:ish approach with minimalistic analogue basslines, monotonous drum machines and chanting vocals in German.

https://sturmcafe.se
https://sturmcafe.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/sturmcafe

Joining organiser Nathan Nothing and Bedsitland's DJ Electric Dream on the decks will be a very special guest:
DJ Yakova (NY->LA->LDN)
£8 on the door or £7 in advance (PayPal.Me/nathannothing).
Capacity limited to 60 people.
Dancing and Laughing was a club night in Manchester, specialising in post-punk, synthpop, dark indie and minimal wave music, running during the years 2012 and 2013. During the Covid pandemic in 2020, Dancing and Laughing reappeared as an online version, and in May 2022 this was then resurrected in a small north London venue. This night has since then been a regular fixture every four months, with the EBM special Work! (To Live) in the alternating two months.
Dancing, laughing, drinking and possibly even loving!