Spark in the Dark: Featuring David J (Bauhaus / Love and Rockets)

Cat Alley Street and the Beat Alchemists are enchanted to present Spark in the Dark: A Tribute to David J. Haskins.
Embrace the shadows at Spark in the Dark, a two-floor Vampire gala, spanning the Catalyst Atrium (Downstairs) and Cat Alley Street (Upstairs in the Lab), featuring David J, founding member of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and a defining figure in alternative, post-punk and goth music culture. Join us for a scintillating soiree of DJs, live music, dancers, food/drink specials, live painting, and a Macabre Makers Faire featuring wicked local artisans. Arise early for a special Q&A session with David J!
Tickets on sale now!
catalystclub.com/event/live-in-the-atrium-spark-in-the-dark/the-catalyst-atrium/santa-cruz-california/
YOUR MUSICAL CONJURERS OF THE NIGHT:
HEADLINER:
David J, co-founder of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, has been highly influential on goth and post-punk aesthetics, garnering a cult following, and will entrance us with a 2 hr, all-vinyl set, concocting eclectic cuts of dub, reggae, psychedelia, glam rock, experimental, post-punk, funk, and early electronic music.
davidjhaskins.com
LIVE ACTS:
Love My Robot: Colombian electronic producer, Carolina Castilla, bringing the world’s first AI Awareness Experiment, combining an immersive multimedia experience, with a high-energy, live electronic act, blending electro-cumbia, dancehall, merengue, techno, and Caribbean MC culture with a futuristic cyberpunk sound.
lovemyrobot.ai/
www.youtube.com/@lovemyrobot1028/videos
Boy Eats Drum Machine (StrategiK): Analog mad scientist and grave robber, Boy Eats Drum Machine (BEDM), channels an obsession for weird synthesizers with live, vinyl experimentation. With reverence for dub luminary, King Tubby, and hip hop wizard, J Dilla, BEDM digs up records from several genres: soul, rap, pop, goth, and rock, harnessing a sample-delic, broken-beat lab of wires, knobs, delays, bass, and noise to construct songs that bubble and knock in the night.
youtube.com/@jon-bedm
boyeatsdrummachine.bandcamp.com
DJS:
Lynette Cerezo (Bestial Mouths): Razor sharp vocals combine with gothic, industrial, post-punk, noise, and metal, twisted with live acoustic/electronic drums and synthesizers: a hypnotic minimalism that whirls to bare maximum teeth.
www.bestialmouths.com
soundcloud.com/bestialmouths
Requiem (The Box / Gallows): A crypt keeper conjuring a spell-binding cauldron of darkwave, post-punk, deathrock, and ethereal goth.
Sina Star (The Box / Gallows): A passionate summoner of industrial and beat-heavy music, blending dark, pulsating rhythms with an edge.

Valentine (The Box / Gallows): Stirring up punk rock, deathrock, and underground metal into a unique audial showcase of gothic dirge.
Zeldris (The Box / Gallows): Haunting your bones with industrial, goth rock, darkwave and alternative music, sending shivers down your spine.
The Barbary Ghost (Candy Crush, Paradisco, Post-Mortem): Spirits you away on a genre-spanning journey through post-punk, new wave, dub, glam rock, minimal, and other beautifully strange sounds from around the globe.
https://linktr.ee/thebarbaryghostsf
Mr. White (House of Love Radio Show / HIVE / The Box / PLAYLAND / 1984 / Mercury / Area 51: Salt Lake City): Compels joy as he fluidly moves through goth, rave, post-punk, new wave, industrial, house, and more, weaving dance-floor favorites across genres, decades, and music scenes.
YOUR RESIDENT BEAT ALCHEMISTS:
🦇Brewbone (Beat Alchemists / Decadent Oasis / Janky Barge / MPYRE)
🦇Dr. Sparklehorse (Beat Alchemists / StrategiK)
🦇Kurtographer (Beat Alchemists / Burner Happy Hour / Dirtshack / Fuckin’YAY! / Snarklefarkers)
🦇Samsonic (Beat Alchemists / Decadent Oasis / MPYRE / Snarklefarkers)
Carpe noctem, exquisite glampires!