NEXT BATS: FEB 21st!!

Next Bats on Feb 21st will be dedicated to the life and music of Lux Interior.


Cramps founder Lux Interior dies at 60
08:51 PM PT, Feb 4 2009
Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk band the Cramps, died Tuesday. He was 60.

Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, died at Glendale Memorial Hospital of a previously-existing heart condition, according to a statement from his publicist.

With his wife, guitarist "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, Interior formed the Cramps in 1976, pairing lyrics that expressed their love of B-movie camp with ferocious rockabilly and surf-inspired instrumentation.

The band became a staple of the late '70s Manhattan punk scene emerging from clubs like Max's Kansas City and CBGB and was one of the first acts to realize the potential of punk rock as theater and spectacle.

Often dressed in macabre, gender-bending costumes onstage, Interior evoked a lanky, proto-goth Elvis Presley, and his band quickly became notorious for volatile and decadent live performances.

NEXT BATS: DEC 20th!

When:
Saturday Dec 20, 2008
at 9:00 PM


Where:
Charlotte’s Underground
4205 Monroe Rd
Charlotte, North Carolina|35 28205
United States

Next Rotb: Nov 15th!

When:

Saturday Nov 15, 2008at 9:00 PM

Where:

Charlotte’s Underground
4205 Monroe Rd
Charlotte, North Carolina 28205
United States

Return of the Bats this Saturday!!

When: Saturday Oct 18, 2008at 9:00 PM

Where:

Charlotte’s Underground

4205 Monroe Rd

Charlotte, North Carolina 28205

United States

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Return of the Bats: Saturday Oct 18

When: Saturday Oct 18, 2008at 9:00 PM

Where:

Charlotte’s Underground

4205 Monroe Rd

Charlotte, North Carolina 28205

United States

Playlist: Saturday, 9/20/08

Return of the Bats
Saturday, 9/20/08
Charlotte's Underground
9pm-2am
18+
DJs Spider, SanityAna and Anders, with short set by End: the DJ
CD Release Party for: Anders Manga "X's and the Eyes"
* = request

Spider
Marilyn Manson - I Put a Spell on You
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible LIe
Bauhaus - in the Flat Field
Juno Reactor- God is God (Rock of Sion mix)
Ian Bron - Thriller
Ego Likeness - Lowest Place on Earth
IAMX - Sailor
Heliosphere - The Point
Gorillaz vs Tears for Fears - Dare to Shout (DJ Clive$ter mash-up)
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
the Start - Blood on my Hands

SanityAna
Sunshine Blind - I Ran
Bauhaus - Kick in the Eye
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
The Cure - 100 Years
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
Anders Manga - Apple
Death in June - Heaven Street

Anders
Black Ice - In Ruins
Sisters of Mercy - First And Last and Always
Blacklist - Blue Shifted
Book of Love - Witchcraft
Anders Manga - They Won't Stay Dead
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart
KMFDM - Dogma
Birthday Massacre - Video Kid
And One - Military Fashion Show

Spider
Covenant - Dead Stars
Dead or Alive - Spin Me Right Round (Sugar Pumpers mix)
PreSets - Talk Like That
Uberbyte - Total War
* Anders Manga - At Dawn they Sleep
Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid '95
Anders Manga - There Will Be Blood
VNV Nation - Standing (Still)

SanityAna
Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song
Zeromancer - Doctor Online
Covenant - Der Lieberman
* Wolfsheim - Once in a Lifetime
Machines of Loving Grace - Butterfly Wings
London After Midnight - Kiss
Executive Slacks - Say It Isn't So
* Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Anders Manga - Solitary Heaven

Anders
Clan of Xymox - Be My Friend
Horrorpops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
Mount Sims - Graveyard
Greenskeepers - Lotion

SanityAna
Beborn Beton - Another World

GOTHIC BOOTY SHAKE CONTEST
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

Spider
* Combichrist - Get Your Body Beat
* Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
* Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight to Video
Thrill Kill Kult - Days of Swine and Roses
Faithless - Insomnia (Monster mix edit)

End: the DJ
No set list

SanityAna
Joy Division: - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Skinny Puppy - Testure

Spider
* Wumpscut - Thorns (Distant Vocals)
Wolfsheim - Heroin She Said
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek A Boo
Garbage - 1Crush
Cure - Love Cats
Pigface - SickAspFuck (Gimballmix)
* Anders Manga - Burn
Blaqk Audio vs Depeche Mode - Stiff Martyr (Illuminoids mash-up)
Thou Shalt Not - If I Only Were A Goth