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WGW - day 1: the bands

Following our pub jaunt and posing we arrived at the Spa Pavilion ready for some musical entertainment. There was a great DJ and then three really good bands.

ZEITGEIST ZERO
Zeitgeist Zero had been drafted in as emergency cover for Elusive who were unable to make the event. The singer was a regular attendee of WGW and was obviously highly delighted and also seemed slightly in awe of playing in front of the Whitby faithful. That said, they a were pretty good blending a good mix of electronic rock and Devilish Presley style death rock (n roll) even if the bass player did look totally bored and miserable. They had some great animations playing on a screen in the backgroud.

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THE LAST DANCE
The Last Dance are WGW veterans having played here on numerous occasions. They had some good tunes and some good anecdotes. They were joined on stage at one point by Nathan of Abney Park who added some violin to the proceedings.

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ABNEY PARK
Abney Park are purveyors of steam punk (apparently, whatever that means). They are, however, a bloody good live band. They had an amazing image (which perfectly fitted how I would see steam punk folk and artefacts). The tunes were great and, despite the technical problems every now and then, they put on a fantastic show. Not really sure how to describe the music but it was really good and I will definitely be getting some of their CDs.

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Whitby Goth Weekend - day 1

So here we go, the first "real" day of Whitby Goth Weekend. We kicked things off by getting up early and heading downstairs for a lovely full english breakfast in the B&B before taking a stroll out to the Spa Pavilion to exchange our tickets for wristbands. While we were waiting to get our wristbands Toni picked up a gorgeous bustle skirt from a stall that was already open. We then had a chill out with a nice coffee.

Following coffee we had another browse, and I bought Toni a gorgeous necklace that was an absolute bargain:

We entered a lucky dip raffle and I was oh so "lucky", with this being my wonderful prize:

At 11:00 we met up with Loki (along with a few others) for the WGW Virgins (that's Newbies) talk where he ran through a lot of things that were going on and some of the "do and don'ts" of the weekend. Next we went downstairs to browse the many, many, stall in the Spa Pavillion and parted with a few more shekels!

Some hours later, as we were feeing a bit peckish we decided to go for another stroll around Whitby and find somewhere to grab a bite to eat. We found a lovely little fish restaurant where Toni had Salmon and salad and I had a traditional fish and chips all topped off with a refreshing pot of Yorkshire tea.

Some old lush:

Me contemplating a ship on the wall:

Late lunch was followed by more walking and window shopping in an effort to reduce any bloatiness before getting dressed up to go and see tonight's band line up. We had hoped to go for a ride on the lifeboat but it was slightly later than we'd thought and the ride's had stopped running.

I have a strange feeling that this picture will be doctored soon:

After our walk, we were dressed and ready for tonight's events in fairly quick time, so we decided, just for the novelty factor, to pop to the pub for a quick drink before heading over to the Spa Pavilion. It was lovely to have the freedom to be able to just do that.

Posing en route to the Spa: