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Cat Alley Street and the Beat Alchemists are enchanted to present Spark in the Dark: featuring 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 (Interzone / ::THE BOX:: / The Gallows): Crypt keeper and bizarre bitch w/ lamenting melodies.

Sina Star (::THE BOX:: / The Gallows): A passionate summoner of industrial and beat-heavy music, blending dark, pulsating rhythms with an edge.

Valentine (::THE BOX:: / The Gallows): Stirring up punk rock, deathrock, and underground metal into a unique audial showcase of gothic dirge.

Zeldris (::THE BOX:: / The 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!

Somewhere between dusk and whatever comes after good judgment, Bite Me takes shape upstairs above the Catalyst Club on Cat Alley Street in downtown Santa Cruz.

Bite Me returns on the Second Friday of every month. Our next gathering takes place Friday, July 10th, 2026.

In the shadow of Independence Day, we offer a different interpretation of the word. Not flags or declarations, but something quieter and more personal. A night for self-determination in its most honest form: the freedom to be strange, sincere, romantic, unconventional, nocturnal, artistic, dramatic, or entirely yourself without negotiation. Come dressed as the weirdo that you are; there will be door prizes for best dressed.

This evening is for outsiders, romantics, night creatures, artists, dancers, and the sort of people who always seem to know where the interesting party is happening.

Music for the evening will be provided by Dead Reverend (Live), Adrienne Scissorhands, Echoic, SamSonic, and Stu.

Come early! Our Live Act Starts at 8 p.m. sharp

6:00 PM — Doors

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM — The Bite Me Salon�, featuring goth makeovers, local artists, peculiar creations, lounge music, and open decks for whoever arrives early enough to claim them.

7:00 PM — Complimentary pizza for guests

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM — Dead Reverend (live)

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM — Adrienne Scissorhands (Post-Mortem)
10:00 PM to 11:00 PM — Echoic
11:00 PM to 12:00 AM — SamSonic (Beat Alchemists, Snarklefarkers, Decadent Oasis, MPYRE)
12:00 AM to 1:30 AM — Stu (aka Stuart Hill Robinson of Club Snarklefarkers)

About our headliner:

Stu is a veteran DJ with experience across events of every size and shape. While versatile in genre, his foundation is in dark music and industrial, where his work has long been rooted. He remains a respected and enduring legend in the Cat Alley Street community.

Among his many affiliations, the most notable and the one he is most proud of is Club Snarklefarkers, known for its rare four-day appearance at Unscruz before vanishing again without notice. It has become quietly synonymous with excellence and mystery. It is beautiful, precise, and difficult to describe without sounding like exaggeration. It is made of hard work and it's rooted in the best principles, which may explain why it's a huge deal to have him with us!

Somewhere between a dinner party, a séance, and one of the better poor decisions you are likely to make all month, you will find Bite Me at Cat Alley Street, upstairs above the Catalyst Club in downtown Santa Cruz.

Beginning this June, Bite Me moves to the Second Friday of every month.
Our next gathering takes place Friday, June 12th, 2026.

This evening is also in celebration of Pride Month. A night for outsiders, romantics, night creatures, artists, dancers, and the sort of people who always seem to know where the interesting party is happening.

Music for the evening will be provided by Regal Nonchalant, Mr. White, Sina Star, SamSonic, and Vampi Hurtado.

We are delighted to welcome Regal Nonchalant live from Bend, Oregon, where they have helped cultivate a thriving dark music community through Katacombs, one of the region’s notable goth gatherings. Beyond the music itself, the communication, enthusiasm, and spirit around this collaboration have been an absolute pleasure from the beginning.

We are especially pleased to welcome Mr. White and Sina Star, not only remarkable DJs, but dear members of the community whose presence has brightened many long nights over the years.

Vampi, our headliner, is a trans multidisciplinary artist and DIY community organizer whose work bridges underground cultures. She is the host of Batcave SF and Enzyme, and has toured projects and performances throughout the US, Latin America, and Europe. Her current SFAC-sponsored project examines QTBIPOC nightlife through an ecological lens, focusing on the rewilding of neglected urban spaces.

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The evening begins in a civilized fashion and gradually descends into something far more interesting. There will be dark music, strange beauty, conversation, dancing, artists, curious objects, complimentary pizza, and the occasional handsome disaster.

Time moves differently here. Midnight arrives dressed in velvet and poor judgment. Someone is always arriving just as someone else should probably be leaving.

Dress beautifully, dress comfortably, or arrive exactly as you are.

We are not the authorities.

SECOND FRIDAYS
Beginning June 12th

Arrive early. Remain late.

catalleystreet.com

June Schedule

6:00 PM — Doors

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM — The Bite Me Salon
Featuring goth makeovers, local artists, peculiar creations, lounge music, and open decks for whichever scoundrels arrive early enough to claim them.

7:00 PM — Complimentary pizza for guests

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM — Regal Nonchalant live

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM — Mr. White

10:00 PM to 11:00 PM — Sina Star

11:00 PM to 12:00 AM — SamSonic

12:00 AM to 1:30 AM — Vampi

Somewhere between a dinner party, a séance, and one of the best poor decisions you are likely to make all month, you will find Bite Me! at Cat Alley Street. Upstairs above the Catalyst Club in downtown Santa Cruz.

An evening of dark transmissions provided by:
Scallwags, SpeckledBird, SamSonic, r.downstairs, and Plastic Disease carrying us into the small hours.

Thursday, May 28th, 2026
Come early. This is part nightclub, part salon, part accidental cultural institution. There will be artists, curiosities, music, dancers, dancing, suspiciously good pizza, and the sort of strangers who become familiar faces by midnight.

The evening begins in a civilized fashion and gradually descends into something far more interesting. Stay late for velvet shadows, excellent company, and conversations that somehow grow more intelligent as the hour becomes less reasonable.

Time bends strangely here. Two hours disappear in twenty minutes. Midnight arrives wearing pearls and bad intentions. Someone is always arriving just as someone else should probably be leaving.

May Schedule

6:00 PM — Doors
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM — The Bite Me Salon
Featuring goth makeovers, the Macabre Makers Faire with local artists and peculiar creations, dark lounge sounds, and open decks for whichever scoundrels arrive early enough to seize them
7:00 PM — Complimentary pizza for guests
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM — Scallwags
9:00 PM to 10:00 PM — SpeckledBird
10:00 PM to 11:00 PM — SamSonic
11:00 PM to 12:00 AM — r.downstairs
12:00 AM to Close — Plastic Disease

Dress beautifully, dress comfortably, or arrive exactly as you are.

We are not the authorities.

Arrive early. Remain late.

https://catalleystreet.com

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