These are the Toronto-Goth event archives for the month of June 2004. For a current listing of events, visit http://events.toronto-goth.com. For Toronto's gothic community resource, visit www.toronto-goth.com

A meditative programme that contemplates the meaning of life in the face of death. Featuring chamber music, readings from haunting poems, and guest solo artists. artists: Talisker Players Chamber Music. location: Trinity St. Paul's Centre. doors 8PM, all ages. Tickets: $25 Reg, $20 Sen, $10 Stud at door or advance request. talisker@istar.ca www.taliskerplayers.ca 416-466-1800

Toronto-Goth.com presents New Scream at Savage Garden, 550 Queen St. W. First Thursday of every month. Tonight's theme: Metal Mania !!! Featuring: the Divine and Eliminate the Body. with DJ Morgana. Doors 9pm, $3 cover with flyer or on reduced guestlist, $5 otherwise. Drink specials. Giveaways from Nocturnalia House of Dreams (gift certificates) and Yonge St. Tattoos (gift certificates) and Siren (goodies). http://newscream.toronto-goth.com/

Featuring Penetrator, Shatterpoint and Pure Blank.. At the Hardball Cafe, Milton, $5, 19+. metalqueenmgmt.ca

Release party for two new CDs on Here's My Card Records. Laf-O - Pankracy, a release based on experiences and memories growing up in Communist Poland watching state television children's shows. And Refuzer vs Schizoid - Who Told You It Is Democracy, a whirlwind of 50 tracks in under 5 minutes. Both cds along with other releases from Here's My Card Records will be available free at the door along with the cheap admission price of $2. Artists: laf-o (speedbient), skeeter (breakcore), crushkill (industrial) At the oasis. 294 college street. 19+. http://www.heresmycardrecords.com

Mega rock monsters, 3rd place 97.7 rock search finalists, Influenced by legends such as: Zeppelin, AC/DC, U2, Floyd, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Judas Priest, Beatles etc... PANIK is sure to capture the hearts and minds of many music fans around the world. PANIK is a MUST SEE band. Rock at its best. Great songs, great performance, amazing sound....No bullshit. You WILL walk away impressed and you WILL come back for more. DJ Osaze pounding your head full of New Rock/Alternative at 11pm. Funhaus, 526 Queen Street West, Toronto. $5, 19+, Doors at 9pm, 10pm showcase. More info at metalqueenmgmt.ca

Big Bop - 651 Queen St West 10pm-6am 19+ event ONLY $12 4 floor of madnes - 14 DJ's - wicked vibe www.djlazarus.com for flyer and DJ lineup

First Saturday of every month. Savage Garden, 550 Queen St. W. Revolution: Dj Pale spinning Industrial, Retro, EBM, Trance. REV specials. No cover before midnight, $3 after. 19+.

A bunch of women (and some brave men) will don their tackiest old bridesmaid and prom dresses, and go on a pub crawl in downtown Toronto. Why? Because you cannot stop 100 drunken bridesmaids! Stay in the loop - get on the mailing list quick to help plan this event - send an email to: Bridesmaidmania-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and bookmark http://www.cynthiagould.com/bridesmaidmania

Come out to The Vatikan (1032 Queen St. W.) for a special edition of BLACKOUT SATURDAY, in celebration of the Vatikan's 4th anniversary! DJ VORTX will be on-hand to play the best in new and old Industrial, Harsh Electro, Synth and EBM. PLUS, you'll have a chance to win all kinds of great prizes, like tattoos from Way Cool Oakville, T-shirts, CDs and more! Don't miss your chance to party your face off and dance like a fiend under the frigid glow of black lights and the ominous VORTX bombs. Doors open at 10pm. 19+. Free before midnight, $3 cover afterwards. For more info about this event, email djvortx001@yahoo.ca ***Blackout Saturday event happens on the first Saturday of each month.***

27 Pills and Dry. Mackie's, 2112 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, $5 19+ metalqueenmgmt.ca

Dark metal every 2nd, 3rd and 4th Thursday at the Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W. Doors 10pm, no cover, 19+ only. More info at http://asenath.com/evil

Savage Garden opens the gates to EDEN, Toronto's newest fetish experience. Mistress Jezebel, DJ Swiss Miss and friends unveil an evening of delightful decadence and sensuous seduction. Come frolic in our garden! Eden entices and teases the senses through play and exploration set to a delectably devilish soundscape. Exotix will illustrate the ultimate dominance of mind over body by means of body modification... performances throughout the evening. Custom ink work also available all night long. Can you resist the forbidden fruit? Play area. Prizes. Doors open at 9. Admission $5. For more information visitsavagegarden.ca

Robin Black & The Intergallactic Rock Stars, Canada and The Devine. Hardball Cafe, 8750 Hwy 25 (just N. 401). Milton, www.hardballcafe.com 10 Cent Wings! DJ Metal God spins the heaviest tunes. Doors at 9 pm. $7 19+ More info at metalqueenmgmt.ca

Toronto's Heaviest Night celebrates one year with our sexy undead go-go dancers, hideous hanging torsos, and gruesome prizes. Come celebrate with DJs SeVeR/Morgana! The Vatikan, 1032 Queen W. More info at http://djmorgana.com/clubnights.html

An outdoor evening of family fun and mayhem as the A. Dick Nowakowski Folk Singers celebrate the end of the Chinese occupation of Nepal. The A. Dick Nowakowski Folk Singers promise to amaze and mystify you as they recreate the spiritual and unsettling Sounds and Songs of the Sherpa. Come one, come all. You will not be dissappointed. Sponsored by the Temple of the Club-Footed Yeti. All ages, at Moss Park, no cover, 7.30pm. dicknowakowski2003@yahoo.ca

Savage Garden, Toronto's longest running goth/industrial/cyberpunk bar is set to celebrate ten whole years of business. Celebrations will be all weekend long Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 11, 12, and 13th (see details below). Prizes, DJs and Savage Madness. more details coming. 550 Queen ST. W.

Decompression Friday 10 Year Party with Hosts Chef, Dj Human clone Covering everything from your favourite club anthems to the newest and hardest to find remixes, we spin em all.Funker Vogt, Velvet Acid Christ, PAL, Wumpscut, Covenant, Icon of Coil and most of all -- Your requests . Doors open 9pm, no cover B4 12 , Tons of prizes, freebies, giveaways. Just too many to list Savage Garden 550 Queen ST. W.

The Killingfloor Party With Dj Pale Pales been spinning at Savage since its inception. A unique blend of todays club anthems mixed expertly with the sounds of yesterday. Dj Pale goes seemlesly from Industrial to Retro, EBM to Trance. Toronto's most eclectic Dj. Doors open 9pm, no cover B4 12 , Tons of prizes, freebies, giveaways. Just too many to list. Savage Garden, 550 Queen ST. W.

At Cybernaut in London Ontario (210 Dundas Street). Feauturing Ayria, and Toronto fashion designers Futurstate along with London designers Naughty Locks, Fate Clothing, Worn Eden, Nekro and Chain'd Male Designs. DJ Lee from The Electric Front radio will also be performing and Storming The Base distribution will be on hand as well. All ages, $10 at the door, doors 9pm.

BIG IRON (Neoblast touring artist), with guests Shatterpoint, Black Hour, Warmachine & Endorphins, $7, 19+ Raxx Lounge, Brampton For more info visit metalqueenmgmt.ca

Featuring Drag'N'Fly, Darq vs Chef, Nebula, Cyphax, Lexx, Crushkill w/ Guests, Ghettocyb.org w/AND, Patrick DSP, Scorched Earth, Ladius vs Engine, Herald of Chaos vs Finex, ?west. ation: TBA 3 days before, on the messsaging boards/email. 9pm til 9am. 16+ (two floors 19+). $15.00 . $5.00 with a NXNE weekend pass Network23@sympatico.ca website

Future-Retro party Doors open 10pm till we drop from exhaustion No Cover The sounds of 10 years blended with the club anthems of today. Future retro is our way of saying goodbye to the old and bringing in the new A retro night as only Savage can do it With Dj's Prospero, Human Clone, Darq, Swiss miss, and Pale. Savage Garden, 550 Queen ST. W.

CURRENT 93 with SIMON FINN and SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE. Playing at The Music Gallery at St. George The Martyr Church, 197 John Street. This Thursday show will be a more intimate evening than the following two nights. Current 93 will be playing a short set, featuring some material they will not be playing in the Friday and Saturday shows. Different sets are planned by Simon Finn and Six Organs of Admittance. Tickets are CAN $45 and are available ONLY from Mark Logan: malogan@rogers.com Tel: +1 519-221-0884

Dark metal every 2nd, 3rd and 4th Thursday at the Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W. Doors 10pm, no cover, 19+ only. More info at http://asenath.com/evil

Panik, Feebo and Dry. Hardball Cafe, 8750 Hwy 25 (just N. 401). Milton, www.hardballcafe.com 10 Cent Wings! DJ Metal God spins the heaviest tunes. Doors at 9 pm. $5. 19+ More info at metalqueenmgmt.ca

Dry peforms a showcase at 10pm. DJ Osaze pounding your head full of New Rock/Alternative at 11pm. Funhaus, 526 Queen Street West, Toronto. $5, 19+, Doors at 9pm, 10pm showcase. More info at metalqueenmgmt.ca

CURRENT 93 with SIMON FINN and SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE. Playing at The Music Gallery at St. George The Martyr Church, 197 John Street. Both nights are already sold out :(

Open to public, all welcome. The Holiday Inn, King W. Top Artists from all over the world tattooing all weekend. Contests and awards. Magazine photographers setup from many publications. Tattooists from all over the world. ! http://tattoos.com/nix for more info.

Tonight's theme is Stanley Kubrick. At the The Reverb- 651 Queen St West . Doors 10pm, $10 in theme, $12 not in theme, 19+. Dresscode strictly enforced. With DJs Lazarus, Phink, Darq, Human Clone and Prospero. Backstage Lounge: Play Dungeon fetish play room. Links:fetishmasquerade.com sirenweb.com djlazarus.com djdarq.com darkharmony.com

at The Vatikan with DJ Morgana and guest DJ Synthetik. CD release party for the new System Syn CD from Sector 9 Studios! Industrial/EBM/synthpop. Doors at 10pm. See http://djmorgana.com/clubnights.html for more details...

At Mackie's, 2112 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, $5 19+ www.betrayer.ca

Blood! Chainsaws! Singing! - Evil Dead 1& 2: The Musical Returns to Toronto for a limited run of Previews at the Bathurst Street Theatre (736 Bathurst Street) from June 22nd to June 26 for 7 shows only before it sets up shop in Montreal for the summer as part of the 22nd edition of Festival Just For Laughs. For tickets and more info: www.evildeadthemusical.com

The Hardworkin' Homosexuals are back this year with another triple threat night of queer and queer friendly entertainers that will again set Toronto's Pride Week on fire! Admission $4.55, The Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W. Please also note there will Absinthe Friday will start after Cheap Queers is done, sometime around 12.30am.

The Nick Lee Band, Puring Glass of Dreams and Redefined. Hardball Cafe, 8750 Hwy 25 (just N. 401). Milton, www.hardballcafe.com DJ Metal God spins the heaviest tunes. Doors at 9 pm. $5 19+ More info at metalqueenmgmt.ca

the ultimate retro party. Funhaus - 526 Queen St W. FREE before 11pm - Only $5 after 2 rooms of retro madness retro video games and projections http://www.djlazarus.com

All ages show at the Underground in Hamilton. Doors 7pm, $5. DYM (http://www.enterdym.com) MDM (http://mdmisgovernment.com)

Catch 22 Sundays and DJ Oz present a special live appearance by the band Universal Love Attack tonight at 11:30 pm. No cover. www.djoz.net www.universalloveattack.com

At Lee's Palace, 529 Bloor W. Doors 9pm, $3 cover, 19+. 9:30 The Pools. 10:30 Carson Cole Band. 11:30 Aphasia. Dark Canada will be filming so come out and be a part of the crowd. www.socialaphasia.com