July 19, 2026 - Stolen Valor II Gothic Boogaloo

The observant among you, and frankly even those paying a glancing amount of attention, will note that we’re on a whole brand new radio station that shares the frequency with and bears more than a passing resemblance to the old radio station. Those of you who have attempted streaming on the new site (have you tried streaming yet?) have probably noticed that we’ve changed up our imagery. Note that we don’t have total control of this - Dance895 has a whole style manual and color palette and we are cheerfully and enthusiastically embracing it. But also note that plastering our faces-made-for-radio all over it isn’t exactly our style.

Enter history.

DJ Zuul:

it will mean exactly f*ckall nothing to anyone under sixty but it’s still spooky and awesome

I would like some yays or nays before I pitch that to the station

DJ Drew:

The Monastery silhouette is perfect cause some homers will know and everyone else will just think ‘Black Church Shape = Goth’

I might be the only person who gave a ‘sermon’ there during its’ club days who later lived in the building itself. X and I attended regularly the final year, got to see the whole thing fall apart

I love the various Seattle club history iconography we be owning into OTE

DJ Zuul:

I will ask permission of the photo holder so that we can’t trip over that and then fob it off on Harmony

DJ Drew:

Where did you find that photo

DJ Zuul:

You’re not going to like it

DJ Drew:

I don’t dislike it, tho the writer inaccurately mixes up the timeline. Most the debauchery occurred during its’ private club exclusively gay male period before the street kids showed up. Freeman had his personal residence inside the building, and would share alcohol with people inside his room leading to the issues with SPD. There is no doubt he and others did unspeakable things with young males, tho almost none of that occurred by the 84-85 final period where the street kids and New Wave-Goth folks like myself and Anastasia attended. The city attorney’s kid was someone who kept trying to get into the club, with Freeman repeatedly kicking him out cause he knew the danger of that. It was the Seattle City Council president named Norm Rice who spearheaded finding a loophole allowing them to shut down the club, and in the process he consolidated power within the council leading to his successful run for mayor. And the Teen Dance Ordinance was actually spurred more primarily by an incident at the Seattle Center where a local radio station’s All City Dance was disrupted by a near riot at the glass doors of the venue caused by insufficient security and poor planning. That radio station? C89-FM, and I was there to witness the mess. The Monastery *might* have been an inspiration to bar teens under eighteen from attending dance clubs, but it was KNHC that gave the excuse to require a $1M insurance bond to throw any event for underage kids in Seattle.

DJ Zuul:

Monastery is a much easier target than Nathan Hale

Yeah - the year after Hollywood said “Imagine a place where kids aren’t allowed to dance”, Seattle went “what a great idea! That’ll keep those pesky goth kids down.”

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