4.10.2008 Alternative Dark Moon Shopping Experience & Festival Day

Discount showbag shopping from the alternative retailers and market stalls on Enmore Road and South King Street. Keep an eye out for street performers, Goth Nannas, Zombies, Vampires, bats, hearses, curses and s&m nurses. Shop by the twilight with shops extended hours.

Time: 10am-3pm
EVENT: SHOW BAG PICK UP & PURCHASE
LOCATION: UTBM INFO STALL - NEWTOWN SQUARE

The Under The Blue Moon showbags are the highlight of the festival every year. You can purchase your show bag online and miss the queue. This means more time for you to hit the pavement shopping up a storm with your discount vouchers. You can also purchase a showbag on the day of the festival, but you will have to join the queue. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A SHOWBAG Whats in a showbag? Find out More HERE

Time: 10am - 1.45pm
EVENT: Viewing of the Gothic Auction items
LOCATION: Upstairs Newtown Neighbourhood Centre

10am - 1pm Viewing of the treasures up for grabs at 2pm Gothic Auction - upstairs Neighbourhood Centre More Info....

Time: 11am - All Day
Various performances including 'goth vegan indulgence cooking demo'; Circusoc, Desert Moon Dancers, performances - on main stage in Newtown Square and throughout the day - Surgical Sideshow - Blockbuster carpark performance space

Time: 11am - 11:15am
EVENT: Vikings Ritual of protection
LOCATION: Newtown Square

Time: 11:15am -11:45am
EVENT: Funeral Parlour Tour
LOCATION: TJ Andrews Funeral Parlour 25 Enmore Road
COST: FREE

See behind the curtain!!! Take A tour of TJ Andrews Funeral Parlour that has been caring for families and arranging funerals in Sydney since 1895.
The founder, Thomas James Andrews, commenced the business in Newtown, initially using horse-drawn hearses prior to replacing horses with motor vehicles in 1923.

See the beautiful antique horse drawn hearse & Classic Funeral Coaches outside!

Time: 12:00pm - 4:00pm
EVENT: “Lectures in the Funeral Parlour”
LOCATION: Simplicity Funerals 58 Enmore Rd Newtown
COST: FREE

12.15pm History of corsetry - Gretchen O’Riordan
1.00pm The mortician speaks - Lance Proctor
1.40pm The history of Victorian sleight of hand magic - Dark Elvis
2.20pm Love filters and potions - Jocelyn the apothecarist
3.40pm The archeology of death - Dr. Craig Barker
4.20pm Sydney murder and mayhem stories - Jodie Coyote

1pm Art is GAFF! tour with Fabulous Sebastian - Newtown Square More Info....

Time: 1:15 -1:45pm
EVENT: Funeral Parlour Tour
LOCATION: TJ Andrews Funeral Parlour 25 Enmore Road
COST: FREE

See behind the curtain!!! Take A tour of TJ Andrews Funeral Parlour that has been caring for families and arranging funerals in Sydney since 1895.
The founder, Thomas James Andrews, commenced the business in Newtown, initially using horse-drawn hearses prior to replacing horses with motor vehicles in 1923.

Time: 2:00pm - 4:00PM
EVENT: Gothic Auction - Hosted By Mitchell Road Auctions
LOCATION: Upstairs, Newtown Neighbourhood Centre

Bid at the auctions and have your chance to pick up a bargin. Catch all the items that will go under the hammer including High profile and much loved Destiny Tours sexy, pimped out, haunted hearse limo (RIP 200). The infamous Morticia is a 1962 Cadillac hearse / ambulance combination converted to a 9 seater limo with snow leopard fabric interior. Morticia is registered in NSW (until January 2009) as a bus / tourist vehicle for hire. An accredited operator in NSW can immediately use this vehicle for limousine work, tours, charters, weddings, school formals and other work.
COST: FREE

Auction off all your scary skeletons in the closet and grandmother's weird little secrets at the second Blue Moon Gothic Auction! The weirder the better, make some little goth heart sing & make some blue moon dollars by registering your items at Mitchell Road Auction House, 76 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria, Ph: 93107200, email: mitchellauctions@bigpond.com. Mitchell Road Auctions will be hosting our Gothic Auction on Festival day, 4th Oct. at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre"

Below are some delightfully dark items that will be included in the Gothic Auction - straight out of the Addams Family Mansion each with their own freakish story to tell. Register your items today and Miss Necrophilia will take promo. pix for the UTBM website & the Mitchell Road Auction House website....share your strangeness with the world!

Time: 3:00pm
EVENT: Gothic Lectures with Professor Wansbrough
LOCATION: TJ Andrews Funeral Parlour Chapel 25 Enmore Road Newtown
COST: FREE

Festival Favourite – Hear this amazing orator speak on the mysteries of Life & Death & other metaphysical topics.

Time: 4:15pm
EVENT: Vintage Hearse Cortege
LOCATION: Enmore rd & South King St
COST: FREE

See the TJ Andrews vintage hearse takes over the streets of Newtown. The unique hearse was originally created in the 1820's. Found in a dilapidated condition in a barn in the western district of Victoria, it was then painstakingly restored by a coachbuilder.

Classic Funeral Coaches have been providing Sydney ’s finest hearses for funerals of distinction since January, 2002. The flagship 1937 Cadillac LaSalle has been welcomed back into service by Sydney ’s funeral directors, both large and small, since it’s total restoration. Being an independent company, Classic Funeral Coaches is able to work with all Funeral Directors to ensure everyone is able to make use of this beautiful machine.

Time: 5:00pm
EVENT: Doomed Metal Gig
LOCATION: The Sandringham387 King Street Newtown
COST: $20

A night of Doom & Gothic Metal THE ETERNAL, LYCANTHIA, NEVETHERYM, REQUIEM OF THE DAMNED , FUTILITY, THE VEIL, IRONWOOD More Info + Tickets

Time: 6:00pm
EVENT: Performance Space
LOCATION: Doppelganger Hair
COST: FREE

Performance space opens featuring burlesque acts.

Time: 6:00pm
EVENT: Adults only lectures 18+
LOCATION: Ambo Ars Hair salon, Enmore Rd.
COST: FREE

Corsetry, fetishism & body modification - Madam Flayburn.

"A Day in The Life of The Kastle" lecture by the infamous Mistress Scarlett of the Kastle. 18+

Time: 9:00pm til Late
EVENT: Ascension night club
LOCATION: Sly Fox Hotel, 199 Enmore Road
COST: Free