Funeral Nation - For A Dead Generation

Funeral Nation is a Goth night which runs once a month in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.

Playing all your favorite Gothic, Industrial, EBM, 80's Electro, Cyber & Steam music, in a wonderful Steampunk bar with a great atmosphere.

After many years laid to rest, Funeral Nation has been revived from the grave, thanks to those lovely people at COGS, Steampunk Bar, in Birmingham. Thank you for giving the night a chance and believing in it.

Funeral Nation's History:

Funeral Nation began back in 2003, after a discussion with my good friend Katie. She said that our local area had nothing to offer the Goth scene as people had to travel outside the town for a dark night out. She also knew my past DJ experience, and the contact I have with various bands, so we decided to get our heads together and start this little project.

Having use of one of England's oldest running live venues, JB's Nightclub, it was a great opportunity to host bands on these nights also. Some of these included: KMFDM, Paradise Lost, Killing Miranda, Devilish Presley, Abigails Mercy, Libitina and many, many more.

The night used to run on the last Sunday of the month from 9pm-12am, but sometimes we had midweek gigs which involved some of the bigger named bands.

Usually a lock in afterwards was always had with many of the regulars, this always involved use of the Funeral Nation coffin, where someone had to do the "Coffin Walk Challenge", this involved someone getting inside it, and then trusting the bearers to carry them up a flight of stairs towards where the coffin was kept in storage. . . it never failed to amuse.

Unfortunately, back in 2011, the JB's venue went into administration and the place was forced to close down. This was gutting for the local community, a wonderful venue where people came together for the love of music was lost. Thus Funeral Nation was retired, until now.

Current resident DJ's. . .

DJ Trilobyte:

A budding alternative DJ promoter and musician for 20 + years, where 10 of these were being employed at JB's as a resident Thursday night DJ on the alternative rock night, plus also running a self promoted Techno night called Synthetik' and not to mention, old faithful, Funeral Nation, where it all began. Other club nights and festivals as a guest DJ have included. . . Eddies No: 8, Death Machine, Hex in the City, Carnival of Souls, Scarlet, DIE-SEKT, Vaultage, Brumfest, with some guest DJ slots at various bars in the local area. October 2016 saw his first visit to the US where he guest DJ'ed at Nokturnal, Providence RI.

As well as the DJ'ing aspect, Trilobyte has been in many bands over the years, and played many gigs and festivals throughout Europe and the UK, the 2 main bands being, V2A and Sugarfiend.

We have the pleasure of sharing the night with Tanzmission, who will be using the first floor room playing Hard Electronic Music.

Tranzmission DJ's include. . .

DJ ChimeraX:

His residencies over the years have included; Heaven's (admin the club in charring cross) online station in the 90's, ran the Industrial Revolution Radio show on Birmingham's Rhubarb Radio, Tron and Legacy (Eddies No: 8), ran his own nights, The Dungeon and Tanzmission and was a DJ at Infest 2014

DJ Exile:

Originally cut his teeth playing to the early morning rave crowd at warehouses and venues across the south in the 90s and early 00s. Fast forward a few years and a five year residency at Tron and Legacy, with guest appearances at Brumfest, XLs, Flux Vortex, Tanzmission, and more. DJ Exile is also the main DJ behind the twice monthly, online cloudcast EBM plus.

DJ Tommi K:

Tommi-K has been DJ'ing on the Alternative Electronic, EBM, Industrial and related sub-genres for well over a decade, as well as the underground Techno scenes even longer. Having held residencies in Birmingham, Berlin, Belgrade and Milan and playing many clubs and festivals all over the UK and Europe. Most recently being the mastermind behind the now defunct Tron & Legacy clubs in Birmingham.