I was mixing at some goth club now long gone and doing the sound-check for the opener. It was a Thursday or whatever so nobody big. They played a few songs and I noted they weren't very "gothy" - they sounded a lot more like Love-era Cult with a female singer.

"Oh, you want goth?" she said and they launched into a ridiculous version of Lucretia My Reflection. I goaded them on and said "Play This Corrosion!" and that chick channeled Wayne Hussey doing an impression of Peter Murphy doing an impression of Andrew Eldritch. It was amazing.

Meanwhile the headliner, whose name I have forgotten, was getting less and less and less into it. We finished up and I relinquished the stage to the headliner and their FOH guy.

They proceeded to launch into a version of This Corrosion that the South Park goth kids would have been embarrassed to have played.

Nasty habit of mine was to mix the shit out of the opener if I thought the headliner were a bunch of choads. That girl and her Cult-like buddies got a hell of a mix that night. Club was empty three songs into the headliner's set.