The goths were my tribe. Up in Seattle goths could really take it seriously; I mean, 11 months out of the year you can wear all black and suffer not in the slightest. What was interesting was how "tribal" it was - the Vogue goths didn't much talk to the Fenix goths didn't much talk to the Catwalk goths didn't much talk to the MachineWerks goths. I mixed at the Fenix and mixed at the Catwalk and was friends with DJs at the Vogue and MachineWorks. And we'd have massive Goth/industrial bands (Lords of Acid, Die Krupps, Laibach, Front 242) at the Fenix and we'd staff so light on the security, particularly compared to the cover band nights. I asked one of the security guys about it once. He scoffed. "These guys? They're too busy trying to out-cool each other to get in a fight." It's been 15 years and I'm still in touch with a lot of those folx.
I've never been to any of the Seattle clubs you mentioned. The only club I've been to in Seattle was called the Crocodile, I think. It was on a road trip. I remember that Peter Buck of REM was at the bar. We will drop in City Club once in a blue moon, but it's been a couple of years since my last trip.