Nightlight -> performance space -> experimental music, video, art, dance

GRAND NEWS FLASH- Nightlight is now serving LIQUOR!!!

Our new Business hours are: Thursday, Friday, Saturday- open from 5PM until 2PM regardless of show schedules..

Plus, we still open for all of the shows below, except only at 9 PM

Due to ABC regulations, we are now a private membership club. Membership is a mere $5 dollars and applications are available at the Nightlight door, bar and online (print and fill it out!). They can be purchased with cash, our credit card machine or with checks made to DYSS, Inc. Cards take three days to be processed and are available at the door.

Nightlight A tiny art-land vortex run by low-income party people, a dedicated task force of interns, well-wishers and sympathizers. The whole operation is backed up by a fabulous community of fans and music lovers who support experimentation, surprise, social improvisation, loose morals, hollering - dancing and frequing out. Open from 9pm to 2am. Nightlight is a non-smoking venue with beer and wine for sale.

Booking -> nightlightbooking at gmail dot com for all booking inquiries

Info -> nightlightinfo at gmail dot com for space rental, club related questions

Links -> favoritos of our local splendedido plethora of local folks and projects

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Monday- Thursday: Doors open at 9 PM and show starts at 9:30PM; Friday & Saturday shows start at 10PM

We also have Schedule archives and our links to artists' webpages are posted in orange.

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Thurs 07/02 Monsonia / Verso / d(A) n M(A)c- 10 PM

Monsonia - Restrained and crushing noisy rock and roll. Quickly becoming an institution in the local heavy-music scene.

Verso - Mathy post-punk & noise rock, featuring Nato our new friend from recently-opened Carrboro Music!

d(A)n m(A)c - From his website: dan grew up in charleston sc. in high school, he got into punk and hardcore and other rebellious things. in his late teens, he got more into folk and old time country music. he listened to utah phillips and learned how to play hallelujah i'm a bum and countless phil ochs and woody guthrie songs. he realized that most of the problems in the world stem from hierarchy, so he became an anarchist. so now he's an anarchist folk punk / country singer/ guitar player. he lives in carrboro nc and plays a show from time to time. he wants do some professional grade recording and put out a cd of all the songs he still likes to sing. he also finds it incredibly easy to write in third person.

Sat 07/04 FOURTH OF JULY PARTY- 5 PM - 2 AM!!!

$3 Dollars gets you into the Ping Pong Tournament which will be from 5- 9PM! (Bring any extra paddles if you have some)

10 PM Wizzerds of Ryhme / The Club and hot ladies dancing!!

Sun 07/05 Clang Quartet / Peter Woods / Instinct Control - 9:30 PM $5

!!This week's must-see noise scorcher!!

Clang Quartet - Scotty Irving's long-running and always-inspiring noise project. Truly one of a kind.

Peter J Woods - From his website: Loud, dynamic noise that fluctuates between overpowering feedback to complete silence. Your existential crisis is a privlege. What will you do with it?

Instinct Control - From his website: The connection between the individual and technology always takes time to develop into an accessible living relationship. As humanity welcomes technology into its everyday life it first utilizes, then feels comforted by, and then is consumed. By personalizing our connection with the tools we use, we rehumanize and take control of our mechanical advantage. From the spear, to the satellite—first a method, then a way. Instinct Control consists of manually and pedally(of the foot) circuit bent tape players, instrumental delayed microphone feedback, vocals, and trumpet.

Thurs 07/09 Harmute / Israel Darling- 10 PM

Fri 07/10 6-9PM Art Reception for Summer Fun Art Show

9:30 PM Vibrant Green / Heavy Hometown (Music after the Art Show Opening) $5

Sat 07/11 Electro Dance Party!! "B.R.E.A.T.H.E. : live, to feel free of restraint- 10 PM

~ Get ready for an audio eargasm.... DJ HIlife, originally hailing from Durham NC, HIlife has spent the last nine months spinning in the Honolulu Hawaii . HIlife's love and passion for electronic music has led him to drop dirty electronic bombs on every dance floor in sight. He blends House, Dance, Electro, Trance and even a little NuDisco into his sets, and never fails to work and please the crowd. DJ T.Swede, also from Durham, is an up and coming DJ/Producer who delivers an unstoppable mix of across the pond Dirty, Fidget, and Progressive House beats with a healthy dose of twisted remixes of the latest pop hits... Even if you know absolutely nothing about electronic music, this will be one hell of an awesome introduction, if you've been ravin' since '89, this will not disappoint, LASERS and a dedicated LIGHT SHOW and SOUND SYSTEM make this a party not worth missing."

Sun 07/12 Abe Vigoda (CA) / Whatever Brains / Talbot Tagora - 9:30 PM $5

Wed 07/15 Castanets / MA Turner / Free Electric State / - 9:30 PM $6

Sun 07/19 Nesey Gallons (Circulatory System) / Nathan Oliver (solo set)- 9:30 PM

Fri 07/24 Steampunk Party - Clock Work Ball - 10 PM $ 5

Steampunk Party!!! The Slow Poisoner / Hellblinki Sextet The Slow Poisoner is a one man surrealistic rock and roll band from SF pouring strange sounds into your eardrums. The Hellblinki Sextet bring you only the finest in creepy circus punk, pirate blues and dark cabaret. The Davenport Sisters or the Clockwork Cabaret spin steampunk music between bands and want you to play pin the tentacle on the kraken. Just what the hell is steampunk, anyway?!? $5 on the door, 10 pm

Tues 07/28 The Busy World / Timbre / Soil and the Sun - 9:30 PM $5

Fri 07/31 Joe Romeo and the Orange County Volunteers / Roadside Graves / The Weather Kings - 10 PM $5

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Sat 08/01 FrequeNC Records Dance Party- First Saturday of every month DANCE PARTY!! Djs, fog lights and video - 10 PM

Wed 08/04 The Tenderfruit (Chapel Hill) / The Tenderhooks (TN)- 9:30 PM

Tues 08/11 Birds and Arrows / The Native Young (Bloomington) - 9:30 PM

Sat 08/15 Nathan Oliver / Ghots to Falco / Oblisk - 10 PM

"The musical and artistic world of Nathan Oliver can only be roughly described in a hodgepodge scenario: Imagine Royal Tenenbaum director Wes Anderson, artist Art Spiegelman and a bunch of bohemians got drunk and stole instruments out of the back of the Pixies van to hold their own jam sessions while laughing all the way home.

A dark, sarcastic but strangely fun and inviting humor surrounds the band and its popish-alternative sound. Even Oliver's cover art and flyers, done by San Francisco artist Allison Gore, has an absurd and dark comedy about it. Pop-rock lately has taken on the image of either over-dressed sexed jailbait with cookie-cutter lyrics or guys with mascara-stained shirts from their tears, of course, following the break up of their two-week tryst with some girl. Nathan Oliver is outside the lines of all that, looking in and goofing on it."--Andrew Kinback, Encore

Thurs 08/20 Black Metal Film Screening : Until the Light Takes Us / Mysterium Tremendum - 9:30 PM $9

The documentary is about the hugely-influential second-wave black metal scene in 1990's Norway, and features interviews with Varg (aka Burzum, recently released from prison -- the film's title is the English translation of a Burzum title), Fenriz (of Darkthrone), and many other personalities responsible for the development and dissemination of (anti-)modern black metal as both a viable sub-genre and an important cultural movement.

The film, co-directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites (he of the left-field indie band Iran, records on the Tumult and Narnack labels), screened at SXSW and is now screening in select larger markets across the US.

Sat 08/22 1200 Problems Dance Party!! - international and eclectic dance musica...

Free before 11pm, $5 aftwerards!