Halloween is the season to let your freak flag fly. However in the event you ask drag artist Scary-Ann, “you possibly can let your spooky little black coronary heart flutter 12 months spherical.” That’s why she created Bump within the Evening: “a monstrosity of punk, rock, horror, drag, and regardless of the fuck else we would like.” Each final Wednesday of the month, wander all the way down to Pony for a celebration of all issues spooky. By no means been? Fortunate for you, the following one falls on October 30, Halloween Eve.
Scary-Ann dreamed up this area for nightlife critters whereas noticing a necessity for extra punk and different occasions within the metropolis. The primary Bump started Delight 2023 and had its one-year anniversary, “Delight of Frankenstein,” this previous June. It has developed a cult following and persistently grows with horror-loving newcomers. As an viewers member myself, the themes have been a private favourite, starting from vampires and cannibals to John Waters and David Lynch tributes. Scary-Ann says her favourite occasion up to now was “Good For Her,” a female-centered theme of “bad-ass bitch, femme-fatale, last ladies getting theirs.”
The present has been a platform not just for a few of Seattle’s most sinister drag legends but additionally for rising creeps on the lookout for a house to chop their tooth. Forged members of the enduring horror-themed drag competitors “Dragula” have even graced (or ought to I say disgraced) the night.
The occasion is a “vibes all evening” form of get together that runs from 9 pm to shut with music, films that match the evening’s motive, and, in fact, some spooktacular performances. As Scary-Ann explains, resident DJ Pavor Nocturnus “the town’s best,” performs “queer punk hits, darkish wave,” and loads of “gothy spooky shit” all evening lengthy. Performances sometimes happen round 11 pm with two visitors and Scary-Ann as a charming host. On October 30 performers shall be Nik Ophelia, Goo La Goo, and naturally Scary-Ann herself. There’ll even be a “communion” that consenting people are welcome to partake in at midnight.
It’s no marvel that Scary-Ann is known as “Seattle’s Unofficial Evening-Mayor,” “Seattle’s Scariest Sweetheart,” and, as I’d name her, “Seattle’s Elvira.” Bump within the Evening is a novel and empowering area “for the freaks by the freaks,” she says. It’s an area to “flip a glance, dance, watch a present, and have some enjoyable.”
To those that she would describe as “darkish curious,” Scary-Ann encourages that in the event you’re pondering of “dabbling within the spooky, the bizarre, not your standard pageant drag look, simply do it! Why not? There may be plenty of energy on the planet of dress-up and simply discovering this persona that you simply actually simply wish to be for a second.”
To present and future followers of the night, Scary-Ann shared that she “loves and adores all of you. Stick with it, maintain coming to Bump within the Evening, maintain being your spookiest selves.”
Bump within the Evening is each final Wednesday of the month at Pony from 9 pm to shut. The subsequent version, “Midnight Mass,” is October 30.
