[DID NOT ATTEND: September 25, 2026] Nitzer Ebb / Vosh / DJ Mighty Mike Saga
I’ve known about Nitzer Ebb forever, but I guess I never really listened to them. When this show was announced, I thought…hmm do I remember these guys at all? And when I looked at the album covers I didn’t recognize any of them. In fact, it’s possible I don’t know a single Nitzer Ebb song, so I clearly wasn’t going to go to this show.
In fact, I didn’t even realize that they were English. I assumed they were German (which I guess was their goal)
Nitzer Ebb are an English EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan “Bon” Harris (vocals, programming, synthesizers, drums), Douglas McCarthy (vocals, guitars), and David Gooday (drums). The band was originally named La Comédie De La Mort but soon discarded that and chose the name Nitzer Ebb by cutting up words and letters and arranging them randomly to create something Germanic without using actual German words.
How about that.
The opening band is Vosh, who I’d never heard of.
Originally the trio of Chris Moore (Repulsion, Coke Bust, The Rememberables), Carson Cox (Merchandise, Death Index), and Josephine Olivia (Blacksage), VOSH was built to explore an amalgam of influences that range from Bauhaus to early Ministry to Sisters of Mercy to Zounds to Killing Joke to latter-day titans Nine Inch Nails. And while a wide-reaching and generic term such as “synth pop” or “darkwave” could be applied to the effort in broad strokes, the drama, intensity and excellent songwriting evokes something much deeper, more sinister, and darkly beautiful.
The description is apt. They have an old school synth goth vibe. I like it, but don’t need to see them.
I’ve been a to a show where a DJ was announced and he spun songs before and I guess during the acts. But it often doesn’t feel that much different from the house music they play between bands. Maybe more curated to the night, but I don’t usually pay that much attention to it. Tonight’s DJ was Philly’s Multi Genre Dj Dark Dance Super Hero! DJ MIGHTY MIKE SAGA
