Review of Prometheus Bound

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Prometheus Bound: Not your usual Brisbane club ...
By Josh Guinan

Steampunk; essentially it’s an emerging subculture based on speculative fiction fusing today’s technology and culture with a late Victorian-era aesthetic. A number of bands, communities and nightclubs are springing up within the Steampunk community, one of which is Brisbane’s Prometheus Bound nightclub. Emerging on the local club circuit in November of 2008 the debut Prometheus Bound attracted a cross-section of folk to the upper level of Spring Hill’s St Pauls on Leichardt; everyone from diehard steampunk fans to the curious and intrigued. Prometheus Bound ran again in February 2009 at the same venue.

Entertainment for the first evening was provided by a selection of DJs, an experimental noise performance courtesy of local two-piece HistoriOnyx, bellydancing by Saahirah Rayvn plus vendors in the second room. The second installment in February 2009 featured local hard-rockers Mythology, a different selection of DJs plus vendors. Being an emerging subculture the genre of steampunk is still largely undefined thus a wide range of music is covered from industrial to neo-classical, deathrock to experimental, neo-folk to heavy etc. Many clubs fall into the trap of spinning the same dancefloor "favourites" week after week (hey look, they're playing Covenant's 'Dead Stars' again!)..... it was personally refreshing to see a club steer away from that train of thought and tapping into some fresh talent plus more underground cuts which are rarely heard in a Brisbane club.

Visually I have not attended a club quite like Prometheus Bound; the majority of attendees dress up extravagantly for the occasion making the event something more special than “just another club night”. Neck braces, costumes that light up, that rotate; definitely not you usual club attire.

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