Deadhead Haunts

A mixture of western and eastern influenced acts - 3 rooms containing;
belly dancers, punk bands, political/esotric poets, live graffiti art, improvised drawing, a whirling dervish, glitchcore djs, short films, theatrical horror acts and a mystic dark art performance show - plus much much more!!

Deadheads are defined as Spectators, Guerrilla Promoters, and often as Delinquents.

Deadheads are fans of the The Grateful Dead. They followed the band's tours, recorded their live shows, traded live recordings of concerts and hold the Grateful Dead's music in a place above all other bands. In Grateful Dead lore, the Deadheads are actually a part of the band itself. This relationship known as the 'X factor' has even been recognized by the band members themselves.

The Deadhead movement followed a similar ethos to Guerrilla Zoo's events.

Stimulated by the improvisational nature of the band, the choice of songs, as well as other factors such as location, crowd enthusiasm and the band members' energy would create the difference between a good show and a great show (also called "on nights"). Over time each song was performed slightly different from the previous time it was played - forcing songs to undergo an evolutionary process where its current incarnation could sound radically different from the first time it was performed. The appeal was, in part, created by the way the band structured their concerts. Each show became unique and a Deadhead could attend several consecutive shows, seeing few or no duplicate songs

In the view of Deadheads, "on nights" were what set the Grateful Dead apart from many, if not all, other bands. During an "on night," the minds in the room, synchronized by the music, would merge and the combined mind would wake up, allowing participating Deadheads to experience the "thoughts" of this much larger entity. Deadheads refer to this phenomenon with a number of terms including cosmic and cosmosity. On nights like this, the music was no longer the main point and functioned instead as something like EEG waves for the "brain" of the combined mind. The Dead's extended jams could sound like random noise at these times to those who were not "connected."
Rock producer Bill Graham once said that the Dead were "... not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do.

Deadheads spawned some further subcultures, from the frivolous (Diamondbacks - Deadheads who expressed similarly mannered worship for Neil Diamond) to the serious (Wharf Rats - Deadheads who helped each other remain drug and alcohol free while staying in the Dead scene) to the kinetic (Spinners - Deadheads who would spin at concerts in the manner of Sufi Mystics).