Where the Name Came From

that's the Sisters of Mercy up there. the song's called "Black Planet", it's from 1985, and a fair number of you are convinced we named the club after it.

we didn't.

which is almost annoying, because it nearly makes sense. we started Black Planet with two goth nights, and the Sisters are about as goth as it gets. on paper it lines up.

but have you actually listened to it? the black planet in the song is earth. pollution, the lights going out, the whole place dying. genuinely gorgeous track. it has nothing to do with us. we are not running a climate vigil at 3am.

the real reason is less cool than that, sorry. black planet isn't named after anything, it's a place we made up. an imaginary planet, ours, somewhere out in the dark where the whole scene gets to exist on its own terms. the nights, the music, the people who don't fit anywhere else in this city. you don't just go out to a club for the night. you leave the world for a few hours, go to the black planet, then come back down. somewhere to keep all of it that isn't earth, isn't Stockholm, isn't anyone's feed.

and black because black rules. that's the whole thought. we just like black.

so when someone tells us "omg you named it after the Sisters of Mercy track, that's so sick", we don't correct them. we're not about to stand at a party explaining pollution metaphors. we smile and say aw, thanks.

anyway. now you know. don't tell them.