About the event
get tickets! NITE SCHOOL PRESENTS Thursday, September 17th NITE SCHOOL:: Blone Noble, Hot Hail!, Ononos, + dj Candy Whiplash NITE SCHOOL is proud to announce Blone Noble ’s ‘ DOMINATOR 2026 ’ tour Throughout the latter half of September 2026, the tour will bring Blone Noble ’s icy atmospheric artfulness and raw magnetism to the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, with more dates in the U.S. South to be announced soon. Seattle’s Hot Hail! will be providing tour support through the September leg with their mix of infectious dark synthpop and post-punk political fury, with NITE SCHOOL co-founder dj Candy Whiplash curating unique underground dance selections to keep showgoers moving all night. With this tour, NITE SCHOOL expands its nearly sixteen-year legacy of immersive programming, adventurous booking, and community-building in Austin, TX to the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. [Full artist bios below] Candy Whiplash & NITE SCHOOL Candy Whiplash is the co-founder, curator, resident DJ, and creative director of NITE SCHOOL, the acclaimed underground music series she built alongside her late partner, Seattle-born DJ Scorpio RX, nearly sixteen years ago in Austin, Texas. Together they launched NITE SCHOOL at Beauty Bar before establishing its longtime home at Cheer Up Charlie's, one of Austin's most influential queer live music and DJ venues, where the night became a cornerstone of Austin's underground electronic music scene through internationally acclaimed live performances, adventurous DJs, and a fiercely loyal community. As NITE SCHOOL's creative director, Candy Whiplash developed the event's distinctive minimalist visual identity while overseeing its branding, marketing, photography, graphic design, artist relations, and promotion. Under the creative direction of Scorpio RX and Candy Whiplash, NITE SCHOOL became known for championing the cutting edge of underground electronic music, presenting darkwave, post-punk, synth-pop, EBM, industrial, techno, noise, experimental, and genre-defying electronic artists from around the world. Behind the decks, Candy Whiplash is known for emotionally charged, dancefloor-driven sets spanning French electronic dance music, goth, coldwave, darkwave, EBM, industrial, post-punk, no wave, mutant disco, Italo disco, synthpop, techno, and Spanish-language darkwave, weaving together classic influences with contemporary underground sounds. Following the passing of Scorpio RX in Austin in January 2024, Candy Whiplash revived NITE SCHOOL by popular demand, honoring its original vision while ushering the event into a new chapter. Now making its Seattle debut, NITE SCHOOL continues its nearly sixteen-year legacy of immersive programming, adventurous booking, and community-building in the Pacific Northwest. BLONE NOBLE Blone Noble embodies the classic tradition of the frontman as visual artist. There is Bowie’s instinct for reinvention, Bryan Ferry’s immaculate glamour, and the louche elegance of Britain’s great art pop frontmen. Everything appears considered. The clothes. The movement. The light. The pose. The stage becomes part nightclub, part theatre, part art piece. Behind the carefully constructed image is something less controlled. Blone Noble has the raw, magnetic energy of someone who understands that artifice only becomes interesting when you can see something dangerous moving underneath it. There are traces of Frank Tovey’s art school experimentation here, and something of the strange, elegant world occupied by Japan and Dali’s Car. Romantic. Cerebral. Decadent. Beautiful but slightly alien. And then there is the beat. Synthesizers move from icy atmosphere into dance floor propulsion. Taut rhythms and decadent pop hooks give the music a physical, seductive quality even when everything surrounding them feels cerebral and deliberately strange. Blone Noble understands that experimentation does not have to stand motionless in an art gallery. Sometimes it belongs in a dark room…