Lancarlisle

Lancarlisle is not a place that exists. Rather, it is the surviving bits and pieces of Lancaster traditions, staff, and students which/who have migrated to Carlisle since Lancaster's closure and Carlisle's reopening. It is also the new stuff that has sprung up around us and the Carlisle traditions that, while dead when Lancastrians came, has been (at least partially) revived and/or incorporated into Lancaster traditions. This page is most likely not really going to resemble anything even close to complete for quite a while, as much of this is up in the air and not super well established, but it's still probably worth getting this down.

Lancaster Stuff

Positions

Pretty much all the Lancaster positions that survived the pandemic have transferred over to Lancarlisle, so here's a list by session:

Session One:

• The Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost)
• Jester (Original Jester gear has been transferred to S2, and have been replaced with a new hat and some cool masks)
• Jack Flash
• Lanyard Stack
• Cloak/Satan
• Bartender/Shotglasses
  • Old shotglasses were replaced with Dickinson ones
• Kiwi/Herpes Backpack
• Holder of the Duck 1.0
• Blammo God

Session Two:

• The Trinity (Holder of the Duck, Muse, Fiend)
• Jester
• King James
• Duct Tape Dress Wearer
• Blammo God
• Documentator

Activities

Acting Improv has made a strong return to CAR after having not been run since 03.1, thanks to its persistence at LAN. Starcrash has also proven strong.

Carlisle Stuff

Since CAR only ran for one session of 80 people, few traditions really survived the pandemic. However, there have been and are efforts to revive dead traditions and to preserve ones that are still alive. Most notable of the surviving traditions are Welcome to the Black Parade, in which we just try to remember what Gaynor did at the first dance of 24.2 and the dates for special days. There is also an effort to potentially revive Poetry Night for 2026 presently in the works. My Immortal may or may not still be alive. And of course, Starcrash lives on. Also, there was a glorious return of RA Gaynor Has A Story For Everything in 24.2, although it is unclear whether RA Gaynor will return.

New Stuff

Since there have so far only been 2 years of CTY at the revived CAR, this is going to be pretty barren for a while, but it will probably get filled in over the coming years.

Position(s?)

• The Seer
  • KILL JOSHIFER

Things/Activities

• Doing the Macarena for pretty much every non-canon song at the dances. (Especially Fein.) This is genuinely a thing I'm not even kidding.
• Eating ungodly amounts of soft serve at the HUB.

Special Days

• Swap Day
  • Second Tuesday
• Goth Day
  • Second Wednesday
• Summerween
  • Second Thursday
• Love Tape Day
  • Third Monday

Canon

The traditions associated with songs are those from Lancaster unless otherwise specified.

High Holy Canon

Played at the end of every dance in this order:

• Forever Young - Alphaville
• Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
  • Some Jamite must yell "God-King Jamie" after every time Robert Plant sings the title.
• Mr. Brightside - The Killers
• American Pie - Don McLean
  • Cultists of the Rain God yell PTR for "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter"

Rave Songs

• You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall and Oates
  • Played to clear the floor for/start every rave circle
• Spooky Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix) - Andrew Gold
  • Summerween!
• Sandstorm - Darude
• James Brown Is Dead - L.A. Style
• Raver's Fantasy - Tune Up
• Everytime We Touch - Cascada
• Finale - Madeon

General Canon

Note: Due to the decline in interest in traditions, there has been little-to-no distinction between Upper and Lower Canon, so we're just compacting everything that isn't High Holy or a rave song into a general canon

• Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
  • 3rd dance-just do the fists and then mosh
• Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
  • Album mix
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
• It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
• Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
• The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show people
• Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
  • Jester gets a little dance circle going, pulling people in to dance with them. Chorus line stuff with the chorus and the speed-up section.
• Icecream - Lou Bega
• Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
• Dancing Queen - ABBA
• Cupid Shuffle - Cupid
• Macarena - Los Dos Rio (?)

Aspiring Canon

Stuff we'd like to get into canon/revive but we don't have the power to get going right now

• Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
• I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
• Oh L'Amour - Erasure
• I'll Make a Man Out of You - Danny Osmond
• Nightswimming - R.E.M.
• In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
• Hooked On a Feeling - Blue Suede
• Rock Lobster - The B-52s
• Anna Sun - Walk the Moon

CTYers

• Sam J - 23.2 LAN, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2 CAR
• Alyssa K - LAN 23.2, CAR 24.2