I was checking my account today and discovered JP Goth turned one on April 16. The site itself didn’t begin until May 2004, but that’s just by the by. I find myself trying to remember what it was that drove me to set this up and (once again) asking Where to now Rover?. Anyway, just [...]
Once again, Igor delves into the world of free content! Today, I’ve scarped another entry from the ever-interesting Wikipedia to give a primer on the cosplay phenomena. Quite interesting as Igor did not even know there were terms for some of the cosplay offshoots (I’ll scarp those in weeks to come).
Cosplay (kosupure), a contraction of [...]
Gear up for Gothfather Genet’s 11th Tokyo Dark Castle! TDC is the uber-Goth event in Tokyo. Starting from the late evening until the next morning, TDC is an event not to be missed. Igor’s got a fairly good chance of showing up - it’ll be Igor’s first TDC and intentional all-nighter - woot!
Details are [...]
Nagoyan Goths! Stand up and be counted on April 30 at Stigmatic: The Darkside of Electro Ritual… to the Mechanical Dark Zone. This event starts @ 9 p.m. and goes right through the night - you’ll be a zombie by morning (but that’s what you wanted right?). Anyway here’s the deal…
Event info:
Event: Stigmatic
Place: Nagoya † [...]
Aural Vampire will be hitting Tokyo’s The Live Station (sometimes called Meguro Live Station). Looks like the event is a sayonara to Daiki of Daiki’s Friends Session Band (don’t ask, I don’t know). I just did a download from the Dazzle site and it sounds like some serious thrash with an industrial edge - mosh [...]
While digging through the scrap box of left-overs from the old site, Igor pulled up a little series he did on being cheap in Japan. Thinking it required tizzying up, Igor slapped bastard into the title and, hey presto, the article’s been repurposed or that’s what those industry types might say. Well, it’s only a [...]
Man! I turned on the TV one night around 12:30 to be smacked in the face with another dose of these adolescent boppy singers and it sent me into convulsions (Morning Musume site so you can convulse at your leisure). I guess that it’s okay to produce this kind of trop, but Morning Musume makes [...]
April 23, 2005 – 10:00 pm
Wild night @ Kobe’s Otoya featuring local bands, Phantasmagoria and Satanyanko, plus Falling You from the US. On top of that you got four DJs. Nice mix of Goth styles for your pleasure. And only 1,500 yen!
Event info:
Event: Phantasmagorium Vol. 1
Place: Otoya, Kobe
Address: B1, 4-9-14 Kanou-cho, Chuo-Ku, Kobe † Map
Club Phone: 078-393-2758
Club E-mail: otoya@cavestudio.org
Date: Tuesday [...]
April 22, 2005 – 12:44 pm
I managed to find Club D’or with great difficulty, but Vertige is a cool way to spend a Sunday with electro Goth and industrial sounds to get you jumping and you won’t feel out of place in leather, PVC or flourescent polystyrene extensions.
Okay, it starts early Sunday evening (24-April), goes from 17:00 to 23:00 and [...]
Well, between work-related drinking (bwuahahahahaha, it’s evil), vet visits for the little princes and the duties of being a family-oriented miscreant, Igor’s going have a pretty full weekend just being normal. I want to see NWJ (and catch up with Gsson), but it might be a wee bit difficult - we shall see.
Friday † Toge, [...]
