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Phew! Just a quick heads up on the Vampire Garden by Territory-D. I haven’t heard much about this event (remember I’m a beginner), but I have heard the Kansai scene is mad!. Vampire Garden has a strict dress code, and that sounds like fun (unless you forget to dress up). Here’s a quick skipe from the flyer.

Event info:
Event: Vampire Garden
Place: Club NEO Osaka
Address: B2, It Bldg., 2-18-9 Nishi-Shinsaibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka &dagge;r Flyer & Map
Territory Phone: 03-6213-5457
Territory Email: sabbat AT territory-d DOT com
Date: Saturday May 28, 2005
Start: 22:30 ~ 05:30
Price: 3,500 yen adv. † 4,000 yen on day (1D).
Notes: Strict dress code † Must be dressed Gothic, Lolita, Fetish, Cyber, etc. Probably ID checks.
Bands: The Deadfly Emsemble (Lucas Lanthier/CINEMA STRANGE)
DJs: Taiki, Non.
Web site: http://www.territory-d.com/sabbat/events/
Club page: http://club-neo.com/

Having a week to recover from the Kobe Underground Festival, Kansai kicks back in fine style with Deathtopia @ Namba Rockets. This looks a amazing night with SEVEN freaking bands including Jubilee, PDM Chemical Candy Children and Satanyanko! Igor has just been spinning some of the free samples from the sites and can spot new punk, neo-glam, a bit of romantic-elektro and some heavy rock stuff. Just 2,000 yen advance or 2,500 yen at the door. That’s it, I want to move to Osaka.

Event info:
Event: Deathtopia
Place: Osaka Namba Rockets
Address: Namba Pier 6025, 2-8-31 Namba-naka, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, 556-0011 † Map
Club Phone: 06-6649-3919
Satanyanko Email: infoATsatanyankoDOTcom
Date: Friday, May 27, 2005
Start: Open 16:30 † Start 17:00
Price: 2,000 yen adv. † 2,500 yen @ door
Bands: GlamourDesign, Unholy The 13th Preachers, Coma, Viodish Select, Satanyanko, Jubilee and PDM Chemical Candy Children.
Club page: http://www.musicstuff-pro.com/rockets/

Once again Toge, Toge, Tokagee emerges. Igor must continue to admit that he still has very little idea about this event, but the flier has a Goth-looking guy toasting an unseen beauty by candle-light. If you’re interested, here’s back of the flier. It looks very, very interesting (Cinnamon speak for let’s check it out. The organizers, Daybook) do (or did) the Android 666 electro series. As an interesting aside while checking names, I stumbled upon a Gothic Lolita performance group (I’ll post details of that one later).

Event info:
Event: Toge, Toge, Tokagee from Daybook
Place: Shinjuku Headpower
Address: B1, 1-34-13 Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 166-0002
Phone: 03-5369-4819
Date: Friday, May 27, 2005
Start: 18:00 open † 18:30 start
Price: 2,000 yen adv. † 2,300 yen @ door
Live: Kranke, Shingguapoura, Secret Dead Space, Cen, Enma, Urara
Exhibitions: Black Garden/Kuroi Niwa, Deviant Behaviour and others.
Web site: http://sound.jp/daybook/
Club site: http://www.headpower.co.jp/

I really wanted to get out TONIGHT! but there was nothing convenient where I could crawl home soon afterwards…. Chilling out with a chuhi in my hand and two ferrets running a riot in the room. That’s my exciting night job, director of weasle entertainment. Well, they seem happy. Home alone again. So again, I turn to the site.

Been a strange week. Good, bad and ugly. It left some food for thought as I consider how to approach the world, light and dark (no, I’m not going to tell you – sheesh). Just a funny old week as they say. It also sprouted some ideas in my head that I’ll start looking into in the weeks to come. Crazy ideas. One of the craziest is I got this one dream of organizing an event. Like, I don’t have the first freaking idea on how to organize an event, I’ve got the people skills of Ishihara and I’ve got zip in the way of mulah. Oh, I could go on, and on, but it’s just this crazy idea that bounced inside the brain box while I cogitated. Bah, I better go back to messing out the ferret chamber.

Osakans, it’s time to get your pound of flesh! Sins of the Flesh is taking its Death Trip tour around Japan promoting their new release, Death Wish (out now) and their upcoming new album, The Death of the Flesh. Death Wish is a Japan-only release featuring six tracks for 30-minutes of SOTF (bargain @ 1,000 yen! MP3 samples here). This is the first half of the tour, delivering dark pop/rock industrial material (second half will be electro-industrial). On Wednesday, May 24, SOTF will be playing @ Osaka’s Fandango along with Rick Walker’s Loop.pooL. Opens @ 6 p.m. and starts @ 7 p.m so you can lubricate the braincells beforehand. Tickets are 1,800 yen in advance or 2,000 yen at the door. The Fandango Web site is in glorious English for your convenience.

Event info:
Event: Death Trip @ Fandango
Place: Osaka Fandango
Address: 1-17-27 Juso-Honmachi, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka † Map
Club Phone: 06-6308-1621
Club Email: fandangoATfandango-go.com
Date: Wednesday May 25, 2005
Start: 19:00
Price: 1,800 yen adv. † 2,000 yen @ door
Bands: Sins of the Flesh (UK), Rick Walker’s Loop.pooL, Psycho Dream and Dark Matter.
Web site: http://www.deathtrippers.com/
Club page: http://www.fandango-go.com/

Sins of the Flesh takes its Death Trip tour around Japan promoting their new release, Death Wish (out now) and their upcoming new album, Death of the Flesh. Death Wish is a Japan-only release featuring six tracks for 30-minutes of SOTF (bargain @ 1,000 yen! MP3 samples here). This is the first half of the tour, delivering dark pop/rock industrial material (second half will be electro-industrial). On Tuesday, May 24, the bands will be playing @ Kobe Zinc along with Mimetic, Rick Walker’s Loop.pooL and others. Starts at 7 p.m. and only costs 1,500 yen adv. or 2,000 yen at the door. As a random aside, despite seven years in Japan I have yet to experience Kobe first-hand… Okay, here’s the details.

Event info:
Event: Death Trip @ Kobe Zink
Place: Kobe Zinc
Address: 147-2 Fukaehama-cho, Higashinada, Kobe City † Map
Club Phone: 078-435-6735
Date: Tuesday May 24, 2005
Start: 19:00
Price: 1,500 yen adv. † 2,000 yen @ door
Bands: Mimetic (Switzerland), Sins of the Flesh (UK), Rick Walker’s Loop.pooL, Psycho Dream and Sunao Inami.
DJ: Elmina
Web site: http://www.deathtrippers.com/
Club page: http://www.zink.jp

Sitting at the daywalker desk and all Igor’s thinking about is Sunday’s Overfused @ Club Asia P. I want my rum and coke and baccy in hand and I want some serious PARTY NOISE!!! Igor’s got the bounce dammit! Anyway, quick update while my boss is upgrading the living daylights out of one of the systems.

Saturday in Kobe!
You got Kobe Underground Festival going down @ Uwaya Gekijo from 6 p.m. It only happens once a year, but it’s on overdrive with 12 hours of bounce, bands from all over the place and more, more, more! Sins of the Flesh, Mimetic, Auto-Mod, Aural Vampire, Chronotrigger, Agent Murder, Jet Pepper Tower. Oh, maa-an it looks sweet.

Sunday in Tokyo!
Overfused? @ Club Asia P starts off @ 5 p.m. in total freak out mode! You gotta turn up ON TIME! coz the bouncing starts at three G’s with DJ Statik from Das Bunker @ 5(!) and then Sins of the Flesh ramp it up a few more notches @ 5.30 p.m. And it just don’t stop with Mimetic, Dummy, Ordinateur, Sino, Noise/Girl and DJ Maya squeezing the most out of the night! Don’t forget, the SOTF single, Death Wish, will be released on Saturday, so you can pick up 30 minutes of fine, fine, fine sounds for just a senner!

Sunday in Osaka!
Also a quick holler out to Osakans, with Satanyanko, Defmonkeys, Zero MHz, Unknown, XecsNoin, and Scythewrack System @ Club Alive (Osaka Shinsaibashi).

Cool stuff or just plain weird? From the guys who brought you SushiDisk, USB memory in the shape of sushi, comes more USB storage in the form of a ghost detector.

Picking up on magnetic waves, heat and sweat, the GhostRadar can pick up to nine types of preternatural spirits, alerting owners through a cute little LED screen resembling those Simple Simon toys from the early 1980s. As if that’s not enough, the company, Solid Alliance, has set up a Web site where GhostRadar owners can post information about their hauntings (I don’t know where, okay).

These guys must have discovered some pretty amazing recreational pharmaceuticals to come up with these ideas – SushiDisk, i-Duck (USB rubber ducky mascot or memory), B-Tough t-shirts with pistol-in-pants print design, and more!

UPDATE! The night starts hot with Sins of the Flesh doing the first set (so you better haul yourself and your ferret there by 5 p.m!). This is part of the DeathTripper’s tour with SOTF’s new single, Death Wish, a Japan-only 30-minute release with 6 tracks (bargain @ 1,000 yen! MP3 samples here). DON’T FORGET! There’s plenty of quality throughout the night with Mimetic, Dummy, Ordinateur, Sino, DJs Maya & Statik and stacks more!

If the Kobe Underground Festival wasn’t enough for you, or you were piking in Tokyo, then redemption is at hand @ Club Asia P on Sunday, May 22. Opening at 5 p.m. and finishing at around 10, Overfused will prise your skull open, scramble your mind and reseal it again in time for work on Monday morning. This is part of the Death Trippers tour featuring Sins of the Flesh and Mimetic. Having just listened to various mixes from Sins of the Flesh on complimentary CD and on the KUF Compilation CD (a bargain @ 2,300 yen) AND the samples for the Death Wish release, Igor’s got a yen to get his ass out there! the ferrets have begun (Update! Negotiations successful!).

Event info:
Event: Midnight Mess presents Overfused? (click to the main screen, then Information)
Place: Club Asia P (Shibuya Vuenos 2F) † that flash screen is a killer
Address: 1-8 Maruyamacho Shibuya-ku Tokyo
Phone: 03-5428-5739
E-mail: mayaATmidnightmess.com
Date: Sunday May 22, 2005
Start: Open 17:00 † Start 17:30 ~ 22:00
Price: 2,500 yen adv. † 2,800 yen @ door (1 drink!)
Bands: Mimetic (Switzerland), Sins of the Flesh (UK), Dummy, Ordinateur, Sino, Noise/Girl.
DJs: Maya, DJ Statik from Das Bunker (USA).
VJ: Visual Works fraw
Web site: http://www.midnightmess.com/
Club page: http://www.clubasia.co.jp/
Tour page: http://www.deathtrippers.com/

Woot! This is one major event for Gothers in the West! You got major Goth bands from all over Japan, a couple of international acts, DJs, a VJ, exhibitions and more. There’s 11 bands listed on the mini-online flyer with the promising “and more…” at the end of the list.

East Gothers who have the chance…. GO! I hear the Kansai shows are even wilder than the ones in Tokyo!! Tokyo Dark Castle have some information on a bus tour going from Tokyo (all in Japanese). If you can read a bit, just hop over there, click “Other” and then “Board.” Cost is 12,000 yen. Maybe one day, if the sempai returns to online duty you’ll get to hear some of the stories. Okay, here’s the the info…

Event info:
Event: Kobe Underground Festival
Place: Uwaya Gekijo
Address: 1F Kouyou Unnu, 6-3 Hatobajyo-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0042 &dagger Map
Station: Nearest would be Motomachi subway (like I’ve been there – ha!)
Phone: 078-371-5227
E-mail: info_ya@m3.dion.ne.jp
Date: Saturday May 21, 2005
Start: 18:00 ~ Next morning
Price: 3,000 yen adv. † 4,000 yen @ door
Note: Well probably need to be 18+.
Bands: Auto-Mod, Sadie Sads, Agent Murder, Destruct System, Jet Pepper Tower, Jubilee, Phantasmagoria, Sins of the Flesh (UK), Mimetic (Switzerland), Rick Walker’s L()p.p()L (USA), Chronotrigger, Rose de Reficul et Guiggles.
DJs: Elmina, Kawa Hidenari, & Chihiro
VJ: Kihito
Exhibits & sundry: Aberrant Corpses, Rodem, Kari-ssu-Mummy
Web site: http://www.cavestudio.org/kuf/
Club page: Uwaya Gekijo