BELLE LUNE: DARKWAVE GOTH BAND IN TOKYO JAPAN, LIVE CONCERT AT MIDNIGHT MESS. GREY MARIE ANTOINETTE WIG.
Raise your hand if you wish you were in Tokyo. Me. Me. I especially regret missing last weekend’s Midnight Mess (the longest-running Goth/Industrial all-night party organized by Mistress Maya). Everyone who’s anyone in Spookyville was there…
Imagine walking into a club filled with resurrected ghosts from the Palace of Versailles. Yukiro, Selia and DJ SiSEN never fail to impress with their revolving door of creative looks.
I love the various green textures in Kana’s outfit: sparrow eyelashes, feather boa in hair, hair extensions, satin corset. Can one ever go wrong with steampunk goggles (as seen on Michael)?
Above all, I wanted to be in the audience for my friends’ performances. “I am Sebastien” (from the Mad Hatter tea party) played keyboards for Seij minus aÇ, a Japanese Noise/Industrial band. (Photos above and below by Kousuke.)
His brother Jeremie came all the way from Belgium to perform; the project, RANkOR, melds punk and metal influences with electronica. You can see the video of his performance on SiSEN’s YouTube. (Yes, DJ SiSEN has a YouTube!)
The lovely Japanese violin-vocalist duo, Rose Noire (right), also took the stage (Sebastien has videos on his channel). The headliner, however, was Belle Lune (left) an American Gothic group with an ethereal female vocalist.
Maria and Yukiro danced onstage with Belle Lune — an elegant-meets-evil sight to behold! Come see the performance and more music from Belle Lune on their YouTube channel.
Kisses for all my friends at Midnight Mess — I’ll be there soon! Currently making arrangements with the Canal Plus production company… it’s going to be a fantastic TV shoot. (More details here about my upcoming co-hosting gig if you forgot.)
PS: A shout-out also to The Economist for linking to La Carmina. The most random people read this blog…
Song of the Day #339: Midnight Mess performances on Sebastien, Belle Lune and SiSEN’s YouTube channels.
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LOS ANGELES GOTH NIGHTCLUBS: CLUB HELL, BAR SINISTER. GOTHIC INDUSTRIAL FETISH EVENTS IN HOLLYWOOD, CA.
Good news: I’m going to compile Goth Nightlife Guides for NYC and LA for this blog, in addition to Tokyo!
First, let’s finish up the LA nightcrawls. Hollywood’s Bar Sinister (the site of the Goth Alice in Wonderland party) is probably our favorite venue. It has absinthe. Frightfully well-dressed guests.
A torture corner, where you can try out paddles and cuffs. Or get whipped on a giant cross. Or pet a gargoyle, or flirt with an attractive gender-bender.
Sometimes, looking too good has its downsides. We went to Club Hell at The Ivar, and it… was hell. At least six lascivious men hit on Yukiro; one kept asking strange questions, another grabbed his phone to input his number, yet another wanted to take the spanking show up a few notches on the violence-meter. The last straw: an old man LIFTED Yukiro in the air and then dipped him into a back-bend — hell no! We got the hell out of Hell.
Some of the Hell-dwellers had interesting handmade outfits, but on the whole, there was a lot of skin that could have been covered up. Perhaps it was an unusually hellish night.
Sometimes, a nightcrawl goes completely down the drain. The Adventure Team went to one place (that shall remain nameless), and it was a bummer. We tried to swing by a party, but when we got there, it was closed. Double bummer.
But one can always stay in and partake in wholesome activities such as board games, right? Riiiight.
Do you enjoy going to clubs? What are your favorite ones? Yukiro and I can’t function without regular nightcrawls!
WAHHHHHH! My big-headed Scottish Fold, Basil Farrow, has gotten bigger-headed. He’s one of the celebrity cats featured on Almost Famous Cats blog, along with the feline friends of Dita von Teese, Robert Smith (The Cure) and other Goth greats.
Have you checked out the fold-eared cuteness on Basil’s blog?
Song of the Day #338: Sopor Aeternus – We Have A Dog To Exercise (A song I can listen to over and over. The horns at 4:07!)
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