'Gothy Goodness' Category
Thursday music
Siouxsie’s back, baby. OK yeah so actually she’s been back a while and I’ve been slow to react. The album’s called Mantaray and though it’s got mixed reviews (and the videos have a distinct 80s nightmare vibe), mostly we just love it because it’s Siouxsie.
Oh my ears
It. Was. Awesome.
And surprisingly heavy.
We were about six people away from the stage.
And right next to the speakers.
They played the entire 3-hour show.
And they played every song I was hoping to hear.
Three encores. (as one person standing next to me observed, they could’ve just taken a break and done a two-part show.)
You can get some […]Tonight, tonight
Tonight we go see the Cure! People have been reserving their enthusiasm, but reports from the Adelaide and Sydney concerts are that they’re actually putting on a great show. That’s a relief since I’ve never seen them live before. Here’s hoping the energy continues.
The setlist from the Adelaide show was
Open, Fascination Street, alt.end, The Blood, […]Goths in books
Goth is easy enough to dis, what with the spooky stuff it seems to entail, but studies of late seem show it in a much more positive light, funny as that might sound. I stumbled across this review in the Chronicle of Higher Education while browsing through Arts and Letters Daily. Professor Mikita Brottman reviews […]
Everbody go ‘wheeeee!’ again
Because I have, in my grubby little paws, two tickets to go see the Cure in August. I wasn’t expecting the line outside the shop, and it was bloody cold but hey, people have endured worse to get tickets so I figure I lucked out. I almost didn’t get floor tickets but some poor sods […]
Wheee!
So my thesis is due yesterday and I’m busy reading and writing and editing. But all with dopey grin on my face because THE CURE IS COMING TO MELBOURNE. August 12 at the Rod Laver Arena. Tickets go on sale this Friday. I am beyond elated.
Comics
I love web comics. My latest discovery is 7 Shades of Black by James Treagus. It begins with Violet being so goth that Death turns up thinking she’s dead. Violet, naturaly, seems to develop an…erm…attachment to Death and proceeds to woo him. Oh and then there’s Poe, Violet’s cat, providing social commentary and a general […]
Here We Go
There goes my clever little day off in the middle of the week. I’m doing not two but three tutorials this term, which means that with my own courses I have at least one thing on every day.
Now something completely unrelated. The Whitby Goth Weekend as reported on very nicely by the BBC. For once, […]