December Descent 2014

Last Thursday was the last Descent of the year. It's always a pleasure being able to DJ there, and I hope to do it again next year!

I'm wearing a green lipstick from Life's Entropy called Matrix.

I didn't get to play a longer second set, because we closed early.

Prudish 

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – Specimen

Arabian Knights – Siouxsie and The Banshees

Nine While Nine – The Sisters of Mercy

Shadowplay – Joy Division

Play for Today – The Cure

Lagatija Nick – Bauhaus

Walking on Your Hands – Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Deliverance – The Mission

Impossible – The Floor

Mouthful – Rule of Thirds

She Will – Savages

Dandelion King – March Violets

Back Door – Clan of Xymox

Europe – Killing Joke

Prudish

Youth Sentiment – Sigolo XX

M.E. – Gary Numan

Fascination Street – The Cure

The Last Song – Trisome 21

Killing Moon – Echo and the Bunnymen

Stigmata Martyr – Bauhaus

Shaving My Neck – Gene Loves Jezelbel

Sharon Needles

A little while ago I saw Sharon Needles at the Perth gay club Connections. Photos taken by my friend Haze.
I didn't know what to expect, because I've never seen a drag show before. Sharon Needles was the winner of the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race (which I love!).

It was really horrible and hot where I was standing.

 

I didn't actually stay for all of Sharon's show. After her first song I felt really ill and I felt like I needed to sit down. There was no seating at the club (what the hell?!) so I actually bailed early and caught a taxi home.

Incursion PLUS Extra News

This past weekend was a busy one for me! The club night Incursion finally happened, it went really well! Incursion was a costume party with a military theme, everyone looked great.

I have an online friend, Lana, who flew over with her boyfriend to attend and DJ at Incursion. It was a birthday present for her boyfriend, but they've also never been to Perth. I took the day off Friday to show them around a bit, I took them to Fremantle which I hoped they liked.
On Saturday, we all helped set up the club. Putting up posters and making sure everything looked nice.

Here's what I looked like on Saturday night for Incursion!

Blue makeup! Blue lipbalm by Morgana Cryptoria

 

 

 

Nosechain!

 

I don't really own anything military themed. I had this military shirt laying around, it had gold buttons so I painted with nailpolish to make them black.

Top: New Look

Corset: Minx Corsetry

Skirt: Yours Clothing

Winklepicker boots: Demonia

 

Here's what my Sydney friend Lana wore! She looked very nice, and spend a lot of time on her costume.

She had a lot of Nazi imagery, but I hope my readers can understand that she's not a Nazi and it was just a costume.

 

There was ANNOYING DRAMA caused by people taking offence at some Nazi costumes. The people who complained are known trolls/people who cause trouble. They singled out one of my friends and have started bullying her online. THIS IS NOT OKAY. I have a lot to say about this subject, but I really don't want to write on my blog about that.

 

Here we are together in a very blurry photo :)

 

My best friend Merissa DJing.

 

Me and my friend Jane. She looked so CUTE!!

I hope that my Sydney friend, Lana, enjoyed her stay. I loved meeting her and showing her around Perth. She is really generous and kind, and I can't wait to see her again.

EXTRA NEWS:
My best friend has left Perth :(
Merissa has been planning to move over to the UK for a few months now. Tuesday morning she was flying out, so on Monday night a few of us stayed up all night to be with her. We took her to the airport and said goodbye to her. I cried!! :(
I'm going to miss her so much! I don't know what I'll do without her :(

A Week Behind

I had a pretty busy weekend, last weekend. Yes, I'm a week behind in my blogging. What can I say? I'm lazy :P

On Satuday 23rd I went to see A Royal Affair with my friend Merissa. The film is about the Danish royal family in the 18th Century. I love historical movies, and Merissa and me always go to see them together. The cinema was packed with what Merissa calls the 'Blue Rinse Brigade', all the old ladies going to see the film. Me and Merissa were the youngest there :P
The film was great! Costumes and settings were lovely. I would totally go and watch it again.

I wore:

Sisters of Mercy Shirt: Ebay

Skirt: Big W

Tights: Kmart

Winklepickers: Demonia (the heel fell off, again! I might write and angry letter to demonia)

Cotton biker jacket: Ebay (studded by myself!)

Later that night I went to a 'reunion' type of night that was for all the older alternative types to get together. That didn't stop me going! I was a bit over-dressed though, but I guess it's better to be over-dressed intead of under-dressed.

A irish guy complemented me on my hawk. He then asked me what type of music I'd like to have played, I quickly searched my brain for a really obsure goth band :P

"definatly Danse Society" I said, sipping my lemonade.

Check out my cute bat hairclip. I got it from etsy!

Please excuse creepy glowing eyes.

Specimen shirt: From their gig I saw in London 2010

Corset: ebay

Epic belt: ebay

Skirt: Yours Clothing

Winklepickers: Demonia

The next day I walked to a retro/vintage market that was being held in the next suburb. I underestimated how long it would take to walk there, so it took an hour both ways. Well, at least I like walking! :P

I bought two records, Bowie and Adam Ant. I'm trying to start to collect records, I've always loved records but I've never been in the position to buy any. Sadly all of my favourite bands are really hard to find, I'm not going to find a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album easily!! I think that's where the internet comes in. If you have old goth records you don't want, give me a yell. I'll buy some! :)

On Sunday evening I headed off to The Loft. It was their 2nd birthday celebration, sadly I didn't get to DJ :(

I left my hawk up from the night before, too much effort to wash it out and put it back up again.

I wore a super cute dress that I got at City Chic on sale. The dress is really ugly and square on the hanger, but it looks curvy and brilliant when I wear it.

I had to wear my other demonia winklepickers because my favourite ones broke again :(

Again, sorry for any spelling mistakes. Spell check isn't working again, damn Blogger.

Sad news, I won't be able to DJ for a while. The Loft isn't running weekly, and The Crypt has to find a new venue. I'm really sad, as I love to play music and make people dance.









Old School Goth

On Thursday night (May 3rd 2012) I went to an old school goth night by myself. Sadly my friends are not into post-punk and traditional goth, like I am. I was really nervous going by myself, especially since I had to walk into town by myself all dressed up.

The night was held at a pub, the event was created by one of the elder goths who missed listening to good music and meeting up with old friends. I'm very young, so I didn't know many people there. At least I looked good!

I paid $6 for a pint of lemonade! It was such a rip off. I had water afterwards, because glasses of water are free

Batcave shirt: Zazzle (on the internet)

Skirt: City Chic

Epic Belt: Ebay

Tights: Random

Boots: Demonia

Lace Gloves: Supre

Inspiration: Siouxsie Sioux

When babybats research Goth music, Siouxsie Sioux is right next to Bauhaus and The Cure. I remember when I knew nothing about Goth music, I searched Internet forums for an idea of what I should listen to (this was when the Internet didn't have awesome information like it does now).The first Siouxsie song I listened to was Christine. My favourite song is most likely Cities In Dust, which always gets me on the dance floor 'pulling the cobwebs' with my hands.

It's no secret that I love backcombing. I used to have hair down to my butt, until I cut it shoulder length because I wanted to start backcombing. I wanted to look like Siouxsie and Robert Smith. I succeeded well, and no other Goth in Perth backcombed their hair. I was the only one. Backcombed hair became my staple, and friends who I only knew at the club wondered what I looked like with 'normal' hair. They didn't recognise me straight away in my normal day outfits with flat hair.

I've perfected my backcombing. The hairspray I use is Schwarzkopf Lacquer Taft Mega Strong Hold. I use a normal tail comb. I've regularly put up my hair, slept in it, and gone out the next night without having to restyle my hair. It's very epic.
I even made a youtube video about how to do Siouxsie hair! It's very old
It was only very recently that I shaved my hair so I could have a death-hawk (I've always wanted one)
I've also taken inspiration from Siouxsie's makeup. I pluck my eyebrows very straight, but I did this because I wanted to look like Theda Bara.
Here's an old photo of me with my hair in Siouxsie glory. I'm bending down, so my lower half looks really strange o_o;

I've also had the chance to meet Steve Severin who was the guitarist in Siouxsie and the Banshees. He came to Perth during our film festival, his show involved him playing music along to various film pieces his chose.
I got to meet him afterwards!

He's the dude with white hair in the middle. The other people are my friends.
I was a bit star struck but asked him a question. I told him that I had to record the show 'the Ascent of Money' as part of my library job. He did the music for it, and I asked if he enjoyed the show. He said that it was the type of show that sent him to sleep, and I agreed :)


This post is part of a theme for the Ladies In Black Facebook group

The Crypt Opens

Last night was the opening of the new Goth club in Perth called The Crypt. My friend, Merissa, is the organiser of this new club. She has put so much into it, it was great seeing it all come together.

Merissa and Me spent an hour decorating the venue. Merissa bought a lot of candles at Ikea. I bought my incense, along with crushed velvet. It was very goth :P

I got to DJ early, I get to play all of my favourite post-punk and tradgoth.

Here is what I wore:

Fear my fat arms!

Shirt: Random store in Perth

Corset: Minx Corsets

Skirt: Target

Tights: Leg Avenue

Winklepicker boots: Demonia

My hair went fluro green under the blue lights.

Here I am with my friend Nikki

So Much Dancing

I went to The Loft last Sunday (the 8th). I was looking forward to dancing heaps, and The Loft never disappoints. It was also a long weekend, so I got to sleep in Monday morning :)

The Loft is held at Geisha Bar in Perth, they usually have house music on the long weekend. My boss decided to let The Loft crew to have a chance. It was packed! There were a lot of normal people though, so I'm guessing lots of people were expecting house music (yuck). Instead there was awesome music.

I really dislike sharing the dance floor with normal people sometimes. They don't know about dancing space, I need room to dance! Some people just stood on the dance floor talking (get out of the damn way!). Then I got laughed at by some random chicks, my dancing style is 80s, but I'm not bad. I guess they're not used to a fat chick dancing brilliantly, I love dancing so they can bugger off. Then a dude kept trying to grab my hand and put his arm around my shoulder, I kept telling him to back off. Then he got kicked out (haha)

Dress: City Chic

Belt: Torrid

Winklepicker boots: Demonia

I really love this dress, it's so 80s and cute! It has the right amount of sleeve that helps me hide most of my flabby arms. It has two ruffles on the skirt, great for twirling.

The only thing I don't like is how low cut it is. I have to safety pin the dress to my bra, or my boobs will show :-/

Maybe I just don't have big enough boobs for this type of dress.

I put my hair into a messy backcomb. I really couldn't be bothered putting it into a hawk. It was kind of pushed over to one side and messy. I thankfully put enough hairspray in so it didn't deflate.

 I also LOVE wearing red lipstick. I just can't get over the whole green+red=Christmas thing.

Wearing my cute bat earrings that I got from Claire's in the UK (Halloween selection)

Adam Ant @ The Astor Theatre

Short Version: OH MY FUCKING GOD!

Long Version: This post is VERY picture heavy.

I thought Adam Ant would be one of those bands that I would never see. Adam Ant is such an idol to me. I found out about him when I was researching Punk in my babybat days. He was part of the early Punk movement along with Siouxsie Sioux, The Sex Pistols, and Billy Idol. My music taste is very old school and most of my favourite bands don't tour anymore.

Adam started touring the UK in 2010, I sadly left before I could see him. I thought I was out of luck and I was really jealous of all my UK friends who saw him.
Then the amazing happened, he announced an Australian tour!! I bought my ticket right away.

April 1st couldn't come soon enough, but it finally arrived. I woke in the morning to find my boss at The Loft was talking about how Adam was going to do a set at the club. But I realised it was an April Fools joke :-/

I took my time getting ready and left my house at 5.30pm. The doors opened at 7pm, but I wanted to be in the front of the line. The Astor Theatre is only a 10minute walk from my house.

Here is what I wore:

Isolation Shirt: From an old Perth alternative club

Skirt: City Chic

Epic belt: Ebay

Boots: Dr. Marten

Tights: Random cut up ones

So I was at the front of the line. I had a good chat with all the ladies who started to line up behind me. It was great seeing all the older people coming out to see someone they loved when they were young.

This is what greeted me when I go to the front of the stage. At this point I couldn't believe my luck! Front row!!
I bought a shirt and a bandanna (very expensive, but what can you do?)

Here I am front of the stage.

The girl next to me bought flowers for Adam :)

The support band was an all girl band called Georgie Girl. They kept it short and sweet.

Everyone was super excited for Adam to come on.

And suddenly, he was standing in front of me. Larger than life and everything I dreamed of. He lots of energy, jumping around on stage. He looked fabulous.

From the start I was pogo-ing and singing along. I find that I can let myself go at concerts when I'm not with my friends.

There are millions of photos. Scroll to the bottom if you don't want to see them.

Adam ripped his shirt apart during a song!

Georgie Girl did backup vocals. Here she is for the song 'Cleopatra'.

I was so close to him!

My perfect standing position gave me the chance to grope Adam's leg when he stood playing guitar. Hopefully he didn't mind!

His set list was great and he played heaps of his old punk tracks.

[EDIT] The list of songs is Plastic Surgery, Dog Eat Dog, Beat My Guest, Kick, Cartrouble, Ants Invasion, Deutscher Girls, Stand and Deliver, Puss n' Boots, Catholic Day, Kings of the Wild Frontier, Wonderful, Whip In My Valise, Vince Taylor, Desperate But Not Serious, Cleopatra, Never Trust A Man, Zerox, Antmusic, Goody Two Shoes, Vive Le Rock, Christian D'or, Lady, Fat Fun, Red Scab, Get It On/20th Century Boy, Prince Charming, Physical (You're So)

SO MANY!

Some of the songs I loved: Kick, Lady (the song about the naked chick), Fat Fun (I was so HAPPY he played this song!), Whip In My Valise (OMG!), Deutscher Girls, Ants Invasion, Beat My Guest.

He also played two T-Rex songs :)

I sung to every song and jumped around.

He did two encores!

Then everything stopped for the next part. Adam Ant locked eyes with me, lent forward and handed me his bandanna from around his waist.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I then died

What I actually did was scream loudly and become a fan girl. I am sure he singled me out because I was the only one jumping around for his whole concert (plus green Mohawk might of helped)

The concert ended and everyone went crazy! It was seriously the best gig I've been to in my whole life. I'm so glad to see Adam go back to his punk roots. I love all the songs from that period.

A girl stopped me, she said she reads my blog! This is my first experiance of someone stopping me because they read my blog. So exciting

The second big surprise was yet to come!

A man the in audience handed me a VIP card!!! I had only bought a regular ticket because I'm poor and VIP cost around $250. This man was there with his wife and 15 year old daughter, they had a spare ticket because they won a few in the newspaper.

He told me he was going to give the ticket to whoever knew all the words. It also helped that I knew who Jordan was (he asked me if I dressed like this normally and if I liked Jordan, I said I liked Siouxie Sioux better)

The VIP ticket gave me the chance to meet Adam Ant! We gathered in the upstairs bar and got called down groups at a time to meet Adam. We were aloud to have two things signed.

I also got a free signed poster.

Of course I didn't know what to say to him. I went for a handshake but he gave me a hug instead! I told him that I really enjoyed his music and was very pleased to meet him. He asked me my name, and signed all of my things (he signed four things instead of two)

In this picture he's looking at my work swipe card. He was very soft spoken.

I sneaked my arm around his waist for this photo! To give you an idea of his height, I'm 175cm and wearing flat shoes. I'd say that Adam is average height.

But OMG I got to meet him! I was the luckiest girl in the whole world.

Here is my loot. His bandanna (I'm going to frame this, Adam Ant sweat). My work swipe card, my VIP ticket, ticket stub, poster. I can't believe he took the time to write my name on everything! What a great man.

This is what he wrote on my work card. If Adam says I'm aloud a tea break, then I can't deny him!

BEST NIGHT EVER!

If you have a chance to see Adam Ant, go for it. It is so worth it, he has so much energy and still has a great singing voice.

I was so lucky.