Momasu goes gosurori

[imomus]

On 5th February I'm playing a concert at Doll Dress in Osaka, described by Digiki as "some kind of weird Goth boutique with a cosplay / Goth theme event on Sunday, I've been there and it was strangely fun".



Flyers for past shows at Doll Dress look very Gothic Lolita (or gosurori), so I'll try and choose my most frilly, chilly and darkly romantic songs to please the girls. Here are the details:

Fleurir Rose Vol. 9
2006/02/05 Sunday
Open 16:00 / Start 17:00

Venue: Doll Dress / Gallery Brocante
4-24 Yamazaki-Cho Kita-ku, Osaka
Live: Momus, Harukiya
DJs: Chou Chou Noir (Velvet Moon),Tetsuya Matsukawa (Hattrick)
Advance ticket: 1500yen / door: 2000yen
Drinks & foods are free (except alcoholic)

And for more frilly thrills...:
Film showing (2 short films)
Photo session contest, making up booth, future-teller booth
Gothic-Lolita, Drag Queen

Momus concert starts at 20:00 (45 minutes)
Party End: 21:00
Shop Close: 23:00 (Bar time)

http://www.hattrick-records.com/live.html
http://www.brocante.jp/

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's quite a long section in the original Fashion Goth (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/128677.html) entry about how Gothic Lolitas are not Goths:

"Japanese people tend not to be fashion goths, or into kitsch. Even the black lace Gothic Lolitas in Japan are something else, really. They're human mille feuille cakes, not goths. I think it's because Christianity has never meant anything in Japan..."

This all gets rather theological and pedantic, but as far as definitions go, not only am I and Wikipedia on the same page, I was quite clear about my definitions from the start.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Also, I'd like to note in passing that the Wiki article says the Gothic Lolita trend began in Japan in 1998. Now, I was in Japan twice that year, and documented this as it began, calling the look decora-chan. Anyone who was reading my website back then will know that this style influenced my least gothy album ever, "The Little Red Songbook" (http://www.imomus.com/littlered.html):

"In late rainy season rain I walked around Harajuku, Tokyo's youth and style district, videoing the Decora-chan girls, who dress like Marie Antoinette as a cyberpunk milkmaid, mixing petticoats with transparent plastics."

Gothic Lolita is Decora's stylistic close cousin, a black-and-white version.

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

western goths are 1980s, the gothic lolita's are 1880s.

"I watch the sailors on the bus a little lustfully.........."