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Undead | Music | The bserver
Guardian Unlimited – Feb 17, 2008
Within the pages of Bizarre you’ll find people who willingly tattoo their eyeballs and mutilate their fingers and Japanese girls who have sex with live octopuses; which makes all the fuss given to a goth on a dog lead seem rather tame. ‘Goth covers a wide variety of subcultures now’ says Bizarre features editor Kate Hodges. ‘You can be into hard industrial music techno nu metal horror rock psychobilly doom punk emo and still be termed a goth – it’s a much looser definition whereas the outside community pretty much labels anyone wearing black clothes a goth. ‘It’s all about the lifestyle’ she continues ‘not just the music: tattoos alternative modelling body modifications fetish clubs art literature festivals. I suppose the common ground for all “goths” is an interest in the extreme the dark and the shocking… Magazines including The Face and Blitz profiled its spooky-looking denizens. The Batcave became so successful that it went on tour encouraging new legions of the fashionably dead to emerge from dark caves up and down the country. In America a similar aesthetic came out of the ‘deathrock’ scene (centred on Christian Death) and punk bands like the Misfits projected a fearsome image based on their love of EC comics and old horror flicks. The Batcave closed in 1983 but the interest in the scene secured major label deals for the second wave of goth bands – including the Sisters of Mercy and Fields of the Nephilim – and subsequent chart success. The mid- to late Eighties was a time of goth nirvana. For some it never ended. Black Veil a night for true goths takes place in a small function room above a gastro-pub in Leeds city centre.

Magazine | Sundayobserver.lk – Sri Lanka
Sunday bserver – Feb 17, 2008
Witnessing their performance at this year’s TNL NSTAGE horn-locker they clinched the title of second place out of the band competition. Their electrifying track ‘Crimson Skies’ not only whacked the audience into a frenzy but also won the title of Best riginal song. The rockheads Merlock comprise of Sajith Ranasingha on rhythm guitar with talented lead guitar cum vocalist Dumidu Handakumbura. Niroshan Decosta smashes the drums with super power and Dimuthu Fernanado (a.

regon Ballet Theatre Preview: France
oregonlive.com – Feb 18, 2008
She projected colored lights on panels of silk that she manipulated with bamboo rods to create a fire dance (the one depicted by Toulouse-Lautrec) or a butterfly dance or the blossoming of a flower. For “Bolero” Mazzola will project light onto corrugated metal panels suspended into the stage space which will move horizontally as the music builds revealing the dancers and according to Fonte their humanity. Which ideally is what art does for us all. Details:Where: Keller Auditorium SW Third Avenue at Clay StreetWhen: 7:30 p.