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Listen to DJ Nocturna's show on KTUH 90.3 FM Honolulu for more information. (every Saturday night 6-9 p.m.)
www.ktuh.org
Photos taken From Camera Obscura, July 4, 2007 at Next Door.
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Many thanks to the Honolulu Weekly and staff, the Oahu newspaper that provides its readers weekly news of the local scene with independent entertainment, provocative coverage examining issues on music, art, film and theatre events: Click here for the Honolulu Weekly
Also our appreciation goes out to the TGIF The Honolulu Advertiser, entertainment writers and staff for their Night Notes/Nocturna Nights,(page 18 Friday, May 26 edition) and for keeping Hawaii's residence and visitors informed of current issues in the arts, film, music and entertainment on the islands. Click here for The Honolulu Advertiser
Thanks also to Mary Lee for the great photography.
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The rebirth of the Livid Looking Glass, the dark alternative magazine and the launching of its webzine have taken place. You can log on to www.lividlookingglass.com
Read the interviews Nocturna did with Japan’s Jack or Jive, Kirlian Camera, Bloodwire and Johnny Indovina. Also check out her reviews on Zmiya’s Solmamdenlo album, Fleur’s Siyanie, Moon Far Away’s Belovodie, Dunkelwerk, Nox Arcana and Vigilante.
Livid Looking Glass is also on My Space-
www.myspace.com/lividlookingglass
Ethereal, Gothic and darkwave music..some of which are
The Last Dance, Voltaire, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Smiths, Nina Hagen, The Virgin Prunes, Decima Victima, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kirlian Camera, Reliquary, the Cult, Southern Death Cult, Sex Gang Children, Marionettes, Bolshoi, The Shroud, Trance to the Sun, Wench, Faith and the Muse, Love Spirals Downwards, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Heaven 17, Jennifer Hope, The Cure, X-mal Deutschland, Ministry, Front 242, Echo and The Bunnymen, Pink turns Blue, The Sugarcubes, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Kate Bush, Marianne Faithfull, Delerium, Conjure One, Peter Murphy, Tones on Tail, Nitzer Ebb, Die Form, Bloodwire, Specimen, John Cale, Brian Eno, The Velvet Underground, Diva Destruction, The Dresden Dolls, Katzenjammer Kabararett, Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Bella Morte, Cruxshadows, Ego Likeness, Rasputina,
Dead Can Dance, The Cocteau Twins, Attrition, The Barbarellatones, Sex with Lurch, Dolls Till Daylight, The Malcognitas, The Damned, Criminal Asylum, Poe, Portishead, The London Suede, Catherine Wheel, David Bowie, The Smiths, Human Drama, Johnny Indovina, Gene Loves Jezebel, Johnny Cash, Lamia, Switchblade Symphony, the the, Hat makes the Man, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Creatures, Bjork, Fleur, This Mortal Coil, Audra, Unto Ashes, Alien Sex Fiend, Concrete Blonde, Skeletal Family, Razed in Black, Wolfsheim, Claire Voyant, L'ame Immortelle, The Mission UK, Einsturzende Neubaten, Christian Death, The Wake, Rammstein, Bigod 20, 45 Grave, Fields of the Nephilim, Skinny Puppy, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Danse Society,The Dreamside, Hungry Lucy, Sophya, Morthem Vlade Art, Tiger Lillies, Johnny Hollow, Louisa John- Krol, Mankind is Obsolete, Tara Vanflower, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, The Changelings, Mira, March Violets, Gitane Demone, The New Creatures, Lycia, Love is Colder than Death, Autumn's Grey Solace, Theatre of Hate, Pink Turns Blue
Check out the article written on the Honolulu Weekly's, NightShift
Dark chamber
By James P. Stanton / 06-07-2006
Click here for the Honolulu Weekly
When darkness falls, imagine a line in blood starting at the Dungeon (you can probably find some available there), running through the skeleton of the dead Limelight, through the now empty cadaver of the Wave and the line will point to the roped entrance of the Pink Cadillac. Peer up the looming staircase and you can see the illuminations and shadows on the wall, the reflections of lace, leather, corsets and billowing frocks of the dancing gothatrons of O‘ahu. Climbing up, you’ve made it to level two. Welcome to Camera Obscura, Pink Cadillac’s signature gothic event.
Motivating the swirling romantic and cyber gothic dervishes, DJ Nocturna and DJ Du Nord ladle up a witches’ brew of ethereal, dark wave and death rock, subtly concocted to provoke the lusty crowd. Denizens of Honolulu’s mysterious yet gentle cyber and romantic Goth scene begged DJ Nocturna to bring the dark energy of her KTUH “Feast of Friends†radio program out to the masses. Teaming with DJ Du Nord, they delivered last month, conjuring up a romantic gothic revival with panache. This is an event the town’s leather-and-lace crowd has been looking for—you won’t find whips and chains here—this is about music and dancing. In addition to Nocturna’s spine-tingling Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and Hagen; Du Nord ramps it up with Switch Blade Symphony, Clan of Xymox and the Last Dance.
The Pink Cadillac has never been a center of style and class, but Camera Obscura works its magic. For two Sundays a month, the nice spread of appetizers, horror videos projected over the dance floor, music you don’t have to be Goth to dig and CD giveaways, obscures Pink’s otherwise dingy interior. For the uninitiated this is a place to listen and learn, an opportunity to hear old and new gothic sounds that, while watching some damn clever self-costumers strut their stuff. The beer is cold, and DJ Nocturna has ensured there is wine available. A goblet of ruddy wine is appropriate when you look like an extra in a ballroom scene in Pride and Prejudice. Last month Static Labs’ Tony and Jinny stopped by to talk up the upcoming 666 art show at the Mercury Bar. A few sororities and frats, hippy locals and assorted the-Wave-is-black-what-shall-we-do? castaways were enthralled, mingling on the floor to try their furtive fluid dance moves. It’s a welcoming Goth, and that’s a nice achievement.
All bands that teeter on the darkside.