Japanese Gothic (& other related frillies) Gallery - Page 13
LOTS of Malice Mizer look-a-likes. (Malice Mizer is the biggest Goth band in Japan–very popular). They especially like to copy what I like to call the Claudia-Look. Reminds me of Claudia from Interview with A Vampire. Blonde ringlet curls (they sell wigs like this in Goth stores in Tokyo), blue or green 18th-19th century French-looking dresses with lots of white lace. The sad thing is that you can BUY one of these Malice Mizer type outfits right down the road from the place where all the Goths hang out (Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, on Sundays-near Harajuku subway station). They don’t even have to have any creativity at all, just enough money. Same with the Nurse and Maid outfits. Ready-made, for sale, right near Yoyogi.
With Babes on hiatus Kat and hubby Stu Spasm started Crunt. Crunt was a cantankerous side-project they had created with the help of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion drummer Russell Simins, Apart from one Kat vocal, Crunt was pretty much Stu's show.
Very soon after it's release Crunt fell apart, as did Spasm's marriage. He fell deeper into the depths of heroin addiction and the couple soon divorced.
In 1997 Babes In Toyland decided to call it quits. After the breakup of Babes, Kat's personal and professional life took a grand turn. She met and married drummer Glen Mattson in 1998. In 1999 Glen and Kat gave birth to their first child, a healthy baby boy named Henry. Kat began to write new songs with Glen while potty-training Henry. The music that was being written would turn out to be the building blocks for Kat's new band Katastrophy Wife.
In the spring of 2000 Katastrophy Wife debuted. In 2002 with the critically acclaimed release of "Amusia", the UK welcomed Kat's return when she played the Reading Festival. After Mattson suffered an injury the band's line up changed to bassist Andrew Parker, drummer Darren Donovan, and Vanessa White, former guitarist of Twist. The result of the new line-up was the second Katastrophy Wife album " All Kneel. The fuzzed-up highly-strung album truly allowed Kat to shine as bright, if not brighter then she had in Babes In Toyland.
Today Kat splits her time between London and Minneapolis and is currently supporting her second album touring with her band Katastrophy Wife.