Black Cherry Club & lolita Christmas outfit; Sydney Alternative Music venue Hermanns; Insurge

I always like to look a bit different each time I go out (and that’s quite a lot!)

Perhaps it’s Style ADHD; I’d get bored if I always had the same hair, or wore the same colour clothes and make-up. Even within the alternative scene I’ll sometimes be a punk rock chick, sometimes a gothic doll, sometimes a rockabilly vamp.

This past weekend – if you start on Thursday, as I did – I went out 3 times. You saw the aqua Nuffnang outfit here, and even I have to admit it was a little gaudy and over the top, but hey, there was a blueness competition going. I was almost going to wear a blue tulle tutu – now THAT would have been out there. I don’t normally wear head-to-toe anything, not even black.

Black and white, however, is a favourite combination, especially in stripes, argyle or spots, sometimes combined. It is this combo I wore on both Friday and Saturday night – since I’ll be in Cambodia for Christmas and New Year, these were my last nights out in Sydney this year!

Friday night saw me back at Hermanns Bar, a great little venue on City Road Camperdown, about 2 bus stops down from Broadway. It’s the same venue that hosted the 80’s club Electric Dreams (remember the Madonna outfit?)  This time the club night was Rollercoaster, which Club 77 used to host, with music like Ministry, Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, PWEI, Faith No More, Killing Joke, the Sisters of Mercy, Nick Cave and more. I scaled the look back a bit.

It was also the first gig in years by Insurge, a 90’s aussie Industrial rock band that combined the use of samples, audio loops and percussion, with the standard chunky guitars of hard rock. As JJJ  succinctly writes in J Play:

The band was known for its outspoken political views which were particularly focused on global issues such as injustice in the developing world, the political influence of corporations and financial markets, and global environmental issues such as climate change. The band’s politics were influenced by anarchism, environmentalism, anarcho-punk , political economy, and the anti-globalization movement.

Their best known song was ‘Political Prisoners’ from 1996, and boy when it came on, did the place go off! The boys have definitely still got it, and though it was supposed to be a one-off, hopefully we’ll see more dates from them in the future.

Saturday night was the Christmas Party and final club night for the year, of Black Cherry. I love the variety in music, people and fashion at this club – there are punks, deathrockers, vintage vixens, Rockabilly bombshells, cockrockers, tattooed peeps, goths, ska types…and just people off the street who come to check out what’s going on.

Since it was Christmas, I pulled out a red wig for this look. I also wore red lipstick, which is rare for me, and red and gold toned eye make-up, with various false lashes.