Oh yes...

[taimatsu]

... goffic people, who's going to the Dark Masquerade Ball in Oxford on January 21? I'm interested in going but I'd want to be sure other people I knew would be there too :)

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[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted; is there an online link?

[taimatsu]

http://www.masquerade-ball.org/

Should be good :) Any excuse to dress up!

[booklectica]

I know we haven't actually met, but I'm going with adjectivemarcus, duranorak, asrana, conflux, zeke_hubris and others.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

You mean in big flouncy outfits with frills and frock coats? Huzah! :)

[taimatsu]

Oooh, cool! The question is, will we recognise each other, having only seen LJ icons and maybe the odd photo, if we're behind scary fairy masks? :)

[booklectica]

Probably not, but it sounds like a fun game!

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

I am kind of tempted, as apart from anything else the Randolph would be a great venue for this, but 7 till 1? Then what are we gonna do?

[diffrentcolours]

Not tempted. Looks like a bunch of poncey arse to me.

[booklectica]

Get the coach back to London and go clubbing? :)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

B-Movie with fancy clothes, basically. I like B-Movie but I stick to jeans & T-shirt because I look like a prat in fancy clothes... and ever tried to pummel sweaty punks in a cloak?

[diffrentcolours]

I fail to see how it will resemble B Movie in any way, other than having Sexbat as a DJ. The venue just isn't conducive to a B Movie style atmosphere. Plus the text on the page makes it sound like some kind of sodding Otherkin convention, in which case the only way I'm turning up is with a handful of molotov cocktails...

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Sexbat and other B-Movie DJs, so I assume the music will be similar if less silly and/or violent.

I would help with the molotovs but frankly this week furries et al get off clean while I fantasise about beating Republicans to death.

[diffrentcolours]

You know, I'm certain there's a massive Republican / otherkin crossover in the US. Pretty much every subculture over there seems to be alarmingly right-wing, which goes against logic in so many ways, but what do you expect from people who think they're bastard fairies?

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Paul and I are going. :)

[juliet]

Take rooms in the Randolph & be Debauched?

Actually, the Ox Tube runs all night, so going back to London is entirely possible.

Am contemplating it, primarily as an excuse to wear my nice red velvet ball dress which I haven't worn since I left college. Kitty is probably up for it, though god knows what he'd be prepared to *wear* along those lines...

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Well, I like Masquerade,and dressing up, but not having a partner, I think I'll stay home.

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

We get Kitty in all black and a very fancy mask I reckon - mmmmmmmm. More tempted if you guys are going of course. Actually I had thought of taking a room at the Randoph for an Unseelie after party - must find out price.


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[juliet]

I'll talk to K on Monday when he gets back from Cornwall & see what he reckons. We should probably decide fairly soon cos they claim to be selling out (though obv discount this by about 50% since you *always* claim that when selling tickets of any variety).

It all does look *terribly* poncey/pretentious, but then I am very fond of my ball dress & have been looking for an excuse to wear it for ages :-)

[random link-hopping note: one of the dress-hire places they give links to from the ball webpage charge upwards of £80 just for *hire*. Both my ball dresses together cost less than that! Blimey. Though admittedly both were on sale.]

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to be there, but Chris, obviously, will be, since he's an organiser! Also a few of the Camgoths will be there, if you know any of them - such as (I think), davefish, keris, surje and casilda.

[taimatsu]

I believe the Randolph is all booked up, BICBW.

Hiya

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

It's the other Lucy from Shards (Danan), erm I hope you don't mind but I had a link to your Journal. I was wondering if you were going to go to this Masquerade Ball after all? I've had a look at the link you posted and I'm extremely tempted to go myself, I haven't been to a traditional Goth event for a long time :) Me and Jeff are only in Swindon so it's a really quick hop to Oxford, and you'd be someone we knew. :D

Re: Hiya

[taimatsu]

Aha aha! Welcome to my strange journal :)

I'm leaning towards going, as a bunch of people I know will be there after all, but I can't buy a ticket yet as I have no money whatsoever, and I'll want to have a chat to Robert about whether he'd like to come. But as far as I can tell right now, yes, I'm going. It would be great to see you there :)