Kiryu at Shibuya O-East, March 2

by Jenny, Laura Cooper, posted May 10, 2012

Two big screens were settled on the walls and the stage was decorated like a Japanese shinto shrine. At the both sides and in the center, there was a pair of red torii, the gates which are usually found at the entrance of a shinto temple and symbolically mark the transition from the profane to the sacred.

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Jenny Micalizzi started studying piano when she was seven years old and has since never betrayed her passion. Music has always been a constant in her life; there have always been guitars and keyboards strewn around her house. But it wasn't until she came across Japanese music that her life changed and she became interested in Japanese language. Now Jenny lives and works in Japan, reporting on visual kei.

Laura Cooper started photographing rock and jazz bands at university. While completing a degree in English Literature, she was literary co-editor of the York University arts magazine and held poetry soirees with comedy jazz bands. Laura wrote for the now defunct UK Goth magazine Meltdown, as well as edited for an occult/spiritual website while she lived in York and London. She disappeared into the mountainous depths of Japan in 2006 and is now based in Tokyo, capturing rock bands in action.

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