Akiko playing with PRE at The Market Hotel in NYC
Big rock stars often have their own stylists and designers to make them costumes for big shows or music videos. Johnny Blue Eyes did Gossip and CSS, Christian Joy did Karen O and Klaxons. Nova Dando did Lightspeed Champion, La Roux and loads of upcoming bands. Someday I want these people to make me some costumes. I can’t afford them yet though. But, what I’m here to say is that if you are in a broke band, you can still look as fucked up and stylish as those rock stars. Here are some examples of DIY stage outfits that I’ve got involved in recently.
When The Big Pink played a show on the Halloween, we made sure we made the effort. I did my pumpkin face and Milo’s Warriors/Kiss-face.
And this is Klaxons the other night, their first appearance on stage in London in ages debuting some new songs.
They didn’t have a stylist or any custom-made costumes, they just raided a vintage store before the show and wore the things they bought. Jamie wore a big tutu with formal jacket with tails and a bow-tie, Simon wore blue Adidas shorts and fishnet leggings, everyone wore lipsticks and smudged eye-makeup they stole from my makeup bag. I just love the look it’s so WTF?!?!
Klaxons, Madame JoJo’s in London
Jamie gave me his tutu he wore at the Klaxons gig above. It’s too big for me, so I wear it like a dress. I really like it. Recycling onstage clothes is very green.
Alternatively, if you are really running out of ideas and money, you can wear everything and nothing all at the same time.
Reader Comments
February 9th, 2009
1:00 pm
Hmmmm, I’m not sure what was more embarassing. The guy from Klaxon’s hair (the one who is hiding his receeding hairline) or that article. Ek.
February 9th, 2009
3:26 pm
Lightspeed Champion can afford a stylist?
February 9th, 2009
4:32 pm
wasn’t it great when you could take a show photo without nine jazillion other cameras showing up in it?
February 9th, 2009
4:34 pm
woah, it’s bill s. preston, esq.
February 9th, 2009
4:35 pm
so basically, nova dando got paid a lot of money to tell someone to wear a fur hat?
February 9th, 2009
5:42 pm
Who is Akiko and why should i give a shit, really?
February 9th, 2009
7:56 pm
OOOOOOOOOooooooK
February 9th, 2009
8:23 pm
what a load of fucking boring bollocks.
February 10th, 2009
12:32 am
…what was the point of this!
though everone seems to say that Klaxons gig was good, good new stuff etc! ..BUT they look like the bloody Manic Street Preachers when the Manics were trying to look like the Sex Pistols!!
..poor!
February 10th, 2009
1:17 pm
I saw the big pink support tv on the radio, they were yawnsville, akiko had cool hair, i want more from my rockstars, oh i did like the keyboardists jumper, is the lead singer in his forties? I guess my point is selling your soul to satan for fame is cool, selling your soul to vice is like having a syringe of diabetes injected in your lips.
February 11th, 2009
2:25 am
You can’t inject Diabetes into anything, dumb-bum. It’s a syndrome, not a disease, therefore isn’t transmissible by hypodermic needle. And since when has Vice been in the market for buying souls? I thought they just used interns and saved money…
February 11th, 2009
5:33 pm
People laying into Akiko,
At least she has been out there, plugging it with an actual fucking band for a few years. She hasn’t ascended to the position of Vice columnist overnight because she’s fucking the features editor or something like some of the other precocious little shits we’ve been seeing on here lately.
Oh, and she’s actually adult age.
February 11th, 2009
7:56 pm
I LOVE the fashions that people wear onstage- they’re so funky! I’m loving the whole guys-wearing-skirts trend that’s going on right now as well :)
-Deborah-
http://nonrambfromdeb.blogspot.com
February 13th, 2009
10:07 pm
Jamie Reynolds is fat.
February 19th, 2009
12:31 am
lol
March 13th, 2009
8:36 am
Sehr gute Seite. Ich habe es zu den Favoriten.
June 22nd, 2009
9:41 am
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