Zipline Corsets now available at Noctimania

12-13 June Plymouth will host its first Tattoo Show with tattoo stands and competitions, trade stalls, a custom bike show, live entertainment including burlesque dancers, graffitti workshops, body piercing, food and all-day bars.

For more information and enquiries, visit their MySpace page.

When we wrote our article about Noctimania Gothic Clothing back in January, we also offered you a sneak preview of their upcoming corsetry range; namely the Zipline Corset.

The Zipline Corset is now available to buy from the Noctimania site in sizes 10 - 26 and your choice of zip colours.

The corset has an impressive 15 rows of steel boning to pull your waist in by 2-4 inches. It fastens with a lace-up back and with the option of a front busk and a modesty panel.

Pirate re-enactment group, the Brixham Buccaneers are at it again! They have just announced the dates for their 2010 Pirate Festival, which is back by popular demand. The event will be held all over Brixham, South Devon between Friday 30th April - Monday 3rd May.

Alt Fashion Magazine has announced the winners of its End of the Year Readers Poll. Among the winners were Moonmaiden Gothic Clothing as the top UK Designer.

Moonmaiden were up against Wholly Cow Clothing and Zizzyfay in their category. Check out EGL Magazine's Interview with Moonmaiden. Other winners included Veil of Visions, The Gothic Shop and Sinister.

And on the Sunday, they'll have another go at the World Record for the largest number of pirates gathered together, which they gained with 1467 pirates at their 2009 festival.

Visit their website at www.brixhampiratefestival.co.uk for more information and to register to be part of the record attempt. Also check out EGL Magazine's account of last year's record attempt.

Following the UK release of their debut album 'We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away)', SPiT LiKE THiS are celebrating its release across Europe with a music video release of the song 'Sex, Drugs and Heavy Metal'.

The video features live action footage shot in a freezing warehouse mixed with set pieces filmed in a "haunted" mansion at a secret location... It brings together all the fun elements of '80's videos with modern filming and special effects techniques.

Vocalist, Zion, concludes: "We have been dying to release this video ever since we shot it last year. But, because we were moving labels we wanted to wait until the right moment to do it. With our Euro releases imminent, it seemed the perfect moment had arrived. This video is the ideal introduction to the SPiT LiKE THiS Universe!"

X JAPAN, one of Japan's most popular and influential bands, invites American fans to the streets of Hollywood on January 9th to film four major music videos! It will be a huge and momentous event in the band's history.

X Japan is not only the biggest band in Japan rock history, their popularity is spreading overseas, to Asia and Europe, and is about to explode in the US. X Japan has sold over 30 million albums/singles/videos to date. They also pioneered Visual-Kei, which is infecting worldwide Anime fans through the unique style of music and fashion.

It started as a Facebook group and ended up changing chart history.

Austrian psychobilly rockers (and Keller's current favourite band) Kitty in a Casket have added a new band member to their ranks.

Mr 'Slappin Suspender' will be completing their line-up on the double bass; a must for any rockabilly band.

You can see a video of him in action on the Kitty in a Casket MySpace page.

Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' has won the coveted Christmas No. 1 spot in the UK charts.

Stopping a 4-year run of X-Factor grabbing the top slot, RATM beat Joe McElderry by 50,000 single sales. A final rush of sales on Saturday extended a lead of just 9,000 on Friday.

Thinking the radio play of it will still be a little scant though...

Last year EGL Magazine scoured the seven seas to catch up with the Pirates of St Piran; we asked them a few questions about what makes a truly fearsome pirate and then let them on their way. Other than some scuffles amongst themselves and some raucous shanty singing they hadn't done anything too bad.

Two of the crew have now set sail on their own boat, with some great gothic booty for you to get your hands on.

Other than their pirate and historical goodies available from Deadeye Jacks Cabin, you can dress yourself from their brand new webstore Gothic Realm. Check it out!

The campaign to get Rage Against the Machine's single 'Killing in the Name' to Number 1 in the charts for Christmas may have started out as a humble Facebook group, but it has hit the national papers and caused the bookmakers to slash to odds on RATM getting Christmas No 1.

The campaign is a reaction to the X-Factor dominance of the Christmas No 1 spot. The Facebook group has over 721,000 members, but does RATM really have a chance against the inevitable force of the X-Factor single?

On November 26th, the Sophie Lancaster Foundation staged a special viewing of their animated short 'Sophie: A Dark Angel' in Manchester, on what would have been Sophie's birthday.

The touching and thought-provoking animation has now been made available on YouTube.

The Sophie Lancaster Foundation seeks to raise money in order to educate young people about tolerance and respect. They are also seeking a change in the law so that crimes such as that against Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend are officially recognised as hate crimes.

Visit the website for more information and to support the Foundation.