The Candy Spooky Theater

The Candy Spooky Theater (ザ キャンディー スプーキー シアター) was a Japanese visual kei rock band, who debuted in 2005 with the single "Pumpkins Scream in the Dead of Night Parade". The band was made up of three members: Jack Spooky, Kal Bone Jr., and Peggy Giggles, and their music was driven by Tim Burton-like horror influences under the concept of "Comical Horror Halloween Party".[1]

The Candy Spooky Theater
The Candy Spooky Theater playing live in NYC
Background information
OriginJapan
Genres
Years active2003–2014
Websitewww.thecandyspookytheater.com
MembersJack Spooky
Peggy Giggles
Kal Bone Jr.
Past membersZull
Kiddy Skeleton

History

The band formed in February 2003 by Jack Spooky,[2] but prior to that Jack Spooky and Peggy were in a band together called Dororo (however, then Jack was known as Shati and Peggy was known as MeiLa (迷La)). The band later in 2004 started to release music, under their own label called Candy Makers (CM(S)).

They debuted with the four-track single "Pumpkins Scream in the Dead of Night Parade", which was limited to 1,000 copies. From there on, they released three more singles and were featured on a three-track single called "Mikkai". They have also released their first full-length album, Living Dead Spooky Doll's Family in the Rock n' Childs Spook Show Baby!!, on March 23, 2007, through the German record label Trisol.

They finished their first U.S. tour called Comical Horror's Wonder Land East Coast Showcase Tour which ran from May 20–22, 2007.

They released their most recent work, SpookyWonderland, on October 1, 2010.

The band announced the cessation of "all activities with the performance of the June 6, 2014".[3]

Members

Current members

  • Jack Spooky – vocals, programming
  • Peggy Giggles – bass guitar
  • Kal Bone Jr. – guitar

Past members

  • Zull – guitar (left May 2007, moved to Monaural Curve)
  • Kiddy Skeleton – guitar (left September 2008[4])

Discography

Albums

  • Living Dead Spooky Doll's Family in the Rock n' Childs Spook Show Baby!! (2007.03.23)
  • SpookyWonderland (2010.10.01)

'Singles

  • "Pumpkins Scream in the Dead of Night Parade" (2004.03.21)
  • "Wonderland" (2005.09.09)
  • "Murderland" (2005.10.31)
  • "The Bedroom" (2006.07.05)
  • "Prince of Darkness" (2007.10.01)
  • "The Haunted House" (2009.02.02)

Other

  • Mikkai (蜜会; A Sweet, Secret Meeting) (#2 Murder Factory in the Closet) (2006.05.06)
gollark: What stops someone from just listening to the port your thing transmits on and ignoring the bit saying who should receive the packets?
gollark: It's very unpleasant. I used it a bit
gollark: Lua builtins are in the style of... C, I guess... where you just have lowercased often abbreviated names.
gollark: `tostring` works fine for bool to string conversion.
gollark: Many higher-level languages don't specify stuff like that, making them at least abstractly Turing-complete, but assembly/machine code languages *do*.

References
  1. Visunavi Profile Archived 2007-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on Sep 09 2007 (Japanese)
  2. "Rockin' on Brand-new Door Vol 18" Gab February 2006 Issue (Japanese)
  3. http://www.thecandyspookytheater.com/top-xxx.htm
  4. "Kiddy Skeleton Leaves The Candy Spooky Theater". Tainted Reality. 2008-08-01. Archived from the original on 2012-02-15.

Further reading
  • Orcus No. 3 March 2007 pgs 24 - 28 (German)
  • Orcus No. 4 April 2007 pgs 105 - 107 (German)
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