Tainted Reality To Collect Donations for Show Your Heart at Upcoming Live Events
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 - Havertown, PA: Tainted Reality, the subculture entertainment website, will be collecting donations for GACKT's Show Your Heart charity to help the victims of the March 11th Japan earthquake and tsunami. Fans who make donations of $5 or more will receive a hand made ribbon showing their support, courtesy of Tainted Reality staff. Donations will be collected at all of Tainted Reality's live events in the months of March and April. These events include:
March 18-20: Rose Noire at Zenkaikon
March 25: Rose Noire at Digital Ferret, Philadelphia, PA
March 26: Rose Noire at Tokyo Shock, Baltimore, MD
March 27: Rose Noire at Club Europa, Brooklyn, NY
March 31-April 3: lix and Call of Duty Black Ops video game Tournament, Tekkoshocon
100% of all funds collected will be donated to Show Your Heart.
About Show Your Heart: Founded by Japanese pop singer, GACKT shortly after the recent earthquake and tsunami, SHOW YOUR HEART is a charity to raise disaster relief funds. The foundation is supported by many music artists in Japan, including Shinya from LUNA SEA, DAIGO from BREAKERZ, Ni~ya from Nightmare, Versailles, and labels such as Darkest Labyrinth / Starwave. In the short time since the charity has come into existence, it has already raised $1,255,462.53 to ease the suffering of the Japanese people in the wake of these tragedies.
About Tainted Reality: Tainted Reality is the premiere source of sub-culture based entertainment in the United States. They specialize in programing revolving around Japanese Rock (J-Rock), video games, and web comics. Tainted Reality hosts their own internet radio network dedicated to Japanese musical programming and produces radio shows such as Tainted Reality & The Tainted Reality Talkshow. Tainted Reality often conducts interviews with some of the biggest musical artists of Japan like YOSHIKI of X Japan, Die of Dir en grey, MIYAVI and MUCC. They also have managed and organized tours for prominent J-Rock bands such as BLOOD, Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet-, The Candy Spooky Theater. They have also produced entertainment media such as the Darkest Labyrinth Vol.1 DVD and the Darkest Labyrinth CD.
