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Plastics Sex Night: report
Last Thursday was Plastic Sex Night at Soft in Shibuya. Plastic Sex is the revival band of the Plastics, featuring former leader Nakanishi Toshio and also Nomiya Maki!
The show was to start at 10, and I met Alessandro in Shibuya around 9, where he was eating with 4 of his Italian girl friends. We all headed to soft, and being that it's a very small bar, I was a bit anxious that it would either be packed to the max (as I've seen it at some Tokyo Fun Parties) or otherwise almost empty. We were lucky, as there really weren't a lot of people there when we arrived. The place got a little bit more crowded around when the show started.
Unfortunately, Maki had lost her voice (perhaps she used it too much at the talk show the day before?) so her singing was almost inaudible. Still she was very beautiful in her military outfit, as it was the band's fashion theme for the night. She sometimes wore glasses too, and played tambourine and maracas. Guitarist Kuni Sugimoto (ex-Natural Calamity), whose style I like a lot, was at the back and wore somewhat of an impressive leather jacket. Also in the band were sexy flute player Saori and cute keyboardist Momo.
They played some Plastics classics ("Top Secret Man", "Robot", "Copy"), Plastic Sex originals ("Love keitai ring", "Earth quake island"), and also some covers (such as Iggy Pop's "I Wanna Be Your Dog"). Also I suspect there might have been some from the Plastic Folk/Plastic Knife (2006) which I'm not much a fan of. Alessandro said he thought there was too much guitar and that they should stick to techno which they do best. I kind of agree but I do really like guitarist Kuni a lot though. :)
The show wasn't only music, as there were some quite funny performance parts, such as during "Robot" where each member places a bolt on their forehead and Maki comes with a wrench to tune them. :) For that song To$h used a really weird synth affixed to his arm, with some sliders and a speakers built into his shoulders.
And during "I Wanna Be Your Dog" Saori dragged him around by the chain around his neck, and at one point he reached for his mic and screamed 「本当に苦しい！」 ("I'm really in pain!"), provoking a lot of laughter.
All in all, I quite enjoyed the show, but it was really too bad that Maki had no voice..! She sure looked great though! I'll surely try to catch them again sometime. By the way they'll be playing in Kobe and Osaka on June 12 and 13 respectively.
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
Posted on May 26, 2008 at 21:57 | Tweet
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Wow! I really need to catch them somewhere, some day. It's actually been months since I last went to a live of anybody and that's a shame.
Posted by ale/pepino on May 27, 2008 at 01:23
Wow, Maki looks super cool! Too bad about her voice.
Posted by ted mills on May 27, 2008 at 02:05