Blog - Weekly revue: 2013 week #10 (March 2 to 8)

Weekly revue: 2013 week #10 (March 2 to 8)

Last weekend was an arty one, dropping by several good exhibitions!

Food: - Club sandwich lunch set (with chocolate cake!) at Jean-Paul Hévin, Tokyo Midtown
- Coconut chicken sandwich and chestnut pudding, at Réfectoire (restaurant by Le Petit Mec), Harajuku

Exhibitions: - "Design Ah!" (Tokyo Art Beat) at 21_21 (Tokyo Midtown).
We went there on Saturday March 2 in hope to catch a special live show by Cornelius, salyu x salyu, Ohno Yumiko (Buffalo Daughter) and Chocolat. We got there around opening time in the morning to try to get places for this, but there were only 150 tickers which ran out before our turn. Anyway we checked out the exhibition which was quite fun! And at 6pm we came back for the show, but we stood far behind the stage and couldn't see anything. Still we were able to hear it and it was really good! The set was mostly songs from the salyu x salyu album, with some from the "Desigh Ah!" soundtrack. The exhibition is on until June 2. The exhibition and the TV show is based on has music by Cornelius.

- "Kyary Pamyu Pamuseum" at TV Asahi, Roppongi Hills. While waiting for the "Design Ah!" show I went to check out this small exhibition of a dozen of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's stage outfits! Most costumes are placed in very small rooms in which you peek from small windows. Fun! There were all of her costumes from the videoclips, Kōhaku, and more that I couldn't recognize. There's an option to rent headphones of narration by Kyary herself.

- "Paint It Love", an exhibition by painter Manabe Tarō (aka Picaro Taro), at Gallery Wa2 in Aoyama. Shown are many of his latest cute and classy paintings of various cats and dogs. Free! On only until Saturday March 9 at 5pm.

- And last, we ended up at Soup in Ochiai for a solo exhibition by artist KaToPe who is close to the graffiti scene. KaToPe does some very detailed and impressive paintings, often using gold colored touches. It was the opening night and there were a lot of people, and about 10 minutes later it got dark and there was a hip-hop show by, I think, PPC and friends. This was free too, but the exhibition was short and it's already over though.

Music events: - "Monochromoon!" at tsukimiru kimiomou (aka Moon Romantic), Aoyama. This was a show I wanted to go to for several reasons: 1. Nosa Lena (a band featuring singer Nosa Reina), 2. Tabuchi Jun's solo act (singer of Love & Revolution), and 3. I hadn't been to this place before and it has a huge moon screen over the stage. As a bonus, there was a show by DelicioSweets, a strange band with 6 girl singers/dancers. I'll try to write up this show, but meanwhile here are a few photos!

- Nakatsuka Takeshi in-store at Tower Records Shibuya. This was a special acoustic set, with Takeshi just singing (usually when I've seen him he always plays piano), accompanied by guitar (Ishigaki Kentarō who usually plays bass in his band), and with his regular saxophonist (Ishikawa Shūnosuke) who played 2 saxes and flute, and drummer Suzuki Kaoru. That was a really fun show, and I got an autograph too! :)

Set list: Cold Passion / A Piece of Dream in Teardrops / Sea's Theme / Miracle of Time / Love, Solitude / Young, Alive, in Love (Flipper's Guitar cover) / Make Her Mine (Hipster Image cover)

Music release news: naomi & goro, Nona Reeves, Yakenohara

- And a big music news! Minekawa Takako is back!!! New album in collaboration with Dustin Wong coming in May! Shows in Tokyo in March, April & May too. Can't wait! Details here.

Playlist: Cornelius, Aira Mitsuki, Luvraw & BTB, Denki Groove, Tucker & Emerson Kitamura, FPM, Pizzicato Five, Kavinsky