Blog - Weekly revue: 2013 week #27 (June 29 to July 5)

Weekly revue: 2013 week #27 (June 29 to July 5)

Last weekend were little outings to Kunitachi and Yokohama for a bit of shopping.

Food: - Indian curry at Indo Fuji, Higashi-Koganei
- Brownie and coffee at Room 103, Kunitachi, the sister shop of vintage furniture shop Let'Em In just next door
- Jordan breakfast (for dinner) at World Breakfast All Day, Gaienmae. This is a recently opened restaurant that does what the name says, it serves a breakfast from somewhere in the world, and not only at breakfast time but all day! They change countries every month or so (now it's Mexico for July and August, and then it will be Vietnam in September). We'll have to try them all. :)
- Curry at Paku-mori with my friend Alan visiting from the U.S. Always good seeing you!
- Had some last Sunday Bake Shop before their summer holidays! My favorite brownie & more! :)

Music event: Went to Vanilla Beans' 4th show as a live band. This time they shared the stage with Nomiya Maki (actually her new unit Nomiya Maki & BIBA, with Bravo Komatsu and Ujino)! There's too much to say about this great show and I'll surely write a full report soon. :) Meanwhile here are the set lists.

Nomiya Maki & BIBA set list: Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji / Superstar (World tour ver.) / Venus (Bananarama cover) / Magic Carpet Ride / Sweet Soul Revue / Twiggy Twiggy

Vanilla Beans set list: sakasaka Circus / onegai, Doctor / Choco Mint Flavor Time / oppai / Baby Portable Rock / koi no Theory / Summer vacation / Muscat Slope Love / Jewel Memories
Encore w/ Nomiya Maki: Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji !

New music: - hitomitoi "Surfbank Social Club": the follow-up to last year's "City Dive" that I really loved. This new album again has Dorian and Pan Pacific Playa friends teaming up for a great electro-taste nostalgic-sounding city pops album.
- Vanilla Beans "Muscat Slope Love": I had missed getting this single when it came out in May, but better late than never! I got the limited edition with the bonus DVD of France footage which is quite fun!
- The Aprils "High Flying Girl": Brand new single of a song for NHK program "dai! tensai TV kun", and includes a song for iPhone game "Groove Catch". This is the latest of the Aprils' upbeat sound that I love! (I still have to post about this one at Tokyo's Coolest Sound, I've been running late with updates, but I will!)
- jōdan hakushaku "LSB-1002 [Second Edition]": This is the new unit of Maezono Naoki (of Maezono Naoki Group) and Arai Toshiya (current programmer for Konishi Yasuharu). This 2nd edition contains a remix by Mizumoto Akira (ex-TMVG).