Blog - Weekly revue: 2016 week #38 (September 17 to 23)

Weekly revue: 2016 week #38 (September 17 to 23)

This week had two national holidays, yay!

Food: - Moon cake (& curry too) at Tapir, Shin-Ōkubo
- Soft serve ice cream at Laitier, Sendagaya
- Carrot cake & latte at Sunday Bake Shop, Hatsudai
- Thai style chicken (& more) at Bespoque, Higashi-Nakano
- Chicken curries at newly opened Rainbow Spice Diner, Shinjuku. Actually it just happened to have opened that very day! They offer a quite nice rice & curry plate, with a choice of chicken curries (chicken masala and chicken butter masala, I think), pork vindaloo, and vegetable curry. I assume that the menu may vary. It's located at 2-46-7 Kabukichō 1F, Shinjuku-ku (Google map).

Music event: I went Hoshino Michiru's "tasogare ryūseigun vol.5" event, the release party for her cover album "My Favorite Songs"! I was also excited to see Wakita Monari (ex-Especia) who appeared as the opening act, her debut as a solo singer. She sang both songs from her upcoming single, "In The City" and "ano ne...", and also a cover of ikkubaru's "Cloudless Night". All of that was very good! I'm now really looking forward to the single, expected to be released in November.

I also enjoyed Nishi Erika's show. She has a powerful voice and fun personality. Her songs were very good too! Her set was followed by some funny stage acting featuring Michiru, Erika and the other act Minaminorisa, which ended with throwing loads of "Happy Turn" snacks at the audience. :)

Then was Hoshino Michiru's show! The first half was karaoke style, with older favorites and songs from the new album, and the rest of the show featured back-band Nagareboshi Gakudan (Shooting Star Orchestra) mainly formed of members from Wack Wack Rhythm Band, Sloppy Joe and then some. Three members from The Scooters (Shindō Mitsuo, Ronnie Barry and Beauty) joined for their AKB48 cover, and then Nishi Erika came to sing in duet for two songs. That was really a wonderful show! Oh, and VJing (for all acts from start til end) was by Sally Kubota as usual! Great work! :)

1st set: Interstellar / seikan renrakusen ~Night Voyage~ / watashi wa Schedy / Sweet 19 Blues / natsu nandashi / Summer Candles / i-ji-wa-ru Darling / Wonderland / kono michi / doyō no yoru wa Paradise
2nd set (order may vary): watashi wa obasan ni natte mo / zutto issho sa / You Love Me / Peaberry o mitsuketara / koshinuke danshi ni I Love You / kare no Irish Setter / koi suru Fortune Cookie (w/ The Scooters) / Discotheque ni tsuretette (w/ Nishi Erika) / koi no Fun Fair (w/ Nishi Erika)
Encore : tengoku Kiss / Magic Hour

Music release news: Charan-Po-Rantan, Predawn