Blog - Weekly revue: 2019 week #35 (August 24 to 30)

Weekly revue: 2019 week #35 (August 24 to 30)

Food: -Chocolate pie, coffee float and macchiato at Cartà, Nishi-Ōjima
- Grilled salmon belly (サーモンハラス) at Kitchen Ohnami, Kichijōji
- Totoro chou à la crème from Shiro-Hige's Cream Puff Factory
- Passion fruit parfait at Shozo Coffee Store (Kita-Aoyama)

Music event: I dropped by event "xxFANCYPOOLxx TIME" at Ebisu Batica, it was singer/model Manon's first self-organized party, and featured several other artists and DJs. I got to watch shows by electro singer/trackmaker Utae (Soundcloud) whose breakbeats and singing I enjoyed a lot, and also rapper dodo. I saw some DJ sets too, and I especially enjoyed Tomggg!

The event's last performer was host Manon, who did a very cool and generous set of 10 songs, backed by her producer Yuppa (HNC) who played some live keyboards and samples. The setlist consisted of the whole album "Teenage Diary" (!), plus latest track "Air Kissing" (watch the video below) which she sang live for the first time.

Set list: Swipe / xxFANCYPOOLxx / Wavy Pineapple Days / Beat the Bad Luck / Somewhere / Gomenne Girl / 2 Live In A Real World / Popcorn Crisis / Air Kissing / Coco Boi Romance

A word about Manon: Based in Fukuoka, she's a model and artist of the Asobisystem agency (which is famous for Kyary Pamyu Pamyu), and she has said in interviews that Kyary is her role model as an artist. Manon's music producer is Yuppa aka HNC, who I've been a big fan of since her early days as Hazel Nuts Chocolate. What adds a magic touch to the whole is that back around when Kyary debuted in 2011, she said that her favorite music was HNC! With Yuppa's always fresh tracks, Manon and Yuppa keep feeling to me like a dream team, and I'm always looking forward to what might come next.