Blog - Weekly revue: 2020 week #3 (January 18 to 24)
Weekly revue: 2020 week #3 (January 18 to 24)
Food: - Lunch at Spice Lab Tokyo, Ginza
- Beef & chicken tikka masala curries at Triangle Curry, Shibuya
Music event: On Friday was event "Love Shack" at Club Malcolm in Shibuya, featuring Childish Tones, Kaji Hideki, Francis, and DJs Chabe (Cubismo Grafico, Learners, Neil and Iraiza) and Usakura Beni (Avandoned)! It was my first time at Club Malcolm, which turned out to be a nice and cozy place. I wanted to see everything so I got there right at opening time, as Beni-chan was DJing (Les 5-4-3-2-1's "Un garçon et une fille" as I entered). Both her and Chabe played quite a lot of Shibuya-kei, with Pizzicato Five, Kahimi Karie, etc.
Childish Tones played first, and it was my first time seeing them. Their concept is to play rocking tunes using nothing but toy instruments. The band of 6 were joined for a few songs by Beni-chan, who appeared on their two recent singles "Cruel To Be Kind / There She Goes" and "Make Her Mine"), and also by Izumo Nikki (also a member of Avandoned) for spoken word in another. Their whole set was a lot of fun!
After a DJ set of Chabe, it was Kaji Hideki's turn to perform. This time he was accompanied by two of Koncos (Furukawa Taichi on drums and Satō Hiroshi on guitar), with Kaji-kun himself on bass! They did a very energetic set, with even Kaji-kun's hat flying off his head as soon as the 2nd song. Being a very small venue it was also a great opportunity to watch from up close. His set included a brand new song that he wrote this year.
Kaji Hideki set list: French Cinema! / My Baby Lemonade / Sweet Swedish Winter / Suddenly, Sibylla / New song / Sunday Baby / Semi-Tropical Girl / Tu-Tu Boom Boom / Tropical Girl
Then was another DJ set of Beni-chan, followed by Francis' solo show. Francis is Ori Makoto (who used to be bassist in Original Love and The Collectors). He played tracks from his computer and did his song and dance performance. For the song chōhatsu, from his album "Burning Bear!" (1994), he was joined by Lily (of band Oldtimer) for chorus. He ended his show with "Copacabana" (Barry Manilow cover) which had the whole audience dancing, and also all other artists back on stage to dance too. You can watch that last song here (I'm in it, kind of)! Francis is working on a new album which should be released sometime this year (26 years since his previous!). I can't wait!
Francis set list: S'il vous plaît, Ha! / Alexandre / Dandy Warhol / Zero Gravity Love / chōhatsu / ? / kawaii omocha / Delaware / Copacabana
Then DJ Chabe played some more until the end. That was a very fun event from start til end, organized by Childish Tones and Francis.
Radio: A new episode of my radio program was aired on La Face B (Montréal-based Internet radio). This time I played songs that I selected around a "synth" theme. Please have a listen. :)
- "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.2 (January 22, 2020): Listen on Mixcloud and read more here
Music release news: Pico Pico Revolution, Maika Loubté, xiangyu
This week's video: xiangyu "Hiji No Biribiri"
Posted on January 27, 2020 at 00:23 | Tweet
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