Blog - Weekly revue: 2020 week #33 (August 15 to 21)
Weekly revue: 2020 week #33 (August 15 to 21)
Music events online:
- Salome no Kuchibiru / Kinoco Hotel
- salyuck (Archive)
- DJ Comoesta Yaegashi "Lunchtime Music"
and!
- Maki Nomiya's 60th birthday show feat. Yokoyama Ken (Crazy Ken Band) (on Fuji TV NEXT). First planned for her birthday in March, the show had been postponed and finally was held at Billboard Live Tokyo, in front of a social distanced audience. The show was streamed live on online pay TV channel Fuji TV NEXT to which I subscribed to watch it!
Maki performed several Pizzicato Five songs, as well as several covers including new ones of "Moon River" (with new Japanese written by Konishi Yasuharu) and "L.O.V.E." (in duet with Yokoyama Ken who also turned 60 in July), and a Burt Bacharach Medley that she sung in English.
Her outfits were most impressive. The tradition in Japan being that people wear red for their 60th birthday (also called "kanreki"), she wore two different red dresses, one which transforms into a mini-skirt. She wore an "akai chanchanko" (traditional kanreki wear) specially designed for her, which looked like a huge fluffy heart. And for the encore she wore a glittery silver top with also a large glittery ribbon on her head, and a black futuristic ribbon-like mini-skirt, in which she started by singing "20th Century Girl" which was really awesome!
This was a truly wonderful show, and I hope it will get released in a way or another (that "Moon River" cover does need to see the daylight again!). Nevermind the number that's her age, Maki is always stunningly awesome and a fantastic entertainer. I'm always looking forward to what she'll be up to next. For photos, watch her Instagram where more should be posted soon.
Set list:
Sweet Soul Revue / Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji (the night is still young) / Chūō Freeway (Yuming cover) / Burt Bacharach Medley / Nata di marzo
w/ Yokoyama Ken: Baby, It's Cold Outside (Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark cover) / Cinderella Liberty (COOLS cover) / T-jiro (duet from Crazy Ken Band album "Hong Kong Taxi")
Moon River (Audrey Hepburn cover)
Encore: 20th Century Girl / Twiggy Twiggy / L.O.V.E. w/ Yokoyama Ken (Nat King Cole cover) / On the Sunny Side of the Street
By the way, on the same day it was announced that a new version of "Twiggy Twiggy" will be released in December, performed by Sally Kubota Group (the new project of SOLEIL's leader/bassist) and sung by Maki! It will be released on 7" on December 2, 2020. Of course I'll post details again a bit later. :)
Music release news: COUNTJOKE, RHYME SO
This week's video: RHYME SO "HOT" (In 360° VR! It's worth watching it directly on YouTube, on a computer or the app, where you can look around the impressive virtual club set.)
Posted on August 22, 2020 at 19:46 | Tweet
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