If your name is Pocari and you are thinking about coming to Japan, Igor has one word of advice, and that word is beware. Chances are you will be picked up off the streets of Roppongi after a particularly heavy night, dragged into a decrepit factory in Saitama, hooked up to a machine designed by [...]
April 19, 2005 – 12:25 pm
Now this looks like an interesting event. No idea what the title means (could also be written Toge, Toge, Takaga), but it looks to be put together by the same group (Daybook) that do (or possibly did now) the Android 666 electro series. The flier (front, back) that I picked up at CD Gold looks [...]
April 19, 2005 – 12:45 am
Cheers to Gsson for the heads up on New Wave Junkies. Gsson picked up the flyer and it looks like some Midnight Messers (or is that Messees) will be turning up - now that sounds like fun. I’m just whizzing through a couple of sites tonight doing a bit of a data pick up.
The additional [...]
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Buzztrakcer is essentially a geographic news tracker zeroing in on what places are generating the hottest buzz in global media through [...]
Worker error led to the release of some 500 tonnes of of cow urine in a village in Hokkaido on Thursday, April 14. The worker miscalculated differences in tank capacities and forgot to turn off the pump that was transfering the substance from one tank to a smaller capacity tank (they have tanks of the [...]
April 16, 2005 – 12:58 am
Just a quickie before my head explodes from an overdose of cedar pollen. Main event is definitely Midnight Mess starting late and going all night @ Luna Si Soare (info here). Now it looks like GaijinGoth is set to be there bedecked in his PVC plus possibly others.
There’s also a little show on Sunday, that [...]
I got off the train at the terminus along with three or four million other people. It was a crowd of brightly coloured Yukata, orange haired lads and mothers shepherding their excited children. Everyone was moving in different directions to exits their feet seemed to know by heart. In the middle, I felt like a [...]
Goth it wasn’t, but it was kind of fun - though I was frustrated at the mix. Six bands were up, but I missed the first. Face it, if there are six bands, the lead-off is going to be like Christians being served up to the lions. The only gothers I saw there were the [...]
Quick heads up for people in Tokyo. There’s a radio show called Azabudai Fetish Music Club, which appears on Radio Nihon (1422kHz AM) on Sunday night 20:30 ~ 21:30. Tsukamoto Michiko, a local dominatrix (that’s what they say), has a program that picks a particular fetish each show, spices it with some wicked talkback and [...]
Just in case anyone’s heading out to see Satanyanko @ ADM Ikebukuro tonight. If you’re going, I’ll be the the gaijin in black, bluey shades and probably a black cotton head-band thinggy. Mina says they’ll be on a bit later in the evening with the Tokyo bands coming on earlier.
If interested you can check details [...]
