Tag: music
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All Time Low at the Gorilla Hall
The Gorilla Hall is a fairly new concert venue. It’s not huge, but it’s well designed: there are two bars, lockers, and a second floor with a balcony overlooking the stage. The band starts at the scheduled time – 7pm. There is no opening act, and I’m glad not to fall into the same trap…
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Sum41 at the Osaka Intex
Sum41 will soon cease to exist and their final tour is underway. The band is coming to Osaka for their last date in Japan. I arrive at the Osaka Intex around 3:30pm after a 2-hour journey. It is a complex of halls that isn’t very cheerful: large and clean but quite cold. The hall 5…
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Back to the Live House Gattaca
I met Take-san at a meetup once month ago. He is one of the guitarist from Ninefall, a rock band based in Kyoto. And they are playing tonight at the Live House Gattaca! I get there just a few minutes before the show. I meet with Take-san and we have a drink. The first of…
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Sound Retrospective: 2023
A look back at my year in music with statistics from Deezer.
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TOTALFAT live
Ahh.. TOTALFAT. The only Japanese band that I have been listening to on a regular basis for several years now. I found them because one of their title served as one of the endings of an anime I was watching (Place to Try, in Naruto Shippuden). This band offers the sweet balance between the punchy…
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Going with the flow
This Sunday I go to a meetup at the Kyoto Laundry Cafe. It’s a bit crowded, there are one or two Frenchmen and a few French-speaking Japanese who seem happy to practice. Other expats as well. People of all ages. I talk to a Japanese guy who I met yesterday in another meetup… Yesterday again,…
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We Love Green
It’s music festivals season. This year starts with We Love Green at Bois de Vincennes. My friends and I choose to go there on sunday, mainly to check on Bon Iver. The place is welcoming but a bit more of shadow would not hurt. Multiple stages are set around the central field. There are stands…