Tag: music

  • All Time Low at the Gorilla Hall

    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…

  • Sum41 at the Osaka Intex

    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…

  • Back to the Live House Gattaca

    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…

  • Sound Retrospective: 2023

    Sound Retrospective: 2023

    A look back at my year in music with statistics from Deezer.

  • TOTALFAT live

    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…

  • Going with the flow

    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,…

  • We Love Green

    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…