So I’m off to Tokyo again in a month – woohoo!
Last year I went for 3 weeks and had the BEST time (see my post on the Wild Rover punk festival here and Tokyo clubs here). But onto this upcoming trip. As usual music and clubs form the skeleton of my itinerary, with fashion, friends and sightseeing all fleshing it out, as it were. This time it’s just over 2 weeks, from ~12th to 28th March.
13/3 King of Evil 13 gig (and possibly Decadance?)
Starring:
Baal (I’ll be doing a post shortly on this band, who are great people to boot), Auto-Mod – of Tokyo Dark Castle fame, P.I.M.P and Destruct System, as well as DJ’s Raveman (from Aural Vampire, also here), and nAo12xu (from 13th Moon – on whom I did a post earlier)
Unfortunately I won’t be there for March 6th, but for those who are, remember the next Tokyo Dark Castle:
14/3 Theatic Alamode Sunday 4.30 – 10pm
With the usual array of bands, performers, dancers, DJ’s, it is also the Alamode Magazine Vol.06 Release Party.
20/3 Club Walpurgis
This isn’t a Visual Kei type gothic club in the way the others are, but is definitely one that plays alternative music, probably much closer to what I hear in clubs at home. It began in Shinjuku in 1983! So it’s pretty bleeding authentic.
Every Saturday was UK Alternative Positive Punk Nite.
Every Sunday was UK Alternative Hyper Kitsch Nite.
Every Wednesday was Psychedelic Nite.
- Zinny Aerodinamica (GOTHIC/UK/US/GERMAN PUNK, THROBBIING ELECTRO, DARK FRENCH WAVE, BATCAVE & More/a.k.a.ZIN：Vocalist of ZEUS MACHINA, ROMEO MIRROR, Madame Edwarda)
(Mixture of Gothic & 80’s Dark Pop & Underground Negative/Positive Punk, GLAM) - Sato M. (WAVE, POSTPUNK & More/Ex: UK Edison, Paranoia Night)
- Naoto (BATCAVE, DEATHROCK, INDUSTRIAL, GLAM & More)
- TAIZO (GOTHIC/GOTH, COLDWAVE, FOLKLORE & More)
- NARIKI (POST PUNK, 80’s Goth ) Ex: Phaidia, Coma, Mephisto Walz: a Christian Death side project
This will be a first for me, and I can’t wait!
Paddy Punk, here I come! See my earlier post on the Wild Rover festival.
I don’t think I’ve been to this club before either, but it’s run by D’s Valentine, who also runs Alamode.
27/3 Midnight Mess – Saturday night midnight til 5am.
Maya and the MM crew are fantastic, and I know I’ll have a fab time.
On top of that, Japan Fashion Week is 22-28 (not that I can attend – could I crash something?), and Hanami should happen around then as well.
The last Sunday I was there last year saw a HUGE number of Hanami parties/picnics happening all over, and especially in Yoyogi Park. Sisen invited me to the Decadance Hanami party last year, but when I arrived I was too late, and he and Takuya were going back to the shop, and Adrien was filming his big dolls for the next event. Next time, gadget!
I’ll fly out Sunday night the 28th, very tired from all the clubbing, probably hungover, and definitely with too many clothes and boots stuffed in my bag!
Do you know of anything on in that time that I should get myself to? Anything you’d particularly like to see pictures of ? Let me know, and I’ll pencil it in 🙂
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