HOT FREAKS! (Ian's birthday party) - July 11th, 2015

What’s up with kids nowadays? When did they forget how to rock? When did humour, fashion and emotional sensitivity become cooler than scissor kicks and sweat?

Well the good thing is that it’s never too late to learn, boys and girls! Come celebrate Ian’s 37th birthday and see up close that age is no barrier to behaving like a child, with five bands including a revolving cast of basically the same five people, all fired by the same devotion to the redemptive power of pure rock action.

Hosted by (west Tokyo’s finest Guided By Voices tribute band) Voided By Geysers, Hot Freaks offers you these 5 guarantees:

1. Minimal chatter between songs
2. No dress sense
3. Only two emotions: rock out, and rock out harder
4. Beer is for sale
5. Beer is for sale

Leave your good clothes, your inhibitions, and your musical musical taste at home and come out to the Penguin House on July 11th.

Place: Koenji Penguin House
Date: July 11th (Sat)
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: ¥1800+1 drink
LIVE:
- Voided By Geysers

- Looprider

- Han Han Art

- Bombs & Triggers

- Tropical Death Metal

Fashion Crisis (December 2014)

The final Fashion Crisis of 2014 features a special collaborative live performance between Xiroh from psychedelic kraut-blues band Buddy Girl and Mechanic, Danish folk singer Katrine Christensen and Indian dance performer Numanta. We also welcome back Cleveland's own Carl Freire as guest DJ as Fashion Crisis sees out its year in a mixture of style, charisma and hair.

Place: Koenji One
Date: December 5th (Fri)
Time: 8:00pm-midnight
Cost: ¥500+1 drink (FREE before 9:00pm)
LIVE:
- Kat + Xiroh with Dancer Numanta
DJs:
- Carl Freire
- Malamura
- James Hadfield
- Ian Martin

Fashion Crisis (May 2013)

With May's Fashion Crisis, we realise our long-held ambition of turning ourselves into a team of wedding DJs, as we play host to lovely newlyweds Matthew and Xiroh, who met for the first time at this very event. Other than that, expect the usual drunken mayhem, with live music by friend of the event Carl Freire, returning for his second time after his triumphant February appearance.

Place: Koenji One
Date: May 3rd (Fri)
Time: 8:00pm-last train
Cost: FREE!
LIVE:
- Carl Freire
DJs:
- Xiroh (Buddy Girl and Mechanic)
- Matthew Chozick
- James Hadfield
- Ian Martin

Fashion Crisis (February 2013)

February's Fashion Crisis welcomes angelic indie boys DYGL, formerly De Nada, as well as grizzled alt-rock degenerate Carl Freire as live artists, while frequent collaborators NAH&SUE of indie event Youth is Wasted hit the decks as guest DJs. All welcome and all free, so please swing by for a drink after work for some of the usual skronk etc.

Place: Koenji One
Date: February 1st (Fri)
Time: 8:00pm-last train
Cost: FREE!
LIVE:
- DYGL (Ex-De Nada)
- Carl Freire
DJs:
- NAH&SUE (Youth is Wasted)
- James Hadfield

- Ian Martin