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

Koenji vs. Kyushu Pop Festival -- 10 FUCKING YEARS!!!! (September 27th, 2014)

My first event in Japan was exactly 10 years ago on September 27th 2004, so on the anniversary, I'm celebrating this landmark with old and new friends from my home in Tokyo and my home-away-from-home in Kyushu in this sure-to-be-legendary postpunk/new wave/alternative festival.

Place: Higashi-Koenji 20000V
Date: 9/27 (Sat)
Time: 3:00pm
Cost: ¥2000 adv / ¥2500 door (+1 drink)
Live:
- 百蚊/Hyacca（Fukuoka）
- JEBIOTTO（Tokyo）
- 経立/futtachi（Kagoshima）
- ウサギスパイラルアー/Usagi Spiral A（Tokyo）
- Miu Mau（Fukuoka/Takamatsu)
- Tropical Death Metal（Tokyo）
- 泣き顔ツインテール/Nakigao Twintail（Saga）
- Voided By Geysers（Tokyo）
- マクマナマン/macmanaman（Fukuoka）
- MIR（Tokyo）
DJs:
- James Hadfield
- 3TE1

TIMETABLE:

3:00 Open

3:20-3:35 Voided By Geysers

3:45-4:05 Tropical Death Metal

4:20-4:45 Miu Mau

5:00-5:25 ウサギスパイラルアー / Usagi Spiral A

5:40-6:05 Mir

6:20-6:45 マクマナマン / Macmanaman

7:00-7:25 経立 / Futtachi

7:40-8:05 泣き顔 / ツインテールNakigao Twintail

8:20-8:45 Jebiotto

9:00-9:30 百蚊 / Hyacca

HOT FREAKS (July 12th, 2014)

Call And Response Records is having a small party this weekend on the occasion of my (Ian's) birthday. Live music comes from Suginami Ward's finest Guided By Voices covers band Voided By Geysers, with indie/spacerock pals Servals, stoner/doom megaliths Human Wife, and Zibanchinka guitarist Maitake's new garage rock duo Count 8. Live music finishes at 10pm, but there'll be DJs playing all evening.

Place: Koenji Art Bar 天/Ten
Date: July 12th (Sat)
Time: 7:00pm-midnight
Cost: ¥500+drink
Live:
- Voided By Geysers
- Servals
- Human Wife
- Count 8
DJ:
- Grant McGaheran

Tententen: Kids (May 18th, 2014)

Listen up, boys and girls: the May edition of Tententen features a double live treat of Tokyo's finest Guided By Voices covers band Voided By Geysers, whose almost-unique rock'n'roll stylings will be rocking the house first, and the icy, existential, new wave art-pop of the incomparable Mir. Joining on decks will be Ralouf and Gotal of ambio-dextrous kraut'n'bass duo Lo-shi and DJ team Maitake & mitsunavilino. The exhibition this month will be in the form of Mr. James Hadfield's lens-flaretastic punk rock photography. Come on down and get buzzed, kids!




Place: Koenji Art Bar 天/Ten
Date:5/18 (Sun)
Time: 8:00pm
Cost: ¥500+1 drink
Live:
- Mir
- Voided By Geysers
DJs:
- Gotal (Lo-shi)
- Ralouf (Lo-shi)
- まいたけ & mitsunavilino
Expo:
- James Hadfield