TOKYO GIG PICK: NO EDITS (MAY)

The key to getting a good gig in Tokyo is to not to go for the jaded big names that have been dragging their brands around for several decades, getting you to fork out 20-30,000 yen for a seat 500 rows from the front just so you can boast about it on your social media (yeh, fuck off SPARKS and KRAFTWERK). It is instead to spend a few thousand yen to see great bands with shit publicists who may never escape the underground, like Seattlite "math rockers" NO EDITS. You can tell they have a shit publicist because a couple of years back, just as their chunky, melodic sound was gaining traction, they...erm..."reinvented" themselves and ditched their uberkool name as "The Fixtures." Their melodic, careening, off-kilter, "angular" riffing may not be to everyone's tastes, but, in my view, this is that gem on the Tokyo gig circuit, namely a relatively underappreciated band that it's not too expensive to appreciate. Support from BARICAN, MIRROR, and JESUS WOUND. Part of a four-date Japan tour.
2nd and 5th May. Spread, Shimokitazawa & 9Spices, Shinjuku. Price: ¥4000 (Ticket info). 

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