ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
Due to a typhoon, an ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE show we recommend some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personally, my money's on a giant eathquake! But if the elements permit, expect spaced-out, psychedelic rock, hopped-up droney ethereal music with a solid vibe, and bursts of manic guitar pyrotechnics. When they started out 30 years ago, the Temple were already looking back a similar length of time to free jazz, krautrock, and prog and it shows.
25th of Nov. Aoyama Moonromantic. Price: ¥4,000 (Ticket info).
Due to a typhoon, an ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE show we recommend some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personally, my money's on a giant eathquake! But if the elements permit, expect spaced-out, psychedelic rock, hopped-up droney ethereal music with a solid vibe, and bursts of manic guitar pyrotechnics. When they started out 30 years ago, the Temple were already looking back a similar length of time to free jazz, krautrock, and prog and it shows.
25th of Nov. Aoyama Moonromantic. Price: ¥4,000 (Ticket info).
KNEECAP
Tokyo debut! The Belfast bad boys have certainly made the headlines this year. Next January, they at long last bring their terrorism-tinged (or freedom-fighting-inflected) Gaelic rap to Roppongi's EX Theater. Fresh off Coachella and Sundance glory, the tea-cozy-wearing trio will intrigue and incite Tokyoites with their bilingual barrages as Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap spit satirical fire over DJ Próvaí’s pounding beats. Expect a night of angst, anarchy, and Hibernian hysteria not seen here since ENYA's last gig. Tickets go on sale 8th November and are sure to be snapped up.
5th Jan. EX Theater, Roppongi. Price: ¥8,800 - 9,800 (Ticket info).
VIAGRA BOYS
Variously described, VIAGRA BOYS sound mainly like dance punk/ surf music to me. They also sound the way you'd expect a "punky" post-2015 (when they were founded) Swedish rock band to sound -- kind of easy on the ears -- expect they have a lot more lyrical edge than you'd expect. But it's more on the cynical side than the angry. This is mainly down to louche lead singer and lyricist Sebastian Murphy, a mini MORRISSEY (with a side order of the FALL's Mark E. Smith), and his tendency to pick and squash the low-hanging fruit of our shallow materialism and techno narcissism.
Variously described, VIAGRA BOYS sound mainly like dance punk/ surf music to me. They also sound the way you'd expect a "punky" post-2015 (when they were founded) Swedish rock band to sound -- kind of easy on the ears -- expect they have a lot more lyrical edge than you'd expect. But it's more on the cynical side than the angry. This is mainly down to louche lead singer and lyricist Sebastian Murphy, a mini MORRISSEY (with a side order of the FALL's Mark E. Smith), and his tendency to pick and squash the low-hanging fruit of our shallow materialism and techno narcissism.
27th Jan. Spotify O-East, Shibuya. Price: ¥7,800 (Ticket info).
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