Asobi Seksu
Asobi Seksu
Barfly
November 23rd, 7.30pm
£7.00 adv
Details
Saw a poster for this in the Barfly and leapt the leap of joy. I came across Asobi Seksu about three years ago on 3hive and have been waiting for them to play the UK ever since. So here they are! Better be good.
Music is a nice mixup of things. Japanese American singer with a New York band who owe a debt to My Bloody Valentine and UK churning guitar bands of that ilk. Or something. Here's a video.
And here's another one, mashing their song "I'm happy but you don't like me" with the Japanese monster movie Gamera - a giant fire-breathing turtle.
The last minute of that song is the perfect combination of J-pop and Shoegazer, imho.
Support is from Scanners who sound pretty okay. They're from that London so give them a nice welcome.
Barfly
November 23rd, 7.30pm
£7.00 adv
Details
Saw a poster for this in the Barfly and leapt the leap of joy. I came across Asobi Seksu about three years ago on 3hive and have been waiting for them to play the UK ever since. So here they are! Better be good.
Music is a nice mixup of things. Japanese American singer with a New York band who owe a debt to My Bloody Valentine and UK churning guitar bands of that ilk. Or something. Here's a video.
And here's another one, mashing their song "I'm happy but you don't like me" with the Japanese monster movie Gamera - a giant fire-breathing turtle.
The last minute of that song is the perfect combination of J-pop and Shoegazer, imho.
Support is from Scanners who sound pretty okay. They're from that London so give them a nice welcome.
3 Comments:
"perfect combination of J-pop and Shoegazer"
Oh gosh, this sounds absolutely brilliant.
I didn't listen to the last minute of the second one, though the J-pop reference intrigued. I was fast asleep by 2 minutes into the first video. Zz-pop! It's all so safe and rockist! Now if only Blonde Redhead would play Birmingham..
If you've got even the slightest fondness for shoegazing I can vouch for the brilliance of their latest record 'Citrus' with 'Red Sea' being my favourite cut. On the whole I think the stuff on Citrus is more comparable to Cocteau Twins and Lush than MBV but maybe their earlier stuff had a harder edge.
Got my ticket for this already, Pete, so may bump into you there.
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