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VENUES EVENTS JAPAN ZECHO-TEN Weekly events at Decadence Deluxe, Fukuoka. YOJIGEN Venue in Tenjin, Fukuoka. DECADENT DELUXE Fukuoka venue. KIETH FLACK Famous Fukuoka venue, in the same building as Decadent Deluxe. GRAF Fukuoka venue. KOKURA FUSE Live house in Kokura, Kitakyushu. SOUND CAFE Travelling DJ/band event. Rock, soul, pop, beat, from 60s to present. TROPICOCO, NAKATSU, OITA Highly recommended Mexican cafe and venue with great food/drink/atmosphere! If you're passing that way, check it out! GALLERY TAMARI Venue, cafe and studio in Yoshii (Fukuoka). GAUCHO, OITA CITY Nice friendly venue in Oita City. KYUSHU BAILA Yearly international culture festival held in Nakatsu city, Oita prefecture. One of the best events in Kyushu by far! UK COLD RICE Top notch rock 'n' roll events based in Birmingham UK. DIRTY WATER CLUB, TUFNELL PARK (LONDON) Basically the centre of the UK garage punk scene. Great DJs and great bands. If you're in London you have to check this event out! Every Friday at The Boston Music Room. GARAGE PUNK 60s SITES WEBZINES TEEN-A-GO-GO!!! An ideal guide to garage punk around the world, from past to present. If you are unfamiliar with garage punk, learn here (if you can read Japanese). The jukebox is great too! FOLLOWER ZERO Japanese garage band index. TRASH COMPACTOR Links to cult movie/trash/garage sites. Cathedral of cool! GODDEAU.COM Belgian music webzine (written in Dutch), written for people that really dig music by people that really dig music, covering indie rock, garage, alternative. Reviews, interviews and more... Makes you wanna learn Dutch just looking at it! LABELS MOTOR SOUNDS RECORDS LABEL HOME TO THE ROUTES! Reverbs from the dark side! Home of the Children Of Twang, and the Son of Reverbio. A garage punk blues label with a message of Love and Frug. This is more than music, it's.......TWANG!!! See the new compilation BLOOD ON THE SCRATCHPLATE '65 featuring THE ROUTES!!! TARGET EARTH RECORDS Premier Japanese label. Home to the bands Rockbottom and The Scruffs. Check out the online shop where you can buy recordings by The Facials and BLOOD ON THE SCRATCHPLATE '65!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIRTY WATER RECORDS Label of the worlds greatest garage club. So far records have been released by The Dirty, Thee Exciters, and Lyres (reissue of rare 1979 single "How Do You Know", which was mistakingly introduced as Left My Mind on The Trashcan Radio Show). Releases by The Priscillas, and Muck & the Mires COMING SOON!!!! SAZANAMI LABEL One of the best labels in Japan! Check out the Wild Sazanami Beat series compilation albums! Sazanami Label is home to Goggle-A, The Chocomates, The Sellcancers, Hanadan, The Woggles (Japan releases), The Monsters (Japan Releases), Deliciosweets, Youngman Pyscho Blues, and The Portugal Japan. VOODOO RHYTHM Garage and rock and roll label and home to The Monsters, Hipbone Slim, Reverend Beat-Man, and many more!!! Killer site, killer music! DEMOLITION DERBY Rock and roll/garage/surf etc... Vinyl specialist label and shop based in Belgium, featuring bands from all over the world. NICOTINE RECORDS Italian label dedicated to garage, punk, rock and roll, and psychobilly. CRUSHER RECORDS Swedish label with a focus on the wild sounds of today. H-RECORDS Spanish garage punk label/shop. SHAKE YOUR ASS RECORDS Garage punk 7" vinyl specialist label. Home of The Rippers and The Mojomatics. DRASTIC PLASTIC RECORDS Up and coming Detroit label. Home to Rock 'n' Roll Monkey, Cold Crank, and Ken Seech! SOLAR CHI UK independent label, featuring Shotokan Disco, Kernal, The Blue Fruit Project, and Mank. AFRONAUT RECORDS Fukuoka based label run by Jon Wilks, active in promoting artists from Kyushu's bustling music scene. GARAGE BEAT R'N'B BLUES ROCKABILLY PSYCHOBILLY SURF BANDS JAPAN NERVOUS WRECK Killer trashy rockabilly kings of Fukuoka. Check 'em out! JERICHO BUNCH Well established Kitakyushu psychobilly trio, and organisers of EEEEEK SHOW at Kokura WOW. RYUJI ADAMSKI AND THE PARALYZ Garage surf insanity from another planet! TITTY TWISTER Fantastic powerpop r'n'r band in Fukuoka. GOGGLE-A Amazing Sazanami Label GS/Eleki style band, based in Tokyo. You MUST see this band live! YOUNGMAN PSYCHO BLUES "Do the Rock, and Do the Roll"! Great Tokyo trio, well worth catching live. DELICIOSWEETS Don't understand what's going on here exactly, but they put on an amazing show! What does harenchi mean anyway? THE SELLCANCERS Very tight surf trio from Shizuoka! THEE 50's HIGH TEENS Fukuoka's own all girl garage band. THE PORTUGAL JAPAN 3 piece rockin' group, hailing from Kumamoto. CLOCKWORK ONIONS Fukuoka garage, r'n'b, pub rock band previously known as The Hoovers. WHYS (THE REVERB PRINCESS) Fukuoka surf band. THE HI-TONES Amazing Oita Merseybeat band. Great sound and great show. ELECTRIC MAMA Osaka based garage and blues influenced duo. Kinda like White Stripes, but bigger and better sounding! THE VOLUME OUT Headcoats style trio with paper bags on heads. Nice 'n' raw! 92 & THE SUNDAYS Fukuoka based R'N'B combo. OTHER THE MONSTERS Monster band from Switzerland!!! ROCK 'N' ROLL MONKEY & THE ROBOTS Motorsounds labelmates. Retrofuturistic rock band from Detroit that write short, catchy and intriguing songs. Rock 'N' Roll Monkey And The Robots appear alongside The Routes on the compilation Blood On The Scratchplate '65. THE SURGENS UK twisted country, blues and surf. "Like the house band on that Mississippi steamer drinking on the devils tab". The Surgens appear alongside The Routes on the compilation Blood On The Scratchplate '65. GARAGE PUNK SIXTIES TRASH RADIO STATIONS AND PODCASTS The Trash Can (London Resonance FM 104.4 mHz, Wednesdays 10-11PM) Hosted by the inimitable Cannibals vocalist, and one time Count Bishop Mike Spenser!!! The Trash Can is the UK's only radio show dedicated to playing and promoting all the coolest trash and garage, from the classic 60s to the up-and-coming sounds of today. Popism "Modsykepowerhythm'n'pop radio show"! Great podcasts, with tons of good reviews of tons of good records! GUITAR STUFF STIGTRONICS Makers of ST pedals. Highly recommended place to repair or modify your effects. Excellent customer service. RONSOUND Yesterday's techonology today. Repros of classic effects, modifications, repairs and shitloads of schematics for vintage effects!!! THE Electro-Harmonix man! RECORD SHOPS SOUNDFLAT MAILORDER Biggest online retailer of garage music in the world, based in Germany. Buy The Routes "Left My Mind" here! You gotta check it out. THEY HAVE EVERYTHING!!! BORDERLINE RECORDS/CHAMELEON RECORDS Fukuoka indie chain store and purveyors of fine new and used LPs/CDs etc. Buy yourself a copy of BLOOD ON THE SCRATCHPLATE '65 if you go here! CLOTHES SHOPS DRY BONES Fifties/sixties stye rock'n'roll clothing today! Available in Fukuoka. YELLOW SUBMARINE Fukuoka's premier outlet for Reats Tailor Zazous, Fred Perry, Lonsdale, Ben Sherman and more! EVER GREY Kurume select clothing shop. VINTAGE CLOTHING 8BIT Online vintage clothing and accessories, based in Japan. Own brand coming soon! CANDY SAYS Online vintage clothing and accessories, based in UK. OTHER SHOPS OLD SCHOOL IRON Fukuoka's most knowledgeable on the subject of Harley Davidson bikes, their parts, and their repairs. OTHER OTO-NET.COM Website promoting the music scene of Oita. Live information, and links to many Oita bands (website all in Japanese). GO BAND GO IN OITA Another website promoting Oita music, with podcast, links and event information. PHIL HILBORNE One of the greatest rock guitarists in UK, and a great teacher. ROI SCHAIDER Cool original Fukuoka band led by the ero king and teacher of dirty Japanese Sakura-san. JON WILKS AND THE GRIZZLY FOLK Home of British singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, promoter, label manager, journalist, film maker, priest, and dad! Jon is based in Fukuoka Japan. STORMY MASAYUKI Japanese blues guitarist, and organiser of the World Blues Festival. Lots of information in English. SANO MASARU AND SMILEY BONES Undoubtedly the best live blues band in Kyushu, fronted by Killer guitarist Sano Masaru (from Saga). JAMES HENEGHAN Acoustic guitarist/vocalist, and politically correct closet heterosexual terrorist based in Fukuoka. James is the best photographer we've ever met. I couldn't recommend anyone better. He's coming back to the UK at the end of uly (2006), so if you need fantastic photographs he's your man! LOOK AT JAMES HENEGHAN'S PHOTOGRAPHY HERE!!! JOEY ZASA Famous violin bow armed, 60's tinged indie band in Fukuoka. |
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