At the club drinking Ashahi like its a tanjobi!

This weekend we went to Kyoto for a friends birthday party where I enjoyed my first taste of Sheppard's pie in two whole years; thankfully it was delicious in fact it was so good I'm going to attempt to make some this week, if it succeeds I'll post the recipe if not then we shall never speak its name ever ever again.
Anyway after that we wandered down to Osaka, well if you call sitting on a train for 30 minutes then getting a subway line wandering, for a small spot of Karaoke (well everyone else as I sing like a cat stuck in a washing machine) and then onto my favourite Japanese club Rock Do.

In Osaka there seems to be either R& B clubs like Pure, or indie clubs like Rock do, now I must confess I've never been to pure why? (you may not be asking) lets just say the words "meat market" often sit in the same sentence as Pure, also strangely enough also the words, "thank goodness its all you can drink", "dance off "and "Russian prostitute!" The other kinds of clubs are those like Rock DO, small intimate (and not the kind of intimate that might come from going to Pure people!) nights that hold about 100 - 200 people and play music that I actually want to dance to rather than cower away from. There's currently a host of different British invasion nights throughout Osaka, sadly even one New rave night (whose flier just lists the Klaxons as the music they play as I presume they are waiting for NME to try to make people use that term by hosting the name on another band) I especially like Rock DO because the DJ's always look like they're having as good a time as any of the crowd. Oh and I know this because in Japan everyone faces the DJ when they play with synchronised arm waving and matching dance moves. The clubs goes on all night, thankfully the other reason I like it is because every is so friendly, we haven't been to a night when we haven't been speaking to people without feeling worried or threatened by anyone.
Oh and generally we are the only foreign people there so chances are sooner or later your going to have to be handed a union Jack and expected to wave it around like its the last night of the proms . But I'm not sure if that's the actual reason we go.
As Saturday saw the eight year anniversary it was more packed than usual with everyone brining their friends along. And what great night it was, some of the highlights or rather bits that made me laugh included.
One D. J playing the killers then deciding to wave around an English flag, only to sheepishly put it down after being informed they were actually from America ohh well easy mistake to make.
The DJ's getting confused as to which speed to play the Mikka single resulting in lots of dancers doing a weird quick quick slower quick quick arm waving style, although with a Mikka single its easy to make that mistake.

A random drunk Japanese men we met telling us he wanted to go to England for the big parties, and then also revealing that he thought English girls always flash their breasts??? (I did mention that this wasn't true as we wouldn't want him booking a holiday there only to be disappointed (and probably beaten up)
T.O.H having to tell the same man (at about 3.30 in the morning) that the way he had passed out on his chair with his trousers being pulled low everyone could see far more of him than we wanted to, then having to use sign language to truly get the message across.
Dancing to the rapture house of Jealous lovers which is always fantastic no matter when or where its played.
Watching our friend line dance to two tracks, proving that like the Charleston line dancing can be used on any type of music (seriously try and do the Charleston it works with virtually everything and anything it doesn't work with ain't worth listening too)
We were the only people left at 6 in the morning, staggering outside to find bright sunlight all around, cries of my eyes my eyes curse you sun curse yoooooooou well we would have but I lost all power of speech.
We eventually got back to the house at 9.45 Sunday morning
oh and only two of us got to wave the flag around, probably because of this guy.....