Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Laaasst Rock do, old men and stuffed like a sauage... part one:Andy KEy!

Is pretty much what I might call my autobiography, and also amazingly! are also the things I've done in the last few days. As L.J.D (thats leaving Japan day) approaches like that boulder from Indiana Jones (rather than the rubbishy Ray Winstone wink from the latest one) I've got three lessons left, packing to do, and a reaaaalll lot to eat and drink.
This previous Saturday I headed to Osaka which is currently so humid the coach roaches are getting lazy, but was also hosting the rocktastic (is that a word? of should it be metalazing!) Shonen Knife who were extremely good in a true rock satylliieee, they even did that head bob while the guitar is pointing to the crowd thing, you know that thing, Which I haven't seen in years. We even witnessed Japanese moshing which was a first, sadly the man dressed as a high school girl wasn't shudder...Anyway fun fun fun! was had by all (even the school girl guy, actually especially the school girl guy who was crowd surfing a go go) However I should mention the second support group, made up of a huge Mohican haired punk, two gothic lolita girls and a lead singer who kind of looked like what would have happened if Keith Richards had become a math teacher but wore a wig, so with a varied look like that you'd expect a good name...yeah well sadly "the drawers" produced one of the worst and loudest shows I've ever seen. It wasn't so much that it was loud it was just....bad like they had a list of things they considered punk which they slowly ticked off. Loud check, thrashiy playing check, crowd surfing check, smoking in a clearly non smoking area ohhhh check, the lead singer even had his own roadie who's envious job was to hold onto the back of his trousers as he kept falling over the stage or leaning into the crowd (and then falling into it) like a child waaay past its bedtime, sadly the roady didn't get a chance to make him stop playing. Actually the funniest bit for me was the end song which the singer announced as "An-dy key! Andy Key! ANDY KEY!" I'm not sure who this Andy Ket is but you have a lot of explaining to do....

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