WOO, this spicy summer. MAN. Hey there! For the past three tropical months, we attended every gig, felt relief from the deep summer heat by spending some of our days hibernating with the air conditioner, and loaded UP on some post-work mojitos. So yeah, it was a good summer. When Igorrr got their visa
It’s been 20-odd years since the chaotic noise rock of Japan’s Melt-Banana first hit the ears of a cult following in the UK - with a little help from the late John Peel - but it’s a welcome first-time gig in York for the band, now a duo of vocalist Yasuko Onuki and guitarist Ichiro Agata.
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Turning to Japanese, a language that speaks to me Polly Barton on her fascination with Japan and its language, subject of her new book
Fri, May 7, 2021, 06:06 Polly Barton
Polly Barton: “I stayed in Japan because really where I feel comfortable is bowing to other people’s authority, surrendering my autonomy and swallowing whole the system of another.” Photograph: Garry Loughlin
peko-peko:
the sound of endlessly prostrating oneself, or the personality-chicken and culture-egg, or not talking to the band because you are a coward, and why?
A year and a half ago – which is to say, six months before crowding into a small venue with a hundred strangers from as many different households to bathe in each other’s sweat and drink in the long-range saliva particles emitted by the people standing on stage as they screamed and shouted became a sick and crimina