Blog - Weekly revue: 2013 week #26 (June 22 to 28)

Weekly revue: 2013 week #26 (June 22 to 28)

This is last week's revue, a few days later than usual.

Music events: - On Saturday June 22 was an event with blue marble and mishmash* Julie Watai at strobe cafe. Check out my full report here.

- Then on Sunday (June 23) was Nakatsuka Takeshi's 10th anniversary show at Shibuya O-West. It was a long event running from 3pm until the night.
I got there early evening and first got to see hoshikuzu Scat, a Shōwa-kayō drag queen trio I had been curious about because they have songs written by Takeshi. Turned out they have really good voices! After a cover of Matsuda Seiko's "aoi sangoshō", they sang "hoshikuzu Scat no Theme", "Magnet Joe ni ki o tsukero", "Cosmetic Siren", and I believe "News na yoru".
Next up was Rocketman who did a special DJ set only of his own songs. One featured singer Cana on stage. Rocketman has a new album coming out on July 24 under his real name, Ryo Fukawa, titled "life is music".
Partial set list: La mer remix / Mermaid feat Cana / My favorite things remix / koi Romantic / tonda Hattary Boy / Love Disco / It's time / dancemusic

Then was of course the best of the day, Nakatsuka Takeshi backed by a big band of 13 musicians, Iga-Bang BB! Takeshi's usual band was also on stage, as well as bonus percussionist "matzz" from Quasimode. The set didn't focus only on Takeshi's latest works, but also included several from all over his solo career. There were also several guest singers, Bikke (aka Bikkoo) from Tokyo No.1 Soul Set, Qypthone's Izumi, Nomiya Maki, and Toki Asako (ex-Cymbals). That was a wonderful show!
Set list: niji o mita kai (Have you ever seen the rainbow?) / tsumetai jōnetsu (Cold Passion) / namida ni nureta yume no kakera / Skip Beat (Kuwata Band cover) / kaze no tobira feat. Bikke / On the parade feat. Ookawara Izumi (Qypthone) / Beautiful feat. Nomiya Maki / Young, Alive, in Love (Flipper's Guitar cover) / Kiss & Ride
Encore: Your Voice feat. Toki Asako / kita no kuni kara (cover)
Takeshi has a new album featuring Iga-Bang BB coming at the end of July, and it was available in advance at the show so I picked up a copy!

- And last Friday I went to Elektel's Lounge at Koenji Connection. Both members of Elektel, polymoog and Ueken, were DJing there. Ueken seemed to play more 80's songs while polymoog played more 90's. :) It was fun! And I got to meet Jellyfish's Tomoko, who often contributed vocals to Elektel. I have to dig around to try to find a Jellyfish CD I must have somewhere..!