Blog - Weekly revue: 2019 week #42 (October 12 to 18)
Weekly revue: 2019 week #42 (October 12 to 18)
Food: - Kevin Bacon @ Whoopi Gold Burger
Music event: - On Sunday October 13 was event "Ready SOLEIL Go" at O-Crest in Shibuya! The event was supported by 60's style clothing brand starblinc (famous for almost all of Vanilla Beans' outfits!) which singer Soleil has been wearing in her shows. This time Soleil and bassist/producer Sally Kubota were backed by guitarist Hirakawa Yuichi (of The Pen Friend Club), drummer Shirane Kenichi (of GREAT3) and chorist Moeka (of Machida Girls Choir). This was the 2nd of three monthly shows of the series, and the smallish venue was rather packed.
The opening band was The Drops, a mostly girl band with a ska sound, and a brass section of trumpet, saxophone and trombone with a total of 8 members I think. Their party sound reminded me of Wack Wack Rhythm Band. It seems the band was first formed in 1988! They were great!
Then followed SOLEIL, who played an impressive set of 15 songs plus an encore of three songs (with Soleil on drums)! A big highlight was their first live performance of France Gall cover "Zozoi" (sung in French!), which appears on latest album "Lollipop Sixteen". That was awesome! The set list had a great variety of songs from mainly the 1st and 3rd albums, and then some, including an unreleased cover of ska song "namida no Moonlight" (which they had also played at the very first show, a release party for single "Pinky Fluffy"), and the Batman/Wipe Out mash-up used during Soleil's outfit change.
Days are counted until the hiatus coming at the end of the year, for the singer to focus on her studies. Planned events are a free show on October 27 at the Iwashita New Ginger Museum in Tochigi, the third "Ready SOLEIL Go" event on November 15 at Shibuya O-Crest, then an in-store event on November 23 at Tower Records Shinjuku (for the release of new single "Twinkle Heart"), and a Christmas show on December 22 at Shibuya Veats.
Set list: Marine I Love You / My Emo-Coloured Corazon / namida no Moonlight (The Silver Sonics cover) / koi no Happy Date (Gotta Pull Myself Together) (Ishino Maki cover) / Good Bye My Fourteen / Anachronic Girl / Pieces of Candy / Batman/Wipe Out / High School Lullaby (Imo-kin Trio cover) / Captain Scarlet theme song / Zozoi (France Gall cover) / Do You Believe in Magic? / 5-4-3-2-1 / School's Out / Le Cœur Qui Fuzz
Encore: Session / Guitar in Love / Pinky Fluffy
Music release news: Jackie & Roy / NOVI Singers (Readymade mirai no ongaku), YMCK
Posted on October 22, 2019 at 15:08 | Tweet
|