Our last gig today. We decide to leave at 9.30am on the dot to give ourselves plenty of time to get to the meeting spot. 9.25am Bruce walks out in a towel. He may be late but he's clean. Doesn't take long to get going though and we get there in plenty of time. We're travelling to Yokohama with Gorilla*. It’s an afternoon gig so we meet at Shibuya next to the Hachiko statue. Everyone is busy watching a kitten who is sitting under the dog. Then someone comes along and puts the cat in a bag. It's raining and with no signs of letting up.
We meet Suzu, Atsushi and the rest of Gorilla and they will be leading us to the venue. It’s a 40 minute train trip and when we get to Yokohama we all quickly get off with all our guitars and things. When we look around we realise that Frank is not with us. I have to admit I fell asleep on the train too but the band woke me up. Nobody woke up Frank and he continued on the journey. Atsushi texted him and eventually he found is way back to us. Next we went in three seperate taxis to this record shop/coffee shop called L.
Waiting for the gig Atsushi pointed out that the quiet guy at the table was from an English band called Fluff from about 1971. He got this info from the cafe owner. He wanted me to go and say hello and introduce him. Which I did. They have such a deep love of music here and dig deep. Very deep. Atsushi talks to him for a while. It's a record shop too and I pick up a few girl group albums. They have the Jangle Band album here too which reminds me of the co-launch we did with them a few years back.
The back line was 3 little Vox amps, a tiny drum kit and one microphone. Gorilla* kicked off and sounded great. And despite our worries about the minimal equipment when we played it sounded excellent. Maybe because the crowd were well into it. It was the afternoon so we didn’t go crazy but we were there to have fun.
At the end we thanked Atsushi for all his work with the tour and I gave him a signed copy of the Little Murders first single “Things Will Be Different” Very hard to get and he was very appreciative. He kissed me all over my head! As a special request he got Bruce and Choc to play Thirteen by Big Star.
And so the tour was ending. We all got back into taxis and went to the station then off to Shibuya. We said our goodbyes and though it would have been good to have one more catch up at Poor Cow there were gigs for bands to play and it wouldn’t be opening until after 11.30pm. We were too tired for that.
Bruce and Choc went for one more wander in the early evening and Bruce came back with Teenage fan club “Songs From Northern Britain” record. From the same shop I had been into 3 times in the last two weeks. Okay he paid 100 bucks for it but still and was a little peeved. I've been looking for that every time I came to Japan. Luckily they are re releasing it in August.
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