GO!GO!7188 Live in Los Angeles (an evening of Live Japanese Chick-Rock)
Go!Go! will be performing a live show in LA on 3/18/07 - here's the Go!Go! Tour Flyer. That's two weeks from Sunday!
Ore Ska Band (as well as like 4 other Japanese bands) will be opening for them. In case anyone is interested (also, in case anyone reads this journal) I'm putting up a sample from each band:
First up on the block is "Fatな彼" from GO!GO!'s 2006 album "Parade." The lyrics to this song are great. Especially the breakdown that sings about the fat guy having hamburgers in each hand.
Next up is Ore Ska Band's "Hana no Ska Dance" (花のスカダンス) from their mini-album "Ore." Japanese chick-ska
at its finest. I'm a sucker for a thousand acoustic instruments onstage (see Spree, Polyphonic) and Ska bands never disappoint in that respect, but this band takes the nuances of Japanese ska-pop and kicks them up a sickeningly cute and energetic notch. If you replaced the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra with adorable junior high school girls, you'd get this band. In fact, I'm fairly sure that's how this sextet from Osaka got their start (figures - leave it to Osaka to give us eclectic and awesome bands).
So if you're going to be at any of the shows being held, definitely check them out.
-T
