happy with lucky food bar & the greasy poorz and ditzy squall
the day seems to slip by easily. in the afternoon we cruise around cuba street, checking out record shops and eating.
at 5 we have a radio interview at radio active. we opened the interview with a track being played from the tenzenmen release eccentrics #2. sadly the interviewer was a bit of a dork and wasn’t very successful at getting the best out of us. but the music seemed to say it all and one listener we spoke too later said limited express (has gone?) came across really well but the interviewer didn’t look so good!!
later after more eating, we crammed the car full of gear and made our way down to a club called happy. set up and sound check was smooth and then all we had to do was wait. tuesday night is a shit night for a gig in most towns, but yeah to wellington and a good crowd came out to see limited express (has gone?)’s first gig in new Zealand.
lucky food bar and the greasy poorz were first up; the line-up was turntables, vocals and guitar. johnny marks was the vocalist and was almost diamanda galas in performance, an impressive first set.
ditzy squall followed up. a tight three piece dishing out uppy angular songs that bounced between shellac-like trance to choppy ‘blink and you miss it’. by the end of the set people were up the front dancing away and anticipation was building for limited express (has gone?).
the crowd had filled out nicely by the time jj, yukari and koji took the stage and ripped into their first number with all the energy you could hope for. all heads stayed turned on the band while they played and people danced and danced during the length of their set. the band finished with yukari bouncing in and out of the audience, then minus bass, and jj was on top of the piano at the side of the stage.
the audience hollered for more, an unusual sight for a tuesday night and the band returned to the stage in response for a rapturous encore and performed 2 more songs. some cds were sold and people hung around basking in the glow of a most excellent first night.
jj – “i am glad to meet wonderful family. so we played nice show today. today we want to introduce japanese new music to more new zealand people.”
yukari – “kieran, chrissie and their daughter are pretty good!!! i love so much! it was on tuesday, but many people came to our show! thanks a lot! i was excited!”
koji – “i was not nervous – kieran, chrissie and their family was very kind for us so we could play great gig.”
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