HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 7 & ATOMIC SUPLEX Japan Tour 2012

So it's that time of year again when the cherry blossoms bloom and the geezers lay out their blue tarps and drink sake under the pink flowers dreaming of samurai & geisha of old and then ATOMIC SUPLEX lands tearing a hole in the fabric of the collective conscious of thousands of years of Japanese culture! Three rip-roaring RnR shows celebrating the release of the new Crypt Records LP "Bathroom Party!" A bunch of Japanese kids are going to be cramming into the local park's WC to listen to this one while their parents get drunk under the beautiful sakura trees!



On Friday, April 6 ATOMIC SUPLEX trashes up Yokohama with the best of 'em at Sex & Fury & R'n'R! Come out to Orange County Brothers in Tennocho Yokohama for some killer RnR action with ED WOODS, JET BOYS, a special last performance by BRAZIL UFO and more!

Then confound and mystify your self at HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK on Saturday night April 7! The Stately Wayne Manor presents HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 7! A super spectacular garage punk showdown with some of classic acts like THE VOLUME OUT, MINNESOTA VOODOOMEN & THE GREAT MONGOOSE championing ATOMIC SUPLEX's new Crypt Records LP release! Back from The Grave hearse driver DJ Daddy-O-Nov will be on hand to for this ghastly "Back from the Crypt" party!



And if you still got gas, head on out to UFO CLUB on Sunday nite for "Beaver Shot!" If you like THE FADEAWAYS' "Teenage Shutdown" party, this is kinda like it's evil twin... Toyozo has a new band BEAVER PATROL and there will be some of the old guard namely THEEE BAT & VIVIAN BOYS supporting ATOMIC SUPLEX as they have done for countless years past! Not to mention raunchy blues garage band THE CHOCOLATES!

ATOMIC SUPLEX JAPAN TOUR 2012 explodes the first weekend of April, so get your riot gear ready and be sure to pick up the ATOMIC SUPLEX split 7" with THEEE BAT, the Sex & Fury & R'n'R Semi-special DVD or their latest CRypt Records LP "Bathroom Party" so you can take it home with you and drive your neighbors up a wall!

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.14, "RONIN meets ROVER at Heavy Sick!"

So the fate of Mystery Mondays hangs in the balance... seriously though, I am basically rescheduling my life in the coming months and I hope to have the time to continue the Monday nite madness! In the meantime, check out the killer Sat. nite House of Mystery parties coming up!

This months Mystery party presents a shamisen blues project called 石舞台 featuring MARI from ANAKIES and Black&Blue tapping into the Japanese psyche with some eerie folk tunes with a western blues touch. Then Ally Band will take to the stage for a set of Irish punk with blaring bagpipes straight outta hell! They play Wild Rover the day before so come join us for a bit of hair of the dog at Club Heavy Sick!

THE JAPANESE BASTARD from UNCLEOWEN will be spinning some wild rustic tunes and yours truly, The Stately Wayne Manor will create a balance with some traditional Irish records and old school Japanese group sounds! RONIN meets ROVER at Heavy Sick!

HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK
March 23
MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol. 14
"RONIN meets ROVER at Heavy Sick!

feat.
ALLY BAND
石舞台

Roaming DJs
THE JAPANESE BASTARD (UNCLEOWEN)
The Stately Wayne Manor (Swamp Fiction)

MYSTERY MONDAYS: THE 13th PARTY feat. TAKA-ROCK & ED WOODS!

Right now I am lamenting MYSTERY MONDAYS... It was such a fun time just seeing what kinda folks would just ramble in off the streets on some dubious Facebook or Tokyo Gig Guide tip. For the 13th edition of MYSTERY MONDAYS I had TAKA-ROCK & ONE MAN HEARTBREAKERS play with the uncontrollable ED WOODS no-less! The wild Irish DJ NOEL and AKKO CHAMPION of LOS CHAMPIONS were the guest vinyl spinners for the night but the two Finnish wanderers, Henri and Hanne, that showed up out of nowhere made the night for me! They captured this small glimpse of the last days of MYSTERY MONDAYS and a brilliant intro to the Tokyo gore garage scene to share with the world at large!

PS. Check out Henri's own mega-powerpop-rock band THE DEATH of GAGARIN!!


(Highlights of MYSTERY MONDAYS "The 13th Party")


(THE DEATH OF GAGARIN - Le Grunge Blues)

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.13, "THE 13th PARTY"

MYSTERY MONDAYS resumes! Well only for a little while... The 13th party will happen, then the Stately Wayne Manor will take a break from his manic Mondays after March 26th. Don't fret, there are still three Saturday nite HOUSE of MYSTERY events scheduled for April ( Atomc Suplex Crypt LP release party!), May (Shlonk scum attack!) and June (Rock Day Showdown between Tokyo & Nagoya punks!), but more on this later!

Come on out to Heavy Sick on Monday, February 27th for a killer night of lonely garage crooning and trash rock 'n' roll by TAKA-ROCK & ONE MAN HEARTBREAKERS and the inimitable gorefest that is ED WOODS! Killer DJs the wild Irishman NOEL & AKKO of Los Champions join yours truly to spin some devious punk, psychobilly and garage unknowns!

HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK
Mon. Feb.27
MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.13
"THE 13th PARTY"

feat.
ED WOODS
TAKA-ROCK & ONE MAN HEARTBREAKERS

Guest DJs
NOEL (Almost There)
AKKO (Los Champions)

Host DJ
The Stately Wayne Manor (Swamp Fiction)

Open: 20:00
Ticket: 1200 +1D

THE FADEAWAYS' Record Release Party "We Are All Teenage Shutdown!"

Last year Yours Truly was hard at work releasing THE FADEAWAYS 7" single "(I Wanna Get Some) Action!" (on my own SWAMP FICTION label) just in time for their November tour of the North East USA! In mid January 2012, we had a mighty fine record release party at HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK as part of my HOUSE of MYSTERY series titled "We Are All TEENAGE Shutdown!" featuring some of their contemporaries in the Tokyo garage scene, namely Toyozo's belle's girls-in-the-garage group MELVINS, THE SHALLOWS with their edgy take on group sounds meets beat stomp, psyche/garage stompers 96TSUBU NO NAMIDA and SWAMP FICTION labelmates THEEE BAT!!! WILD OX of SWANK and killer retro art shop EROSTIKA spun some kerthwapin' garage tunes along side myself, The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR! Here are some highlights caught on film!


(THAT'S THE WAY MY LOVE IS originally by THE TROLLS!

HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.6, "We are all TEENAGE SHUTDOWN!" - THE FADEAWAYS 7" Release Party

While THE FADEAWAYS official release of their brand new 7" single "(I Wanna Get Some) Action!" coincided with their first jaunt to the US with six shows in the north eastern states last November, the Japanese release party will take place this coming Sunday at Heavy Sick in Tokyo! It will be a garage punk & 6t's mods affair with Swamp Fiction labelmates THEEE BAT as well as 96TSUBU NO NAMIDA, THE SHALLOWS and garage girls MELViNS filling the bill. Special DJs in the garage on hand will be WILD OX (EROSTIKA), NOEL (ALMOST THERE) and yours truly, The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR (SWAMP FICTION) spinning wild tunes for your forlorn teenage hearts screaming for some Action!

HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.6
"We are all TEENAGE SHUTDOWN!"
HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK
SUN.1.15

THE FADEAWAYS 7" release party!

feat.
THEEE BAT
ザ・シャロウズ
96粒の泪
MELViNS

Sh-sh-sh-shutdown DJs...
WILD OX (EROSTIKA)
NOEL (ALMOST THERE)
WAYNE MANOR (SWAMP FICTION)

OPEN: 18:00
START: 18:30
TICKET: 1800 +1D(ADV), 2300 +1D(DOOR

Brought to you by SWAMP FICTION label!



And for those that only heard tell of THE FADEAWAYS and their trip to the States... Here are some pictures from their extraordinary nite at the legendary Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ! Photos provided by Phil Simkowitz.

THE SPITFIRES - 2011 JAPAN TOUR w/ The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR

As some of you might remember, THE SPITFIRES from Perth, Australia came to Japan way back in December, 2011 for a Japan tour including a couple Xmas parties in the Tokyo Yokohama area and a week of Xmas hangover shows down to Nagoya, Hamamatsu and Osaka.  


(THE SPITFIRES - SHALLOW GRAVE PV, featuring highlights of the 2011 Japan Tour)

Yours truly organized a fateful Friday nite of indie garage goodness at Orange County Brothers in Yokohama, the Friday before Xmas with special guests including VIVIAN BOYS, DEAD BAMBIES, THE PHANTASMS, ANDROID BEACH PARTY & HOWLING GUITAR!


(THE PHANTASMS in Holiday Regal at Orange County Bros.)

 
(DEAD BAMBIES Going Christmas Crazy at Orange County Bros.)

Christmas Eve was a real wild Xmas bash called "Chiki Chiki Cherry Bomb Vol.41," thrown by CHERRY TIMES, the cutest, kookiest garage zine in Tokyo, run by a bunch of nutty Japanese girls into the current retro garage punk sounds around town. They graciously invited THE SPITFIRES to play and yours truly to deejay some rare & unknown Christmas jingles. Girls-in-the-garage-influenced MELVINS opened & THE FADEAWAYS played an EASY BEATS cover for our Aussie friends. THEEE BAT made a ruckus and the infamous JET BOYS started a riot! KUSOKURAE (aka Fuck You!) made some wild noise & THE IMPACTS, special guests from Kobe went wild. And that's how THE SPITFIRES experienced their first real Japan show at SHINJUKU JAM! It was all documented in a special edition of CHERRY TIMES!

 
 (THE IMPACTS at CHIKI CHIKI CHERRY BOMB Xmas Party at SHINJUKU JAM!)

On Sunday, everyone came out for "Christmas with THE SPITFIRES" at HOUSE of MYSTERY! Yours truly, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor, threw a party that went down in the annals of HEAVY SICK history! Heavy Sick being the club where I have my HQ and delight in entertaining guests with numerous indie bands, special burlesque performances and, for Xmas, present giveaways! This year we had bunch of bands play their classic sets but with some Xmas covers thrown in; the line-up included THE HARPY'S, the STOMPIN' RIFF RAFFS, ED WOODS & THE FLY & HIS ONE MAN GARBAGE! There was a short intermission for COCO FLAME to give SENIOR SANTA a very special dance before he had to go on his merry way back to Mexico! Both COCO & SANTA reappeared on stage and raffled of some very special presents from the bands to customers! The lovable, lucky MASAKO got a real gone boomerang from THE SPITFIRES themselves!


(SENIOR SANTA gets a special dance from Tokyo burlesque queen COCO FLAME!)

Loaded up on goodies and good-times, feeling the Christmas hangover, THE SPITFIRES & WAYNE MANOR embarked on a bullet train ride to Hamamatsu where we met TAKUMiX from the punk label MODERNEDGE. He drove us to the next gig, Monday nite in Nagoya at SONSET STRIP for "THE BOOT UP Vol.8" with some crazy punks like RADiXTAR, SUGAR BOYZ, TAKAO ISHIDA (THE 4-MATION) & TAKUMiX himself with his mates! I DJed with a hip Nagoya mods selector by the name of FUJJY. Then we headed on back to our hotels in Hamamtsu for some much needed resting.


(SHOCKTROOPS cranking it out at G-SIDE in HAMAMATSU!)

TAKUMiX hosted "THE BOOT UP Vol.9" at G-SIDE in HAMAMATSU, a very cool venue which also houses the MODERNEDGE HQ and TAKUMiX's new mods/punks/skins shop. This show was a riot of underground music featuring cali-style punks RADiXTAR, TAKAO ISHIDA from THE 4-MATION, garage-blues influenced skinhead group SHOCK TROOPS, hard-rockers KILLER-Q & TAKUMiX MITSUDER-MAN & MATES with special guest vocalist PeCo Baby (a very lovely artist and model) doing roots ska and enough slick punk to make any neo-mod swing a bit. THE SPITFIRES really got the crowd roaring at this one!


(THE SPITFIRES saying good bye to TAKUMiX at HAMAMATSU Station)  

Sadly we said our good-byes to the Hamamatsu/Nagoya scene and got on a trainful of mishaps that took us to Osaka just in time for sound check at NAMBA MELE! There we checked into our hostel, more like a beatnik trap for wandering artists, and headed to the club where we met WONDER 3 who hosted the Wednesday party titled "HIGH NUMBER!!" which was the final night of THE SPITFIRES Japan tour. Yours truly handled MC duties as well as spinning a mix of classic garage/mods tunes. Opening was a Kansai noise trio called 鹿鳴館 giving us a glimpse at local flavor. THE CADILLACS rustled out some alternative rock for the kids and THE OOH-MELS gave me what my Tokyo-garage-garage-lovin'-ass need to get me through the last leg! After THE SPITFIRES got the crowd going, The WONDER 3 rousted up some comedic suit-wearing mod RnR to end the night!

The rest, well, let's say we all got safely back to where we needed to be and my girlfriend & I met up with SPITFIRES vocalist Sean and his girlfriend Ellie back in Tokyo for some drinks and final good byes before the calling of the New Year! From meeting THE SPITFIRES at the SWANK Rockin' Yule Xmas party to the last day of the tour they were mates! They have since relocated to Aussie indie rock centre Melbourne and I hope to see them back in Japan sometime soon!