MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.11, "Halloween Hangover!"

Very lucky Halloween nite falls on a Monday this year! It seems like most of the Heavy Sick crowd will be enjoying the Back from the Grave Halloween Ball with special guests the Rip Offs! If the ghouls don't get you on Gate Nite (that's the night before Halloween, for the uninitiated), then head over to Heavy Sick and nurse your Halloween Hangover with some garage, surf and other eerie Japanese sounds!

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.11
"Halloween Hangover!"
October 31
Hatagaya Heavy Sick

feat.
ANDROID BEACH PARTY
NETANOYOI
Black&Blue
MACH5

Guest DJs
BILLY TRASH (ED WOODS)
SACHI B (GO HONEY GO)

Host DJ
The Stately Wayne Manor

OPEN: 19:30
TICKET: 1500 +1D

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.10, "See You in September"

The Stately Wayne Manor is celebrating it's 10th edition with a special bill of jetset DJs with mind-blowing collections of rockin' 50's & 60's records. RYO the DYNAMITE has rockabilly covered, while RIE will dish out some tunes SWANK style! Expect teenage trash by Irish expat NOEL & some space-age exotica from DANDY, half of the lounge duo MAMA CHARI. Yours truly will be throwing down some kitschy rocka and novelty tunes.

Start time is 20:00!
Only 500 yen plus drink!

There will be a special raffle, each customer gets a ticket at the door and a chance to win cool prizes offered by the DJs themselves!

Sat. 9/24 UFO CLUB with THE LEGS, STAIRS, SUNSETT, ROCKBOTTOM & RANGSTEEN

This coming Saturday nite, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor will be appearing as a guest DJ at the UFO CLUB in Higashi Koenji. It's an affair being thrown by a '77 style punk outfit called The Legs who have played my MYSTERY MONDAYS party twice so far and who have been coming up with some hits in recent times. Also on the bill are the real punk sounding band Stairs as well as Rockbottom and Rangsteen, two bands that have been at the forefront of the Tokyo powerpop boom happening now. Sharing the turntables with me is DJ Toyozo of the garage punk band The Fadeaways and punk group Nervous Hearts. Expect some rarities and classic favorites from the era of punks with flashy suits and skinny ties.

LIVE REPORT! MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.9, "Baritsu Attack!"

(PINCH OF SNUFF)

Two motley groups of Irish trad & folk lovin' ramblers converged on Club Heavy Sick last Monday, the 29th of August, in the year two thousand and eleven. The first mob to take the stage was Pinch of Snuff, a local group of Japanese buskers with a vast array of musical armaments including tin whistle, fiddle, accordion, cajon, bodhran, bass and featuring Tiger on acoustic guitars and brash vocals. His drawl lends itself nicely to traditional numbers like "Danny Boy" as well as their own rustic versions of modern songs like the Beatles "I've Just Seen A Face." And the band made instrumental sounds of Ireland come to life on an otherwise slow & muggy Monday night.


(MUTINY)

Next, the thrashy folk group Mutiny climbed the decks of the good ship Heavy Sick! These paddy rockin' buccaneers are know for playing some of the more notable Irish pubs of port Tokyo and this night they showed up with Paul on mandolin, Alex on acoustic guitar and Greg who plays bodhran while growling out some of the more traditional Irish tunes like "The Black Velvet Band," "I'll Tell Me Ma" and "Whiskey in the Jar." Fiddle, accordion and double bass rounded out their sound on this occasion.


(PINCH OF SNUFF with MUTINY)

For the last song, the Pinch of Snuff gang decided to storm the ship and join the "Mutiny," so to speak! Both crews crammed on the wee stage and jammed a farewell to summer like the devil! Special thanks to DJ THE JAPANESE BASTARD who played a think set between the gangs of buskers which included a heavy mix of bohemian rustic and Irish hodge podge like RAVFEN & FARLER'S FURY that can be found on his import label UNCLEOWEN music. Yours truly, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor selected some more rockin' tunes by the Clancy Brothers, Johnny Burnette (with The Shamrocks) as well as some paddy greaser tunes by CRAiC HAUS with their self-styled "shamrockabilly" sound!


(DJ THE JAPANESE BASTARD - UNCLEOWEN)

"Baritsu Attack" was a rescheduling of the MYSTERY MONDAYS "St. Patrick's Party" that was canceled due to the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011. I compiled a downloadable benefit comp entitled "HEAL THE COAST: A Homespun Tsunami Benefit" now available on Pacifiction Records. PINCH OF SNUFF, along with Royal SHAMROCK & MoDERN B BEARD, appears courtesy of UNCLEOWEN Music.


(THE STATELY DJ WAYNE MANOR)

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol. 9, "BARITSU ATTACK"

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.9 is proud to present "BARITSU ATTACK!," a night of Irish folk and punk with Japanese rovers PINCH OF SNUFF (featuring members of Royal SHAMROCK!) and the Tokyo-based thrash folk band MUTINY! Special guest DJ THE JAPANESE BASTARD from UNCLEOWEN music will be supplying a brash mix of rustic stomp and The Stately Wayne Manor will be spinning an assortment of pirate punk and rockin' Irish tunes across the ages.

MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol. 9 presents...

"BARITSU ATTACK"

HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK

Mon.8.29

Featuting...

MUTINY

PINCH OF SNUFF

Guest DJ

THE JAPANESE BASTARD (UNCLEOWEN)

Host DJ

THE STATELY WAYNE MANOR (SWAMP FICTION)

OPEN: 20:00

TICKET: 1200 +1D

HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.4, "House of the Dolls"

Welcome back to the HOUSE of MYSTERY, boys & girls! This past August 13th, was an fiercely female night of estrogen-fueled antics and adventure! Five gravely glamorous groups of Japanese femme-fatales appeared on stage at Club Heavy Sick along with special attractions including a sneak-peek screening of B-movie maniac Chris' footage for his tentatively title slasher flick "I Ain't Your Geisha!" and special burlesque dance performance by the lovely Baby Rita! Last but not least, special thanks to DJs Sachi B and Meg the Eyeball for assisting myself, the Stately DJ Wayne Manor, with sinister record spinning!


(THE PHANTASMS)

THE PHANTASMS were the first band to materialize on stage invoking a kinda girls in the garage meets 70's powerpop style. Their cutesy demeanor and bubbly stage presence mixed with an array of covers from divers performers like The Undertones to Billie Davis wowed the early-comers. A special treat was a surfy girl pop version of THE SHAPES' "I Saw Batman in the Laundrette!"


(VILLAINZ)

A blender full of horror punk, organ-powered garage and a heavy dose of raw psychobilly is what's in the VILLAINZ' cocktail. And the crowd drunk up during their haunting set which included original favorites like "Pray of Devil" classics like Shocking Blue's "Venus!"



After the audience picked up their jaws from the watching the Villainz, there was a short intermission where aspiring horror movie and music video filmmaker Chris showed his two Harpy's videos "Tut" and "Crushed Cake" and a shocking slasher clips from his work-in-progress which features detached Japanese women exact their revenge on a male-dominated modern society, like Maki who (The Harpy's) slashes up random guys (like Billy Trash of Ed Woods) with her trusty box cutter!


(THE MERCIES)

Stepping back in time to London circa '62, The Mercies then graced the stage with their old-period Beatles stylings. Quite popular in the Japanese mod and garage scene lately, these four young gals from Tokyo cause a quite a rave-up at the House of Dolls, I didn't even have to ask them to please please me!


(The MADAME CATS)

As always, The Madame Cats rocked hard with their gritty garage blended with Japanese mystique and intrigue. When leader of the pack Madame Who wails on her harmonica the room seems to swirl and when she shakes her maracas wildly, she seems to shake her fans up along with them!


(BABY RITA)

A second intermission featured slinky burlesque dancer Baby Rita slither across stage in her sexy black lingerie which appeared to evaporate amidst hoots and howls to reveal nothing but a delicate face and porcelain skin in a feather boa mist!


(THE PAPPYS)

House of Dolls was also a big chance to dance with The Pappy's, one of the legendary Japanese girls bands still playing around Tokyo and the final band of the night! These three cheeky girls in the garage blitzed through a set of headstrong 60's pop via Ramones style punk! Indeed they might have even called the spirit of Joey Ramone back from the grave for Obon (Japan's festival of the dead happening over the weekend) with their encore of "Rock 'n' Roll Radio!"


(DJ MEG THE EYEBALL)

The Stately DJ Wayne Manor thanks all those involved, including DJs Meg the Eyeball for her wild, random and twisted tunes as well as Sachi B for her punk & psycho playlist and taking the pictures for this blog! Hope to see you all again when the door of the HOUSE of MYSTERY are swung open for the next freakout!

YUKKUM YUKKUM presents...TOOLIE FROOLIE #02, THE GO-DEVILS new 7" record release party!

The Stately DJ Wayne Manor will be appearing at the latest party by the dynamic duo YUKKUM YUKKUM! It's the second installment of TOOLIE FROOLIE and features a host of DJs spinning classic garage, surf and rockabilly, not to mention some live & wild Japanese rock 'n' roll action by the likes of The Fly & His One Man Garbage (feat. belly dancer Shaula Lee), Tucker, Stompin' Riff Raffs, Reiko & the Legends... oh and special guests THE GO-DEVILS will be there, all the way from Osaka celebrating the release of "Super Stuff," their latest 7" record!

It's an all-night affair opening at 9pm, get there early and catch my set of 60's nuggets and garage punk unknowns. I spin before The Fly & His One Man Garbage, so get revved up with The Stately DJ Wayne Manor! Here's the complete line up!

THE GO-DEVILS (OSAKA)
TUCKER
REIKO & THE LEGENDS (EDDIE LEGEND STORY / EARLY 6T'S VERSION)
THE FLY & HIS ONE MAN GARBAGE (SHIZUOKA)
STOMPIN' RIFFRAFFS

{OPENING ACT}
OKD & HIS ONE MAN HOTROD

{BURLESQUE DANCE}
RITA
CHISA

DJs
DADDY-O-NOV (RADIO UNDERGROUND,BACK FROM THE GRAVE)
HIROSHI SEKIGUCHI (SWANK)
EDDIE LEGEND(ex.MAD3)
REIKO (ex.EDDIE LEGEND STORY)
MOMO (THE GO-DEVILS)
WILD OX (EROSTIKA)
TELL-ME (EROSTIKA)
MIKA-BAT (THEEE BAT)
MEG THE EYEBALL (ex.ECSTASYS,ex.NADSAT KICKS)
WAYNE MANOR (MYSTERY MONDAYS)
MR.DEATH (YUKKUM YUKKUM)

{FOOD}
DADDY'S H. DINNER

OPEN/START: 21:00
DOOR: 2,000yen+1D