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!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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!
(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!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Christmas with THE SPITFIRES / Hangover with THE SPITFIRES - 2011 Japan Tour
THE SPITFIRES are buzzing Japan this holiday season on their first tour of the Land of the Rising Sun! First they'll be tailgating Santa's sleigh and playing three shows in Kanto area before tailspinning it westward and hitting Aichi, Shizuoka and Kansai! This trio of garage punk, Brit powerpop influenced wayward Aussies from outback Perth have already toured the UK this year and are currently making a round of eastern Australia before coming to Japan for their holiday tour dubbed "Christmas with THE SPITFIRES/Hangover with THE SPITFIRES!" With the help of wild and crazy locals including CHERRY TIMES, MODERNEDGE RECORDS & WONDER3, not to mention yours truly, The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR, they will be playing with some of the most energetic punk & garage bands creating a buzz in the Japanese music scene to date! Scoot down below for venues, bills and dates!
For a FREE download of the new smash single "Smile" by THE SPITFIRES click here!
Fri. Dec.23 - WAYNE MANOR Presents...YOKOHAMA ORANGE COUNTY BROTHERS
w/ VIVIAN BOYS, DEAD BAMBIES, ANDROID BEACH PARTY, HOWLING GUITAR, THE PHANTASMS
OPEN: 18:00
START:18:30
TICKET: 1500 +1D
http://ocb.zouri.jp/ocb.html
Sat. Dec.24 - SHINJUKU JAM, CHERRY TIMES Presents... CHIKI CHIKI
CHERRY BOMB OPERATION Vol.41
w/ JET BOYS, THE IMPACTS, THE FADEAWAYS, THEEE BAT, くそくらえ, MELVINS
DJ: CHERRY TIMES / WAYNE MANOR / セルジュ・ハヤティーヌ・アンジーン
Food: 高円寺タコスカフェ×チェリータイムス
OPEN: 18:30
START:19:00
TICKET: 2200 +1D
http://jam.rinky.info/
Sun. Dec.25 - HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK, WAYNE MANOR Presents... HOUSE of
MYSTERY Vol.5
w/ ED WOODS, THE FLY & HIS ONE MAN GARBAGE, STOMPIN' RIFF RAFFS, THE HARPY's
Burlesque Dancer: CHISA
Special Guest: SANTA "SENIOR" CLAUS
DJ: WAYNE MANOR / AKKO
OPEN: 18:00
START: 18:30
ADV TICKET: 2000 +1D
DOOR TICKET: 2500 +1D
http://www.heavysick.co.jp/club/index1.html
Mon. Dec.26 - NAGOYA SONSET STRIP, MODERNEDGE Presents... THE BOOT UP! Vol.8
w/ SUGAR BOYZ, 石田タカオ, RADiXTAR, TAKUMiX MITSUDER-MAN + MATES (and PeCo Baby)
OPEN: 18:00
START: 18:30
ADV TICKET: 1500 +1D
DOOR TICKET: 2000 +1D
DJ: WAYNE MANOR
http://www.sonset-strip.com/
Tue. Dec.27 - HAMAMTSU G-SIDE, MODERNEDGE Presents... THE BOOT UP! Vol.9
w/ SHOCK TROOPS, KiLLER Q, RADiXTAR, TAKUMiX MITSUDER-MAN + MATES (and PeCo Baby), 石田タカオ
OPEN: 18:00
START: 18:30
ADV TICKET: 1500 +1D
DOOR TICKET: 2000 +1D
DJ: WAYNE MANOR, TAKe (ex.DREX), elmo, INU (FLORIANS)
http://www.g-side.net/
Wed. Dec.28 - NAMBA MELE, WONDER3 Presents... HIGH NUMBER!!
w/ WONDER3, The Cadillacs, THE OOH-MELS, 鹿鳴館
OPEN: 18:30
START: 19:00
ADV TICKET: 1500 +1D
DOOR TICKET: 1800 +1D
DJ: WAYNE MANOR
http://namba-mele.com/
The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR of MYSTERY MONDAYS and HOUSE of MYSTERY will be on tour with THE SPITFIRES, so prepare yourself to dance to some frantic garage and original punk tunes!
Monday, December 5, 2011
WAYNE MANOR spins rockin' Xmas unknowns at SWANK
SWANK is a long-running record hop in Tokyo that is run by garage disc jockey king Hiroshi Sekuguchi along with a number of the metropolis' finest DJs including Rie from STOMPIN' RIFF RAFFS, Erostika manager Wild Ox, the wierdos that make up the DJ duo YUKKUM YUKKUM, namely the pint-sized OKD & sleaze-meister Mr. Death, as well as, record collector extraordinaire Matsui from fabled Teenage Babylon fame. As Wayne Manor is somewhat of a specialist in Christmas novelties and yuletide trash, he decided to test the old adage "ask and you shall receive" and begged Hiroshi to give him a chance to join SWANK as a guest DJ for a very special Xmas party... Lo and behold the Christmas wish was granted! Come on out to MEMPHIS KYODAI in SHIMO-KITAZAWA on Thursday, December 22nd to get your Christmas on and hop to some fine Rock'n Yule tunes!Oh, and chances are THE SPITFIRES from Perth, Australia will be there getting a taste of real rockin' Tokyo. Admission is free so stop by for a meet and greet and to know them before their Japan tour kicks off the following day!
SWANK
"Rock'n Yule"
Record Hop Special
Hiroshi Sekiguchi
Wild Ox
Rie
OKD
Matsui
Wayne Manor (Mystery Mondays)
12/22
(Thur)
open 20:00-23:30
admission: free
下北沢Barメンフィス兄弟
http://memphis-kyodai.blogspot.com
Friday, December 2, 2011
LIVE REPORT! MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.12, NO November Part 2
Continuing the tradition of celebrating the No Wave movement with eclectic punk and avant garde sounds, MYSTERY MONDAYS invited a couple off-beat Japanese garage bands know for skewing their sounds with experimental rhythms and odd instrumentation.
Opening the show was a more recently formed buzz band called DAncer DAnger who are known for playing post-punk originals alongside garage classics. This night they laid out some tight rhythms for an authentic dance punk sound that tipped its hat to the New York indie scene with an ESG cover.
Returning from last year's No November soiree, ROCKET JACK VADERS amazed the crowd with their surfy No Wave sounds and intense stage presence. Dual guitarists Sue, with his angular moves and angered shouts, and Shinko, who sports a fashionable mystique, traded off on some of their recognizable songs from their definitive release "Vector."
Spinning a random mix of New York poetry punk, arsty new wave and world beat, DJ Wayne Manor was at your service. After she dropped her bass, DJ TOMMI TOKYO stationed herself at the turntables offering up some funky beats and new wave dance classics. Keep the 24 hour party rolling until next year. Over and out.
Opening the show was a more recently formed buzz band called DAncer DAnger who are known for playing post-punk originals alongside garage classics. This night they laid out some tight rhythms for an authentic dance punk sound that tipped its hat to the New York indie scene with an ESG cover.
Returning from last year's No November soiree, ROCKET JACK VADERS amazed the crowd with their surfy No Wave sounds and intense stage presence. Dual guitarists Sue, with his angular moves and angered shouts, and Shinko, who sports a fashionable mystique, traded off on some of their recognizable songs from their definitive release "Vector."
Spinning a random mix of New York poetry punk, arsty new wave and world beat, DJ Wayne Manor was at your service. After she dropped her bass, DJ TOMMI TOKYO stationed herself at the turntables offering up some funky beats and new wave dance classics. Keep the 24 hour party rolling until next year. Over and out.
Friday, November 25, 2011
MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol. 12, NO November Part 2
Preparations are being made for the next Mystery Mondays.... it's PART 2 of our annual NO WAVE party in November! This year we have ROCKET JACK VADERS returning. RJV are a band that came to prominence in the Japanese garage scene as a surf band, but went experimental and started mixing odd instrumentation for a No Wave sound. Also joining the soiree is DAncer DAnger a relatively new band that fuses American garage and UK post-punk. Bass player DJ TOMI TOKYO be spinning British sounds of the post-punk era along with NY No Wave and yours truly, The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR will be playing a mix of post-punk, new wave and avant garde on vinyl. This has been a message to all you 4 hour party people out there in Tokyo!
MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.12
"NO November Part 2"
ROCKET JACK VADERS
DAncer DAnger
DJ TOMMI TOKYO
DJ WAYNE MANOR
Open: 20:00
Start: 20:30
Ticket: 1200 +1D
MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.12
"NO November Part 2"
ROCKET JACK VADERS
DAncer DAnger
DJ TOMMI TOKYO
DJ WAYNE MANOR
Open: 20:00
Start: 20:30
Ticket: 1200 +1D
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