Yours truly, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor, strikes again! Rock 'n' Roll Tonite is a party held by original punk style band THE LEGS from Tokyo. This event is a double whammy being first, a record release party for the THE LEGS' brand new 7" single, and second, it's their slick frontman Captain's birthday party!
Powerpop phenomenon RANGSTEEN and mod punk revivalists THE COKES will jam the stage while THEEE BAT smash it up with a garage fever! Come on out for punk rock tunes on the turntables by DJs TOMITA & WAYNE MANOR who will be throwing some original garage & power pop into the sets! It IS the Captain's Birthday, oh YES IT IS!
HATAGAYA
CLUB HEAVY SICK
Rock 'n' Roll Tonite
Sun.9.22
〈LIVE〉
THE LEGS
RANGSTEEN
THE COKES
THEEE BAT
〈DJ〉
WAYNE MANOR (Swamp Fiction)
TOMITA
〈OPEN/START〉19:00
〈DOOR〉2,000yen+1D
As I had finalized my summer vacation plans heading back to upstate NY for the 35th anniversary of my father's MC, The Wasted Ones, I wanted to be able to make the most of my first summer back home in 7 years. I had contacted some connections about spinning records with no luck, but then I remembered a having a delightful little chat with a certain NY notable by the name of Grace of Spades when we deejayed together at Don Pedro last March. She set up a Saturday night thing at Skylark in Brooklyn with DJ RATA, who I befriended as Javier, a Venezuelan import with an expert taste in surf, rockabilly, exotica and tequila.
(DJ WAYNE MANOR; On Rock-Rock-Rockaway Beach)
In between sets, I happened to be calling whoever I knew in Brooklyn who could take me in for the night with no luck. Just around midnight, my sister surprised me with a visit. Wow, I got some kinda show of support! Seriously, thank you, sis! I got to stay out spinning a mix of Japanese GS freakouts, garage pop tunes and northern soul groovies until 3am. And I got a nice sofa to surf on! You could almost say I surfed it to Rockaway Beach.
(DJ RATA, regulating sound at Caracas)
At Skylark, Javier and I flowed through the usual routine of meeting a stranger in this hobby of collecting forgotten vinyl for the pleasure of others. Like asking each other our roots, getting excited over selections, comparing covers, dueling with B-sides; all the while not really caring if the sleepers at the tables really care if whose cover of "Fever" is blasting out... That is until just after 1am when the hoodoo kicks in and the sleepers stop talking at their tables, or at least their girls stop talking and stand up to boogie like itchy primitives. Then you gotta pay attention through that tropical haze of Tecate and tequila to what songs get thrown down. Cause, you been feeling like this has become the most played-out city in the world and you just started something and you don't wanna break that momentum...
(DJ TONY Abrego & Sonya from DATED)
...At about this time, Javier leans over to me and says he's going to Rockaway Beach tomorrow and I can DJ with him and some friends all afternoon. All I gotta do is call him around noon the next day. And that's just what I did on Sunday, August 18th at 12pm.
(DJ Senor 2 Platos, rockin' the garage classics)
I met up with Javier in Brooklyn and we hitched a ride with DJ Tony Abrego and his 50's chic wife Sonya from DATED, a vintage clothing buy-and-sell operation. We got to Rockaway Beach in the early afternoon and set up at Caracas Rockaway where Javier has been spinning rare oldies and roots ska weekly as the resident DJ RATA of Shake It Up Sundays! I took a walk around at this near mythical place immortalized in a Ramones song and found a sandwich board with DJ Wayne Manor from Tokio etched in chalk!
(Rockaway Beach, boat on the horizon)
A lot of people where out on the sand, but tell-tale signs of Big Sandy's wrath were shown in the lack of boardwalk and sections off-limits to swimmers. Yet, Caracas seemed to keep the local economy alive and jivin'! DJ Tony kicked things off with some Jamaican roots music, 50's RnB and real rockabilly. Yours Truly, then played a long, opening set of Japanese group sounds, freakbeat, pop garage and girl groups thrown in for good measure. Hearing tunes like "I Want Candy" and The Shangri-Las' "Out In The Streets" on Rockaway Beach was an unforgettable experience. But even more so, because I had amassed a small group of dancers in the form of a cute couple, one girl in a bikini and one or two little kids (one 5 year old girl invented a new dance I dubbed "The Rockaway Hop!"), enjoying some fun in a New York sun! Bite me California!
(Rockaway Beach; Where has all the boardwalk gone?)
Well, this paradise lasted only until about 6pm when I had to take the Shuttle to the A, all the way to Penn Station. 2 hours! Only to get woken up by the hassles of everyday life, waiting for another train to mundane Middletown, NY. I spent nearly 5 hours on trains that day, but the 3 hours I spent at Rockaway Beach were branded in my memory forever. Gracias, Javier. And ultimately, thank you, Grace of Spades.
~The Stately DJ Wayne Manor
(CARACAS ROCKAWAY - SHAKE IT UP SUNDAYS!)
PS. In my travels upstate NY and beyond, I was able to provide some Swamp Fiction vinyl to Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, NY and Gallery of Sound at locations in Pennsylvania. Ask for THEEE BAT, THE FADEAWAYS or ATOMIC SUPLEX at their stores!
In an unprecedented turn of events, Tokyo & Yokohama get a double shot of HOUSE of MYSTERY this weekend! After monster surf band DAIKAIJU attacks Tokyo, they will be ripping things up at ORANGE COUNTY BROTHERS in Tennocho, Yokohama! As it turns out, Swamp Fiction will be celebrating a pre-record release of the forthcoming ED WOODS meets LOS CHAMPIONS - TERROR IN ROOM 208 split 7" EP! Come to the show and pick up a CD-R copy of the record and be one of the very first to have it delivered to your door!
And if those two bands aren't enough, come out for THEE MIGHTY FEVERS rejoining DAIKAJU for some more co-wreckage and local two-man trashers d/i/s/c/o/s will be on hand to kick off the bash! Beach party on MONSTER ISLAND continues!!!!
Sat. 8/24
ORANGE COUNTY BROTHERS
TENNOCHO, YOKOHAMA
HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.13½
"Beach Party on MONSTER ISLAND (Part 2)!"
Live:
DAIKAIJU (USA)
ED WOODS
LOS CHAMPIONS
THEE MIGHTY FEVERS (KOBE)
d/i/s/c/o/s
OPEN: 18:00
START: 18:30
DOOR: ¥1500 +1D
Come and get a CD-R copy of ED WOODS meets LOS CHAMPIONS - TERROR IN ROOM 208 and pre-order the 7" record!
Send of summer with a surf bash Godzilla-style at the HOUSE of MYSTERY! DAIKAIJU, a monster surf rock band from the US, attacks Hatagaya Heavy Sick in Tokyo on Friday, August 23rd! This special 2-part, 13th volume event is gonna be a "Beach Party on MONSTER ISLAND" with the help of Tokyo surf, psyche & garage maniacs NETANAOYOI, THEEE BAT, MY FIRST BIKINI & RAT-HOLIC! Instro-mentals and hot-rod tunes will be blasting from the turntables from the vast collections of Garage Rockin' Crazes' own JIMMY MASHIKO, EDDIE UGATA from The El Caminos and yours truly, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor!
Everyone, come on out and welcome DAIKAIJU to Tokyo! They won't bite your heads off or anything!!
http://www.daikaiju.org/
Now, just to sweeten the summer fun, girls who come dressed in a bikini get 1 free drink! Monster FUN, summer FUN, bikini FUN!
Fri. 8/23
HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK
HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.13
”Beach Party on MONSTER ISLAND!"
〈LIVE〉
DAIKAIJU (USA)
RAT-HOLIC
MY FIRST BIKINI
NETANOYOI
THEEE BAT
〈DJ〉
JIMMY MASHIKO (Garage Rockin' Craze)
EDDIE UGATA (The El Caminos)
WAYNE MANOR (Swamp Fiction)
〈OPEN/START〉18:30/19:00
〈ADV〉2,000yen+1D
〈DOOR〉2,,300yen+1D
(THE LEGS)
The summer of '13 saw the ominous return of MYSTERY MONDAYS for a one-night only reunion of a much lamented mini-live series that was the brainchild of Yours Truly several years ago. At that time, I had an easier work schedule and doing a monthly Monday Mystery party was a fun way to spin some records around carefully planned theme. I've had punk nights, Irish/rustic bashes, Halloween parties and even no wave chic get-togthers, all with the idea that I would invite a couple bands and a couple DJs to present themselves and their scenes in a matinee kinda setting. It also worked out to be a kinda networking session where I got to know labels as well as for also for bands who I thought should know each other to get a chance to meet. I'd like to think that more than a few people became friends during the year long run of the original Mystery Mondays.
(ROCK-A-CHERRY)
So earlier this summer, I had some free time to do a bit of thinking and scheming and I decided to get my good friend Shotaro to spin some records with me for a reunion. I decided to take Mystery Mondays back to its roots and make it a punk rock/power pop event which I started out with when I had SEE HER TONITE join THE LEGS at Club Heavy Sick about 3 years ago. This July, THE LEGS agreed to come out again, and I also invited Ramones-style punk girls band ROCK-A-CHERRY, and the deal was done. ROCK-A-CHERRY front-girl Yoko and Reo from NEON GROUP have a monthly new wave dance party called NEO CITY. They joined Shotaro and Yours Truly to spin some wax rounding out the night ensuring plenty of garage tunes, 70's punk obscurities and 80's danceables pumped out of the sound system. They next mystery is if I will ever have a Monday free to do another Mystery Mondays.
~The Stately Wayne Manor
Taking time out my busy schedule, yours truly will be spinning girl garage & mod-ish beat music before MELViNS
at WILLY NILLY Vol.3 at HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK! More sick tunes on stage will be performed by Lonesome
Slim & d/i/s/c/o/s! Wait! There's more you say? Jump 'n' jive to turntable trashers
Gorilla Snake, Lemon Whiskers, Daph, Wayne Manor, White Noise Disco
& NICO!!! Not to mention weird-o film footage by Tim!
WILLY NILLY Vol.3
HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK
FRI. JUNE 28th
~LIVE~
Lonesome Slim
d/i/s/c/o/s
MELViNS
~DJ~
Gorilla Snake
Lemon Whiskers
Daph
Wayne Manor
White Noise Disco
NICO
~FILM~
Tim
OPEN/START: 19:00
DOOR: 1,800yen(+1D)
So yours truly is back in town withe the mystery action! Been enjoying a bit too much free time and decided to do something about it, so why not throw a party!? Turns out that I just got busy, busier than I had foreseen but Mystery Mondays is back for a one-night stand with powerpop rockers THE LEGS and girly Ramones-style with ROCK-A-CHERRY! DJ WAYNE MANOR will be spinning some pur punk rock radio hits with trash junkie & Heavy Sick regular DJ SHOTARO! NEO CITY tag team, DJs REO & YOKO will be spinning some new wave danceables so come on out for some retro fun!
Return of...
MYSTERY MONDAYS Vol.15
HATAGAYA CLUB HEAVY SICK
Monday, July 8th
Live~
THE LEGS
ROCK-A-CHERRY
DJs~
WAYNE MANOR (Pacifiction Records)
SHOTARO
REO (NEON GROUP/NEO CITY)
YOKO (ROCK-A-CHERRY/NEO CITY)
Ticket: ¥1500 +1D
OPEN: 20:00
