Date with THE CRAMPS - LUX Tribute Live

Every year since the demise Lux Interior, of one of Rock 'n' Roll's sickest legends, Club Heavy Sick pays tribute with a live shows celebrating his legacy with The Cramps, one of Rock 'n' Roll's sickest bands! This year, Yours Truly, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor was asked to throw down slabs of pure trash alongside two of the biggest name garage DJs in Japan, namely DJ JIMMY MASHIKO of Garage Rockin' Craze & Tokyo Back from the Grave's own DJ DADDY-O-NOV! A down and dirty honor indeed!

Not to mention the amount of wild and weird live music going down next Sunday at Heavy Sick which includes rockabilly trashers The Gasser & My Solidkick from Gunma, Yokosuka's two man garage punk gashers d/i/s/c/o/s, psycho-instro-mentalists BOBBY'S BAR, grave stompin' dynamic trio THEEE BAT, dolled-up glam-fiends YOUNG PARISIAN and, of course, Japan's own homegrown tribute band the TOKYO CRAMPS fronted by wildman Elovis channeling the ghost of Lux himself! Prepare yourself for bikini girls surfin' in the swampy graveyard basement of Heavy Sick!

ED WOODS presents... World of the Dude Vol.1! ~Kurt Russel Night~

Trash rockers & B-movie enthusiasts ED WOODS are starting up a raw night of pop culture dude-ism! Aaaand... the Dude of the Month is KURT RUSSEL! Join us for a wicked night of live punk, funk and rock & roll and plenty of slabs of boppers, twisters and garage throbbers thrown down on the turntables by DJ AKKO CHAMPION and Yours Truly, The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR! Don't for get your Snake Plissken eye-patches!

ED WOODS presents...
World of the Dude Vol. 1
~Kurt Russel Night~
Saturday, Jan. 26th
HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK

*Live*
ED WOODS
d/i/s/c/o/s
HOWLING GUITAR
Both Cheese
Sunsett

*DJ*
WAYNE MANOR
AKKO CHAMPION

OPEN: 18:30
START: 17:00

ADV: 2000 Yen +1D
DOOR: 2300 Yen +1D

TEENAGE SHUTDOWN: THE FADEAWAYS & THEE MIGHTY FEVERS Record Release Party

TEENAGE SHUTDOWN!
Double LP Release Party!
Jan.14, 2013
HATAGAYA HEAVY SICK

THE FADEAWAYS
THEE MIGHT FEVERS
THE RAYDIOS
SUPERSNAZZ
THE LEGS

The Stately DJ WAYNE MANOR



Recently THE FADEAWAYS returned to the stage after a brief hiatus and they brought back their garage punk bash Teenage Shutdown! This was a special night celebrating their new Dead Beat Records release Raw, Wild & Wretched, along with new labelmates Kobe's own Frantic garage-fused Ramones style band THEE MIGHTY FEVERS, with their own newly released LP Fuck'in Great R'n'R.

It just so happened that the fates decided to drop a bucket of snow on Tokyo while both bands were driving up from Kobe to finish off a short tour. I had enough trouble lugging my case of 45s to the gig slipping and sliding at Shibuya station hoping trains were not delayed and got there just on time.... only to get word that The Fadeaways were still slushing along the highways up to Tokyo!

Teenage Shutdown is usually a more garage based event, but with The Legs & The Raydios on the bill, it was slightly more on the punk side. So I mostly spun from my classic punk and power pop collection. I was happy to throw down some tunes like "There's Never Been A Night" by the Quads along with stuff from The Lurkers, The Ruts, The Stilettos and one of my favorites "Kids Just Wanna Dance" by The Fast. To warm up the crowd for Supersnazz, I gave the crowd a bit of a mod sound and played some raunchy soul and girl groups. I had planned to go completely garage before Thee Mighty Fevers, but since The Fadeaways still hadn't shown up yet! I just kept spinning raw stuff from the 70's. The Fadeaways finally got to Tokyo and rushed through the subways with gear in tow to get to Heavy Sick and plop a box of fresh records on the merch table and jump on stage at the last minute, blasting through their set nearly non-stop RnR!

A big arigatou to Toyozo and the boys for having me DJ! Winter-blasted and weather-tested, The Fadeaways came thru on their big LP debut night!