LIVE REPORT! HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol.11 No Way Jose Sayonara Party!

With gut-wrenching sorrow I had to say farewell to one of the best friends I have ever known in my Tokyo existence. With his research into the underbelly of the Japanese music world complete, loco muchacho Jose has moved on to Arizona to finish the scholarly work he started 2 years ago. And what better way to say sayonara than with an all out bash at Club Heavy Sick with his favorite trash thrashers on hand! Not to mention a sultry reunion with the sexy CocoFlame who played foil to his Senor Santa at the HOUSE of MYSTERY XXXmas party of 2011!



The unmentionable attractions of the tear-jerking evening included Yokosuka knuckle-draggers d/i/s/c/o/s, back from the grave robbers THE FADEAWAYS, frat-hoppin' rockers STOMPIN' RIFF RAFFS, beat-sloppin' horror THEEE BAT & B-movie dudes ED WOODS!



The DJ station was kept rockin' by the jamming wax thrown down by DeeJays LEMON WHISKERS and Back from the Grave Svengali DADDY-O-NOV... But the highlight for most was DJ SENOR! That is Jose in his loco Mexicano persona dishing out some of his own hot tamales on the turntables!



With a special cake & cookies made by Stompin's own Miku-chan, not to mention all the friendly faces that came out, the HOUSE of MYSTERY achieved the home-party vibe that I strive for! And Senor Jose was blown away by all the well-wishing and wild-hearted revelry everyone brought with them. I have a feeling he took a lot of it back to arid Arizona with him!



As a shaky Mika Bat slurmised on stage "NEVER SAY GOOD BYE!" Until we meet again... and I'll leave it at that!

GARAGE PUNK NYC presents... St. Paddy's Eve Bash at Don Pedro!

As yours truly was planning an escape from Tokyo heading back to NY for a clean spring break, I got to thinking about what I could do in the city that never sleeps for three weeks. Well, I got in touch with Christophe from Bananas Magazine (who have featured both THE FADEAWAYS & THEEE BAT) and asked him if anything was on. Through him, I was put in touch with DJ SHIMMY who operates the GraragepunkNYC.com blog and also does shows at Don Pedro in Brooklyn. In the past he's billed THEEE BAT & STOMPIN' RIFFRAFFS, both good friends of mine. Well, Shimmy offered me an opening slot... on the day that I arrive in NY. I fly into JFK at 3pm... probably won't get released from that void until 5pm. Show starts at 9:30... so I have a good 4 hours to make my way over to Williamsburg and find someplace to hang before showtime. It will be managed.



For anyone in the area looking for something to do to celebrate, St. Paddy's Eve and do the whole hair of the dog thing on St. Paddy's Day proper, come on out for some garage insanity with THE OTHERMEN, TIGHT SPOTS, BORN LOOSE & THE NEIGHBORS. DJs Sea-mmy & Grace O'Spades will spinning later on in the evening and yours truly, the Stately Wayne Manor will start the party roaring with raw Japanese punk clunkers from the 90's as well as a set of 60's GS and garage thumpers... maybe even a little Irish might get thrown in the bag!

Look out for my merch table with SWAMP FICTION records and some new stuff from Japan available on PACIFICTION RECORDS like BOBBY'S BAR, DEAD BAMBIES & HOWLING GUITAR!

HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 12: No Way Jose Sayonara Party!

For about over two years I've been hanging out with Jose (he's really Canadian of Columbian descent, but we play up his Mehicano looks!) at garage shows around Tokyo, occasionally Back from the Grave at UFO or some Cherry Times party at JAM, but most often (ahem, nearly every weekend) at my home away from home, CLUB HEAVY SICK. Jose was my Senor Santa at the 2011 Xmas party with THE SPITFIRES from Australia, we've had many cool times introducing RnR tourists to  Poor cowthe greatest RnR bar in Tokyo and I've been lending him tons of Japanese garage/punk on CD for his academic research into the Japanese music scene. That research has come to a finish and Jose is heading to arid Arizona to put it all together, not to mention hang out with his girl. Dismayed, forlorn, despairing, you may think?! Yes, so I decided to throw a bash big enough to bring about the Day of the Dead a bit early! NO WAY JOSE SAYONARA PARTY featuring 5 bands selected by Senor Jose himself, hellishly hip garage DJs LEMON WHISKERS & DADDY-O-NOV and a special reunion whith burlesque wildcat COCO FLAME who incidentally gave SENOR SANTA a luscious lap dance on Xmas day two years ago. Not to mention DJ SENOR JOSE himself making an appearance playing some of his favorite Japanese wild tunes! Don't say sayonara, just buy him some tequila!


HOUSE of MYSTERY Vol. 11
"No Way Jose Sayonara Party"
Sun., March 10
Club Heavy Sick

*live*
ED WOODS
THEEE BAT
STOMPIN' RIFFRAFFS
THE FADEAWAYS
d/i/s/c/o/s

*DeeJays*
SENOR JOSE
DADDY-O-NOV (Back from the Grave)
LEMON WHISKERS
WAYNE MANOR

OPEN: 18:00
START:18:30
TICKET:
ADV: 2000 +1D
DOOR: 2300 +1D

THE DOGS - Japan Tour Finale 2013 & Detroit Jack's Sayonara Party

A big salute to Detroit Jack for the past 15 years or so he's been living in Japan! Back in 2007, he launched Future Now Records as a vehicle to bridge music scenes between two of the world's greatest Rock Cities with a tribute to THE DOGS! He released a double album with a slew of Japanese bands paying homage to the original punk rock band that first screamed out "Slash Your Face!" He followed up with a double DVD collection of new and old rare live footage of THE DOGS gigging in LA and Tokyo. Since then, Jack has decided to move... rather ride on into the sunset seeking serenity in the world's ancient site with his newly founded Bike Classical cycling group. Ride on, brother!

 

That's not to say Detroit Jack won't be leaving without any fanfare! Future Now Recordds is bringing THE DOGS back to Japan for four incredible nites of ROCK fantasy! Hit Fifi's bar Poor Cow in Shimo-kitazwa on Friday, April 8th for a special acoustic show and record signing. Get electric, or eleki maybe, on Sat. April 9th at SHINJUKU RED CLOTH with THUNDER ROADS, THE RAYDIOS, JACKIE & THE CEDRICS & ELECTROPHONIC! Wild 60's rockin' dance tunes by SWANK DJ WILD OX!

Yours truly, The Stately DJ Wayne Manor, was asked with great honor to spin loud 'n' fast vinyl punk trash at UFO CLUB in HIGASHI-KOENJI on Sunday, April, 10th and also HATAGAYA CLUB HEAVY SICK on Monday, April 11th! Head to UFO for post-punks NANOX, legendary girls garage group SUPERSNAZZ, trash rockers FRANTIC STUFF & Motor City-style madmen THE GIMMIES! Special going away present for Detroit Jack will be a strip tease by the jaw-dropping, tittee-twisting burlesque beauty MIWA-ROCK!

And if you still have blood flowing through your veins after all that, come on out to my home turf CLUB HEAVY SICK for a trash-sick monster-bash with frantic trio THEEE BAT, muddy fuzz from nUEyIN, Max retro RnR band SONIC GANG, leather-clad screeching machine THE FACEFUL & non-stop garage RnB action by the MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN! Oh did I forget to mention THE DOGS will be there too? Do it for THE DOGS baby! Turn on & turn it up all you Motor City Muthfu&#%*$!!!!!!WOOOOOOOOOFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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!