Detailed Event Listings:
Tokyo-JANUARY 2007
Music
My Chemical Romance (1/1) @ Zepp Tokyo
Sure, I may not be okay for listing these now super popular Goth dudes, but they do pack a wallop live as I saw two years ago at Summer Sonic ’04 so be ready with lipstick and eyeliner.
www.mychemicalromance.com
Jia Peng Fang (1/3) @ Tokyo International Forum, Marunouchi
If you loved “The Last Emperor,” this is an event that’ll have his music resonate within you long after, no matter how packed and steamy that train you get on is afterwards. Paradise found within the center of Tokyo.
http://www.jia-pengfang.com/ (japanese)
www.jia-pengfang.com/english/index.html (english)
BASEMENT JAXX (1/11) @ Zepp Tokyo
Far from underground and it didn’t start with them, but this dynamic duo cannot be ignored or missed as they duly whet your appetite, quench it, yet make you incessantly beg for more.
www.smash-jpn.com
LILY ALLEN (1/11)@ Club Quattro, Shibuya & (1/12) @ Liquid Room, Ebisu
Two dates in two different venues in Tokyo shows this lass from Hammersmith who fuses Buena Vista Social Club, Prince, De La Soul, Sugarcubes, Jackie Mittoo fun in her own joyous recipe is one of the ones to see live ASAP!
www.lilyallenmusic.com
STERNE (1/12) with DJ Frank Muller, Takkyu Ishino @ WOMB, Shibuya
A bright night uniting the glorious German-Japanese relationship in techno as good friends and collaborators Muller and Ishino (the mastermind behind his WIRE festivals and half of seminal Denki Groove outfit), shall unfurl entirely too much fun.
www.womb.co.jp
THE ALBUM LEAF (1/13) @ Liquid Room, Ebisu
An evening to chill within this burgeoning metropolis and that you shall in the organic tapestries forged. You’ll be ready to explore afterwards. Guaranteed.
www.smash-jpn.com
“Live Far 8/ Inter-Lock” (1/14) @ Shinjuku Pit Inn
Perhaps one of your resolutions is to explore a genre with which you have no familiarity. If so, this is your chance within the belly of the beast that Shinjuku represents as being the most focal hub of all activity in Tokyo as music from Bali shall echo off the walls.
www.pit-inn.com
EXTREME THE DOJO VOL. 16 (1/16) @ Club Quattro, Shibuya
Anthrax, Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Mastodon have all graced the stage of this most famous ongoing metal showcase, this chapter brings Celtic Frost, Satyricon and others in the name of double devil horns, tongues out and beautifully vicious pits.
www.extremethedojo.com
EVA YERBABUENA (1/17-18) @ Shinjuku Cultural Center
Perhaps the number one flamenco dancer in the world at this moment and still in peak condition, this is your chance to salivate in watching this master in her domain work the magic.
www.conversation.co.jp (japanese)
http://www.conversation.co.jp/company/e/ (english)
CALEXICO/IRON & WINE (1/27) @ Club Quattro, Shibuya
www.toms-cabin.com
An evening of travels and tales that shall be shared all year long beyond with you thinking you were old school cowboy Clint with Leone music behind your ear. Beer, tequila shots, whatever, you’ll do what you must amongst the tumbleweed and more found within Tokyo this night.
www.ironandwine.com
Exhibitions/Films
Mummy: The Inside Story until February 18th
@ The National Science Museum, near Ueno Station/Park exit.
www.kahaku.go.jp (japanese)
http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/ (english)
Gonruku: Master of Lacquer Art and Living National Treasure until February 25th
@ The National Museum of Modern Art, near Kyobashi Station, exit 1
http://www.momat.go.jp/ (japanese)
http://www.momat.go.jp/english/ (english)
Teinosuke Kinugawa: From Female Impersonator to Master Filmmaker until March 31st
@ The National Film Center, near Kyobashi Station, exit 1
http://www.momat.go.jp/english/map_info.html
Hiroshi Senju: Fusuma Murals from Philadelphia’s Shofuso until March 4th
@ The Yamatane Museum, near Hanzomon Station, exit 5
www.yamatane-museum.or.jp/english/index.html
Spherical Dualism of Photography: A World of Eikoh House until January 28th
@Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Ebisu Station/East exit.
www.syabi.com (japanese)
http://www.syabi.com/top/top_eng.html (english)
Wave Front until February 17th
@Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, near Shibuya Station
www.tokyo-ws.org (japanese)
http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/index.html (english)
Marion Settekom: Mindscapes until February 28th
@ TUV Rheinland Forum, near Shin-Yokohama Station, exit 7
www.tuvdotcom.com/forum
Art Deco Jewelry: Charles Jacqueau, Genius Jewelry Designer and the Brilliant Age of Boucheron until January 14th
@ Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, near Meguro Station, West exit
www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp (japanese)
http://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/info/e_index.html (english)
Amnesty International Japan Film Festival (1/27-28)
@ Hamarikyu Asahi Hall, near Tsukuji Station, exit A2
http://www.amnesty.or.jp/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=781 (japanese)
