I thought this song was disgusting, so I edited it.

C is for

Photos since last time

Cute hamster

Inspired by the numerous cat cafes around Tokyo, here is my newly adopted pet.  He is much better behaved than the real hamster I had when I was a kid...  it was vicious!

Me on TV!

This is me being interviewed for the Boicotts blog.  I was an hour late after getting lost, but I still had a great time and ate an Octopus ball (takoyaki) for the first time.

We are playing together at Shibuya Home, １月28日 - it might be the last time I play Applicants songs with my iPod and guitar.
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Next Live - Shibuya Home

28 January 2012
FACEBOOK EVENT

Kamakura

I went to Kamakura with my friend Momoko.  It's still new year here, and I went to have my fortune told.  I was told that I have everything inside me, but it will be up to me if I can get it together.  I remember feeling a little grumpy because it sort of rang true, plus it sounded like too much hard work!  Also this year I should watch my language, and not move out.  

After the reading you should tie up the paper and leave it.  Looking at all the pieces of paper, I couldn't help but think about the smallness of everybody's hopes and dreams, and the hugeness of the blue sky surrounding them.  Our lives are merely strips of paper blowing in the wind.

Facebook Photo Album of Kamakura and Enoshima

Facebook Event - NEXT GIG KOENJI, 2012/1/6

I'm playing at One, Koenji, １月　６日　年２０１２．
IT'S FREE ENTRY!
NO COVER CHARGE!

NEW!
Facebook event page:
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Christmas Pictures

 

   

  

  

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6th January 2012

I'm playing at One, Koenji, １月　６日　年２０１２．
Please come!  It will be my last day of training before I have to start teaching in the Junior High Schools!

NEW!
Facebook event page:
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IT'S FREE!!!

Flyers and Gigs

This was my first ever show in Japan.  When I got my plane in September, I had no idea how long I would stay, and I had sort of got a bit tired of playing gigs in London.  So much so, I didn't even think to take my guitar.  However, when I met Ayako and Yoko in Mikorin - I picked up the bar's guitar and played for 3 hours.  Being somewhat inebriated, I'm not sure what the bar thought about it...  but I realised I missed playing.  About a week later, a friend I had met in London asked if I would play this night.  Sometimes things can seem to happen very quickly in Japan.  I bought the cheapest guitar I could, borrowed a overdrive pedal from Manabu from The Boicotts, and got as many backing tracks as I could on my iPod.  

I was surprised by how nervous I was before I played.  I wasn't sure how I would feel, how I was going to communicate, if anybody would come at all...  I decided that I had to just try and sing my heart out and hope for the best.  

I've only played twice so far, and I'm not sure what is going to happen in the future.

PS. That isn't me on the poster, it's Billy Cochraine, I think?