boredoms in tokyo?

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so a friend and i are gonna be in tokyo jan 15th-feb 3rd....and we wanna see the boredoms in japan if we can.

but for some reason our amazing web search skills have led us into absolutely zero knowledge of if they're even touring or not right now.

― nancy b. (nancy b.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

any leads?

― nancy b. (nancy b.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say your chances are not good.

― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

sadsadsadsad

― nancy b. (nancy b.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought they broke up, fragmented into lots of other projects. Where are all our contributors who live in Japan?

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Debito lives in Japan, but I think that gygax! is actually the resident expert on this.

― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Fat Alberet, you've been going through a lot of name changes lately. Are you okay?

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean am I having an identity crisis?

Somewhat.

― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

They're playing at the UK ATP in March. I know that much.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

we'd love a side project. times ten. just something.

― nancy b. (nancy b.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ooioo might be playing somewhere?

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

we've looked. and looked. and looked. but no signs.

― nancy b. (nancy b.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Boredoms broke up in 1998 after what the band considered to be their most perfect musical performance ever at the Fuji-Rock festival.

The Boredoms S/D thread (circa April/May 2003) has a lot of the rundown on the current band sideprojects.

"The Boredoms" only exists in the minds of the ATP folk and equally opportunistic booking agents in USA/Europe. This band is actually known in Japan as The "VOOredoms" (or a variation of, the band changes their name regularly).

The V??REDOMS played New Years Eve in Yokohama, and later eYe DJ-d a set at shinjyuku liquid room in Tokyo.

However, the majority of the band lives in Kyoto... far to the South of Tokyo on the main island of Japan (Honshu). It's a 2.5 hour ride by bullet train (shinkansen) and is about $200 roundtrip. Or you can take overnight bus which'll run you about $135 roundtrip.

I will take a look sometime tonight and see if anything Boredoms related is happening in metro Tokyo in the next couple weeks.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, the majority of the band lives in Osaka (near Kyoto)... Yamamoto Seiichi has a club named Bears there for live music.

eYe was living in Okinawa for a spell but he apparently is in many places at once.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it does look like maurice fulton/mu/king britt are playing while you're there.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

...at "club loop" 1/17

Air
Parisian post-rock group's Talkie Walkie release tour. La Foret Museum Roppongi, 1/23, 8pm, ¥6,000. Info: Smash 3444-6751

Belle & Sebastian
Scottish chamber pop band's Catastrophe Waitress tour. Shibuya AX, 1/28, 7pm; Shibuya Kokkaido, 1/29, 7pm; ¥6,000. Info: Smash 3444-6751

David Lee Roth
Rescheduled from the fall. Shibuya Kokkaido, 1/30, 7pm. Info: UDO 5402-5999

Sonic Mania
The indoor Summer Sonic. Day one: Brian Setzer, Rancid, The High-Lows, Quarashi, Sham 69, Insolence, Thrice, Ska Ska Club, S.T.U.N., and more. Day two: Korn, Slipknot, Evanescence, Jesus Jones, Pleymo, Loudness, Shakalabbits, Finch, Thrice, Colour of Fire, and more. Makuhari Messe, 1/31 & 2/1, 1pm, ¥9,800 (single day), ¥18,000 (both days) Info: Creativeman 5466-0777

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

king britt

Philadelphia's own. . .
embarrassment.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theboredoms/ for news and rumours, there might be someone on there who knows if there's an official info service too.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)