The Okay Idea live at the Ruby Room..

Friday night's Ruby show kicked off with The Okay Idea powering through their set of electro rock/pop gems. It was the debut performance for our buddy Russell and the set also included some new material, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing these guys some more as the Summer goes on..

The Shirts live at Gamuso: Revolutionary

The Shirts are back in the studio working up new songs and trying to work out if we sound better sober. This live version of Scott's anarchist anthem "Revolutionary" is from our show with Come to my Party and Dan Jury a couple of months back at Gamuso in Asagaya, another beer soaked Valentine Records event..

Osaka video

Here's the video squadcar made for our song 'Osaka', which was on our self-titled 4th album. We did it with a few of the guys from the Tokyo College of Visual Arts, in a railway carriage at some zoo in Yokohama. It was filmed VERY early in the morning, the day after a good friend's birthday party. It was basically a comedy of errors in that our drummer didn't show up, I lost my wallet, we hadn't brought our instruments (as we had supposedly been instructed to), we were given little or no direction, and.. let's just say we hadn't had much sleep.

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Valentine

Valentine Records is a collective of bands that do events and release albums in Tokyo, but the name came from a mini-album that squadcar did way back in 2004. Deguchi-san from the Garage took a blurry picture that I had taken when my good mate Rich bumped me on the ferry to Miyajima, and turned it into a great cover! He also added the little squiggly pic that became part of our logo for a bit!

The Black Shakes @ VRP 3

The mighty Black ShakesLive at Heaven's Door Sangenjaya, March 22 2008.

Come to my Party @ VRP 3

Come to my Party live at Heaven's Door Sangenjaya, March 22 2008.

The Shirts @ VRP 3

The Shirts live at Heaven's Door, March 22 2008.

Captain Zipper @ VRP 3

Live at Heaven's Door Sangenjaya, March 22 2008..

Valentine Records Presents vol. 3

Valentine Records Presents vol. 3 rocked Heavens Door in Sangenjaya on Saturday night. Captain Zipper, The Shirts, Come to my Party and The Black Shakes all did their thing. Photos in this and the Posts that follow by me and Basak..