Trains going by..

Shinjuku station on Saturday night, there's a long train a comin..









And the rock version..

The Shirts get a drummer!

After 18 months of playing as a three piece, using sequenced tracks and/or "borrowing" drummers for live shows, The Shirts are stoked about the new guy: Rob. Rob and I played way back before squadcar in a band called Bender, had quite a large repertoire of original rock and cover songs, and did regular shows at live houses around the place. We even did a demo at M7 in Koiwa which I finally heard last week after around 6 or 7 years. Saturday saw us rehearse for the third time with Rob at Ongakukan-bis in Shibuya, and as we quietly drained the Chivas bottle supplied by the fifth shirt Andy, Kazue was kind enough to take a few pictures, of the rock!

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..

The Shirts @ VRP6: Revolutionary

Valentine Records Presents vol. 6 rocked as hard as ever. Some awesome solo stuff from Dan, swirly electro-pop beats from Come to my Party, and The Shirts alter ego "Kokkryng" also put in a fine, albeit alcohol fuelled performance. Please enjoy the epic rock that is Revolutionary..

Kokkryng's highly anticipated debut album cover design by Scott Shirt.

The Come to my Shirts Party, Dan Jury!

The award for the stupidest event name goes to.. Valentine Records Presents vol. 6! This Friday, The Shirts, Come to my Party, and Dan Jury will be coming together to rock at Gamuso in Asagaya. Sure to be a great show, cos they all are..

Video CM by Emily of CTMP..

Tasuichi

Tasuichi is a standing bar at the end of centregai in Shibuya, it's famous for its 300 yen beer and vibrant atmosphere. Most weekends it fills up with all sorts of people, often starting a big night. It's also the place where my infamous 'Kurt vs the Tongan' video was filmed, which last night I was actually asked to delete by the big guy himself. I will sadly delete the vid as per his request, but I will give it a send off here and hopefully a few more people will get a laugh out of it before I do..

Monitor @ VRP 4

Valentine Records Presents vol. 4 last night was awesome. We managed to stream the show live for the first time and were really happy to see some friends and family from far off places tuning in for the event. There's lots of pics and video of all of the bands to come, but for the moment, here's some Monitor for ya...

Valentine Records presents vol. 4

Valentine records are hosting another electro/rock extravaganza this evening at The Garage in Shimokitazawa. On the bill are: Super Samir (featuring Rodriguez), The Black Shakes, Monitor, and Come to my Party.

The Monitor set will see Dan and I reunite for the first real show in 2 years, with good buddies Kurt Shirt fingerbangin bass and Richard from the Black Shakes thumpin skins..

The Shirts @ VRP 3

The Shirts live at Heaven's Door, 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..

The Shirts Duo

Me and Kurt ventured out to Cosmos cafe last week to play some tunes..

The Shirts Haircut Live video..

For some reason this video has gotten heaps of hits..

The Shirts new pic!

Deguchi-san used to say that if we put gold on our album cover it would be good luck, he woulda loved this shot...

We are the Shirts!

rerepost of the shirts movie.. enjoy!

The Shirts debut live..

The Shirts, live at Heavens Door, Sangenjaya Tokyo, November 3 2007. This was the first song 'Trains going by'. See other Shirts videos here.

いきものがかり and Tak!

Ikimono Gakari is a bit of a shooting star here at the moment, she's on a massive nation wide tour and has a lucrative tie in with AU for her new single. I probably wouldn't know her from a bar of soap but for the fact that my buddy (and sometime Shirts drummer) Tak is drumming for her on her tour. Tak had a break between TV show tapings yesterday and came over and programmed some drums for the upcoming Shirts shows, and at some stage showed me this youtube vid that they had taped for some music TV show last Monday.

qualia: debut live video

Qualia performed their first show last Sunday evening at Shimokitazawa Garage. Also featured: Dan, Super Samir, Deguchi-san, The Shirts, Richard (the French) and the crazy toy piano guy..

Shooting shiny shoes..

There was a shoe store opening party in Harajuku on Friday night. Paparazzi everywhere!



It was the SHIRTS.. >_<

The Shirts 2

First unofficial group photo of The Shirts..

The Shirts

A combination post, police/shirts stylee! What I didn't get was the Nigerian guy they were arresting. Good times..