A few phone clips of the 2019 edition of Japan-A-Go-Go good times with Frank Chickens & friends bringing a joyful night of live music, rare performance & sake sipping in the atmospheric surroundings of the legendary Bethnal Green Working Mens Club.

Featuring:

20 strong London meets Japan legends FRANK CHICKENS with songs of Spacemen, Ninja's and Blue Canaries! Featuring costume changes, dance routines & film a famously joyful time is guaranteed!
THEY ARE NINJA- NO GEISHA!
www.kazukohohki.com

Improvised soundscapes & BUTOH DANCE from
MAI NGUYEN TRI & FEAR OF FLUFFING.
Franco Vietnamese dance artist Mai brings Euro-Asian Zen/Punk Butoh Dance.
For the last 20 years she has drawn inspiration from the waters, back and fro between Brittany coasts, salt marshes and the river, pools and canals of the East End of London.
While Hackney Wick vibe masters Fear Of Fluffing bring the focused improvised soundscapes to transport us into the realms of possibility & probability!

The Enka Angel herself AKARI MOCHIZUKI.
Enka is uniquely Japanese becoming popular from the 1940's onwards. Lyrics of the songs, like blues songs in the west, often deal with sadness, lost love, death.
www.akarisinger.com

BEIBEI PERCUSSION GROUP
Get absorbed in the beats of the East as classical virtuoso percussionist Beibei Wang brings her two new Chinese drum compositions dramatically entitled:
"WRITHING DRAGON & LEAPING TIGER!"
"BULL FIGHTS TIGER"
www.beibeimusic.com

From ancient Edo into the modern moment come the
HIBIKI ICHIKAWA SHAMISEN ENSEMBLE with a rare performance of traditional Japanese music in the UK.
Hibiki plays the Tsugaru Shamisen, a traditional 3-stringed Japanese instrument rarely heard in Europe.
For Ura 2019 he debuts his new Ensemble group.
www.hibikishamisen.com

New short film "DOUGHNUT" by the Japanese animator HINA FUJIMOTO

Hosted by the double hander of PATRICIA PAOLINI and THE JAPANNY- GRANNY!

Soundtracking the evening, around the live performances, we have D.J. GAIKOKUCHAN-MAN with a vintage vinyl only selection of Showa Era Japanese Pop 7's, Random Kaiju Movie Soundtracks and Matsuri Minyo hunted out in the fleamarkets of Tokyo town.
Perfect listening for an evenings sake sipping! Kanpai!

With vintage Japanese film projections & sake on sale plus more!

All set in the super atmospheric surroundings of the fantastic 60's time capsule we all know & love The Bethnal Green Working Mens Club.

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