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Many BT’er know that I love comedy and have a pretty thick skin but I just received an email/rant asking me why I took umbrage to the Tunnels and DJ Ozuma’s Yajima Beauty Salon CM campaign and follow-up PR stunt. You can read my previous posts on the subject but the bottom [...]
Tunnels and DJ Ozuma are back for more shadiness but I guess one way to revive a career is to do something out of the box or attempt to push the buttons of others. Click here for the original story on Yajima Beauty Salon. It may help to familiarize yourself with this CM before reading the post [...]
This in from Hairfish:
Everyone goes nuts over Roppongi, and I admit, its interesting but Shibuya is where it’s at, mainly because it’s where the locals hang out. It’s far more affordable to spend a night in Shibuya and even go to a pub or a club without spending over 5,000 YEN (that’s about 50 USD). [...]
I will start posting on the various Soul & Funk bars in Japan. Here is an event hosted by one J-brotha that put soul and disco on the map in Japan, Kawabata Oya-G!
EVENT: KAWABATA OYA-G Presents 70’s SOUL & JAZZ FUNK!!
DATE: 2008.09.24(?) 22:00-MIDNIGHT
GUEST DJ: KAWABATA (formerly of MIRACLE)
PLACE:? Velours @ Tokyo-to, Minato-ku Minami Aoyama 6-4-6 #b1 Almost [...]
Event Details:
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Doors open: 18:30
1st set 19:30 (acoustic 70s-80s rock covers)
2nd set 20:30 (full band - all originals)
Cover charge: 1,000 Yen
Location:
Restaurant Bar WISTERIA (same building as CLUB PURE)
Diamond Building, 4th Floor; Shinsaibashisuji 2-3-12, Chuo-ku; OSAKA
Phone: 06-6213-8870
Closest Station: Namba
CDs & other merchandise will be sold/given away(!) that night.
Click here to check out Davina’s website!
Konnichi wa! Well, it seems like Jero fever has hit the US press. A nice piece on what the boy wonder is doing in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Here is the link.
