First Show, Tower Records, Shibuya

Yesterday we walked around Shibuya with Kono from Zankyo Records. We went to the Market in the morning to get some food and do some shopping. Then, we walked to downtown Shibuya where there we so many people we could barley walk. Kono took us to Tower Records, which is the biggest CD store in Japan (this thing is literally 6 floors). We got to see our CD in the shelves, which was surreal, but awesome. We also saw some friends CD's like Caspian, Jatun, Scraps of Tape etc.

After a lot of walking around in the hot streets of Shibuya we went to the venue to organize our merchandise and do a sound check. I think we arrived at about 2 pm and met with our new friend Takeshi. We spent nearly all day at Club Kinoto except for a few times when we went out to get money, food, and mike had to get some new mallets.

5 other bands played with us and they were all very well practiced and most of them were quite good. It is interesting in Japan because there seems to be many more girls/women in bands, so we got to meet many of them last night. We played 5th our of six bands and by the time we took the stage we were all very tired. We played OK, but had some technical and other mess ups. We were glad to play the show before the festival, becuase we needed the practice.

We met a lot of very nice people and a few fans (Akiko!).

We are trying to learn some Japanese, but it is very hard. I am struggling to fins vegetarian food and I have hit my head about 10 times on door ways and ceilings.

We play the Zankyo Festival tonight and then we leave for Kyoto tomorrow.

We are very happy to be here and miss everyone at home.

Hopefully more soon.

xoxo
Brandon & YMDITD