Category: Music

Music

Perfume&Capsule

Perfume is so cute… Well, when they first became popular a few years ago, I just thought “Ahhhh again…just another typical Japanese girls group…” but finding them again recently, I was rather surprised how cute they are! Search their video on the internet! Their dance is cute too, I think they’re much better than AKB48…? My favourite is “Take me Take me”, “Game”, “Edge” etc. The first bit of “Fake it” is too cool. By the way, this combination of SciFi-ish “digital music” and cute girls wearing cute clothes looks so Japanese anime/comic culture…haha. Anyway, I will leave talking about […]

Life in London, Music

coldplay, coldplay, coldplay…

I went to see coldplay! It was amazing. It’s still playing repeatedly in my head. Actually I was so excited already just because the place was Wembley. When I got to the station, I wished it was a football match… but no, that thought was wrong, coldplay was wonderful. I have seen coldplay twice in Japan… but this time was the best! Of course they are in their own country, their home city, and maybe because it was the last day of the tour, they looked really full of life. The live consists of both tracks from “Viva la Vida” […]

Life in London, Music

Magistrates at Koko

My friends told me about “Magistrates” and I went to see their gig at koko yesterday. It was really good! I loved it. I don’t know why, but their tune sounds a bit like Asian traditional music. But still soulful. The vocal’s voice was so good. You can listen to their music here. http://www.myspace.com/magistratesband

Art&Exhibitions, Music, Travel

Portugal Day3 / Aaron Koblin

Portugal day3 = Offf day 2. The first talk I saw on that day was by Aaron Koblin. I had seen his works sometimes, but didn’t know his name, so it was so surprising I could hear his talk in Portugal. He visualise the information using the Processing, and also does experimental projects related to “Wisdom of Crowds”. The promotion for Radiohead is also popular. The talk was maintly about these issues. 1. Visualising information. There are many kinds of “visualisation”, but he uses things like the record of searching query, or flghts records and I find interesting that make […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London, Music, Theatre

Kodo at Southbank centre, London

I went to see a performance by “Kodo” (A group of Japanese traditional drum players). To be honest, I hadn’t seen any proper Japanese drum performance before, and I just went there because it was 50% off for students! But it was amazing. Just amazing. I thought it would be good when I saw the promotion video on their website, but you can never experience the sounds of “big drum” unless you go to see them. It echoes inside your body, rather than on the surface. It was like thunder. Another thing I liked about them was that they were […]

Music

Writing a report and Oasis

I can’t concentrate on reports…and I’m writing my blog, hehe. Now I’m listening to Oasis’s “Dig Out Your Soul”. It’s their most recent album released in last October. I love this album. Originally I like Oasis and Wonderwall always makes me cry. I remember I used to carry a lot of MD(!) of Oasis whenever I go. But their music sounded less interesting from “Heathen Chemistry” and when I listened to “Don’t believe the truth” I felt a bit sad because it was not exciting like before. So this time, I didn’t expect at all to be honest. I tried […]