Kyojinyueni Dekai are hard to describe. Well, no, they're easy to describe. They are a drummer, who I can't see thanks to the near capacity crowd and the UFO Club's spectacularly low stage, and a vocalist/guitarist who has restrung his guitar with bass strings and then taped his effects pedal to it. He seems to have done the latter because he is performing his set on stilts. Umm... they sound like the Liars. A bit. Oh, and they're from Osaka, which means that everything they do is hilariously funny to Tokyo people. Weird and good.

Watusi Zombie are an unbelievable explosion of rock and roll excess. While more musically focused and more immediately listenable than a group like DMBQ, they share the same philosophy that the stage is only really there as a general guideline for the band and that the band members should by no means feel constrained by its presence. Half way through the set the drum kit is dismantled and set up in the middle of the room, and then another kit is added opposite. Two drummers pound the hell out of the kits until their drumsticks disintegrate. The guitars are everywhere. On the floor, on the bar, on top of the speakers, where else have you got?

Nisennenmondai have an act to follow here, but then they're not the kind of band that follows anyone. They just beam in from another planet, do their thing and then vanish. The curtain opens to three girls, all wearing scary masks, arranged facing each other in a circle. The drums are wild and menacing, the bass player is just hammering out the same note again and again, and there's this anguished screaming noise coming from somewhere. None of the band have microphones, so it's a little while before it becomes clear that it's the fucking guitar making that noise. Wow. There's not much to say here except that this is really quite awesome stuff. -Ian Martin, Sep.12.04.