Rockabilly Debrief

Last weekend we debuted Shamdoogie in Japan. We put together a great bunch of musicians from all over the world including our close friend Eric on drums, Sasaki san on bass, a rockin sax player who goes by the name of Britain Barber and of course myself and the one and only Woman of Boogie herself, Kimba. The club we played is this massive night club called Sam and Dave's. It's probably the largest and most raucous and arguably most inappropriate venue for swing music in Osaka. Nevertheless we rocked and the crowd shook and shimmied and dug our down home brand of boogie-woogie rock n roll.

By the time we finsihed our first set the place was jam packed with over 800 sweaty clubbers primed for the throb of pox house and the lube of over-priced cocktails. And so swing was usurped by the DJ and we were told that we weren't going to do our second set. The troops in the band we really down - we had rehearsed really hard for this one and over that mean we had forked out a fair amount of dosh for studio time. In the end, we escaped and all piled into this Irish guy's supervan and came back to the Grimba ranch and drank and laughed and kept digging the plonk and thwack of western swing while the Irish guy's dogs grinned and soiled our floor.

All in all, not a bad end to a night.

Stay tuned for some pics...

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