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In addition to this year’s Shoegaze Festival 2013, High Fader Records has another gift for shoegaze fans in the form of a My Bloody Valentine tribute album titled “Yellow Loveless”. The album is a reconstruction of the band’s quintessential shoegaze album “Loveless” performed entirely by Japanese artists. Among the bands on the CD are Lemon’s Chair (High Fader’s head man Masashi Imanishi’s band), Tokyo Shoegazer, and Japanese indie-rock legends Shonen Knife. The album will be released on January 23rd along with a Lemon’s Chair/Tokyo Shoegazer split-single titled “Japan shoegazer as only one” and will be available at select Tower Records locations throughout Japan.

Yellow Loveless track list

1. Tokyo Shoegazer – only shallow
2. GOATBED – loomer
3. The Sodom Project – touched
4. Lemon’s Chair – to here knows when
5. Shonen Knife – when you sleep.
6. Tokyo Shoegazer – i only said
7. AGE of PUNK – come in alone
8. Boris – sometime
9. Shinobu Narita – blown a wish
10. Lemon’s Chair – what you want
11. SADESPER RECORD – soon

The start of 2013 is an exciting time for shoegaze fans in Japan. Shoegaze icons My Bloody Valentine will spend almost a week in Tokyo and Osaka as a result of the original three dates selling rather quickly. While this is the lead story of shoegaze happenings in the country, High Fader Records has been working hard to prepare shoegazers throughout Japan for the big event with another installment of the Japan Shoegaze Festival.
The Festival will again have dates in Tokyo and Osaka. The first leg of the event will be on Sunday, January 27th at club vijon in Osaka’s Kita-Horie area. The second leg falls on Saturday, December 9th at Tokyo’s Kichijoji Club Seata. As the My Bloody Valentine tour will be going on on the 7th, 8th, and 10th of February in Tokyo, the Festival will make sure that shoegaze fans won’t have to take a day off.

The Osaka show in particular looks to have received a major boost compared to last year, offering a more substantial lineup including this year’s headliners, Tokyo-based “cruyff in the bedroom”. Returning to the Osaka leg of the festival, from Hiroshima, Speaker Gain Teardrop will be supporting cruyff in the bedroom, along with the stars of the show Lemon’s Chair.

The Tokyo leg again boasts a strong lineup, headlined by Tokyo Shoegazer. In addition to some great shoegaze band, there will be an electronica stage headed by Age of Punk and featuring one of my favorite artists Shelling.

This year we will be attending the Osaka show and we couldn’t be more excited. For more information on the event please check out Lemon’s Chair’s site or follow them on twitter and of course follow for updates. Below are the details of each show courtesy of Lemon’s Chair (http://white.ap.teacup.com/lemonschair/)

1/27 Osaka Shoegaze Festival 2013 – club vijon

Open: 12:00 Start: 12:30. Tickets-2300adv/2800door +500.
Timetable
12:30 OPEN
13:00 ～ 13:25 古庭千尋（O.A）
13:40 ～ 14:05 The Somedays
14:20 ～ 14:45 シリカゲル
15:00 ～ 15:25 ウタカタ
15:40 ～ 16:05 ether feels
16:20 ～ 16:45 musubore (Tokyo)
17:00 ～ 17:25 EUPHRATES
17:45 ～ 18:10 Flower Triangle (Hiroshima)
18:25 ～ 18:50 Fragile
19:05 ～ 19:30 Magdala (Tokyo)
19:45 ～ 20:10 Lemon’s Chair
20:25 ～ 20:50 speaker gain teardrop (Hiroshima)
21:05 ～ 21:30 cruyff in the bedroom (Tokyo)

Tokyo Shoegaze Festival 2013 – kichijoji CLUB SEATA

Open: 12:00 Start: 12:30 Tickets- 3000adv/3500door +500
Timetable
13:00 ～ 13:20 My Dead Girlfriend
13:30 ～ 13:50 Meme
14:00 ～ 14:20 sugardrop
14:30 ～ 14:50 花とワルツ。
15:00 ～ 15:20 inner bug
15:30 ～ 15:50 flannel (Nagoya)
16:00 ～ 16:20 dario
16:30 ～ 16:50 shelling
17:00 ～ 17:20 PLASTIC GIRL IN　CLOSET（Iwate）
17:30 ～ 17:50 kanina
18:00 ～ 18:20 speaker gain teardrop (Hiroshima）
18:30 ～ 18:50 Magdala
19:00 ～ 19:20 Shojo Skip
19:30 ～ 19:50 Flower Triangle (Hiroshima)
20:00 ～ 20:20 Lemon’s Chair （Osaka）
20:30 ～ 20:50 AGE of PUNK
21:00 ～ 21:20 cruyff in the bedroom
21:35 ～ 21:55 Tokyo Shoegazer

The annual Tokyo event “My Bloody Valentine Night” is coming up, with 2012 marking the eighth installment. This tribute to the Irish shoegaze pioneers will feature a live act and a number of DJs spinning shoegaze and alternative music with My Bloody Valentine tracks naturally being woven in throughout the night.
The event will take place at Bullet’s in Tokyo’s Nishiazabu district on February 18 and starts at 8:00. It is ￥2000 to enter, but if you bring chocolate or wear pink or red to the show you’ll get ￥500 knocked off the entrance fee.

The list of performers is as follows:

Live Performance by inotsume takeshi.

DJs:
noriko (POiSON GiRL FRiEND)
シューゲイザーディスク ガイドDJs (佐藤一道(monchikon)&黒田隆憲(音庵)
Rodriguez（ELECTRIC-FUZZ!!）
die-o(in the clouds)
kurock
ueda(pop it)
noriko（マイブラ予備校）
miyazaki (Hacienda with love!)
Jun (mighty pop)
hitch (eguri)
DJ エメラルド
Norika
HARRY:淑蘭＊
manabu (ELECTRIC-FUZZ!!)
aoki

For more information follow the event’s twitter account at

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