"You will have your disillusionment handed to you on a gold platter made of brass.
You will be standing first when of course you should have been standing last.
You will crumble into the ocean like a beautiful ruin.
But you will have at last, from your vaulted past absolution."

The full moon exerted a mean force at Yellow Thursday night, riling up its deep dancehall into a tidal pool of dubmania. As the matchless Lee "Scratch" Perry took to the stage with the Mad Professor, bodies uncontrollably swept fully across the room...

If you know one thing about Shibusa Sirazu, you know they are the Show. The guaranteed 100% truly original Japanese musical experience. So in that moment before anyone comes on stage you ask yourself...

Eastern Youth threw down a mean show of deconstructed emo and punk attitude for the masses. Taking punk/emo to its Japanese conclusion, this power trio twisted typical song structures, turning them inside out for the angry young men.

British Sea Power (BSP) saved what would have been a pretty conventional set with an all out final ten minutes of madness and mayhem.

If there's gospel here, it's deep in the heart of blues rock and roll. A harmonious squealing intro is abruptly grounded by a stomping staccato rhythm and the shuffling story begins...