The first ever Big In Japan! event, as captured by Dan Boud [read more]
The first in a series of Kirin Big In Japan events is set to take place a week from today at CarriageWorks. Arriving direct from Tokyo early next week, special guests KATHY, Daito Manabe, Mademoiselle Yulia and the Trippple Nippples will be performing live alongside the local experimental sound outfit Ben Baretto & Jeff Burch, with print, sculpture and video works also on show throughout the night [read more]
Posted by a 6:04 PM, November 24th, 2009 3 comments
It seemed like a pretty standard uptight fashion week party at TRUMP ROOM last night, until the Trippple Nippples exploded onto the dance floor with screams, water pistols, glitter bombs, fake blood and feathers, whipping everyone up into a messy mania before disappearing as quickly as they appeared. You better brace yourselves for these guys before they perform at our event in December! [read more]
Posted by a 4:57 AM, October 23rd, 2009 Comments Off
You might be one of the 1.4 million who have already watched this unnerving/mesmerising Youtube clip, originally posted as an experiment to show a friend but subsequently spawning a series of copycats and launching Daito Manabe to an unexpected level of celebrity. But Daito is not just a geeky guy Youtubecasting himself from his bedroom doing fucked up things with gadgets on his face. Since graduating as a mathematician he has been active as a researcher, programmer, coder, hacker, sound / light designer, composer, DJ, VJ, video artist, and this list goes on [read more]
Posted by a 7:41 PM, October 12th, 2009 2 comments
Kathy’s eerie and ritualistic performances are like nothing else; think moulin rouge meets meets victorian morality meets lucifer rising. And they are one of our first confirmed guests for the huge Kirin Big In Japan event that is taking place this December at CarriageWorks [read more]
Posted by a 12:00 AM, September 29th, 2009 4 comments
Meet the Trippple Nippples, your new best friends / favourite Tokyo fem performance outfit. They will bring to the relationship their unhinged DIY aesthetic, an inimitably intense live energy and a song about teaching your nipples to speak. ‘Express’ yourself! [read more]
Posted by a 12:00 AM, September 1st, 2009 5 comments