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Japanese gigs were made possible by: cumulative baggage allowance; non-existant Japanese and charmingly broken English; taxi leaflets; strange trees; a huge dead bug; astounding guitar shops; the koyaanisqatsi crossing outside Shibuya station; octopus balls; schoolgirls but no schoolboys; some of the best food we've ever eaten served during drinks at a place that wasn't even really a restaurant; lemon sours; eating raw chicken; "meet the hebdens"; "he's obviously the lead"; grapefruit and plum sours; sore knees; beer that's tea, or the other way around; cold green tea; RAIN STARTS IN TOKYO; cold black coffee; ringing bells & honking horns; q:"what do people get from seeing you play?", a:"sick"; being the only people in Tokyo without umbrellas; Japanese imperialists; deep venue and deeper backstage; dried squid nibbles; the Envy tv channel; time eating itself and hearts exploding; breaking three amps during the first show; polite audiences; "I don't think Japan understands Part Chimp"; coffee and soup interviews; a sextuplet of espressos; Ringo's-head rides; "fucking celtic"; 5 apples; salaryman bars with gutsy menus; dried octopus nibbles; mystery cheese stuffed with fish; the japanese top 40 being basically the same as the UK top 40; MORE RAIN; sunken tables & free beers; RAIN STOPS; cream buns; bullet train cha cha cha; hotel, venue (on the 8th floor), & shopping malls in three joined tower blocks; 3 English books in a bookstore; a pushy, drunken, irishman; FFaF; train station stalker; the backstreets of Osaka; Time Bomb Records; 6th floor venue; the tour end meal; the 'Gwai & Crew; and Plug, Osamu, Naoko, & Satoru.

To take a look at some of the things from above, there's a whole bunch of pics just gone up here.

np. Gilgamesh - Play Time