Christmas Day - REALYTHM

Yep, this Saturday 25th of December, the Cover boys will be taking over Chinatown for their annual Realythm event.

I don't antcipate it being very Christmassy, but like most events that Cover are involved in it should be fun.

It costs ￥３０００ to get in but you get 2 drinks with that.

I'm on at the relatively early 11pm but apparently last year it was banging from the very start (10pm) so, if you are looking for something to do this Yuletide that doesn't involve falling asleep infront of the latest Only Fools and Horses Xmas special, you know where to find me.

oh yeah, and, Merry Xmas

今週土曜日はクリスマスディですよね

そしてＲＥＡＬＴＨＹＭでＤＪやります

すごく楽しそうだから皆遊びに来てね

私は１１時からＤＪする

ENJOINT OF FLAT presents

【REALHYTHM】

12月25日（sat）

＠CHINA TOWN

当日 3000yen （W2D）

22:00 START

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Ｗｉｎｄｃｈｅａｔｅｒ

ｍａｓａｎａｒｉ

風心

清

豚

An open letter to whom ever it may concern

Listen mate/matette,

Yesterday I went to see San Frecce. It rained a lot and there's no roof, more on that later, but they won 3-0 so that was alright. Infact I don't think I have ever seen a game there with less than 3 goals. Or a defeat for Hiroshima. Bit different to when I started going to see Brighton. Went 12 times before seeing them win.

Anyway, I'm digressing. You see, every time I go there it just seems so obvious. So crystal clear that I can't believe no-one has mentioned it. We're sitting on a purple mine here in Hiroshima.

The thing is Big Arch is crap. Well it's not, it's a great stadium, for massive events that require running tracks. For football it's rubbish. Running track + Football = meh! I know, I know, if San Frecce didn't use it, who would but think about how brilliant it would be if :

There was a purpose built football stadium more centraly located? If a state of the art, architecturaly stunning stadium were to be built on the site of the old Shimin Kyujou that would be incredible, but as it is, we have that stadium down in Kannon that literally anyone can hire for less than ichi man. Stick one there. San Frecce can, on their day, pull in decent 20,000+ crowds already, if there was a proper stadium down town this would probably be a regular thing. They make a half decent job of getting the atmosphere going at big arch, with a roof, oh a roof, and no running track it could be brilliant. The team would benefit, the punters would enjoy it more, more people would come etc etc

and you wouldn't get rained on

And another thing, why don't you always play on Sundays? A quick look at attendances shows they are much higher than on Saturdays. Do the math-s. As a quick aside, as I look at the J-League results list, Urawa Reds' attendance figures really are pretty amazing.

Anyway, I know I would go more often if my fantasy football stadium were to sprout up and it would certainly help me feel more attached to the club. What better reason could there be for this not to happen.

Whoever you are, make it happen. NOW!

The Weekend

Should be a good one this week what with the holiday on Monday.

I'm at 2 events:

There's a night on Sunday called DMC : Dance Music Connection where, for one price, you get 4 venues. I'm on at EDGE at 1am. Looking forward to that, been a while.... CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Next up is Monday night at Jamaica (flyer pictured). Succhi from Cover's brainchild, me and Paul are on from 10pm-12am. The graveyard shift but you never know do you. It's our first time at Jamaica so looking forward to that. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

New Track - The Girlfriend

Windcheater - The Girlfriend by Windcheater

Download is switched on for now if anyone wants a copy :)

Beautiful Day

It really was. A classic English summer's day. Blue skys, a few puffy white clouds and brilliant sunshine without being too hot.

And I spent the whole day indoors.

I've finally got round to transferring some of my old vinyl onto the laptop, thanks Paul.

It's taking a while but is lots of fun and very なつかしい！

It could go all a bit rave the next time I DJ.

Latest track - Cover Feat. WaynB

Wrapped this up a little while ago, my latest track features the vocal talents of WaynB and is called COVER.

I'm actually working on another version of this as a lot of what we recorded didn't actually make it into the final mix, which I thought was a shame.

Anyway, you can check out the track on my MySpace player or in better quality over on my Soundcloud page. You can download that version too, for now anyway ;)

Am currently visiting friends and family back in the UK, cream tea-tastic, burp. Got two new tracks on the go and am searching for new stuff to play out and about in Hiroshima town. Back on the 20th August and will be DJing at Cover that very night, jetlag permitting ;)

First rave!

Well not quite, but the first time I've Djed at a free open air event.

This Saturday night at some point....check the site for details

Will be alongside, regular Mugen night 'Hug a Speaker' stalwarts, me and Paul representing the 3K corner.

Certainly doesn't look the most stunning beach in the world, but, I'm sure it will be fun.

SLEEPYEYE BAR 2

11:00 open
11:30 paul
12:00 diet
12:30 shimomura
1:00 windcheater
1:30 skm
2:00 its
2:30 susu
3:00 daiji
3:30 kohki
4:00 close

last time's photos....
HERE

and HERE

and HERE

Shiny New Site

If you hop on over to the WC Homepage, you'll see it's had a face lift. All courtesy of my friend Saru110.

After checking out my site do have a look at his and check out some of his superb designs. They really are very good.

Unless you've got an iPhone that is. Perhaps they'll bring out an app that'll allow it one day....

Please Give (Trailer)

annnnnnnd, here's the trailer for the movie

GOGO CARAT and Hug A Speaker : Photos and Video

Last week's club circuit event was a lorra lorra fun. Unfortunately for me I peaked a bit too early and went home at the embarrasingly early 5.30ish. For shame.

Anyway, you can check out some photos of the various events RIGHT HERE.

Last Sunday was also the monthly Hug A Speaker at Mugen, but with a twist this month as it was broadcasted over the net on UStream as part of Cracktown FM's schedule.

You can still watch/listen to the whole thing RIGHT HERE. I start at around 1hour 26minuntes if you are interested.

GOGO CARAT Timetable

This Saturdays GOGO CARAT multi-club event's timetable is up. Visit the website here or have a look at the picture, right there <<<

Should be a great night. Loads of stuff going on, and if something doesn't inspire you....move on elsewhere.

3K are on at 11PM until 12.30am on Mugen's 3rd floor.

On a sidenote, I was pleased and completely unsurprised to see my favourite bar COVER has the latest running schedule with the final DJ's time put as 7.00 - .....

You could probably pop in for some Sunday lunch.

3K@ GOGO CARAT 2010 3.20

Myself and Paul have been lucky enough to be invited to DJ at Mugen at this year's GOGO CARAT event in Hiroshima. You can read all about it in English on GetHiroshima.

We're on the same bill as Rob Smith (RSD, Smith and Mighty, More Rockers), Juzu AKA Moochy and 1945 AKA Kuranaka, on the 3rd floor at Mugen.

I couldn't go to this last year so am really looking forward to it. Check out the flickr images from last year : PART 1 PART 2

I'll let you know more details as soon as I know any more.

Read about it in 日本語　here.

Please Give has a release date now

Please Give, the movie which will feature my track Apathetic seems to have finally got a release date of April 23rd and is, according to this article, number 85 in the top 100 (yes, 100) anticipated movies of 2010 :snigger:

Anyway, nice to see it isn't just a figment of my imagination, and, now there are some pics up on it's imdb page I was pleased to see I do actually know some of the actors who are in it.

The track Apapthetic is available from all good record stores.

As long as those records stores are named Beatpick or Dangerous Drums Records @ Beatport or Juno download .

Happy New Year!

It's always a let down isn't it?

My first New Year's Eve in town in Japan and I had a ball.

Really didn't know how it was going to pan out but Edge was great, popped into the Shack, back to Edge and then over to my second home, Cover.

It didn't disappoint :)

Hope everyone has a fantastic 2010. I'm cautiously optimistic...

Anyway, here's that mix I hinted at in the previous post. You can download it or stream it, the decision is yours.

Enjoy, and 明けましておめでとうございます！！

WINDCHEATER 2010 MIX