Face Of Cheam

Shonen Knife are a Japenese girl pop punk band that have been around for over twenty years. At £8.25 we thought they were worth a gamble after all what's not to like? Well maybe the support, Baguette Bardot aka as Toast Girl, a very pretty performance artist who uses bread as her arms! Very strange. We did see her later holding a glass of wine in her very normal petite hands meaning she may have ate the bread!
The venue was a bowling alley underneath the Tavistock Hotel which fitted in with the bizarreness of the evening. We decided to miss the next act called Sputniko, having a game of table football, and then made use of the outside area given the very hot weather.
Shonen Knife came on gone eleven and played for just over an hour. Their music was fantastic with all catchy tunes, though can only recall a few titles, 'Pyramid Power' being one. There was also a tune with the words 'one day at a time' that I was still humming as we left the venue. Definately worth checking out next time they are over here and I will be searching for cheap Cds of theirs when I get the chance. Given they are big in their homeland, I can see why Shampoo (my favourite live act ever!) made it huge over there. Just a shame I didn't come away from the gig with a new japenese girlfriend.