the adventures of teapot the cat

i saw the pillows!

Posted on July 2nd, 2006

A few days ago I was lucky enough to check out The Pillows live in the USA! They are the Japanese band that did all the music to one of my fave Anime series - FLCL (Furi Kuri). The venue was packed and I was ready for a good show. LemonDropKick was playing when we finally got into the club - they’re a Anime/J-Rock inspired LA-band that turned out to be pretty decent. We had actually seen the lead singer do Karaoke at Fanime Con. Small community I guess.

Next up was SecretSecret - which turned out to be a secretsecret weapon of uber-cheesey goth music. Imagine a cheesey Marilyn Manson wannabe crooning lame-o lyrics like “Come to meeeeee, this is a my sanc-tu-aaaaary” and throwing flowers into the crowd every few minutes. Suffice to say we were glad when they were done (Though to be fair, the beats and melodies were pretty phat).

Onto the headliners - The Pillows!!! And boy o boy did they kick ass. They played tons of their hits from FLCL as well as some tracks from their new album My Foot. High energy performance, no holds barred, awesome to see them live. If you want to check out their tunes, I’d recommend checking out the FLCL Soundtrack (OST) on Amazon (iTunes suxorz).

Entry Filed under: Japan, Music