Weekend Never Dies extra issue
CONTENTS Roque
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from Cloudberry Records
LifromsVeryle MiTrultyniYours,k Fireflies, Tiny Fireflies Caucus Smilelove Weekend Never Dies: Sayuri Arai, Minami Goto, cover art: micki
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1. Many bands who have released from your label played at NYC Popfest 2011. What did you think about this year s NYC Popfest? -Yeah, that's really cool isn't it? Must be that NYC Popfest people have good taste when booking bands! :) Jokes aside, I think NYC Popfest was great. The lineup was really good, with strong headliners and treats from overseas. Compared to other years this one had the best dance parties for sure. I haven't danced as much in previous years. So that's deï¬nitely a plus. Also having the acoustic sets during the evening shows was a smart idea. My only complains would be about some bands canceling at last minute or some disorganized band where only one member showed up, but that is nothing to blame to NYC Popfest organizers. They did a FANTASTIC job, and I'll deï¬nitely be there again next year. 2. Any favorite act? -I was very much impressed by Caucus live set, such a strong performance! From the bands I have never seen before I liked Go Sailor, Persian Rugs, Tiny Fireï¬ies, The Motifs and Days. And I always enjoy seeing Gold-Bears, Felt Tips and The Sunny Street, even though I've seen them a couple of times already!! 3. What was the most impressive thing at NYC Popfest 2011? -The most impressive thing? The 8 dollar beer at Santo's Party House? That was crazy expensive for a beer! Also the amount of international fans! It was really cool to see so many Japanese fans this year! There were French people, Spanish, Scottish, English, Canadian, Swedish, even from Singapore! That happens often in European Popfests, but not here in America. So that really impressed me. 4. Could you tell us the story about how you started the label? -Must have been January 2007 when I came across a little 3"CD for the ï¬rst time. It was from a Spanish band called Bicicross. Immediately I got the idea that this format would be fantastic for single releases. After some weeks ï¬guring out the packaging, I got in touch with my friend Andreas from the band Celestial and asked him if he wanted to be part of this new idea/project I had. And he said yes! And that was it, Cloudberry was born. 5. Releases of Cloudberry records are consistent in a way. How do you ï¬nd and choose a band to release? Do you have any kind of criterion for selecting bands? -To be honest my only criteria is liking the band and that it ï¬ts in the style of music I release. That's where the consistency comes from. Also for me bands are also friends, and not just some sort of business colleagues. So it's very important the relationship we have. I don't like working with complicated or demanding people. Oh! and a plus will always be if they are indiepop fans. Of course. 6. Do you have any ideal label or labels that you can emphasize with? -I'd say Fabulous Friend Records from Sweden, Heaven Records from UK and YAY! Records from the US. The reasons go from their aesthetics, their taste, and most importantly the passion behind them.
7. Did you have any hardships in running the label? -Sure, but nothing that hurts. Haters are going to hate, you know. People will always have something to criticise. Though there was one time that I didn't get to release a single because the band and me didn't agree about the artwork. As of now, this band is one of the biggest bands in indie, not just indiepop, but indie in general!! 8. When and how did you ï¬rst get into indiepop music? Did you have any friend who you could talk with about your favorite music when you were a student? -Interesting that you ask about it. After a year I moved to the US, when I was 18, I met my friend José. We both attended the same college. He was much more into music than me then I'd say, and my competitiveness kind of sparked a ï¬ame in me, so tried to know more about music. We had a very similar in music taste, even though he loved some tropical music. We started a band and stuï¬ too, but that's another story. During that time we started working too for the ï¬rst time in our lives, and had money at last! We started ordering records from Spanish labels as that was the music we knew. Elefant, Subterfuge, Siesta. That stuï¬. I think it was the connection of Alaska y Dinarama with Elefant and Subterfuge that made us discoverindiepop. Alaska is huge in the Spanish speaking world. So from there, ordering Berlanga CDs, or Pegamoides reissues on Subterfuge, made us discover a whole world of indiepop thru the catalog of these labels. Eventually I found out about Twee.net, the indiepop-list, and the Twee Folks group on Soulseek. The rest is history. Sadly my friend had to move back to Peru many years ago. He was once part of a label called Plastilina. We talk often about music but not as much as before of course. Now he has a really cool indiepop band called "Eva y John" that I look forward to their ï¬rst release! 9. What bands did you listen to when you were younger? -Before listening to indiepop? As you know I grew up in Peru and the inï¬uence of Spanish pop was big during the late 80s, early 90s. I tell you that my ï¬rst concert was by a Spanish band called Christinay los Subterráneos. Really nice band. One of my favourite Peruvian bands when growing up was called Mar de Copas, they had some great jangly tunes. During those years I loved Duncan Dhu, Hombres G, ElâUltimo de la Fila, Aerolineas Federales. Later I got into lots of 80s italo disco. But that it's kind of cheesy isn't it? But I love it still. 10. You also make a fanzine which looks so beautiful in terms of single color printing, a font of typewriting manner and authentic layout. When did you start making a fanzine? -Thanks Sayuri. I started my ï¬rst fanzine back in October 2007 and released it in December that year. I was still in university then, I was a graphic design student, and saw the opportunity to do something Cloudberry-related as a project in one of my classes. Something that I could use both for school and the label.
Then I got in touch with some bands I had released, I put together the 5-track CD compilation that came with it, designed it, print it, got some plastic sleeves for them, took orders and started posting them. So that's how the ï¬rst fanzine started. I got an A if you were wondering. :) 11. Do you think your fanzine plays a role of complementing or promoting the releases of the label? -Deï¬nitely, but more like complimenting. I say that because I usually do one-oï¬s by bands, just one single and that's it. So on the fanzine I believe we can further explore the bands, with an interview, and perhaps including a song on the 3"CD that comes with it. It would be fantastic if it was more of a promotion tool, but I ï¬nd that many of the people that order the fanzine don't really order the records or vice versa. It's like a totally diï¬erent crowd. It's very strange but interesting at the same time. 12. Do you have any favorite fanzines? -Deï¬nitely yours and the Twee Grrls fanzine. So far this year they are the best I've read. From the past I've loved This Almighty Pop! and Woosh fanzines. 13. I was also impressed with a large amount of information of your blog. How do you separate things to put on a fanzine or on a blog? Do you think it s important to manage both a fanzine and a blog? -Well on my fanzine I exclusively feature bands associated to Cloudberry whereas on the blog my I don't give myself any restrictions, I just write about anything that comes up to mind. And that's usually some obscure 80s band and sometimes about some personal experience concerning indiepop. So it's quite diï¬erent what you read on the fanzine and on the blog. And I don't plan publishing online any of the stuï¬ that appeared fanzine, I want it to be special for those who bought it. If it is important to manage both a fanzine and a blog? I would say yes, at least personally it is. It's really great to have a space to speak up and later ï¬nd people that are interested in the same things as me. That exchange of information between readers, bands and me, is just fantastic. That's why I think it's worth to do both, or even one! 14. Could you give your recent favorite bands? -New up and coming bands? I really enjoy Evans the Death, Seapony, Tiny Fireï¬ies, Cassolette and Pastel Blue. 15. Could you give us 5 best albums in your life? -1.McCarthy - The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth 2.Wedding Present - George Best 3.Heavenly Heavenly vs. Satan 4.Blueboy - Unisex 5.TCR- Paro, Siesta, DÃas de Fiesta 16. Any future plans? -Sure thing, more releases! Very soon I'll release my 6th fanzine and I have many 7"s lined up. After Very Truly Yours 7" I should be releasing Youngfuck and Nixon 7"s. There are also some cool Cloudberry Classics 3"CDs on their way! And hopefully I get to go to Japan to DJ someday in the future! That'd be a plan!
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1. NYC Popfest ã§ã® Tiny Fireï¬les ã®åã㊠ã®ã©ã€ãã¯ã©ãã§ããïŒ - ããã楜ããã£ããïŒã©ã€ããããã®ã¯å ããŠã ã£ãããããªãç·åŒµãããã©ãæçµç ã«ã¯æºè¶³ããããã©ãŒãã³ã¹ãã§ããããå ããŠã®ã©ã€ãããããªæåãªã€ãã³ãã ãªã ãŠæ¬åœã«ã©ãããŒã ããããªãŒã¬ãã€ã¶ãŒã® Maz ãš Clyde ã楜ããã£ãã£ãŠèšã£ãŠããã ã®ãããããå¬ããã£ããã
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1. How was Tiny Fireï¬ies ï¬rst show at NYC Popfest 2011? -It was a lot of fun! I was very nervous because it was our ï¬rst time playing live, b ut in t h e e nd , I was h a ppy w it h o u r performance. I feel very lucky that our ï¬rst show was at such a famous event. The organizers, Maz and Clyde, both said they enjoyed it. I was glad that they were pleased withâour performance. 2.You ve played at NYC Popfest 2009 and 2010 as Very Truly Yours. Did you see any diï¬erence in this year playing as Tiny Fireï¬ies? -Well, ï¬rst, we have a lot less equipment to carry! The real main diï¬erence to me is that we're using an iPod to back us up, rather than having a band. We took a lot of time practicing to make sure the backing tracks sounded good, and I think that helped to make us feel more secure on stage. 3. Did you have any favorite act in this year s NYC Popfest? -It was really fun to see Go Sailor, but I think my favorite act this year was Caucus. They put on an awesome show. The songs were excellent and they were all amazing musicians as well. There was so much energy, you couldn't help but get wrapped up in it.
4. A lot of bands that have released from cloudberry records including you played at NYC Popfest, do you think you have any shared value with the other bands in cloudberry records? -Certainly. Cloudberry releases a lot of diï¬erent types of music, but all the music seems to have a common thread of warm melodies and pop ethics. We met a lot of musicians during the popfest, and everyone we met was really nice. I think since we tend to like the same kinds of music and other things, it makes it easy to have a conversation. 5. Could you tell us how you all met and began Very Truly Yours? -Very Truly Yours formed from a band that Kristine and I were in together called The Lorimer Sound. I was playing drums in that band and Kristine was playing keyboard and singing. When the band broke up, we still wanted to make music together, so we formed Very Truly Yours with the bass player from The Lorimer Sound, Dan. Kristine and I both switched to playing guitar and we recruited some friends to ï¬l l out the line-up.
6. Sound of VTY reminds me of British indie pop bands such as Camera Obscura and Belle&Sebastian rather than American bands. What bands or artists do you think inï¬uenced on your sound? -Kristine always envisioned Very Truly Yours as a band that was inï¬uenced by 60s orchestral pop like Phil Spector's sound, and the Motown sound. We also both have an appreciation for British indie-pop sounds. I think both Camera Obscura and B&S are inï¬uenced by similar music, so I think that's how we end up being compared to them. 7. Is there any indie pop scene or bands that you sympathize with in Chicago? -There isn't a big indie-pop scene in Chicago. I think the music scene is a lot more "rockin'." We are friends with Panda Riot, the other Chicago act who played at NYCPopfest this year. In fact, the ï¬rst Very Truly Yours show was with Panda Riot in summer 2008. There are a few other bands as well, but mostly I don't think a lot of people are into our style. 8. You also have your solo project Fireï¬ies and another unit with Kristine Tiny Fireï¬ies besides VTY. Do you have any diï¬erent concept or way of expression in each band? -Each band deï¬nitely is a diï¬erent concept, and I try to change my playing style for each band. Since VTY has very dense arrangements, a lot of my guitar parts are very minimal so I'm not competing with all the other parts.Tiny Fireï¬ies is an interesting balance of Kristine and my songwriting. She's always pushing me towards dissonance, and I'm pushing her back towards harmony, and we usually end up with a little bit of both. I often don't even know what key the songs are in because of the strange chords Kristine comes up with! With Fireï¬ies, since everything is played by me, I'm free to do whatever I want. I can do indulgent things like layer 5-6 guitar tracks, or add interesting instruments like koto. I often make several versions of songs to seewhat style works best. 9. Fireï¬ies sounds more like male singer song writers. Elliott Smith and Nick Drake came to my mind when I ï¬rst heard your songs. Is there any ideal male singer or artist? -Nick Drake is deï¬nitely a big inï¬uence on me. I especially love the soft, orchestral arrangements of "Bryter Layter." I also identify a lot with The Field Mice and The Magnetic Fields. I think my songs are like a combination of all these artists. It's sort of like 70's singer-songwriter style by way of 80's / early 90's indie. 10. I think what VTY and Fireï¬ies have in common are pop melodies and gentle sound. What do you bear in mind when you write songs? -Each of the songs I write is an attempt to capture a feeling and put it in a box to always remember it. My lyrics are usually
based on a mix of dreams and past experiences. ask myself, "What does it feel like to be in the situation of the song?" I then try to build the arrangement of the song to elicit that feeling. 11. How does song writing process work in each of your project? -For VTY, Kristine writes songs on guitar, and plays them for me. I usually put together a basic arrangement for the guitars, bass and drums and consult with her for keyboard parts. We bring our demo to the band to practice and build from there. Some songs stay close to our original demos, and others change quite a bit after the rest of the band is involved. With Tiny Fireï¬ies, both of us are more involved with the initial writing process. Kristine usually comes up with chords and melodies using her old Roland Organ, playing along with drum machine parts that I make. We then write the rest of the parts together. For Fireï¬ies, most of the songs are written on acoustic guitar. I usually make a 1st draft with acoustic guitar, bass and drums and then take my favorite parts from the 1st draft, and build a 2nd version based on my favorite part. The ï¬nal version often ends up being a combination of all the versions 12. You found a site for raising money for your UK tour. A list of perquisites according to the amount of contribution seems quite interesting. Who came upwith this idea? -Kristine and I came up with most of the "rewards" for donation. Some of them (like doing a cover album of your choice) were sort of jokes that we didn't expect anyone would really pick...but we thought it would still be a lot of fun to do. Part of the idea was inspired by Emmy the Great, who had a similar campaign to fund the making of her new album, "Virtue."
13. Could you give us 5 best albums in your life? -This is really hard! These are not in any particular order: Bjork - Vespertine The Beatles - Help!, Francoise Hardy - Her Greatest Songs (USA Collection of mid-late 60's folky stuï¬), Nick Drake - Bryter Layter, Belle and Sebastian â Tigermilk
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1. Could you brieï¬y introduce your band and tell us the story about how you guys got together and started the band? - We are a Japanese band formed in Tokyo, 4 guys and a girl, melodic vocals with loud instruments. Nothing too special. We started out in 2005. Tetsu and I were friends from middle school, and Hiroko's ï¬rst band in her life. Tatsuro joined shortly after we met doing DJ together at a indie rock night club called Bluestars Night. Taisuke was Tetsu and my Anime friends, and got together after our previous drummer left the band. Maybe Caucus is a band that has more about friendship than musical connections. 2. You ve released the ï¬rst 7 single in the US form Cloudberry Records. How did that happen? Do you think you have any shared value with Cloudberry and the bands released from the label? - We played with Pains Of Being Pure At Heart in Tokyo, and loved their show a lot. They were also really good people too! So I started out looking for their old releases and came up with Cloudberry. I fell in love with Cloudberry releases, and sent an email to Roque if he'd like our music. That's how it happened. What we think we have in common with other Cloudberry bands are that everyone loves to be creative and has DIY kind of spirit. Also I think everyone is doing something very new and original, but do respect the good old tradition at the same time. 3. You ve played not only in Japan but some shows in the US including SXSW and NYC Popfest. Is there any diï¬erence in response from the audience in the US and that in Japan?
- Yes. Japanese people tend to be shy many times, and as a culture, we don't say "hi" or "it was a great show!" so much if we have never talked with before. Very respectful, but I think it's maybe too respectful. When we played in SXSW and NYC Popfest, it was really happy to have everyone talking to us after our show. 4. Could you tell us about NYC Popfest 2011? I think you ve got many positive responses from the audience. I ve actually interviewed with Roque from Cloudberry and Lisle from Very Truly Yours and both of them gave your name as their favorite act. From your viewpoint, how were your shows there? - Wow that is awesome! The Popfest was really fun, getting to meet many good friends and music. For our show, I think we did our best! We went with 4 of us, missing our bassist Tetsu. We covered his part by sharing bass, and that was fun as well! Hiroko and I never had imagined doing bass&vocal when we were playing in Tokyo. 5. Did you have any favorite act in NYC Popfest 2011? - Many of them ⊠Betty And The Werewolves, Go Sailor, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Gold-Bears, Persian Rugs ⊠Just to name a few! I can't really name them all! 6. Could you tell us any impressive thing or interesting episode at NYC Popfest or in NY? - The funniest thing was maybe when Taisuke and I went to a Lobster place to have a gorgeous dinner as tourists. But the guy there took us and squeezed the seats together! Both of us yelled, "We're not gay!". Right next to us, there were 4 NYC girls talking about boys, and it was almost like a real "Sex and the City". Best of all, the food tasted fantastic.
7. Your songs are written either in Japanese or English (or both). How do you think the languages inï¬uence your music or your activity itself (playing shows and releasing records in the overseas)? - I used to live in Connecticut and California when I was in elementary school. Though my English is quite childish or made up, I feel more comfortable in doing emotional expressions since I grew up there in my childhood. On the other hand, Hiroko speaks only Japanese, and we think that mixing them up is something really interesting we can do. Language inï¬uences doesn't matter to our music activity so much. Music is what's happening. We consider how it sounds more than the language. 8. Could you tell us your major musical inï¬uence or background? Could you give us some of your favorite bands/labels? - We love Rocketship, you know, and also many of the slumberland bands too. Creation Records is one of the major inï¬uence that we have. Glasgow scene is also something we really like. Personally, I used to listen to Barsuk bands in Seattle when I started Caucus. Japanese bands are cool, too. I almost cried when I saw Bloodthirsthy Butchers last time on the alternative side, and Tenniscoats on the acoustic side. Our all time favorite is maybe Yo La Tengo. But as you could simply imagine, it's impossible to name our favorites in a few lines! 9. Any future plans or releases/shows? -We're currently recording many new songs, and hopefully it should be released somewhere in 2012. We're doing a bunch of shows in Japan, and maybe some touring
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1. First of all, could you brieï¬y introduce your band and tell us the story of how the band led to the present members? -We re Tokyo based four-piece indie rock band. In 2007, Hiroko Kawakami(Gt/Vo), Shiho (Gt), Kodama(Ba) and Sakamoto(Dr) started the band. And I joined it as a guitarist in 2008. Since when Sakamoto left the band, I ve switched from the guitar to the drums. 2. I think Smilelove is a really nice name, which ï¬ts your music and characters. Could you tell us how you named your band and is there any concept or massage in there? -From what I ve heard, when they just started the band, Fuji-san from the band called Ca-P and Harie-san(ex-Mahiruno/Rairairai Team) gave the name while they were drinking together. I heard that putting the two words each of them came up together was smile love . Then I think just because it would be hard to search on the Internet, they just made it one word. There is no concept or message in particularâŠI guess! 3. Smilelove s music is so naturally lo-ï¬ sound that reminds me of bands like Pavement. Do you have any ideal bands or bands that you can sympathize with? -All of us like Pavement and we actually got together for that reason, so yeah Pavement after all. Some people might notice that our Myspace url is smilelovetherockband . Also we like Royal We and Envelopes. For me personally, I played the drums with reference to Deerhoof, Tiger Trap and Go Sailor when I turned into a drummer. 4. You played NYC Popfest 2011, how was the show there? -Out of Smilelove members, only Hiroko and I went to NY but Hiroko s another band CAUCUS also played NYC Popfest so Yanagawa and Kato from CAUCUS were helping out with our show. I switched my part from drums to guitar at the show and rhythm parts were also diï¬erent so I wasn t quite sure we could express our original mood of looseness. But the show itself was a lot of fun anyway. Another impressive thing was Alex(German Measles/ ex-Cause Co-Motion) who is a ï¬at mate of members of The Speciï¬c Heats playing at the same day with us, talked to me It was a great show after we played. I was really glad to hear that even though I ve known him already. 5. Do you have any favorite act in NYC Popfest2011? -Go Sailor! I was really glad to see Rose Melberg singing and playing. I adore her. It was fun to watch so many people got crazy about the show including members from the Californian band Sourpatch. 6. It was actually the second time you played in NY! Could you tell us any good memory, impressive thing or interesting episode in NY? -Our ï¬rst show in NY was in September 2010. Serge(Beachniks/German Measles) whom I ve been staying in touch with, booked the show for us and we played together. At that time also, only two of us went to the US. Some songs were not enough to be played only by us so Serge helped out with playing the bass. It was a good memory that we practiced together in the rehearsal studio where they usually use and we played the show together.
I was also glad to see members from Cause Co-Motion, The Beets, and Crystal Stilts that I ve really adored at the moment. It was great to play with Beachniks again in NY at our second time. We can t speak English well so our communication sometimes didn t go well but I was very grateful that Serge was really nice to us. Oh I have another great story. The Canadian band called Love Cuts that I ve been also keeping in tough with was traveling in America during NYC Popfest 2011 by chance and they stopped by NY for seeing us play. I was really happy about that.
-It was only a couple of years ago when I really deeply started digging indie bands so I m only a beginner as an indie geek. And I m not precisely sure when but when music media started taking up bands from Captured Tracks, I found it quite interesting to search about bands around CT and music scene around Cause Co-Motion. I basically introduce bands using Bandcamp( recently SoundCloud as well) on my blog and I think it s another reason that it s getting more interesting for me to ï¬nd out music on the Internet as the number of bands using Bandcamp is increasing and they make amazing music even though they re not well-known.
7. Your ï¬rst single Njajaja was released from the Indonesia based indie label HayHo! Records. Could you tell us how it happened? Most of us are not familiar with indie music scene in Indonesia, what do you think about such DIY music scenes in the overseas? -When I was personally searching some music on Bandcamp, I found an Indonesian girl putting up some songs and we started getting in touch. When I let her listen to our songs, she liked them and she introduced me her friend who runs the label. It was only about our interview to put on the fanzine of the label at the beginning, but they oï¬ered us a release too.
9. Could you recommend us some of your recent favorite bands? -There ll be no end though ⊠Abadabad, Best Friends, Birkwin Jersey, Bummer Sanders, Clockart, D.A. Dad, Faster Than Robots, Ginnels, Golden Ages, Hospitality, Island Twins, Messy Sparkles, Oregon Bike Trails, Portraits, Slow Magic, Snowmine, The Spills, Squarehead, Sugarglider, Tigercats, Tree Hopping to name some. Most of them put some songs on Bandcamp so please have a listen!
10. Hiroko(Gt&Vo) and you are also playing in other bands, Caucus and Girls Pancakes respectively. Do you think your other bands There seem to be many bands that have taken inï¬uence on Smilelove or vise versa? inï¬uence from shoegazer or twee pop in -I m not sure if it s an inï¬uence from Indonesian indie music scene and they like Smilelove though, Hiroko is taking a vocal part Japanese indie music as well(especially more often in CAUCUS songs. And I m shoegaze bands). currently playing the guitar in Girls Pancakes, Nowadays, there re many chances to come even though my part is diï¬erent, I think I can into contact with music from various play a role of thinking structures or countries and looking at musical tastes of developments in songs just like in Smilelove. Indonesian people, there is no big diï¬erence from Japanese indie music fans. They like and 11. Any future plans or releases/shows? similar kind of music as we like and playing in -Our ï¬rst single Njajaja will be out on 7inch a band. Some band covered The Drums for record from the US based label Bleeding Gold instance. But, it s only my personal feeling Records at the end of November. (*currently though, I have an impression that they are on sale) We will have some more releases more genuine about music than Japanese. following that. Smilelove itself is not active at the moment because Shiho(Gt) had a really 8. You also have a blogïŒhttp://verytinysongs cute baby in last March and busy rearing her . w o r d p r e s s . c o m / ïŒ w h i c h i n t r o d u c e s baby, Kodama(Ba) is studying abroad in America unknown indie bands and you seem to dig in now. so much. When did you start listening to such indie bands or music?