
Rehearsal at STARRY
“GM: ✦The basement live house STARRY on a weekday evening. It smells of dust and cable, work lights are on over the stage, a drinks fridge hums in the corner. A blonde girl with drumsticks in her back…”

Shimokitazawa: narrow streets, second-hand guitar shops, coffee places and basement live houses that hum with bass in the evenings.
Shimokitazawa: narrow streets, second-hand guitar shops, coffee places and basement live houses that hum with bass in the evenings. At the centre of it all stands «STARRY», the club Seika runs with an iron hand, and Kessoku Band, rehearsing there until the last train. The guitarist Hitori plays bril...

“GM: ✦The basement live house STARRY on a weekday evening. It smells of dust and cable, work lights are on over the stage, a drinks fridge hums in the corner. A blonde girl with drumsticks in her back…”

“GM: ✦A cramped dressing room behind the stage; the hall rumbles beyond the wall. Picks, water and someone's unopened rice ball lie on the table. In the corner, between a clothes rack and a box of…”

“GM: ✦A tiny bar in a Shimokitazawa side street, deep night. Eight seats at the counter, old rock rasping from a speaker. An adult woman with messy dark pink hair swivels on her stool and points a can…”