Want to hear akai SKY on the radio? The Cupcake and Tea radio show will be playing a song from akai SKY’s new EP, Tokyo Beat Riot on the radio today. If you are in Sudbury, Ontario, you can listen to the show live at 96.7 FM. You can also listen over the Internet at CKLU.ca.
The show is currently on now and will run from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT (2:30 – 4:00 PM ET) today and will be available in the station’s online program archives later. Tune in now!
akai SKY will NOT be playing Forté Frozen Yogurt in Merced, CA this coming Saturday June 26th as originally scheduled.
There is a new noise ordinance in Merced which disallows the use of powered instruments and acoustic drumsets. Strangely enough, this isn’t the first time the band has run into issues with being too loud!
The band would like to apologize to anyone planning to attend the show. There are more shows coming up in the near future so if you miss the band this time, there will be plenty of opportunity to see them again!
Osu, Hayashi desu.
So lately we’ve all been in the studio working on new music. I tend to do things ala The Edge from U2 and program all of our songs (and all the various parts) into my pedalboard. The display can only hold so many characters, so I use Hayashi short hand to describe the setting.
A normal person would read the song as “Mug ‘N Diss”. Yup, it’s one of our many hip-hop tracks (j/k!) but I do hope all of you will be hopping in the audience once you hear it. If you want to figure out the real name of the song, think a little Hayashi and a little Japanese and I’m sure you can get it!
Mug 'N Diss yo!
Yesterday, akai SKY played at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration. We played at the Civic Center stage which had an amazing view of City Hall.
The stage is just to the left of the photo. It’s kind of amazing to play while looking out on it.
Before going on stage, I had some time to wander around and fair and check out all the booths and eat some fair food. I had a tasty taco made of Korean Bulgogi meat and bought a really large red velvet cupcake that I wasn’t able to finish.
When we arrived at around 3:30PM it was a nice, warm day but by the time we got on stage at 5:00PM, the fog had rolled in and a blustery wind had kicked up. I played bass without being able to feel my fingers! But we had a good crowd that stuck out the cold weather with us, so I can’t complain too much.
Although our EP, Tokyo Beat Riot, hasn’t officially been released yet – we got a batch of our CDs yesterday and decided to sell them after our show. We sold so many! Thanks to everyone that purchased one. And to everyone that wasn’t able – we’ll be making the CD available to own soon enough – no more of this low-quality streaming stuff!
A huge thank you goes out to HyperJam for having us play this past Saturday. It was great playing with some new friends (Phoenix Ash, Bad Communication) and some old faces (The Shogunate).
As a side note, during our set the police department came and wanted to shut us down for being too loud. This is the conversation verbatim:
Cops: You guys need to shut down, now!
Umi: FUCK YOU!
Okay, so this is how it really went down:
Cops: Can you guys turn it down?
Ray: They are on their last song.
Cops: Oh okay, carry on.
A big thank you goes out to Cindy and Alex who stayed until midnight to watch us play, driving down all the way from Sacramento!
Here is a picture of us at the fine eating established called “Denny’s”.
The bands eating at Denny's
