teenagersintokyo

teenagersintokyo – ‘End It Tonight’

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“One word, all lowercase”, that’s how Sam of teenagersintokyo instructed me to spell out her band name. Actually I wasn’t sure if they were a band back then, more like really hot team DJing action that frequented cool underground indie clubs, Modular parties and advertising functions. Of course being the local Sydney radio identities that they were, getting involved in the live music scene was inevitable and all that interviews and gig going soon led them to morph into a band. They started out with five but soon lost their drummer to a wrist injury, and I was told they now perform with a drum machine instead.

They get a lot of comparisons with Brazillians Cansei De Ser Sexy, but those are usually based on their image rather than music. Both have crazy indie disco fashion sense and hot looking girls, but CSS has a much more clubbier feel to their music while these girls lean towards the no/nu wave revival popular of late in the Sydney scene. I’ve only seen them once and I believe it was one of their very first gigs at Brighton Up Bar in Darlinghurst, a tiny space of maybe 80 people capacity with no stage. Coincidentally it was also the same place where I saw Young & Restless for the first time. And now these three bands will have another connection, CSS is touring Australia early January and teenagersintokyo is supporting them in Sydney while Y+R is the support for Melbourne. All of them have very hot Asian girls leading so check them out yo!

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