We had workshop and show at NAYT ( National Association of Youth Theatre) national festival led by Stewart Hawks at Epping Forest in 15th - 19th July. British boys and girls are very promising. They love us. So open minded. There was fantastic fire work/installation by Blagart,too. Stewart is a good man considering he is a bloody DIRECTOR. (Dateline: July 1999)
Yumi has graduated City University music dept. as TOP! TOP! you know? TOP! TOP! TOOOOOOOPPPPPPP! (Dateline: July 1999)
Tomoko's diary of maid is on the net (it's in Japanese): www.wondermall.co.uk then click on magazine. (Dateline: July 1999)
Yes, we went to Italy but somehow we missed Rome, so I don't think this expression is accurate, unless we were very stupid. We went to seven cities all in the North of Italy: Lecco, Milan, Orbetello, Abano Terme, Parma, Faenza, then one city in Austria: Dornbirn.
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The tour was tremendously successful, both artistically & gastronomically. Italian promoters are different from English promoters. They feed the artists as well as paying the fee. And it's not with cheese sandwich, although their cheese & bread are so good the cheese sandwich would have been great. To show our appreciation & to promote international relations, we ate & drank like ambassadors. In the end, Kyoko had to rely on a safety pin to hold her cyber-punk outfit which she wears to sell CDs. The response from the audience was great everywhere. Italy is a country for absurdity & passion. And we are passionately absurd. Italians made Madam Butterfly, & when I see a big opera singer squashing her body into Kimono, I know they are passionately absurd, too. |
I quote from one Italian newspaper (Gazzetta di Parma): "These Japanese are masters of irony & trash. A crash course in Ninja for the audience, but with plenty of music".
Thanks to Sergio Amadori for organising this tour, & all these promoters: Lello Colombo, Francis M Bissong, Marco Pandin, Aldo Piazza, Morena Andalo, Dieter Strehly, Willi Pramstraller. Especially to Morena for your wonderful pumpkin risotto. Also Rob & Richard for driving so much when you wanted to just sit down with headache pills.
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there is already talk about us going to Rome next year! So it's true
after all: All roads lead to Rome. (Dateline: December 1997)
Frank Chickens' new venture Frank Chickens' Kitchen Erotica has made a huge impact in OMSK - art event of the 90's at 333 Club on 11th September. There were 11 fantasy chickens: 2 "play boy" bunny girls, a Bond girl, 5 SM girls, a Jane "Tarzan" girl, a sumo girl and a bicycle lamp breast girl. And we sold sushi des pussy, sushi des penis, wonder tits sushi and post coital delight. People experienced total sensuality - visual, touch and taste. Oh yes, this is also an art form: this is Situationists' manifestation as caterer. Hope you get it. (Dateline: September 1997)
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Chix on Bradford Festival Radio - it's a visual thang...
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Frank Chickens has been trying to communicate with British audiences on the basis that there isn't any racial difference in creativity. Recently, we expanded the group and now we have 8 performers on the stage. We have been touring with this group and we have realised there is a big potential in the group to develop our communication with British/Western people through our performance work. Now we are going to places in England where the young people seldom see Japanese people and, by involving them in our workshops and performance, we can expand our theme of mixing people for creative fun. We are doing dates in three cities/towns in the north of England, and in each town, we are having one day workshop followed by a performance the following day. The workshops are community based, and target young people (but we wouldn't want to exclude other age ranges!). We want to involve workshop participants in our performance, creating simple tasks for them. In the performance, we will expand our communication to the audience. Frank Chickens exists on the principle that everybody can create good art if there is a commitment for creation shared by the participants. This project will develop and exercise this principle. Oh, and it will be fun.(Dateline: July 1997)
We are working with David Toop to make a cover of Japanese children's TV theme song from 1980's for the compilation album due to be released in Japan this summer. The song "Yoake no Michi" ("The Road in the Dawn") comes from the programme called "Fiurandars no Inu" ("The Dog of Flanders"). Flanders is a part of Belgium and the dog is...who knows what this dog did...? Apparently they made a new animation of this story recently, as the TV programme was so succesful. Also because of the programme's success, a lot of Japanese tourists went to Antwerp and asked the poor Belgians about this sodding dog, hence Antwerp city built the statue of the dog to shut them up. True story. The power of Japanese tourists! BANZAI! (Dateline: June 1997)
We are working on FRANK LONDON CHICKENS GUIDE: our incomprehensive biased guide book due to be published in Japan next spring. If you see any suspicious Japanese woman collecting informations in your area (more likely so if your area is undesirable) she may be one of us. (Dateline: May 1997)
Kazuko made an appearance with the lovely London-based French group boum! at a recent evening dedicated to Serge Gainsbourg, that saucy French songwriter & performer. She sang Harley Davidson (in Japanese) plus 2 others (in French). Banzai! Hourra!(Dateline: October 1996)
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