The Watanabes made a minor but memorable appearance on national Television last Saturday, with an interview on the popular Zoom in Saturday show. The hot topics of conversation included Katsudon – the food, Katsudon – the recommended restaurants, and of course, Katsudon – the recently released Watanabes song! (Listen here to the track here on Favourite Tree)

Duncan and Ash showed Japanese mega pop idol Kamanashi Kazuya a thing or two about singing with an impromptu performance of Katsudon, whilst Selwyn’s all time favourite female idol Yukie Nakama looked on in awe.

Flavio and Stefan chipped in with an intellectual commentary on Japanese society and in particular, the hotly debated topic of why Japanese women choose to use umbrellas on sunny days. Yukie Nakama was in stitches, and clearly fancied Flav.

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With Flav sadly trading in his chopsticks and drumsticks to return to the knives and forks of Belgium (or whatever eating untensils they use in that rather confusing country) for a solo career, this will be our last Tokyo gig with the current Watanabe 5 lineup. Sad, but hopefully it..ll be a special night. It’s on ocean day, my favorite national holiday on the calender, so I recommend heading to the beach during the day then dropping by Shibuya afterwards. We don’t mind if you’re all sandy.
As it will take a couple of months before we come roaring back as the New Watanabe 5, this will also probably be our last full band Tokyo gig for a little while.
We’ll be the last band, starting around 9pm. We’d love to see you there. If not, don’t forget to slip, slop and slap, and have a great ocean day.

For more information and a map visit the Kinoto webpage: Shibuya Club Kinoto

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The Watanabes are flying over from Tokyo to tour the UK. They’re stopping at The Duchess in York for one night — Saturday 15th August. As fans of FTR will know, they’ve written some of the best tunes you’ve never heard and are big in the biggest city in the world.

Flyer for £3 entry

They will be supported by Duchess veterans the awesome Sheffield indie band Take To The Seas, and the band so incredible that words cannot describe them, York-based Towns And Houses (sporting a new line-up).

So for the first time, all three bands from the hip and tuneful Favourite Tree Records label will be on the same stage, and it’s not to be missed!!

You might think we have worked damn hard and spent a damn lot of money to bring this international motley collection together, and you’d be damn right (although all the money has been spent by The Watanabes, who have spent all their savings).

And just to add some more excitement to this already juice-drippingly amazing evening, the wonderful Holly Taymar will be joining us (http://www.hollytaymar.com).

It will probably be your only chance to see The Watanabes in the flesh, and without a doubt the most fun you could possibly have on the particular evening of 15th August 2009.

Just £3 (see event below to print flyer).

So come on down to The Duchess…. Saturday 15th August!

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