Following up from last month’s post bemoaning (again) my missing Kinoko Teikoku’s local shows back in 2014, a reader did me the favour/dagger twist of feeding me a video from the Rivoli show that I hadn’t included with the band nearly creating a musical singularity between 2005 me and 2024 me, covering The Radio Dept’s “Where The Damage Isn’t Already Done” – A-Chan introducing it in English and adorably pronouncing the “t” in “Radio Dept” = before tearing into their own “Kokudou Slope” from Eureka.

I appreciate how frontwoman Chiaki Satō is clearly surprised and delighted the audience knows the band; I’ve listened to some of her post-Kinoko solo work and while there’s good moments, it’s all quite MOR pop. Stuff like this reaffirms her indie cred. As if it matters. It does not. But I still appreciate it.

Full credit to Rob Perry & Paul Meyers for recording and editing the video so long, long, long ago.