2017 Spring US Tour – "USA Ramen Adventure"

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05/10 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
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15 shows done - 15 to go!

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May 12, 2017 11:53:21 GMT -5 lazybone712 said:

enfilading counter fire at Hot Diggity Dogs

I get the strongest feeling that Risa has worked on her good camera angles
till they're second nature.

The sisters are "Oh, okay, go ahead," while the drummer is delivering the shot.

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05/11 Birmingham AL – The Syndicate Lounge
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05/12 Hot Springs, AK – Low Key Arts
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05/13 New Orleans, LA – Siberia
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Something new has been added. A late show is going to
make Naoko a little cranky tomorrow morning…

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Gig blog abstracts
MAY 09 Athens GA 40 Watt Club > MAY 12 Hot Springs AR Low Key Arts





Naoko
May 9, 40 Watt, Athens GA
www.shonenknife.net/blog/archives/24053
Breakfast: half a hotel waffle. Atsuko's iPhone is hosed. A walk to a lonesome shopping mall.
Bread from the bake shop of H Mart Korean grocery. Lee Ranaldo at the 40W on 6/15!
Appreciation for the sparkle-top DRG and Taurus amp head. Vietnamese for dinner. Samantha's
Rock Cats are also on tour but Naoko can't make the show. Heartbreaker. Window shopping at
Low Yoyo Stuff, hello Don Van Vliet. Souvenir purkikura (print club) digital photobooth. Strange,
hot indy rockers Monsoon are the OA. Today's drumhead is a Brand New Knife theme by Risa.
Mondrian outfits. Crowd is a mix of young and old, lots of young women at the front. ♡


Atsuko
May 9th Athens, GA @40 WATT
www.shonenknife.net/blog/archives/24073
iPhone still bricked, but it's a nice day. Just traversing the empty parking lot of the deserted mall
is exercise. Red bean pastry and sponge cake from H Mart. The 40 Watt is big. Huh? A cat car,
the cat circus is in town. The photo-booth featured. Audience sing-a-long, good times.
Thanks, ARC!


Risa
RAMEN ADVENTURE May 9th Athens, May 10th Atlanta!!!
www.shonenknife.net/blog/archives/24180
Hotel instant yakisoba, 40W is big and nice, photo booth, photo booth, dressing room. Brand New Knife
drumhead, dessert is ice cream!! Oh, the show was good too. Rabbit via SNOW.
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At the Earl, for just 800 yen you get a giant catfish sandwich. Taylor's enormous haystack of kinky hair.
Guitar Girl magazine photo shoot at the venue. Cute drumheads, Risa's signed thing is a drumstick.






Naoko
May 10, The Earl, Atlanta GA
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Breakfast: treats from H Mart yesterday. Interviews with local radio and by email, then time to go!
Finally! Boiled peanuts, they are like soy beans but salty/spicy. Salmon BLT is a thing. Drumhead art
is improving because they draw so much. Big house, happy customers, great show.
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Sound Guy Reunions: 2011 Rob (unrecognized in long hair), Taylor from the 2 tours just previous
(hair impossible to miss), current Sound Guy Kenny's kid sister Emi. Naoko really likes Atlanta Rock City.


Atsuko
May 10th Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
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Naoko turning in an email interview from a second floor porch. Yakisoba, Rob!!! Taylor, Emi, bizarre decorations,
boiled peanuts, salmon BLT, Guitar Girl. Flattered that Naoko thinks cartoonist Radio Wada is the muse for
Atsuko's drumhead. OAs tonight are sissy-rockers Floral Print followed by ATL-glam Starbenders, both local.




Naoko
May 11, Syndicate Lounge, Birmingham AL
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Driving through 1 time zone. Breakfast at IHOP for lunch. Castle architecture. The loading door is up a
long flight of stairs. Kenny? Jake? Rock decor includes Nirvana. Dinner is at Hot Diggity Dogs next to a
pretty public garden. The Thursday special is the "Shonen Knife" teriyaki & honey ramen hotdog.
Long line to get into the venue. Nowhere Squares opened. Last 2 drumheads for this tour, I guess
they've used up everything Risa saved for 6 months. Naoko describes the smiling, singing, dancing
audience as "smoky" (?). Packaged apple slices, cheese and caramel dip. Good, not like it sounds.


Atsuko
May 11th Birmingham, AL @syndicate Lounge
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Crossing a time zone means you can get on the road at 11am. Breakfast at IHOP for lunch, fairy lights
on the stage, Ramones poster and KISS pinball (it works). Avondale Park is beautiful. The Shonen Knife
special at Hot Diggity Dogs, delicious of course with a Tater Tots-like side. Drumheads: Naoko inks,
Atsuko and Risa do color. They finally have a pro workflow. Birmingham Rock City was rocked, thanks.


Risa
RAMEN ADVENTURE May 11 Birmingham, May 12 Hot Springs !!
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American trucker's breakfast for lunch. Dinner will be the Shonen Knife Special, hold the
jalapenos "because I'm not good with hot [tsurai is also a word for "painful"]." It's so great!
Drumheads drawn by Naoko, colored by everyone. The show hit peak excitement, thanks BRC!!!
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Low Key Arts: Naoko worries about food coloring in doughnuts, Risa goes straight for the antiseptic-blue
raspberry ice cream at "Thirtyone" (Baskin-Robbins, where flavors are colors). Featured from the hotel gift bag:
cookie. Tragically, multiple drownings at the venue but kawaii dressing room. On-air interview with solar-powered
community radio KUHS 97.9 LPFM. Yakisoba every day, today is a restaurant called Osaka. A cute drumstick,
and the Hot Springs show also hit the heights. Girls, lots of them came to watch!!
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Risa's English clearly written not by Google. Something to applaud.







Naoko
May 12, Low Key Arts, Hot Springs AR
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8-hour drive, hard rain, over the Mississippi River to AR. Naoko tears her Subway sandwich 
in half with her bare hands, rendering it "zannai" (Osaka dialect for "unsightly"). Naoko defines
as "I can't bear to look at it." Trivia: Hot Springs and Hanamaki City in Iwate prefecture are
sister cities. Mountain Tower reminds Naoko of Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka. Super artistic venue,
radio station interview. Dinner at Osaka, where the chef has a 12" mohawk. Westerners serve
miso soup with a spoon right in the bowl because you're not supposed to hold it in your hands!
Ramen catering truck, pool table *and* a second stage in the dressing room. Good show, many
young people, women, even children. Love Honey bock beer from Lost Forty Brewing Co.
Oyasumi.


Atsuko
May 12th Hot Springs, AR @low Key Arts
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Atsuko escapes Subway by bringing rice balls. Love the hotel gift bag. The hotel room has a view,
the venue has a mural painted by Peelander-Yellow. LA Woman recognizes that the "ramen truck"
is a taco truck re-fit. Interviewed by KUHS after sound check, then sushi and yakisoba at Osaka
with its wildman chef. The whole second floor is their dressing room. SPINAL TAP REMINDER:
a miniature Moai statue. Fashion designer Mo Lappin of Howlpop does a runway show. Then it's
time to rock! Yay, another young audience. TU Hot Springs RC!

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