The Japanese Popstars Announce Tours

Tags: 2008, australia, japan, japanese popstars, tours, uk

Following a packed-out live show at Fabric last Friday, The Japanese Popstars have announced an autumn tour, including dates across the UK and Ireland, Japan, and a festival tour of Australia.

The tour kicks off at Aberdeen’s SNAFU tomorrow night, before taking in Ireland’s Electric Picnic Festival, Cream-Ibiza, Trinity Rooms and Tripod in Dublin, Derry’s Red Rooms, Wax:On in Newcastle, Leeds, and Brighton’s Digital, Chibuku Shake Shake in Liverpool, Stealth in Nottingham, Blowpop in Bristol, and the Stereosonic festival tour across Australia.

The band’s second single, ‘Rise Of Ulysses’, is released on Gung-Ho on 22 September.

29 Aug 2008 Snafu (LIVE) SCOTLAND

31 Aug 2008 Electric Picnic Festival (DJ) IRELAND

11 Sep 2008 Cream Ibiza (LIVE) IBIZA

20 Sep 2008 Trinity Rooms (DJ) IRELAND

26 Sep 2008 515 @ Tripod (DJ) DUBLIN

27 Sep 2008 Red Rooms (DJ)…

Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 10:31 am

The Japanese Popstars Mix It Up A Little

Tags: cut by the brakes, drugs, grand national, japanese popstars, Remix, rise of ulysses, the music, ting tings, tong & spoon, we just are, youtube

The Japanese Popstars have announced they’ll be remixing the Ting Tings’ new single, ‘Be The One’. The Northern Irish band, who release their debut album, ‘We Just Are’, on 28th July on Gung-Ho Records, met the Manchester duo at last weekend’s Oxegen festival.

Elsewhere on the remix front, The Japanese Popstars have been busy adding their electronic touch to bands including The Music (’Drugs’), Grand National (’Cut By The Brakes’), Shinichi Osawa (‘Star Guitar’), and Tong & Spoon (’Gas Face’).

You can see the video to their new single, ‘Rise Of Ulysses’ (released on 8 September) below. It features licensed footage from the cult cartoon series, ‘Ulysses 31’…

Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm

Japanese Popstars Interview

Tags: interview, japanese popstars

Since bursting onto the scene in the last 12 months, their raucous, no-holds-barred brand of peak-time electro has seen them support Klaxons on tour, bag new talent features from Mixmag and I-DJ, been chosen as Featured Artists on Myspace, had an Electro Single Of The Month accolade from DJMag, been booked for Wireless and Glastonbury festivals, and received support from the likes of Erol Alkan, Pete Tong, Paul Woolford, Darren Emerson, Mason, 2ManyDJs, Philippe Zdar, Eddy Temple Morris and Fergie. Not bad going at all.

They started building up their fanbase through Myspace and gathered a cult following from their tracks and shows, selling out venues across their native Ireland and later the UK. They have signed to Gung-Ho! Recordings, and are releasing their debut album called We Just Are later…

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm