Plastic Factory this Saturday

We are playing this Saturday night, May 31st at Plastic Factory in Imaike. It's a benefit gig in support of the 2008 Mongol Rally - London to Ulan Bator in tiny cars to help out charities. More info here. There are various bands and DJs playing and should be a big night. Tix are 2500yen - all for a good cause.

Tadamusic, Nagoya Springfest, Tetris!

Thanks to the fine people at Tadamusic you can now download many of our songs for free. Tadamusic is an excellent site dedicated to promoting indie bands in Japan. You can find a host of other quality acts there, including the quite interesting Kyushu-based rock group - nanbanjin.

Speaking of interesting bands, Tetris Nightmare! have some amazing new songs at their Myspace site. They are disgracefully good so do yourself a favour!

Finally, we had a great time playing at Nagoya Springfest. Thanks to the organizer, Trevor and everyone who made it out.

And we start recording EP no.2 this weekend.....

JAPANZINE & SPRINGFEST

This month's Japan's national English-language magazine JAPANZINE features ORAN in it's Gaijin Sounds 2008 feature.
"Sparrows" will also be track 9 on a free CD that will be distributed across the country at selected points. Thankyou JAPANZINE!

Also, on Sunday May 11, we will be playing at Nagoya's outdoor international festival SPRINGFEST in Sakae's Hisaya-odori Park (near the TV Tower).
ORAN will be the closing act on Sunday evening and you can find the schedule here.

Peace Out.