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.

In The Backyard

ORAN playing In The Backyard at Six-Dog March 2.

(A)Live and electric again

SiX-DOG proved to be one of our most satisfying shows so far. Kudos in particular to the sound engineer who really mixed everything down to a fine display. Our performance wasn't too shabby either, if I dare say so myself. I guess regular practices can make a difference after all! The turn-out could have been better, but many thanks to those that did come out, and it was nice seeing everybody.

The show was recorded on video and audio both, courtesy of friends (thank you very much, Kit and Scott). This holds the potential of possible video samples of the concert in the near future. From what we were able to see immediately afterwards, the footage looks really good. More news on that to come...

In the meantime, we have our next gig currently set for April 12th at STEPS in Sakae, along with Iznit Obvious and Homie (along with one other yet-to-named band). Following that, most likely we'll be seeing some studio time, laying down the most recent material.

LIVE Update

ORAN are playing at Six-Dog Live House in Shin-Sakae on Sunday March 2.

The show starts in the evening and tickets are 1500 yen each.

We've been practicing a lot so it should be a good one. Yoroshiku!

More info soon.

Love from ORAN


http://six-dog.com/

ORANSONGS on myspace

Listen to selections from the ORAN EP on myspace.com!

http://www.myspace.com/oranjapan

Those interested in obtaining a CD, feel free to drop us a line and we'll let you know how!