About The Tour

100% Genki is the brainchild of Smash and the music charity Strummerville. Because of the success of bands like Dir En Grey, LOUDNESS, Puffy and X Japan on the international scene, the call for Japanese bands to tour Europe and America is increasing. Anyone lucky enough to live in the UK can fight back the recession blues by heading to one of the 100% Genki shows and checking out some of the bands.

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Good news everyone! I have just launched a new blog: 怠け者マイク which means ‘Lazy Mike’ or something like that.

It only contains three updates right now, which are the three I wrote as essays for my lecturer, but I hope to update it once I arrive in Japan in September. When that happens I will probably keep posting them here as well, but it’s nice to have a place where they are all kept together.

So check it out!

japanmike.wordpress.com