defenestrators renunion show

In Kamikawa last year I was in a band called the defenestrators (to defenestrate: to throw someone or something out of a window - thank you Pop-Up Video!). Boss on guitar, Erika on keyboard, Tomoe on piano, Mika on vocals, Kunihiro on drums and myself playing bongo and taiko. Our songs are 80% original (Boss is a musical guru). We played quite a few times last year, so this year we had another live concert at the Kamikawa Shinto Shrine Festival.

Things started out normally enough. I arrived at Kamikawa at noon, we set up the instruments and practiced at two, and we moved everything outside the Shinto shrine for five. The weather was raining a bit, but it was sunny by the time we started. And then within the space of ten minutes, it clouded over and started throwing it down with rain! Seriously, it was terrible, we were trying to play our third song and there were guys running around throwing tarps over the speakers and amps, and between songs we moved our instruments under this tiny tent we'd been provided just in case this happened. It was really cramped, but hey, it was a great time!

Our audience just pulled out their umbrellas and continued to hear us play. We all got soaking wet, but we finished our concert, put the instruments away, dried ourselves off and had a great time at the post-concert dinner.

And then Romance. Romance rocks.