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    It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything, mainly due to being busy doing stuff (and my parents being in Japan for about 10 days), so a quick review of what happened before they arrived.

    Last month we went to see Graham Coxon at Big Cat in Osaka. First time I’ve seen him live and he was great.
    Really noisy and a great guitarist. Seemed a bit jet-lagged and made a few mistakes, which added somehow to the fun. Crowd were very lively and he played a long set, and mainly loud punk songs which sent the crowd moshing.

    Mind you not as lively as the crowd for Hard Fi who were the liveliest crowd I’ve since since maybe the Damned or The Wonderstuff in the 90s. The “kids” went crazy. Richard had them eating out of his hand, even though his Japanese only stretched to “Domo” (thanks), they loved it. The encore “Living For The Weekend” made the dance floor quite a dangerous place! Great fun.
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    Beer gardens in Britain are nothing new or for that matter particularly special, but Japan, a country without pubs (except the fake “English” or “Irish” ones) and for that matter to a large extent without gardens, they do it somewhat differently.

    They put them on top of very tall buildings in the middle of cities.

    Every summer (for obvious reasons of weather, they only open in the summer), the roof of department stores or other such places are bedecked with plastic tables and chairs and chock full of drunk salarymen and office ladies (I’m sure there are salarywomen too, but you never hear of them…).

    The other difference with British beer gardens is that for about ￥3000 (about £15) you can eat and more importantly, drink as much as you want for about 3 hours!

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    Just up the road from Ashiya is Koshien (2 stops on an express train to be precise, about 10 minutes), and Koshien is the home of the Hanshin Tigers one of the big baseball teams in Japan ( I say big, they one a few years ago, but are generally not to hot apparently).
    Seeing as it`s on my doorstep, I thought I might try and get into baseball.

    Coming from England, we don`t do baseball. We used to play rounders as kids, which is the English version of it, with a smaller bat, tennis ball and less rules, but never seen baseball before.
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