podcast ICFJ#008 – Japan fundraiser special with John Lydon!
by Daniel Robson on March 25th, 2011
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ICFJ#008 is a roundup of the best live music benefits and fundraising compilation albums to help the people of northeastern Japan, plus interviews and tons of ace music from Japan too. Help save Japan with rock’n’roll! Hosted by Daniel Robson, with special guest co-host Iain Lee. The Playlist includes Limited Express – Has Gone?, Detroit7, World’s End Girlfriend, Boomhauer X, Natccu, Electric Eel Shock, SpecialThanks and EeL, with John Lydon, Electric Eel Shock frontman Aki, and a journalist who has visited Sendai to see the aftermath of the tsunami firsthand.
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Playlist:
Limited Express (Has Gone?) – Nightingale
Detroit7 – Fatman Blues
World’s End Girlfriend – Birthday Resistance
Boomhauer X – 8 Steps To You
Natccu – Present
Electric Eel Shock – Rock’n’Roll Can Rescue The World
SpecialThanks – Hello Colorful
EeL – 696969
Here are links to the various fundraisers we mentioned on the show (tell us if you know any more good ones):
ALBUMS/SINGLES
Play For Japan compilation series (Japanese only)
Tokumaru Shugo ‘Open A Bottle’
Songs For Japan compilation (Lady Gaga, Madonna, Beyonce etc)
Nihon Kizuna electro compilation
Time Out Japan‘s list of charity albums
LIVE MUSIC BENEFITS
Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, John Zorn, Sean Lennon, Cibo Matto etc, 27 March, New York (USA)
Japan Nite US tour with Lolita No.18, Mo’some Tonebender and more, till 27 March various cities (USA)
We Love Japan, 2 April, London (UK)
The Silver Bullet Aid In Japan live show, including a band that plays Abba songs in the style of the White Stripes (!), 8 April, London (UK)
Heart Japan supported by J-Pop Go!, 20 April, London (UK)
Boomhauer X, 13 May, London (UK)
Aid For Japan, 15 May, London (UK)
Play For Japan – list of UK live music benefits for Japan (add your own!)
More to come…
AUCTIONS AND OTHER EVENTS
It Came From Japan auction in support of the Japanese Red Cross Society – items from John Lydon, Shonen Knife and more tbc – watch our website and Twitter for details
Play For Japan videogame auction
HMV Japan (5% of sales go to Japanese Red Cross Society)
Keith Richards Japan Relief T-shirt
Akemi’s Volunteer Trip to Japan, April 16-24 (recruiting UK volunteers to visit Japan and help provide support for refugee children in the Kyoto and Tokyo areas)
Cakes For Japan, 26-27 March, bake sale in London (UK)
TKYO Music, Art and Design Japan relief event, 4 April, London (UK)
SXSW 4 Japan – South By Southwest’s Japan fund for American Red Cross
BOOKS
Write For Tohoku ebook, featuring contributions from writers in Japan during the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and tsunami
2:46 (aka #quakebook) – an ebook or possibly physical book along similar lines to Write For Tohoku
CHARITIES
Second Harvest
Japanese Red Cross Society
British Red Cross
American Red Cross
Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund
Time Out Tokyo‘s list of ways to help (English and Japanese)
NEWS
NHK World, English-language site of Japan’s national broadcaster
The Japan Times English-language national newspaper in Japan
Daniel’s previous interview with John Lydon in The Japan Times
RECOMMENDED TWEETERS
@ItCameFromJapan – That’s us!
@TimeOutTokyo – Time Out Tokyo
@tokyoreporter – Brett Bull (journalist)
@japantimes – The Japan Times newspaper
@DailyYomiyuri – The Daily Yomiyuri newspaper
@makiwi – Makiko Itoh (journalist)
@JPN_PMO – Japan Prime Minister’s office
The people of northeastern Japan are suffering after the brutal magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 10-metre tsunami on 11 March, which washed away whole towns and damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The total count of dead and missing has reached 27,000 souls, with nearly half a million survivors left homeless or without basic supplies.
Japan has given so much – music, tech, videogames, anime and thousands of years of unique traditional culture. Let’s give something back.
