Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009

Following in the footsteps of Japanese musicians who have honed their craft overseas, Ryu Seita is the “spiritual leader and axeman of the apocalypse” (a.k.a. guitarist) for Sydney institution Bunt, a punk rock group now headed our way. Based on the evidence of their seventh and latest album Birdland (named, oddly enough, for jazz maestro Charlie Parker), the band’s loud-and-fast tour of Tokyo rock dives should be a maelstrom of unreconstructed ’60s garage and UK punk, topped up with nods to the Mississippi blues of R.L. Burnside and T Model Ford.

Bunt
Guitar punk band from Sydney. Oct 5, 7pm, ¥2,000 (adv)/¥2,300 (door). Shibuya Yaneura. Tel: 03-3477-6969. Oct 6, 7pm ¥2,000 (adv)/¥2,300 (door). Red Cloth, Shinjuku. Tel: 03-3202-5320.