Shonen Knife, Hard Nips & Grooms @ Knitting Factory (pics)

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Shonen Knife

The Shonen Knife US tour has officially come to a close. Along that tour the peppy and colorful Japanese pop punk band played two NYC shows. The first one was at the Asia Society. Then two days later (9/28) they played Knitting Factory in Brooklyn with Hard Nips and Grooms. Pictures from that show are in this post.

And speaking of Japanese bands, a bunch more notable ones will be hitting NYC this weekend along with Anime Fest. The rest of the country should look out for Peelander-Z (also very colorful) who are on tour now.

More pictures from the Knitting Factory show, with their setlist in Japanese, below...

Grooms

Grooms

Grooms

Hard Nips

Hard Nips

Grooms

Shonen Knife

Shonen Knife

Tags: Grooms, Hard Nips, Shonen Knife

posted at 2:00 PM on October 6, 2010 in music | pictures | Comments (22)

Comments (22)

Great photos, really nice use of color.

Posted by Tony Winn | October 6, 2010 2:40 PM

kilt!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 2:44 PM

i wish shonen knife had some hard nips.

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 3:11 PM

Best photos I've seen in quite a while - great job!

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 3:14 PM

It's sort of precious how badly the Grooms guitarist rips off Malkmus' stage antics, right?

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 3:37 PM

great name - hard nips

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 4:07 PM

I've got asian fever, bro.

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 4:09 PM

are these pictures from last year? I saw these Grooms pics a year ago

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 5:15 PM

yeah grooms pics are here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/titus_andronicu_12.html

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 5:57 PM

BAHHHHHAHAHA that is great that they just reuse shit... it is easier but still funny how you all were able to catch that... you all know your BV photos well?!

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 6:41 PM

stiff boner

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 6:41 PM

wtf. bv why would you post old pics?

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 7:15 PM

the bass player i shonen knife is sho'nuff nice! ;D

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 7:41 PM

Hard Nips are awesome. And fun.

Posted by Anonymous | October 6, 2010 9:45 PM

hard nips are great!

Posted by Here | October 7, 2010 12:25 AM

cool