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Dance, Mother****er, Dance!
Live @ Halifax Pop Explosion
All the way from Tokyo, Japan, The Moist Towelettes are a four-piece j-pop (Japanese pop) band that feature a guitar, a keyboard and two adorably well-synchronized female vocalists. Clad in what looked like bedsheets and flimsy paper crowns, the girls waved their hands and grinned while singing lines like “you’re my sunshine” and “hey hey hey!” It was adorable. It was also bizarre. Performance art at its best [more...]
Halifax Pop Explosion – The Hour – cbc.ca
Live @ Halifax Pop Explosion w/Zoobombs
The Moist Towelettes took their name to wardrobe. Clad in white shapeless and possibly moist garments with silver headbands, they chimed out “hey hey hey you’re my sunshine” multiple rounds of times. Their songs were as shiny and happy as the whole band was, to the tune of what could have been the baseline for the Sesame Street theme song [more...]
Stay Moist With the Moist Towelettes
live in Shibuya, Tokyo
The Moist Towelettes took the stage April 12th at Loop Shibuya and brought the audience into the multi-colored, sweet candy world of Nintendo pop music and choreographed dancing. The adorable singing front-women Emi and Yuko ran through dance moves reminiscent of Pink Lady, an unfathomably popular female duo in Japan during the 1970′s.
Beach Boy-esque harmonies by guitar player Mike and keytar player Dave would often accompany the catchy lyrics of Emi and Yuko. Electronic beats laid the tracks for the candy train to bring smiles to the faces of everyone in the live house…
If the catchy pop sounds of The Moist Towelettes don’t at least bring a smile to your face, I think you should check for a pulse.
[source: www.livefromtokyo.net]
Let’s get moist!
CBC Radio3 Podcast
Moist Towelettes song, Clap Your Hands featured as the opening track on CBC Radio 3 podcast (the most popular podcast in Canada).
Get Moist. Stay Moist. Fly.
Live @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto
I spent the last week of June away from the seemingly-unending rain the UK is currently experiencing in sunny, sunny, incredibly sunny Toronto. While I was there, I did my usual holiday gig choosing formula – scanning through the local listings for anything that sounded interesting or unusual, and then going. This led me to see The Moist Towelettes, a Canadian/Japanese (really: two Canadian boys, two Japanese girls, formed in Tokyo) pop band.
Their emphasis is firmly on the pop, with harmonies and keyboards and co-ordinated dancing (thankfully, just from the girls); stylistically I suppose, they reminded me of The Pipettes, but there was something a lot more honest and fun and just plain adorable about them.
EP Review – The Moist EP
- it’s self-released (and looks lovely!), so probably a bit tricky to get hold of, and while it doesn’t quite capture the sheer amounts of fun that come spilling off the stage at one of their live shows, it’s definitely a bundle of the small and joyous variety.
~ July 7, 2007 [source: hell is chrome]
The Moist Towelettes Merch Explosion
The Coast.ca – Halifax Pop Explosion
Emi and Yuko are not only excellent fun time party dancers, they also make great band tshirts, some with hand-sewn ruffles and buttons. Here they are posing with what I think was one of the best band shirt designs at the festival.
