Chica seems to have split up with Toshi by the late 90s and hasn'tĭone musical projects that we know about in quite a while.Īround 1989 for some 10th anniversary live shows though no commercial recordingsĬame out. KUDO, a DJ, also joinedĪnd continues to work with Toshi on later projects like Love T.K.O. (Simply Red, Sinead O'Connor, Bomb the Bass). Yashiki (home page)on drums, who has a high profile career in the UK Is well known for making exotica style albums.
Not necessarily both bands as full time members) were Yann Tomita, who Some new ones in the UK recently with a different membership, whereas MelonĬontinued on a few years then went dormant) Included at times as members (but (Water Melon did exotica tunes during the same period in Japan withĪ different lineup than Melon), Water Melon went dormant for years then recorded based, were a couple and married for quite some In '81,Tachibana had a solo career and often just persued graphic design. They played shows in NYC and got an internationalĭeal with Island Records before internal conflicts forced them to break up. Sent it to the B-52's manager since their style was rather similar and he promptly Tour and slipped David Byrne their demo tape. Like Toshi? was doing designs for a book being made for Talking Heads' Japanese Though its probably retold so many times its not 100% accurate goes something Their names to just chica, toshi, hajime, ma-chan and shima. Sakuma (synth/production) and Takemi Shima (rhythm). Nakanishi (vox/guitar/perc), Hajime Tachibana (vox/guitar), Masahide Members (for their prime recording era)were Chica Sato (vox), Toshio
Okamoto ( JO) has a web page with info on a bunch of interestingĪnd never listened to means I've listened to this album but don't own itĪ short lived band (1979-81 professionally, though the formed earlier ) whose *Go to their shows, buy their CDs or use an online music store.He also wrote a Nakanishi profile published in Giant Robot Magazine #4 *It's up to YOU to support these artists. *Some of these artists play in other, more recent bands. *Some of these artists have passed on - R.I.P. *Some of the music found here is out of print. *We have no affiliation with the music blogs that we link to. *We have no affiliation with the original P5 radio show. *We make absolutely NO INCOME from this blog. *All links are found using public search sites like: * Google Blog Search or Captain Crawl *We are not an automatic music blog aggregator. *All links on The P5 point to other music blogs *The P5 DOES NOT upload, post, host or share music files online. We listened on cassette and vinyl, we danced to it at nightclubs, we saw the bands before they were famous, we got weird haircuts, we dressed in strange clothes. This blog is a tribute to all of the great music of that era. Other college radio stations caught the wave, followed by some major commercial stations like: 101.9 WPIX N.Y, 92.7 WLIR N.Y, 106.7 KROQ L.A, 91.1 91X San Diego, 105.7 The Quake San Francisco and others. to play the "New Wave" of music that arose from the ashes of Punk Rock. Back in 1978, it was among the first stations in the U.S.