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Live: Tenniscoats Ameya Norimizu Umeda Tetsuya Takahashi Ikuro Norman Blake Thank You Sold Out! 1 week Pass Artist Information: Tenniscoats  1993, Saya joined in Ueno's Band, PukaPuka Brians. 1995, majikick label started by Saya and Ueno. They played with Dj clock as Cacoy, and started to join in Mahel Shalal Hash Baz as members when the band play the first show at Glasgow, 1999. When that time, they met Glasgow music scene. 2003, first U.S Tour with Deerhoof. With weird-meddle record's organizing, they played firstly in Sapporo with guesting the drummer, Takahashi Ikuro. On that time, they joined in the monthly event which Namaiki and Ikunishi Yasunori organized. Tenniscoats were band with friends, Kujun, Arata and Shinoppen so on. 2003, released 'We are every one' (majikick) with Soma Dai and friends. They played many shows with guesting many musicians like Tori Kudo, Yoshio Kuge. 2005, released 'Live Wanderus' (Chapter Music) which is the compilation of that live sessions. On that releasing tour, they met Lawrence English and recorded 'Totemo Aimasho' in Brisbane. 2005, UK/Scotland Tour with Nikaido Kazumi, Mahel Shall Hash Baz.. And They started the recording with the Pastels. And They met the Tape at Stockholm's airport , and had a tour with them in next year. 2006. Roskilde festival. 2007, 'TanTan Therapy' (Hapna) with Tape was released. In this year, They joined the last 'Festival Beyond Innocence' (organized by Uchihashi Kazuhisa) in Osaka with helping of Umeda Tetsuya. They and Umeda Tetsuya and Takahashi Ikuro recorded together and released 'moere' after. 2008, onion Tour with Satomi , Greg from Deerhoof. 2009, released 'Two Sunsets' (domino) with the Pastels. Norman Blake, Gerald Love, Bill Wells also joined in the album. 2010, joined in the exhibition Ikunishi Yasunori 'Okaerinasai Uta'. Saya met Ameya Norimizu and reading together on this time. 2010, in the shooting of 'Take Away Show' they played Baibaba Bimba. 2011, Sound of Ameya Norimizu theater work 'Omoi no mama'. 2011, released 'Tokinouta' (majikick) recorded by Nishikawa Bunho. Tour with Jad Fair in Japan, and recorded 'Enjoy Your Life' recorded by Oshiro Makoto. They joined in Project Fukushima! and played Yoshihide Otomo. 2012, Saya organized the choir group 'Undora' which Yuko Ikema is the member. 2013, Tour with GEZAN, and released that live recording. 2013, released 'majikick 7CD Box' which released about 50 titles - yumbo, eddiemarcon, NSD, damson… Ueno joined Shibata Satoko's show. 2014, Ueno released 100 new songs cassette Box. 2014, Tenniscoats started the shooting project at Kunisaki haunt, Oita-ken, and now continuing. Endo mizuki is organizing the project. The artist Amemiya Yosuke and the photo grapher Nishimitsu Yusuke joined in the art project. [Tenniscoats Homepage](http://www.tenniscoats.com/) Ameya Norimizu  Umeda Tetsuya  works in various fields such as performing art, improvisational music and exhibition. He has actively collaborated with a number of visual artists and musicians. He focuses on time-process with simple physical phenomena of light and sound and expands them into live installation as site-specific. As recent activities, his solo exhibitions include 大きなことを小さくみせる[show big things as if they were small] (Kobe Art Village Center, 2011), and 小さなものが大きくみえる[small things that seems big] (Shin-Fukujyusou, Osaka, 2011). He has taken part in international exhibitions such as Double Vision:Contemporary Art from Japan (Moscow Museum of Modern Art / Haifa Museum of Art, 2011), x_sound : John Cage, Nam June Paik and after(Nam June Paik Art Center, 2012), and Aichi Triennale 2010 - Arts and Cities (Futaba building, 2010). He is based in Osaka. [Tetsuya Umeda Homepage](http://www.siranami.com) Takahashi Ikuro  Norman Blake  Illustlation by Jad Fair