From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #919 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Tuesday, March 27 2001 Volume 01 : Number 919 In this issue: Re: [monkey] Monkey DVDs in New Zealand [monkey] Sans Filtre's Tokyo concert: 3 March 2001 [monkey] Monkey? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:49:28 +1200 From: "sandy" Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey DVDs in New Zealand For Monkey video's-- if you're in Auckland, go to the Rialto Cinemas head office/store on Ponsonby road, they have video's vol. 1 through 9, with 10-13 coming in April! I got mine there. Luverly. The store is on the left hand side of the road approaching from the K rd end, just past the first set of lights. Phone: (09)376-9366. They have the dvd's as well, I think-- plus posters and t-shirts! And thanks for the feedback on my rant, nanakki and fannio... :-) I was thinking of writing some reviews of the old Monkey episodes (Which would just be me raving about the most awesome uses of magic, most surreal scenes etc) for the website I'm building. Starting with the Country of Nightmares, which has to be my fave ep of all time-- Tripitaka as a girl! Monkey's magic contest! Monkey stoned out of his tree and dancing like elvis! Monkey having an orgy! Ah, the classics... love&rockets velvetelvis > what about videos? > > > Monkey is available in DVD in Whitcoulls a large New Zealand > > wide department store. - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:07:27 -0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] Sans Filtre's Tokyo concert: 3 March 2001 On Saturday 3 March 2001, Julia Drake-Brockman went to a Sans Filtre concert in Tokyo. (Sans Filtre is Masaaki Sakai's new band - Masaaki Sakai is the actor who played Monkey) Here's Julia's account of the concert: - --- The concert was hilarious. Masaaki is a real entertainer. He spent half the 3-hour show (5pm-8pm Aoyama Theatre) talking! I was sitting there thinking 'glad I understand Japanese...' I'll try and recall what happened... The band was quite big...about 10 people I think...there was a small brass section - some wild guys on trumpet, trombone and sax - and drums, keyboard and bass. The other two guys in Sans Filtre, Monsieur Kamayatsu and Inoue Jun are really quite talented. Inoue is a great guitarist and Kamayatsu, also on the guitar wasn't bad either. Masaaki sang and played the tambourine! They wore wild outfits. Masaaki was dressed in an Oxford Uni graduation uniform (or so he said). White shoes, white pants, blue and white pinstripe shirt, white vest and a blue blazer with white piping. Does this sound like an Oxford uniform? M. Kamayatsu was dressed in a checked suit planted firmly in punk era with knee-high black leather boots..and an inexcusably bad haircut (Howell now tells me it's a wig...I had no idea!) I couldn't stop laughing at it. Masaaki kept harassing him saying he looked like the one of the old guys from the Bay City Rollers. Inoue was also in check..with black leather pants...a little more subdued... Started off singing several English songs...I can remember Stand By Me, Route 66, Soul Man..the rest escape me at the moment...Stand By Me was amusing, Inoue was singing but half way through he forgot the words..so Masaaki joined in. At the end of the song, Masaaki had a go at him for about 10 minutes...to which Inoue answered 'it doesn't matter, they can't understand anyway'...I was almost going to yell out 'I do!'... They chatted a lot about days in The Spiders, and what each of them had been doing since then. Sang a few Spiders songs (not sure of the titles, sorry!), with Masaaki making us promise that we wouldn't tell anyone outside the theatre. They also all sang songs from their solo days, Masaaki singing Saraba Koibito, once again saying 'OK, now you REALLY can't tell anyone that I sang this - tell them about us singing Spiders' songs if you have to, but not this!! - we are a rock band and Saraba Koibito is unmistakably a ballad'. M. Kamayatsu sang a really beautiful folk song and Inoue impressed us with his guitar solo... He talked a bit about the tour (which he called the 'World Tour in Japan' - I think perhaps I was the only one who got the joke)...going to Osaka, Nagoya and back to Tokyo on March 20. Told us why the show started at 5pm. First he said that it was because they are all old men now (especially M. Kamayatsu) and need their rest. Then he told us that the real reason was because he didn't want people to have to make the decision of whether they have dinner before or after the show. If it started at 7.30 people would have difficulty deciding, he claimed. Actually, I was surprised to note that there were quite a few younger people there...but I think that had more to do with the fact that Masaaki is a famous comedian rather than his musical skills... There was a singing comp...people from the audience had to go on stage and sand the chorus of 'Soul Man'....that was really hilarious (albeit a little difficult to listen to)! One of the most memorable parts was at the end when a crazed fan (boy in is early 20s, I guess) ran up onto the stage to sing with Masaaki. They let him stay up there for a while, but he was getting a bit aggressive (throwing his arms around Masaaki's shoulders and attempting to grab the mic) so one of the stagehands finally led him away. Masaaki handled it pretty well...he made the funniest comment..'Well, what an eventful show! Sometimes I was glad, sometimes I was sad, and just then I was scared! Who would've thought that people like that would be hanging around this part of town (Aoyama is one of the most expensive parts of Tokyo - if not the most)...you really have to be careful at night! Please take care when you leave the theatre!' It was a really good night. Kept me smiling for days. Still smiling now! As for photos, no! I didn't take any b/c it wasn't allowed!! And as for meeting Masaaki, no! I didn't get to. Everything was so crazy. For some reason I think I'll have the opportunity one day - a lot of my friends here work in the industry and work with him a lot...so you never know! - --- Howell _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:46:37 -0500 From: "Macklin, Adam" Subject: [monkey] Monkey? Who is Monkey? Where's the beef? - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? 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