Ian (F) Martin
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Ian (F) Martin
@ianfmartin.bsky.social
Writer and indie music scene person, based in Tokyo. Author of Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground (Awai Books, 2016) / バンドやめようぜ! (Ele-king books, 2017) and owner of Call And Response Records.
Celebrating by re-downloading Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age. Sorry, Yura Yura Teikoku article deadline.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Rikudo team hunt!
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m honestly surprised I haven’t just crashed into him on a bender in Fukuoka one night over the past 20 years of bad behaviour on my trips there. I guess I just go to the wrong places.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Update: the Data album is fantastic.
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Finally an actual Disco Pope
youtu.be/wgSQuBmFHmA?...
The Prats - Disco Pope
YouTube video by One Little Independent Records
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November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Yeah, I know it. Good if I want expensive import stuff. Useful to know for special occasions, but I really want to pay like ¥1000 for a proper British pint too.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
If I’m out that side of town, that’s good to know.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Strongbow has a nasty chemical bite to it for me. Thatchers (despite the name) is a perfectly acceptable baseline cider and what you’ll find in most Bristol pubs. Weston’s is proper nice but more like something you pick up bottles of at Tesco to drink at home. But it’s a far richer world than that!
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Oww...
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I got a few of them – Daitenjin, the Across building, Ropponmatsu, the various hotels, and I think there's a character called Canal – but I'm sure there's loads of it I still don't get.
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Tangential to the topic, but Kaname vetoed my plan to put out our latest recording under the artist name Yolo Tenga.
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This is porn for a certain type of British former prime minister.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Good one.

The Disconnected Citizen Smith
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Nowhere to Go but Up Pompeii!
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM