Korean Job Discussion Forums

redlightorchestra · Joined: 16 Jan 2006

Moe. is visiting our neighbour(japan) in april. Why is Korea never on any bands tour.

I guess they would only come to Korea if I listened to a band that played lame ballads or something!

Is anyone going to make a trip to Japan. What is the Cheapest you can get to Japan (yokohama) for?

DaeguKid · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

I love Moe and would love to catch em too! There is a popular UK band that I am friends with the lead singer. They are signed by Sony, and because of that they play Osaka and Tokyo every second year. Its sort of a meet and greet for the executives and maybe some meetings and ideas to fill in. I asked him about Korea and he said as much as he would like to play, the sales are not here.
Korea is the king of no copyright! And with that, not many sales. As well he said that his band are super popular in Japan and with that shows always sell out.
As much as Moe rock, how many Koreans do you think know of them. Next to none I would guess. I once asked my students if they knew who Pink Floyd is. 0! RadioHead...0...then I said "You know, Creep!" "AHHH yes teacher, singing room song, very popular in Korea!" Enjoy the show bro...what are the details? Any Fukuoka gigs?
DK

Jarome_Turner · Joined: 10 Sep 2004

Didn't clapton just play in Seoul? Also Oasis, Metallica were here last year. And there was a huge festival over the summer with Franz Fernidad, Audioslave, Black Eye Peas, etc...
Who are Moe anyway?

Boodleheimer · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:39 am Post subject:

all work and moe play make moe moe moe moe moe.

DaeguKid · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

redlightorchestra · Joined: 16 Jan 2006

Here is their japan tour , i plucked this from the good folks at Jambase.com

04/21/07 Bay Hall Yokohama, JP

04/22/07 Shibyua-AX Tokyo, JP

04/24/07 Club Quattro Nagoya, JP

04/25/07 Club Quattro Osaka, JP

P.s. moe. is a band from buffalo N.Y.
if you want to here moe. http://www.live365.com/stations/totalsys 24 hours, a day 7 days a week, all moe. all the time

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

Do you think Korean groupies would put out as much as Japanese ones or vice versa?

Young FRANKenstein

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

No idea who Moe is.

Korea is a small country and there isn't much of a music scene outside of Seoul, so it's not really profitable for a band to come here. The best way to do it is to book the band to tour Japan and fly over to Seoul for one weekend.

I'm bringing the Slackers over in March. It's teaching me a lot about what needs to be done, but it's not hard. You just put your ass on the line, pay for tickets, book the shows, and hopefully everything falls into place. It takes a lot of support, which I'm getting thanks to good friends.

freebeerandchicken · Joined: 02 May 2005 Location: Seoul

I think a lot of it also has to do with the huge pain in the ass that it is for foreign artists to legally perform in Korea. There's a lot of red tape and in the end a lot of bands who would otherwise give it a shot just say forget it.

moe. are great, one of the better live bands I've seen.. I won't cross out going to Japan to see them! That said, I just got back to Korea and don't know what my schedule will be like by then. But I'll keep it in mind! www.moe.org for the curious.

Korea gets the odd good live show.. Mostly DJ's though, as you've probably noticed. Last year I saw: Branford Marsalis, James Brown, Mono (f'n awesome), John Scofield, DJ Shadow, DJ Andy Smith (from Portishead), Peter Kruder (of Kruder & Dorfmeister).. DJ Czech, a great breakbeat dj from Vancouver, is coming here on Feb 17th.