Profile

• In 2004 at the "Osaka Rock 'n' Roll Reformatory" in Tondabayashi three inmates miraculously met and formed a band. They were-: the Tokushima Drunkard, Danny (guitar, vocals); the Izumo Youkai, Dory (bass, vocals) and the No-good Son of Naniwa, Bogie (drums, vocals).
• April 2004, senior inmate Homan upon release from detention founded the agency Gekidan Kurino.
• June 2004, Homan invited them to release a three song demo CD, "The 50 Kaitenz". Thanks to the great production skills of The Denki Bran's vocalist, Kurasaka, the resulting CD was amazing!
• November 2004, The 50 Kaitenz had a gig in Wakayama with The Neatbeats. The crowd was so densely packed that Dory couldn't breath and after leaving the stage vomited in the parking lot. Large amounts of beer were detected in the physical evidence.
• February 19th 2005, the second CD "The 50 Kaitenz no Gyakushu" (The Return of the 50 Kaitenz) release event was held at Juso Fandango and The 50 Kaitenz played to their largest audience to that date. All 100 copies of the CD sold out instantaneously. Immediately afterwards the remaining 50 copies of the first CD also sold out. Apologies had to be made to many disappointed fans. The resulting mixed feelings of happiness and guilt led to an excessive intake of beer.
• April 11th 2005, the first broadcast of The 50 Kaitenz regular radio program, "The 50 Kaitenz no Dengeki Radio" went to air. The station manager was concerned that their language was not fit for broadcast.
• April 18th 2005, The 50 Kaitenz organised a gig at Juso Fandango and headlined for the first time, thanks to the manager, Mr Kato. The stress of such an awesome responsibility led to another episode of truly excessive beer consumption. The audience numbers reached another record high.
• July 2005, The 50 Kaitenz played with The Neatbeats and So-On★G at Wakayama Old Time. The gig was so intense that it inspired the band to drink large quantities of beer!! The total sales of "The 50 Kaitenz" exceeded 1800 on that date.
• September 2005, they appeared on the Osaka TV music program "Sound Garage" and got a huge response.
• October 3rd-13th 2005, The 50 Kaitenz travelled to the United States to record their first album (in analogue, using vintage equipment and in less than a week) at Kevin Ink studio in San Francisco. It was recorded and mixed by Koichi Hara (of The Boredoms). After finishing the recording they travelled to New York and played their first gig in the USA at Pianos on the 11th. (They'd have liked to have played at CBGBs because of their respect for The Ramones but there was no gig that night.) Their expectations weren't high but they totally kicked ass. The 50 Kaitenz made those New Yorkers dance like crazy and their set was followed by a storm of applause and shouts for an encore that refused to be denied. The owner of Pianos was incredibly impressed and offered them all that they could drink for free! This led to a truly record over-intake of alcohol and a commemorative photoshoot on the New York subway on the way back to their hotel. The next day they were late catching their bus to the airport.
• November 4th 2005, The 50 Kaitenz appeared on TV Tokyo's "Live Bang" with Fukawa Ryo. Everyone, including the president of "Rockin' On" magazine, Yoichi Shibuya, raved about them and the they got a ten thousand yen (about $US1000) prize!
• November 12th 2005, they played a gig, recorded for Fuji TV's "The Factory", with Guitar Wolf and Polysics, in front of 1000 people and hosted by Puffy's Yumi Yoshimura and Snail Ramp's Takemura, and blew everyone away with their performance.