Hear about the Hollywood stars visiting Tokyo and hear about the “Madonna of Japan” who will be in the American TV series “BONES.”
TAYLOR SWIFT was here over the weekend, Chris has the story and he tells us about the BACKSTREET BOYS and WHITNEY HOUSTON’s upcoming concert at Saitama Super Arena.
Also hear about pianist and NHK star NAO MATSUSHITA.
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Film critic, Morton provide harsh criticism for the films opening in Tokyo this weekend. Editor, Hadfield shares views on some of the more unusual stories from our magazine this week and Kong interviews our special, musical guest, WAYNE JONES Skyping in from Australia.
Where’s Kaleb? Well, as we often say…”Kaleb is a musician in demand!” He’s been out gigging again this week, but he promises to be back next week. To hear his best picks for this weekend, listen to the first 5-minutes our our MidWeek MetPod from this past Wednesday, Feb. 3rd.
Listen to hear our plugged-in navigators provide you with their best suggestions for things to do in Tokyo this weekend starting Friday, February 5th. Also, hear concert suggestions from KALEB JAMES and movie suggestions from film critic, DON MORTON.
Hear the very first report about the big awards ceremony and event held at Tokyo prestigious BILLBOARD LIVE club in Roppongi’s MidTown complex. In this brief podcast we’ll be talking with the MC of the show, J-WAVE’s MIBU MINAMI, we’ll also get a special report from BILLBOARD magazine correspondent for Japan and Asia, ROB SCHWARTZ and JAPAN TIMES writer ROBERT POOLE.
Musically, we’ll have a special introductory interview with Miss JUDITH HILL who was featured in MICHAEL JACKSON’s movie “This Is It.” Plus our music director for the MetPod, KALEB JAMES has rounded-up some of the background singers from soul, J-pop diva’s AI’s band OLIVIA and YURI to harmonize with a little “Music.”
Once again, our cranky critic DON is calling-in from the USA via Skype to tell you his opinions about all the movies opening this weekend in Tokyo. If you’re considering a movie…you’d be wise to listen ’cause, as he always tells us, he “goes to all the movies — so you don’t have to.”
Hear about all the cool things you can be doing in Tokyo this weekend as our navigators, SARAH and LAUREN turn you on to the very best suggestions.
Also in this podcast you’ll hear how YOU can win a FREE pair of tickets to the biggest party of the year…The METROPOLIS GLITTERBALL. You’ll be asked to send an email to MIHO and CHINATSU at glitterball@metropolis.co.jp
To see easy instructions on how to find the party, check the quick video below.
In this SHOWBIZ MetPod with writer CHRIS BETROS we’re talking about all the Hollywood stars visiting Tokyo. We also have a short brush with a celb interview with MATHEW BROADWAY of Dyson who tells us about his brush with the Clinton’s (Chelsea, Hillary and Bill) in a small restaurant. Self-professed Tokyo-based geek, JOSEPH TAME talks a little about how he shot the ‘live’ video for KALEB’s gig last Friday and we all talk a little about GO GO, the Japanese school girl who was in QUENTIN TARENTINO’S movie, “KILL BILL” Miss CHIAKI KURIYAMA (check the chilling sceen from a movie she was in in the video below.)
CAUTION: Adult Oriented Material
As Metpod listeners will know, tonight we have a very special event happening at Tokyo Main Dining in the Shidax biru (along the road from Tower Records) MAP
Music will be provided by the multi-talented Kaleb James and his band, with artist Tom Reyes producing live art based on the what we hear!
The art will later be auctioned off to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake Relief Campaign.
EDIT (11:00pm)
The live show has just finished, and what a show it was!
Thanks so much to all of you who tuned in to watch our live video stream.
We’ll also be releasing a professionally shot video soon, and of course, you can tune in to the Metpod to hear Kong’s report!
Stay tuned – we’ve got another live event coming up soon!
The Weekend MetPod
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KALEB – MORTON & KONG
Hear all about our “visual artist” activity with artist TOM REYES at KALEB’s gig at Tokyo Main Dining. And enjoy a chat with the always effervescent and talented background singer for the J-pop soul diva, AI and TOSHINOBU KUBOTA…Miss YURI KAMINO! And, YURI is also a very talent solo singer in her own right, and best of all, she has a gig coming up that you can enjoy. Listen…she’ll tells us all about it in this podcast.
