Vaiwatt based TOKYO
KEN - Vo Guitar TAMA - Bass Vo
Performance Requests, Inquiries
For event organizers, music labels, live houses, etc., outside of Japan🌐
TECHNICOLOUR PUNK FROM JAPAN
Japanese rebels melting punk-pop and grunge into a Blade Runner technicolour fantasy –Kandy Pop for Jet Boys and Jet Girls, Love Missiles that Smell Like Teen Spirit!
(The Sunflower Lounge / Birmingham)
"VAIWATT will delight and entertain everyone at the venue in you country!"
"Also, in the spirit of musical comradery, has supported the artists who have performed with us on our overseas tours by inviting them to perform in Tokyo, Since its inception in 2021, the focus of the VAIWATT-produced “EDO WAVE” serieshas been to create live music and art events with an international appeal."Vaiwatt has always held all forms of rock music from the 20th century with the utmost respect and deepest affection. Most of Vaiwatt’s songs come from Ken’s childhood innocence, where the purity of his mid and heart, good and evil, collide. Vaiwatt’s visual image is influenced by Manga rock, which is mixture of Kabuki makeup and Punk fashion, creating Japan's original unique rock style.
Vaiwatt was “born” in 2013, and made their first television appearance the following year at Japan's oldest rock festival: New Year World Rock Festival from 2014 to 2015. Since then, Ken has held many sold-out one-man live shows in Japan, and also actively held independent projects "napaJ興行", a fundraising event to benefit the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, from 2014 to 2016; all proceeds from this three-year event were donated to "After-School/Collabo-schools" attended by children in the disaster-stricken areas. Currently, Part of the proceeds are going for relief to the recent earthquake stricken areas of Turkey, and Kumamoto and the Noto Peninsula areas in Japan.
In 2018, Vaiwatt found success when they performed for the first time overseas in Anaheim, California in America. Much to Vaiwatt’s surprise, two weeks after returning to Japan, they were approached to tour Russia. They performed at Russia's international music festival "White Night of Saint Petersburg 2018". More tours followed: Italy and Russia in 2019, Istanbul, Turkey in 2021, a second seven city Italian tour in 2022, and a UK Tour in 2023. They performed in various venues such as bars, clubs, mission schools, stadiums, and Comicon book conventions in these countries. Since 2021, In Shinjuku Tokyo, Vaiwatt has organized the international music festival "EDO WAVE", in Tokyo, bringing talent from around the world to Japan.
