A short review and some beautiful photos by Colin from the UFO Club in Tokyo.More at the link below:

http://onlyintokyo.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/screen-vinyl-image-ufo-club-koenji/

A Shoegaze event, a mammoth bill of 7 bands, 3 American, clouds of cigarette smoke, darkness, grotty venue, tissue in my ears and a lot of noise.  This is enough to make people not want to go but for some reason I am loving noise these days and I was well pumped for this.  Melodic or not, I just love it.

I spent a lot of the night shuving tissue paper into my ears and rubbing my eyes from all the cigarette smoke in the tiny venue (holds about 100 people) with some nonexistent air conditioning.  Here is one of the seven bands that made it all worthwhile -  Screen Vinly Image.  Loud?  Yes it was.  It sure was.