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YUNIOSHI has lots of great news for you today. Firstly, the new single is now out! "Invisible" can be downloaded from http://yunioshi.bandcamp.com. Please enjoy.

We're fresh back from an amazing time playing to a packed house at our headline slot for Canadian Music Week in Toronto. Amazing fun, amazing crowds. We loved it there! Listen to our live uplink on the BBC.
YUNIOSHI talk to the BBC live from Toronto at Canadian Music Week by yunioshi

We have also just been confirmed to play The Big Mix music festival in aid of Cancer charity Macmillan. We'll be playing alongside Zero 7 and Claire Maguire. There is also plenty more festival news to be announced from us real soon.

By the way - has anyone heard our track "Thunderbird" being used to advertise ITVs Celebrity Juice? Maybe we'll get to meet Fearne!?..

Yunioshi - April 2011


YUNIOSHI have had a busy start to 2011 so far as we write our new EP. But we are back with news of many gigs and new ways of hearing our music. We will be playing in Toronto for the Canadian Music Week in March alongside fellow Brits Anna Calvi and Bombay Bicycle Club. Look out for gig updates on our events wall. Before that we will be playing two shows in Nottingham and one in London. We have also just set up our very own bandcamp page where you can stream our latest release. We are also giving away TWO FREE DOWNLOADS to commemorate this. Please visit http://yunioshi.bandcamp.com to discover more.

Also, please check out our photobased interview at A Negative Narrative here http://anegativenarrative.com/interviews/yunioshi/
Yunioshi - January 2011


YUNIOSHI Are back from playing the awesome ICELAND AIRWAVES 2010 alongside greats such as Everything Everything, Bombay Bicycle Club, Robyn, FM Belfast, Bloodgroup, et al! Many thanks to the hundreds of you that crammed yourself into our shows - you were the greatest crowds we ever played to! We had great shows both on and off venue and want to thank all the venues and promoters that asked us to play. Airwaves is awesome and Reykjavik is amazing. We made many great friends out there and can't wait to return! Photos, videos and all kinds of things will be posted soon when we catch up!
Yunioshi - November 2010


YUNIOSHI would like to thank Jon Burgerman & Jim Avignon aka Anxieteam for an amazing couple of days of live music fun! It was great playing with you and best of luck in Berlin! Photos are popping up on our Facebook page Have a quick look.Next stop for us is the Liberty Festival on Saturday in Trafalgar Square. Just a short set and we're onstage around 3pm. See you there! ..
Gansaku! - August 2010


YUNIOSHI live on the amazing Tom Robinsons BBC6 Music Introducing show. Listen to us talk about cakes, gigs, more cakes and everything inbetween as we take part in the "Introducing inquisition". The whole show is also available to download from iTunes as a BBC6 music podcast..
YUNIOSHI live on Tom Robinsons BBC6 Music Introducing Show by yunioshi
Rob - August 2010


YUNIOSHI have just been selected to perform at Iceland Airwaves 2010.We'll be performing in Reykjavik, Iceland between October 13th-17th with at least one additional fringe date with the amazing Icelandic electro booty shakers Bloodgroup
Rob - August 2010


YUNIOSHI will be performing at Liberty Festival in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 4th September as they continue to support disabled musicians
Gansaku! - August 2010


We're all pretty excited about joining Jon Burgerman and Hello Thor down at The Lexington in August for the launch of the first Anxieteam single. Biscuit giveaways, live doodles, video projetions - right up our street!
Rob - August 2010

Latest gig



YUNIOSHI will be playing alongside Swimming (Tummy Touch) and Fists (Hello Thor) as well as whole whost of the cream of the Nottingham music scene at this amazing Record Breakers night. Each band will play their new record from start to finish in Nottinghams very own Arts Theatre



Denzien Records presents Record Breakers on Saturday 19 February 2011
Nottingham Arts Theatre. George Street NG1 3BE - Doors 3pm. £10-13 entry
Tickets available from Rock City and Alt-tickets
Click here to buy tickets

YUNIOSHI

BIOGRAPHY
YUNIOSHI are made of four people based in Nottingham, UK. An eclectic bunch of influences feed a sound which is always upbeat, always trying to steal a peek up the short skirt of life.

Selected by BBC Introducing as one of the hottest emerging talents in the UK.

Visit www.bbc.co.uk/introducing

"Think Beck dry humping the Flaming Lips with the robot from Lost in Space looking on and filming all the action for his own personal collection. The perfect pop band. They're as catchy as hell."

Leftlion Magazine


"The band blend Beck-style flagrant rhythms and otherworldly vocals in a DIY style, creating something danceable, updeat and louder than an American in a sun-visor shop."

Metro London


"A brightly, highly, super cool funk breakbeat three piece from Nottingham, with a sound that is so spot on it would appear this is more american sounding than a british thing! If you imagine Lemonjelly, Massive Attack and Del La Soul forming a supergroup, this would be the outcome!"

Fierce Panda


"With nods to Beck and whatever Kraftwerk would have turned out like if they'd had a girl in the band, Yunioshi's feisty funked-up beats are saucily styed to make your pelvis pivot and your grin groove."

A Negative Narrative



History



Yunioshi: A potted history so far!
Well, we've not been around that long but we've been very busy. In our first year we managed to get two tracks from our first EP1 picked up for ad syncs (Kia and Vauxhall cars), released our first single, played Nottingham Arena as well as numerous other fantastic venues around the country, and even picked up our fourth member Hakushi Yunioshi San - our brand spanking new live drummer. 2008 was a tough year for Hakushi who suffered a T8 level spinal injury at the start of 2008 leaving him paralysed from the waist down. However, the Yunioshi spirit is strong and he has reinvented drumming from his wheelchair! While he was away for 7 months of spinal rehab we did a few things without him. Our premier Maida Vale session recorded in April as part of BBC Introducing. This was quickly followed by flying to Iceland to play a show in Reykjaviks famous Organ venue. We then played the Introducing stage at the Middle of Nowhere festival. In 2009 we played Summer Sundae second stage (De Montfort Hall) and Splendour festivals. In 2010 we played at the prestigious Iceland Airwaves festival and in 2011 fly to Toronto to play Canadian Music Week. We also had more tracks used on the telly - Thunderbird and Lets Go! were used by Setanta Sports football coverage. Thunderbird also appears on a compilation released by Lo Recordings / Universal in 2009, which is where it was picked up by Comedy Central and used for all their South Park new season TV ads!


Yunioshi 2011: Further and further and more and more
We are currently writing our fourth EP which begins where we left off with How To Survive A Robot Uprising. Big style beats and thumping electro meet stabbing guitars and drifting harmonies. Following on from Iceland Airwaves in October 2010 we have really developed our love of festivals both in the UK and abroad. We are starting the festivals early in March as we trek to Toronto to play the Canadian Music Week. We are aiming to play more festivals in 2011 - especially in the UK and are hoping to return to Reykjavik of Airwaves'11 in October. Our new website will be up and running soon and we welcome our new manager Chris to the family. So in 2011 expect more music, more cakes, more air miles and more festivals! Thank you for being with us this far!

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DIGITAL RELEASES

Come and buy the new EP HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING. Available from iTunes, Amazon, www.gogoyoko.com and other digital outlets.



YUNIOSHI - How To Survive A Robot Uprising


Come and buy the single LEISURE RULES. Only 79p from iTunes, Amazon and other digital outlets.



YUNIOSHI - Leisure Rules - Leisure Rules


ONLINE SHOP



YUNIOSHISHOPS IS NOW OPEN. Click the above image to visit the Official Yunioshi shop. Its the place to go for Teeshirts, badges, visors and demo music releases! Pop in!

Radio time



YUNIOSHI talk to the BBC live from Toronto at Canadian Music Week by yunioshi

YUNIOSHI live on Tom Robinsons BBC6 Music Introducing Show by yunioshi

Yunioshi on The Beat (May 2010) by yunioshi

"CTRL" by Yunioshi on BBC radio The Beat May2010 by yunioshi

Stephen Merchant BBC6 Music July 08 by yunioshi

Tom Robinson BBC6Music Aug09 by yunioshi

Yunioshi on BBC Radio - Summer Sundae with Dean Jackson by yunioshi

Yunioshi first chat on The Beat

BBC Introducing with Tom Robinson on 6 music
We've been Introduced by Tom Robinson

Listen to us on Steve Lamacq (Feb 2008) :


General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Breakbeat / Rock

    Location UK

    Profile Views: 83973

    Last Login: 8/20/2011

    Member Since 12/7/2005

    Website www.weareyunioshi.com

    Record Label Unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    "Think Beck dry humping the Flaming Lips with the robot from Lost in Space looking on and filming all the action for his own personal collection. The perfect pop band. They're as catchy as hell" Leftlion Magazine Selected by BBC Introducing as one of the hottest emerging talents in the UK.

  • Members

    Rob Yunioshi, Lady Yunioshi Suzuki, James Yunioshi San and Hakushi Yunioshi san with an assortment of guests

  • Influences

    Fonda 500, Beck, Simple Kid, Tom Vek, Serge Gainsbourg, The Experimental Pop Band

  • Sounds Like

    Beck, Flaming Lips, Tom Vek, Serge Gainsbourg, Super Furry Animals, Neo Neon, We Are Enfant Terrible, Gorillaz,

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