Unfortunately I did not get over to Adelaide to see Pascals at the Womadelaide festival in 2012 but thanks to this video you can see and appreciate the sound of the band for yourselves. Chiku (ex Tama) is playing the ukele and along for the ride is Tama's former drummer, Ichikawa Koji, (that's him on the side of the stage hamming it up as usual for the camera). Although the camera strays, it never strays too far away as Ichikawa's infectious, good humour adds such a presence on stage. Yes that's him playing around with a chair later on in the song for some extra sound and visual effects. In the second clip for 'Dan Dan Batake' he appears to have found a plastic raincoat which, with his red socks and red shorts, adds some more chutzpah (not sure what the Japanese term for this is, iki iki?) to his stage presence. In this song he accompanies Chiku on vocals with a bit of triangle playing. On one of the Pascals CDs they do a version of the Rolling Stones song 'Satisfaction', it is a great piece of understatement given that it is such a bloated industry and the band has such a bloated reputation and the song is filled with such a lot of bloated recognition. Somehow they manage to disguise it so that even its own mother (Mick and Keith) wouldn't recognise it. You could say that they take the cock out of rock, or, you could just enjoy the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZsGYN_7qqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJxgD8rbJM
