Sunday, July 25, 2010

Thank you for the music: Here's to the 'cheap, embarrassing' 1980s

Thank you for the music: Here's to the 'cheap, embarrassing' 1980s
Golden Gai, rock bars

“It’s easier to say this is a 1980s bar, but actually we focus on the fifth decade of the Showa era,” says Kei Sekine, owner of Bar Plastic Model. If you don’t know the difference, an education is waiting through a set of unassuming doors in Shinjuku’s Golden Gai.

The curriculum is a respectable selection of Japanese seven-inch singles from the mid 1970s to 1980s. “I like to think of these as finger food,” Sekine says of the records which occupy a space on the bar where you’d usually find beer nuts. “I want people to browse and be able to connect over the records as they drink.”

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