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FRANK CHICKENS | Ninja Legends 1983-1989 4CD coming soon!

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FRANK CHICKENS | Ninja Legends 1983-1989 4CD coming soon!

FRANK CHICKENS | Ninja Legends 1983-1989 4CD coming soon!

FRANK CHICKENS | Ninja Legends 1983-1989 4CD coming soon!

4CD box set focusing on their 80s recordings.
Includes the well-known albums ‘We Are Frank Chickens’, ‘Get Chickenized’, ‘Club Monkey'.
Plus an additional compilation of BBC live sessions recorded for John Peel, Richard Skinner and Janice Long.

Frank Chickens are a legendary Japanese punk pop performance group with a cult following in the UK. Started as a duo with Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi Taguchi, now the group has expanded to more than 20 members.

Influenced by pop, punk, and traditional music particularly Japanese Minyo (folk songs), Okinawa music and Enka, Frank Chickens set out to deflate the myths separating East and West, and men and women, while showing the absurdity of the dual stereotype of Japanese women as submissive geisha or mysterious femme fatales.

They were John Peel favourites, had an independent chart hit with ‘We Are Ninja’, won the Foster Comedy God Award in 2010, released five albums and toured worldwide. Recently they have become the power behind Ura Matsuri – the festival showcasing ESEA (East And South East Asian) artists in the UK.

PRE-ORDER 4CD BOX SET

DISC ONE

WE ARE FRANK CHICKENS

1 Cheeba Cheeba Chimpira

2 Mothra

3 Green Banana

4 Madam Fatal

5 We Are Ninja

6 Yellow Detective

7 Shellfish Bamboo

8 Pikadon

9 We Are Frank Chickens

10 Sake Ballad

NON ALBUM TRACKS

11 We Are Ninja (Re-Cut Version) (12”)

12 Fujiyama Mama

13 Ninja Dub

14 Blue Canary

15 China Night

16 Japanese Rhumba

17 Ari Lang

DISC TWO

GET CHICKENIZED

1 We Say You Say

2 Sacred Marriage

3 Street Angels, Tokyo

4 Two Little Ladies

5 Solid Life

6 Japanese Girl

7 Island Inside Island

8 Young Summer

9 Chicken Ondo

10 Yellow Toast

11 One Million Hamburgers

12 Monster

13 The Dark

14 House Of Ninja

NON ALBUM TRACKS

15 Yellow Toast (Burnt Mix) (12”)

16 One Million Hamburgers (Mac Mix) (12”)

DISC THREE

CLUB MONKEY

1 Club Monkey

2 Waiting For A Dog

3 Burn That Body

4 Revolution

5 Night Drain

6 Feed Me

7 Jackie Chan

8 Shaken By God’s Hand

9 M.Y.T.H.

10 Hey Dead

11 Club Monkey Reprise

12 Do The Karaoke

DISC FOUR

BBC LIVE SESSIONS

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 16th MAY 1983

1 We Are Ninja

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 28th SEPTEMBER 1983

2 Fujiyama Mama

3 Shellfish Bamboo

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 14th MARCH 1984

4 Blue Canary

5 Yellow Toast

BBC RICHARD SKINNER SESSION 26 JULY 1984

6 Black Ship

7 We Are Frank Chickens

BBC RICHARD SKINNER SESSION 14TH NOVEMBER 1984

8 Green Banana

9 Pikadon

10 We Say You Say

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 5th MARCH 1985

11 China Night

12 Ari Lang

13 Japanese Rumba

14 Sake Ballad

BBC JANICE LONG SESSION 31 JULY 1985

15 Yellow Detective

16 Madam Fatal

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 5TH AUGUST 1986

17 Japanese Girl

18 Sacred Marriage

19 Chicken Ondo

BBC JOHN PEEL SESSION 10TH JULY 1989

20 Jackie Chan

21 Do The Karaoke