Had a beautiful and unexpected night on Saturday.

It was the opening party for a new bar, LIFE.

Ex UFO member, Toshio Matsuura was djing and there were rumours of free beer, so Mr and Mrs Quaid and I headed down to check it out.

When we got there the place was rocking. A heavy jazz-dance selection played on this great soundsystem. Downstairs, the basement room was packed out with a crowd seemingly bussed in from tokyo’s hippest club; no moody east london attitudes,just this amazing mini-warehouse party.

After about 45 mins of killer music (including this deep jazz workout of inner city blues) a trio of japanese jazzers came on stage and started playing these dubbed out herbie hancock-style jams. It wasn’t until they were halfway through a version of ‘Billie Jean’ I realised I was actually watching HL fave Ino Hidefumi !!

It was a special night, so many friendly people, a space with loads of potential, great music (and an ace little goody bag)-just wish jezzy could have been there to get into it as well.

Since we’ve posted on Ino before, here is a UFO track we used to go crazy to back in the day.

楽しみなさい!!

UFO-Dig that Beat!