Style Resume. Noriaki Onuki #6

Text: Kenichi Aono

Edit: Suzuki Yusuke

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Whether it's fashion, music, or sports, there is a style that only each person can express in any genre. "Style is Everything." That's right, someone once said that style is everything. "Style Resume" is a series of interviews with adults who, as the name suggests, have style. Updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the 13th installment features music critic, radio DJ, and organizer of the DJ event "LONDON NITE," which will celebrate its 45th anniversary in 2025.

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06. They decide to give it a try and form a band.

The record stores I went to based on information I got from the radio were Yamaha in Dogenzaka and Teito Musen in Shinjuku. At the time, many records weren't even released in Japan, so all I could buy were imported records. There were only a limited number of places that sold them, and there wasn't even a rock section yet.

After seeing a GS live performance, we decided to try it ourselves and formed a band in high school. I was the vocalist. I couldn't play any instruments, but I figured I could sing, and if I was going to do it, I wanted to stand out. Our four-piece band consisted of guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, and the GS band members were like our teachers. Since we only played Western covers, I would ask them, "How do we play this song?" I remember playing a concert featuring only amateur bands in the small hall of the Shinjuku Welfare Pension Hall, and I also played once on the first floor of the Yamaha building in Dogenzaka. But you really get a sense of your skill when you actually play. So I thought it was more fun listening than performing. I felt like I was more suited to introducing music I found appealing to others.

I was so immersed in music that I didn't do anything else for fun. I was starting to become interested in fashion and I was starting to get a bit sexually aware, so I went to Shinjuku to buy some Ivy League items. But with my mother (laughs).

  • In a photo taken in the late 1970s, likely at home, she is seen wearing a SEX (later Seditionaries) sweater, which she still owns.

    In a photo taken in the late 1970s, likely at home, she is seen wearing a SEX (later Seditionaries) sweater, which she still owns.

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Noriaki Onuki (music critic and radio DJ)

Born in February 1951, Kenrocks began his career as a music critic while still a university student, and has been active for over half a century. He has a particularly deep knowledge of punk rock, and launched "LONDON NITE" at Tsubaki House in Shinjuku in June 1980, a DJ event that continues to this day and whose influence is immeasurable. In January 2025, he published "HISTORY OF KENSHO ONUKI: A Memoir." "Kenrocks Nite - Ver. 2" is currently broadcast every Friday from midnight on inter FM.

Instagram @kensho_onuki

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