Note: Frontman Simon Fowler has fallen sick, meaning that Ocean Colour Scene's rescheduled November 16 date has now been cancelled. Talk about jinxed...
Now 22 years old and presumably fully adult, Ocean Colour Scene finally arrive in Japan to play a date that was originally scheduled for late March. Though their music has long been branded as retrogressive, the band are spending even more of their time looking backwards these days: they marked their 21st birthday last year with a 4CD boxset titled, appropriately, 21, and released a 15th anniversary edition of breakout album Moseley Shoals earlier this year. Still, they've been together long enough to know how to pack a live punch. Take notes, kids, and you'll be alright.