Korea Gig Guide

The Plastic Day, The Plastic Day, And Then More Of The Plastic Day

By Shawn Despres

Although they will participate in the “Bad Christmas Party” at Live Club Ssam (Ssamzie Space) next weekend, December 18’s “Almost Unplugged” gig is The Plastic Day’s proper year-end bash.

Set to take place at Hongdae’s Club Ta, the Seoul trio will begin the late-night concert with a rare, hour-long acoustic set. DJ Jiung Yun and Seong Rock from Bomb&Tree will join the band for a track. Vocalist Sun Ho promises that at least one cover will be worked in as well, but isn’t revealing what it will be.

After a brief break, The Plastic Day will return to the stage for a regular 90-minute electric show that will see them tearing through nearly all of the wonderfully noisy rock anthems present on this spring’s “30 Seconds Between The Dreamer and The Realist” full-length and 2007’s “Lady” EP.

The band gets to rest after that, but the festivities will be far from finished. DJ Jiung Yun will set up shop and spin his own electronic dance remixes of his favourite tracks from The Plastic Day.

Doors for The Plastic Day’s “Almost Unplugged” will open at 11 pm and the performance will begin around midnight. The cover charge is 15,000 won.

The Plastic Day had a lot to celebrate in 2009. “30 Seconds Between The Dreamer and The Realist” received high praise from mainstream and independent Korean and English media outlets. They group were invited to appear at the Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival and at Love Camp. They also opened for Tokyo’s Melt-Banana during their South Korea tour.

“30 Seconds Between The Dreamer and The Realist” was recently included amongst Indieful ROK’s Anna Lindgren’s top discs of the year on her London Korean Links “LKL Critics’ Choice 2009” list.

In other band news, bassist Ho Seong and drummer Yun Beom provide backing instrumentation on two songs on Bomb&Tree’s “Sooner Or Later” CD single that was issued earlier this month.