2010 Live: 5 Year Anniversary of Yuki Yuki Yasumi

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Yuki Yuki Yasumi was never meant to be a live/touring band. It was first envisioned as a solo project, and then I brought one other person into the fold. So Yuki is technically a duo. We usually perform as duo with a music video backing track.

However in 2010, we ended up booking a string of shows for our band Wheeling Bitch Circus and we kind of ended up not having all of our members. Steve, Jack and I were hanging out a lot and playing the “Yuki” songs in addition to the WBC songs and we decided that we wanted to play these shows billed as “Yuki Yuki Yasumi,” playing a mix of both band's material. Andy came aboard on bass so we basically played most of the shows that summer as a four-piece.

The 11 songs included on 2010 Live are distributed as follows:

Song	Band	Album
S.O.S (Natsu Yasumi)	Yuki Yuki Yasumi	Devoured By Japanese Schoolgirls (2010)
Junk	Yuki Yuki Yasumi	Devoured By Japanese Schoolgirls (2010)
Every Tear That You Wipe Away	Yuki Yuki Yasumi	Devoured By Japanese Schoolgirls (2010)
Kitsune Udon	Yuki Yuki Yasumi	Tsundere (2014)
Runaway Drama	Wheeling Bitch Circus/Jack Tradesman	Unreleased (Intended for the album Temptation)
The Jazzatrooper	Wheeling Bitch Circus	Unreleased (Intended for the album Temptation)
Agony In Grey	Wheeling Bitch Circus	Unreleased (Intended for the album Temptation)
Wrapped In Graceless Disbelief	Wheeling Bitch Circus	Era (2002)
The Passive Oblivion	Wheeling Bitch Circus	Wheeling Bitch Circus
Osaka Woman	Wheeling Bitch Circus	Unreleased (Intended for the album Temptation)
Life Without You	Wheeling Bitch Circus	Unreleased (Intended for the album Temptation)

As you can see, this is very special set for fans of Wheeling Bitch Circus as it features songs off our forth unreleased album, Temptation. These songs have never been released in any format, until now, with the exception of "Agony In Grey", which has been floating around the Internet in anime music video format and is on the Wheeling BitchCircus Myspace. (A different live version of "Life Without You" is also there as is one other Temptation song,"Burning Midnight").

"The Jazzatrooper" is a parody version of an Iron-Maidenesque song Steve wrote called "The Paratrooper." I believe it is the only recording of us doing the "jazzed up version."

"Osaka Woman" oddly seems like it should have been a Yuki Yuki Yasumi song, with its lyrical content and intermittent Japanese lyrics. Steve wrote the music and I came up with the lyrics. It was intended to be a Japanese lyric one-timer for WBC.