Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja (NRK Zting 1985)

Japanese musical group based in London, who have performed songs mainly in English from 1982. They were nominated for the 1984 Edinburgh Comedy Award for their performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the same year, their single “Blue Canary“ was number 42 in BBC DJ John Peel’s Festive Fifty, a poll of his listeners’ favourite tracks of the year. The band recorded 28 songs over five sessions for Peel between 1983 and 1989. In 1989 they hosted a television chat show on Channel 4 entitled Kazuko’s Karaoke Klub. One of the founders of the group, Kazuko Hohki performs as a theatre artist and performance artist. She also sang with the group Kahondo Style who released ’My Heart’s In Motion’ (1985) and ’Green Tea and Crocodiles’ (1987). In 2010 the group won the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy God Award, after the public responded to an e-mail sent in anger by comedian Stewart Lee to the organisers of the award.