Live from Tokyo!

<p>We&#39;re recording from the Sequence Hotel in Miyashita Park, Shibuya. First time back in Tokyo in over two decades — Ione&#39;s mom and our teenager are both along for the trip.</p><p>Ben wraps the Two Most Annoying People You Love tour with Georgia Maq: why this tour was harder to sell than Awake Is In Your Sleep but a true creative victory, and why he ended the last night in Canberra saying there are only three artists in his career he&#39;s ever felt truly safe sharing a stage with for two hours.</p><p>He also saw Digger in IMAX on the final day of the tour, called Ione afterwards slightly shaken, and is now firmly in the camp that it is a bomb because it&#39;s difficult — not because it&#39;s bad.</p><p>Plus: the vintage band shirt economy in Tokyo (Minutemen tees, $400 a pop), Ione&#39;s mom being captivated by a radio show broadcast from a Shibuya window, Rick Rubin doing prayer beads at Fred Siegel during Ione&#39;s first nausea-free meal of her pregnancy, and why Australian artists should stop chasing LA and start building in Asia.</p><p>Up next: Ghibli Park in Nagoya, an in-store at Flake Records in Osaka with the Shonen Knife ladies, and a gig with Mophing People.</p>