If I had to rank my favorite sports (something I’d be better equipped to do circa 12 years old anyway - rock and roll stole the sporting impulse from me at a young age), American football would be a few long country paces from the top. However - turn real life into a 1991 Nintendo game and I will gladly shout from the Belgian rooftops that Super Tecmo Bowl is the most satisfying waste of time ever.
In the context of a tour, what makes Tecmo so good is season mode, wherein your assignment is to guide a group of overpaid, heavily licensed, and maximally juiced up pro ballers to the early-digital Super Bowl that is their purpose.
Hello from Manchester! We are a few dates into our UK tour with Tokyo Police Club and all is well. They aren’t from Tokyo or even police officers, but are rather quite genteel, well-heeled Canadians. They are also a fantastic band.
But rewinding a few weeks, on our US tour this spring with Black Kids & Cut Copy something magical happened - I learned how to snap. Powerfully. Powerful, overpowering snapping. Something about 10 hour drives through Wyoming in both directions… anyway, I have since been impressing everyone in my path with my new ability, or at least impressing myself.
