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By Jon DunbarRockabilly bands from three countries will gather in Seoul this Friday and Saturday for the Asian Rockabilly Festival, also being called Rumble in Seoul.
Two Japanese bands, Johnny Pandora and the Biscats, and one band from Hong Kong, the Boogie Playboys, will join five Korean live acts plus two DJs. This includes Korean rockabilly legends Streetguns, plus Busan rockabilly band the Hoppers, as well as rock and country bands like the Greatballs, Texas Karaoke and Jinu Konda.
Streetguns has been carrying the torch for Korea's small rockabilly scene for the past decade, after lineup changes prompted a transformation from the earlier RockTigers.
The leader of both those bands is a guitarist nicknamed Tiger, who has gone by that name since 2001 with the creation of RockTigers. He began his music career in 1999 with the punk band Blue Punk Bugs, so if you want to know his original name, just find one of their albums. Tiger's own label, ATM Records (which stands for "Against the Main Stream"), is the official organizer of the rockabilly fest.
"In 2004, when I was with The RockTigers, we were invited to the Tokyo Big Rumble festival, a rockabilly and psychobilly festival held in Tokyo," Tiger told The...