Shonen Knife - Cobra Versus Mongoose (Live in Sydney) | Moshcam

Start the Shonen Knife FULL CONCERT playlist: Shonen Knife performing Cobra Versus Mongoose live at The Annandale Hotel in Sydney on 25 September 2009 Love live music? SUBSCRIBE for thousands more live videos and new gigs uploaded weekly: Shonen Knife is an influential all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, Japan in 1981. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, The Beach Boys and early punk rock acts, such as The Ramones, the trio crafts stripped-down songs expressing infectious melodies and simplistic, exuberant lyrics sung both in Japanese and English. Despite their pop-oriented nature, the trio maintains a distinctly underground garage rock sound rooted in edgy instrumentation and . aesthetics, which over the course of their twenty-seven-year career has earned them solid, worldwide cult following and made avid fans out of seminal '90s alternative roc