At the height of their fame, Mansun could sound surprisingly world-weary and downbeat given their youthfulness. On 1998 hit single "Legacy", frontman Paul Draper lamented, "Nobody cares when you’re gone." Well, in Japan, it seems they do care. A lot.Mansun last visited Tokyo in 2000, playing the opening two nights of the doomed Shibuya-AX venue, and disbanded three years later. Many musicians would have been long forgotten in the interim.But when tickets went on sale last November for Draper’s first Tokyo date in more than 18 years — a solo acoustic gig on March 7 — they were snapped up…READ FULL ARTICLE
