A small girl, stylishly dressed in a short, black-and-white dress crouches hunched over a microphone, spitting out vocals that might be English or might be Martian for all the audience can tell beneath the thick overlay of distortion; a sax player with crazy hair is engaged in some kind of intense, seemingly unconnected free improv; and a drummer in a pair of schoolboy running shorts pounds away at the drums, face glowing red with either exertion, alcohol or both.
This clash of contrasting faces goes by the name Miila and the Geeks, and they're one of the most exciting things in Tokyo's underground scene right now.
"The name has no meaning: I just wanted something that began with an 'M,' " says guitarist, bass player and singer Moe Wadaka. "It started seven years ago as a solo project, and then three years ago I expanded it into a band by adding Kaoru (Ajima, drummer) and Ryota (Komori, sax)."