When making music, Tokyo punk/metal hybrid act BBQ Chickens like to keep things short. The quartet have yet to craft a song that lasts two minutes. A handful of their cuts don't even break the 10-second mark.
The band will tour across the country this month in support of their new album, "Broken Bubbles." According to guitarist Ken Yokoyama, BBQ Chickens' upcoming shows will be about 90 minutes long — which is pretty much the combined running time of their four albums and 2003 covers disc, "Fine Songs, Playing Sucks." But don't expect to hear the band performing their entire discography.
"The longer our set time, the more we talk," Yokoyama says. "We're probably going to do about 30 songs a night. But if we only play those songs, the shows will be done in like 30 minutes. So that's why we talk so much during performances.