Kaori : Guitar& Vocals & Programming

Yumi : Bass & Vocals.

Really exciting news affecting the girls. Firstly Yumi has had a baby girl. Congratulations. Karoi has now become a full-time member of the Mercury nominated and Brighton based The Go! Team. http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/

Double congratulations. Yumiyumi will still exist as a band with the odd gig happening when they can make time.

YUMIYUMI are two girls from Kumanoto City, JAPAN.

They came to London on an extended holiday, with their guitars and the dream of playing a few venues. The reception when they did was overwhelming. They went back to Japan for 10 months, where word also got out and their media profile increased ten fold, they became quite a name nationally.

However London kept calling and they decided to start round two of the YumiYumi story. Ding! Ding! Since then they have become the live underground band of the UK and Europe. They have toured literally non stop for the last 18 months. When they tour Europe-they really tour it-everywhere from Norway to Slovenia. They are touring as we speak. Playing sold out shows.

Sounding like no other band around. Think Faith No More/ Cardiacs /Beastie Boys/bis/Ramones/Cibo Mato/Ex Girl. A must see live band.

Videos

MySpace TV - "YumiYumi -  I Am Right"

Album Reviews

Two girls from Japan and a drum machine who fuse '60s Spector-esque girl pop with two chord Ramones chugga chugga riffs, creating a sound akin to grizzled industrial rockers Ministry ferociously rimming Diana Ross. Inevitably, 'Alchemy' is an implausibly ace debut. 8 out of 10.
James Jam NME.

A really good two piece girl powered slightly bendy and bouncy Japanese pop band. Still, it's not every day you can catch a really good bouncy bendy Japanese pop band - go grab some slightly weird ass J-Pop.
Sean Organ - http://www.organart.com/

(5.5/6) Holl(i)y Davies
Read Full Review - DrownedinSound.com

(4/5) Daniel Robson
Read Full Review - PlayLouder.com

(4/5) Andrew Cummins
Read Full Review - thisisthenortheast.co.uk

Live Reviews

Read a first hand account of YumiYumi supporting Iggy Pop & The Stooges in Europe, written by mike watt the bass for the stooges.
http://www.hootpage.com/

The Jailhouse, Coventry

Two girls and their equipment crammed into a car. The YumiYumi constant tour rolls on. Now that?s rock ?n? roll. The packed house watches as they hit the stage in their uniform orange boiler suits, although I don?t think many know what to expect. Five minutes later they have them eating out the palms of their hands (not literally, that?s unhygienic). Their electronic based twist on a Sonic Youth / Pixes hybrid with a Ramones buzzsaw guitar is clever, but also fascinatingly entertaining. These girls ROCK! The set is culled from their album, although once you?ve seen ?em live you know the recorded output doesn?t convey the energy and hypnotic appeal they possess. ?You Let Me Down?, ?I Am Right?, ?Don?t Care Me? and the amazing ?Oriental? have this enthusiastic crowd twitching with excitement. And the superb Devo-esque encore of ?Sgt. Peppers.? Is sheer class. Live mums as its best.
Paul Raggity - Rock Sound.

Girls R Loud, Access All Areas at the Face Bar, Reading

Take two Japanese girls, one teddy bear playing drums (well a drum machine) and get them to play bleepy electro pop-rock together. Sounds great doesn't it? Well it is. Yumi Yumi even manage to get people dancing, in Reading! Can you believe it? I've seen them a few times now and it's always been a great night. They leave you happy well rocked. Especially good are the songs 'I Am Right', 'Funky Junky' and 'Oriental'. Top stuff!
Mike Hefferan - Josaka - Read Full Review

Barfly@Monarch, Camden.
...It's the X-Ray Spex, Bangles, Green Day, B-52s, Go-Gos. It's all hurried, cute, hungry, driven, rifftastically tuneful, slightly fuzzy and sung in the sort of broken-English you wish the girl next door would speak in. Crrrrrashing drum beats, electro bleeps, loud bits, quiet bits. it's the sound of kitchen sinks being joyfully thrown-in, not barrels being scraped.
Rob Bound.