The Golden Wet Fingers is a new Japanese supergroup that features Yusuke Chiba (The Birthday), Akinobu Imai (ex-The Birthday), and Tatsuya Nakamura (formerly of Blankey Jet City).  The trio were originally brought together to play a fictional band in the movie Akai Kisetsu.  But after decided to turn The Golden Wet Fingers into a real act.  Gigging in support of their Kill After Kiss debut, their 11 am set opened the Green Stage.

In keeping with the “wet” part of their moniker, it was fittingly lightly raining as the band kicked into their opening cut.  Chiba and Imai both played guitar and Nakamura handled drumming duties.  Dressed in a leopard print jacket, Imai was looking especially rock ‘n’ roll first thing in the morning.  Turning in a set of bare bones garage rock, Chiba’s ragged vocals added an extra rawness to the music.  With three rock veterans onstage, The Golden Wet Fingers sounded tight and had little trouble getting early arrivees excited for the final day of Fuji Rock ‘13.