Coco

A concert under the name CoCo, the Japanese all-female J-pop group whose history is set out below, at London Barfly. The evening is built around the music of a band active in the early 1990s.

CoCo is a Japanese all-female J-pop group formed of five idols, active from 1989 to 1994. Their most visible moment came in 1990, when they performed two theme songs for the anime series Ranma ½, an adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's manga. After that the group continued as a quartet before disbanding in 1994.

Their music belongs to the Japanese idol pop of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the anime tie-in remains the clearest link between the group and listeners outside Japan. The repertoire at this London date is drawn from that catalogue, so the material will be familiar to anyone who followed the series or the group's releases of the period.

London Barfly hosts concerts and shows in London. The night will appeal most to listeners who know the Ranma ½ songs or who have an interest in 1990s J-pop and its anime connections.