The Bawdies is a Japanese rock band signed to the Seez Records label and the Getting Better sub-label of Victor Entertainment.

While at Tower Records, Shibuya, Watanabe and Kimura discovered The Sonics, a 1960s American garage band, which influenced their musical direction significantly.

The Bawdies are also well known for Watanabe's distinctive soul-infused vocal style, which is influenced by Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Ray Charles.While the band has been compared to The Beatles is some news stories,[1] musically they share more commonality with American garage and rhythm & blues genres.

[1] and released their first album, Yesterday and Today, a mix of the band's original tracks and covers, through independent label Seez Records in March 2006.

The EP release coincided with their first sold-out headline show at Shinjuku's Red Cloth in April [3] Their first overseas tour was in June of that year, with the band playing eight performances across Australia with Dallas Crane and The Basics.

Second album, Awaking of Rhythm and Blues was released through Seez Records in February 2008 and featured all original tracks.

The band returned to Australia in November for their second tour with The Basics and played the Queenscliff Music Festival in December.

The album featured the singles ‘Emotion Potion’ and ‘You Gotta Dance’ and received praise from English "modfather" Paul Weller.

That same year the band also started appearing a monthly segment on Space Shower TV, called Bawdies A-Go-Go.

The single was the first released from third album Live the Life I Love in June 2011, and was followed by 'Love You Need You', which featured singer and rapper Ai sharing main lead vocals.

[3] Single ‘Red Rocket Ship’ was released ahead of the band's appearance at Nippon Budokan and was the first from fourth album 1-2-3.

The band expanded their audience throughout Japan as ‘Rock Me Baby’ was selected as the theme song for the 2012 Fuji TV drama Hungry!

In October, the band undertook their first Asian tour, playing Grand Mint Festival in South Korea as well as shows in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

To mark the band's 10 anniversary since formation and the fifth since their major label debut, The Bawdies released Going Back Home in March 2014.

The double A-side single ‘Nice and Slow' / 'Come On’ was released in June that same year and was the first to be taken from their fifth studio album Boys!, which followed in December.

In July the band embarked on their first European tour, playing shows in Düsseldorf, Paris and London as well as France's largest rock festival Les Eurokeennes in Belfort.

In October the band embarked on the national Rock The House Tour 2015 and in the same month, the single ‘Sunshine’ was released with Ryosuke Nagaoka of Petrolz acting as producer.

The EP included three original tracks as well as a cover of Mickey Hawks' ‘Bip Bop Boom’ and saw the band digging deeper into their garage punk roots.

Notably, the EP saw the band eschew the use of click tracks as they felt that it undermined the underlying precepts of garage punk.

The four-date sojourn, held in November, celebrated Marcy and Taxman's respective birthdays, and featured setlists devised by the two.

Remi Matsuo of Glim Spanky also joined the band on stage to perform the single ‘Scream’, which had been released that same month.

In October, The Bawdies announced their third Australian tour, which will take place in December and will the band playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Torquay.

While initially band member's suits were differentiated by signature colours (Roy - red, Marcy - black, Jim – blue / purple, Taxman – green / gold), the band have appeared in matching suits since 2013, with signature colours only seen on details such as buttons and lining.

Collaborations include ‘Come On’, ‘Nice and Slow’, ‘No Way’, ‘The Edge’, ‘New Lights’,'Feelin' Free', 'Happy Rays', ‘Skippin’ Stones’, ‘Stars’, ‘Oh No’ and ‘T.Y.I.A’.