The Gravy Train headlined at Hard Rock Cafe, Tokyo as part of the Hard Rock Cafe's Anniversary celebrations celebrations. The event featured an art exhibition by Nagoya-based painter and designer, Rob Moore, and an additional live set from the Japanese rock outfit, Sawas Phool. This was followed by a performance at the Neptune Theatre for Tokyo Arts Week, which featured Edinburgh Festival comedian Spring Day and a run of Lanford Wilson's Burn This starring New York actors Katherine Puma and Rob Skolits. Tokyo Woodstock – July 2013 The band next featured at an all-day arts and music festival in July called Tokyo Woodstock. The event showcased artists from around Japan demonstrating artwork, poetry, music, spoken word, film and photography. The festival featured film by "the foremost Western scholar of the Japanese cinema", the late Donald Richie, who was described by author Tom Wolfe as "the Lafcadio Hearn of our time; a subtle, stylish, and deceptively lucid medium between two cultures that confuse one another: the Japanese and the American." The short film, was one of the "Five Philosophical Fables" from 1967, said to have "had a seminal influence in Japan" The festival also featured short films by the pinhole photographer, film maker and author, Edward Levinson; and videographer, Kyle Drubeck, debuting a preview of his documentary about the devastating impact of the Fukushima disaster on the communities of Tohoku in 2011. Drubeck travelled to radioactive areas on his motorbike and filmed footage in a radiation suit to record a first-hand account of the disaster. Poetry was represented by Gary Quinn, the Irish poet, author and film-maker; Joe Zhangi, publisher of Printed Matter Press, and Yuri Kugeyama, the American-Japanese poet, author and journalist, who was described by the Mainichi News, as writing "poems that convey an intelligent, sensitive and sexual woman who enjoys life to the full, and who can express herself in a language filled to excess with energy". Between the film and poetry were various musical performances, with main events of the evening were the performances of the German-Japanese funk band, TEFCO, and the headline act, Kev Gray & The Gravy Train. US tour 2013 On the back of the summer success in Tokyo, Gray headed on a tour of the States, playing in New York, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Miami, and Key West. Cafe Vivaldi, Greenwich Village The main event was a show at the New York singer-songwriter