Right after I successfully released the official Buck-Tick cover (the full amazing story is HERE) I received an invitation from a good friend of mine, a Tokyo musician. I was asked to play a few shows in Tokyo. It was my second time to hit the Japanese stage and I had no doubt it’s gonna be great experience as it was for the first time.
The thing is that I used to work as a backstage manager with big rock musicians like Scorpions or Alice Cooper and The Offspring, so I know the “other side” of stage processes and how tough they could be.
What can I say?.. While in Europe, for example, there IS a big difference between being an A-list artist and a niche, rising one, in Japan you don’t experience such thing as a performer. The venue crew is great no matter if you are Buck-Tick or an unknown musician. You will get your personal manager, quite and clean dressing room. And timing for meet and greet with the audience… Basically anything you want in a technical and management way…
As for the show itself, I was happy to present an absolutely new era of mine, new music, new vibes. Two Japanese musicians, bass player a.k.a. Tsuyopon and keyboard a.k.a. Koura-san, joined me and my tour guitarist on stage. The audience was warm and welcoming, although I was a new face for them. There is a huge difference in temper of US, EU, Russian, etc audience and East Asian one. The don’t show the craziness or smth, but they more likely will come up with synchronised moves (a special one to each song). They don’t shout or scream, but definitely ready to buy your merch or photo. Which is great as well.
I played the first show at ReNY Akabane where lots of big j-rockers played as well. Which was an honour, of course. The closing song was Buck-Tick’s DRESS. And some people were in tears which was heartwarming. Later on during meet and greet a few longtime FishTankers came to me to say lots of nice words about the cover and my music in particular, which was vital for me to hear.
I also plan to play in Tokyo again this Fall possibly. As for now, I’m happy to share my Live at ReNY Akabane: watch HERE!
Awww, thank you! It’s actually a long way to go and a huge story behind it all, but yessss. The fact, that I’ve done it all without any label or team…. It’s inspiring. I love to grow my own community little by little:cherry_blossom:
Nia! (can I call you this way?) I have never been to any of your shows, but I’ve heard about you in some BT related publics in Instagram, I believe… I took a look at your catalogue and… I actually loved it! but I also think we could meet before due to music management thing or so… this thought is haunting me. Your face is sssssso familiar to me…
awww… hello! nice to meet you! and thank you for the kind words!
Yes, I’ve been working as a backstage manager. It was a start of my career path a while ago… Alice Cooper, Sarah Brightman, Scorpions, Joe Bonamassa and others… ummm… Is it possible if we have met on tour?.. or you are talking about something else?
Your new account is banned permanently, and your existing one is banned temporarily for one month regarding having multiple accounts. Do not do this ever again.
She also sent us an email explaining that her JRO account was hacked because her laptop was stolen. As a self-hosted community, we have first-party data to investigate if this is actually the case. Given the situation, we found that it would take a lot of efforts only to do something this dumb if they were 2 different people as she claimed which made no sense. In conclusion, we can confirm that they are the same person.
Her email made the situation even worse because she thought she could lie to us after getting caught instead of admitting it and accepting the temp ban. So I’m considering to change from a 1-month temp ban to a permaban.
I feel sorry for her bandmates to have to deal with her strange behavior.
