Blog - Weekly revue: 2019 week #16 (April 13 to 19)

Weekly revue: 2019 week #16 (April 13 to 19)

Travel: I went to Fukuoka for the first time, mainly to attend conference "RubyKaigi 2019", but at least I had the chance to enjoy some great food and also walking around the Hakata harbor area. I also went to a very nice record shop named Ticro Market where I found a Zin-Säy 12" ("BurBa PaPa", a mini-album I love!), and The Spiders and Michel Polnareff 7"'s. I was also happy to find a copy of free magazine "Afro Fukuoka" which featured singer Manon on the cover (and an interview)!

Music events: - On Sunday April 14, I went to an in-store event featuring Emiri Kanou at Pied Piper House (Tower Records Shibuya 6F), in promotion of her latest single "Friday Night". The event started by a talk show with Pied Piper House's Yoshi Nagato, who asked her about five artists/songs that influenced her. She picked the following songs: Moritaka Chisato "Stress", Eighth Wonder "Will You Remember", Soft Cell "Memorabilia", KinKi Kids "Glass no shonen" and The Strokes "Trying Your Luck".

Following was a mini-live in which she sang songs from the new single ("Friday Night" and "Lucky") and also "Next Town" and "gomenne". That was followed by an autograph session, and I was happy to get the new single signed! She nicknames all of her fan club members (the "Nippon Emiri Association"), calling me "Pato-chan". :) It seems she has been busy preparing a first album, and I can't wait!