The performance was in Shin-Okubo, and he had been in the underground music circle for so long. Shinichi Iwahashi was very familiar with the performance venues in the capital circle. He knew where the name of the livehouse was on the newspaper Akamatsu Haruko.

After dinner, Shin Iwahashi took five girls with him and set out in a mighty manner.

The situation was spectacular, and it was like a tour guide who led foreign tourists to a strange place.

Shin-Okubo is part of Shinjuku's never sleeping city. As soon as the night comes, he also enters the world of "inside". The girls from the four rabbit countries look as if they have crossed the streets and are startled.

Is this Tokyo too?

Tokyo is so orderly that it even feels a little oppressive during the day.

At night, Tokyo, which is so chaotic that it makes outsiders feel incredible, is also Tokyo.

Tokyo has thousands of faces.

Shinichi Iwahashi and the girls rushed out of the street surrounded by colorful signs and came to a building. A narrow light sign hung on the building, pointing to the number of floors where the livehouse is located.

Six people walked towards the stairs leading to the underground floor, with a performance poster posted at the entrance, which read "Tonight is the bluehearts special show".

The poster is quite regular, not the hand-painted poster of ordinary underground musicians, but a printed poster with band photos, with four young people on it.

The young man marked "Leader Singer Kamoto Hiro" had short hair that was almost like a monk's head, and his eyes were crazy and perverse. The guitarist Mashirama, who was close to his shoulders, wore a big headscarf and felt a little nervous.

Bassist Kawaguchi Junnosuke is a cute little fat man, drummer Toru Kajiwara, but also a thin young man with a punk head shaved with a punk head combed upwards on both sides.

There were endless audiences pouring into this livehouse. Shinichi Iwahashi had no prejudice or ideas for the band's genre. He only said in accordance with the professional inertia of the agent: "It seems to be quite popular."

Haruko Akamatsu said to him, "I heard that the band's lead singer, Hiroto Sang Amoto and Mashima Masaru, were originally members of a band called thebreak, and had already accumulated a certain amount of popularity. Later, the band disbanded, and Kamoto Sang and Mashima Suo formed the current band together."

"Yeah."

"Recently, the band seems to have signed a record company, and maybe they have started preparing for the mainstream debut. The current performance is also a 'routine trial'." Haruko Akamatsu told him what she knew.

The band's live scene is full of charm that is not available on records and TV, so even a band that has signed a record company will perform uninterrupted live performances during this polishing period before its official debut.

After having a company, the contact with the performance immediately transitioned to the record company.

They will arrange performances for the band like they did when they organize concerts, and there will be specialists from record companies watching them on the spot so that they can make suggestions after the performance is over.

"So that's it." Since the band has a master of the famous grass, Shinichi Iwahashi put away the scrutiny mentality of being a businessman, and replaced it with a purely appreciator mentality.

This conversation was said in Japanese, and the four rabbit girls were confused by the side and could only look at the poster and the endless audience.

After the chat, Shinichi Iwahashi called them, "Let's go."

...

The performance of the punk band was full of audiences in strange costumes. The four girls followed Shinichi Iwahashi hard, as if they were worried about the little lamb being taken away by the big bad wolf.

The stage was already full, and the good position was not available. The six people barely squeezed forward. Just as they stood still, a commotion came from the front of the venue, and the cheers spread backwards.

The six of them didn't know what was going on, just like playing a game of passing things, taking the cheers from the people in front and handing them to the people behind them.

The four girls were a little unwilling to let go, like children who were ashamed to express their opinions in front of a chaotic crowd.

On a small, full of musical instruments, four people from the band stood on the stage. The lead singer, Hiro Ah, said a regular opening remark: "Good evening, we are thebluehearts!"

Just looking at it this way, it is a band that is normal for typhoons.

This idea lasted only five seconds. As the drummer counted the beats, Kamoto Hiro sang the first lyrics of the cape: "I love those gentle songs crazy." The guitar sound was added and the typhoon changed immediately.

He pulled his neck and widened his eyes, as if he was wrapped around his neck by a snake, and he couldn't breathe smoothly. He roared on the stage, kicked his legs hard, jumping around like a frog, and sang the song "Human にやさしく" (Gentle Treatment).

Yes, this is very punk.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Haruko Akamatsu often mingle in the underground music circle. They all know what happened, but the four girls from the Rabbit Kingdom were shocked and didn't know how to react.

They don’t understand the lyrics, nor do they understand why they can’t sing well. However, the people around them are very enthusiastic. Out of the group’s herdness, they try their best to imitate the behavior of the people around them.

After all, when people are free to act, they often imitate each other.

Wang Xiaofang couldn't understand the lyrics, nor did she understand why she had to use such a hard singing method. Although it seemed like she was doing something random, I thought it would take more energy to do this than singing well.

While imitating the people around her, she looked at the band on the stage and thought.

After singing three songs, the fourth song was a lyrical song. The lead singer who jumped and danced just now calmed down and used the blues harmonica to play a sad interlude.

After a brief "normal" period, Wang Xiaofang had a room for buffering. However, after the song ended, there was another song that suffocated like before.

When he first came out of that gentle atmosphere, he was immediately hit by a new round of shock. Looking at the lead singer who seemed to be stuck on his neck, Wang Xiaofang flashed his mind and suddenly realized the meaning of this singing style.

It seemed like a person who was covered with his mouth and strangled his throat and could not speak. He struggled desperately to say what he was thinking.

You can regard me as a heretic, block my mouth, threaten me, and get out, but before being stuck and suffocated, I still have to express my true feelings until I can't scream...

She was shocked and deeply moved, and she had the urge to shed tears.

Shinichi Iwahashi focused on this performance and did not notice Wang Xiaofang's changes. This band called Lan Xin attracted him.

Although the typhoon is ferocious, the band's lyrics are unexpectedly very literary. However, although they have very literary lyrics, they also have a smell of sweat.

He sang the shouts of the young people at the bottom, but the "sweat smell" that Shinichi Iwahashi felt did not refer to the smell of homeless people, but the sweat smell of the young people at the bottom after their labor.

Although everything is bad and full of depression, it still has ideals for life and embraces the future with a body with a sweaty smell. All this is not illusory, but a living reality.

There is such a charm in the lyrics of this band.

He couldn't help but admire the band from the bottom of his heart and was conquered by their talents.

After the performance, it is the sales process.

Although he signed a record company, because he has not made a mainstream debut, what he sells in the venue now is not regular records, but underground bands almost do it, such as homemade records he and Mika Yoshida.

Shinichi Iwahashi went to buy two tapes, one left behind and the other handed over to Wang Xiaofang, who was still immersed in the performance, looked moved.

He didn't expect that the first time he brought this girl to see such a strong performance, she could resonate with her brain waves.

Wang Xiaofang was embarrassed to accept his things. Shinichi Iwahashi didn't care and handed them to her, "Just keep them as a souvenir."

After saying this, she accepted it and thanked Shinichi Iwahashi.

Look at the time, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

It was not easy to find a place to wander around. When the six people came through the same road, the street filled with colorful signs. Shinichi Iwahashi first sent the four girls back to the hotel and greeted the staff accompanying Rabbit Kingdom, saying that they had to bring them all back.

After making the phone call, Shinichi Iwahashi walked towards Haruko Akamatsu who was still waiting for him in the hotel lobby.

"Let's go, Akasun." He said, "I'll take you back."

After getting into the car, Shinichi Iwahashi thanked her: "I'll bother you today."

Haruko Akamatsu didn't answer this directly, "The two musicians from Rabbit Country are very good, and they are having fun shopping with them."

"And, I didn't expect that your Chinese is so good."

"I'm good at Chinese." Shinichi Iwahashi smiled, unwilling to go deep into this topic, so he imitated her and changed her mind, "I'll be blessed to you, I've also watched a very good performance tonight."

"I don't usually pay much attention to punk bands, and I didn't expect there would be such characters... Such a band will definitely make a big difference."

Thebluehearts generally do punk that is easy to get started, which will especially resonate with teenagers. I believe that even if the mainstream debuts, it will have good business performance.

This is especially rare for punk bands.

Haruko Akamatsu mentioned another thing, "Now, your name is very famous in the underground music circle."

"Yeah?"

"Because you contributed to this music festival, everyone is saying that you gave underground musicians the opportunity to go to the public eye." Of course...

"Of course, there will be people who say that I brought the smell of business into the underground music circle." Shinchi Iwahashi said "of course" that Akamatsu Haruko didn't say.

She smiled slightly, neither admitting nor denying.

"It doesn't matter." Shinichi Iwahashi didn't care. "Business things may not be bad. It is a narrow idea to draw a clear line between business indiscriminately."

"But, even if the people who hate me hate me, as long as there are still people who think I am the opportunity for underground musicians. The real seeds will break through the ground and sprout sooner or later in the future."

As for those who insist on being Atticus, they can only say that they are different and do not plan for each other, and there is no need to despise each other. Shinichi Iwahashi always believed that the act of despising business was somewhat bluffing.

Belittle others does not emphatize yourself.

The real Atist is "I just need to do my music."

...

On February 12, Joan Jet arrived in Tokyo.

This is the second visit after half a year. Receiving the Rabbit Girls was a task assigned by Watanabe Manyumi, and receiving Joan Jet was the name she personally ordered.

The person who brought her to the music festival was Shinichi Iwahashi, so he had to take charge of it. The sister didn't say it directly, and that's what it meant inside and outside.

There was no way, Shinichi Iwahashi threw away the girls from the Rabbit in the recording studio and went to see this great god.

From the bottom of his heart, he was still very grateful to her. Joan Jet not only gave him inspiration, but also gave him the confidence to expand the scale.

Nowadays, this music festival not only attracts domestic attention, but also attracts attention from all over the world. The organizers not only received applications from various media in their country for on-site reports on the music festival, but foreign media also reminded the music festival to send reporters to interview.

For a time, "the unprecedented female rock feast in the Japanese archipelago" and "the collective voice of female rockers" emerged one after another, which attracted the public's attention.

In the evening, Shinichi Iwahashi went to the hotel to meet her and communicate with her and her staff before the performance. She didn't see her for a while, and this person was still very cool. When Shinichi Iwahashi went there, she ran into her killing a chicken again.

It seems that she loves so much that she feels like being kneaded and rubbed like dough.

"Long time no see, Shinichi!" She lay there on her arm, turned her head and smiled at him, her eyes falling on his hands, "What is that? Tape?"
To be continued...