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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hey guys
It's been two weeks man, it's been two weeks. Yeah. Oh, yes. How you been? Thank you for skipping that. Oh, yeah
The last recording session. Yeah, I figured you were going to celebrate
For I mean, I thought you were gonna I thought you uh asked me to skip because you were gonna celebrate. Yeah your first
Uh, not your first but like the tour. It was my first
First tour. Yes, and how was it? It was great. Oh, congrats. Thank you
Kyoto. Yes. So last week last week was Kyoto, uh sunday. We went to kyoto. Yes, that was
The first show of my first tour. Yeah, and um this
Saturday so two weeks two days ago. Yeah did a tokyo show that was the the final show of the
My first tour. Yeah, so you've uh finished. Yes completely finished your tour. Yes. Awesome. How was it?
I mean
It was great. I was good. Um
so
It's gonna be a long
Oh, yeah. I'm sorry though. Tell me about um
So first of all like the tour. Yeah
felt so different than
from the
Just one live show. Mm-hmm
So i've been two shows before okay, which was so fun. Mm-hmm
But um, it was just one night show
You you prefer prepare for a long time and then do one one show and then
finish okay
You're done. Yeah, and you prepare from for the for the next one. Yeah, which is going to be like
a year from that day
um
So if I if I do like that do one show
Mm-hmm and then you know, i'm not i'm not
super
talented super
Great singer or artist or something. I make some mistakes. Okay, every time I do this I feel like oh I have to like
Adjust the little things i'll prepare for the next show and those, you know little things, right?
But the next time would be like a year from that day, right?
Long yeah long preparation
Uh
But this time did a last week one show and had a few things to adjust
and I got one week to prepare and then just
Can do a next show
in just one
One week period. Uh-huh
That felt so different to me. Uh, we moved with my band
Yeah, how we like communicate with band. Yeah
Like just like verbally
Musically
Like so different than just did one show. It's like I felt so connected with them
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and um
So that was my first tour
It tour felt so different first of all to me
So, you know, there are like many people do like 47 tofuken or like five big
tours and
I've wondered how
like fun those
Would be wow
like you go to like every cities with
You know your kind of friends. Yeah, and then stay together and talk and play music together and do shows and
that'll be
Oh, it's so fun
And I I could clearly imagine that and I felt it. Yeah, so
that was
New experience to me. So it was more like the
Getting closer with your band members
Yeah, sort of like a big difference with the other like single event. Yeah
Shows. Yeah, and also like inside of me like ability like musical ability gets like
quickly
Like became better. Oh, really? Yeah, I felt it like an
Yeah
So that was so fun because it was so packed in such a short period of time. Yeah. Yeah
it was easier for you to sort of like
um
Expand on what you've experienced before. Yeah, it was so fresh like you still yeah, like you still got it in you
Yeah, like you still know what to expect. Yes. Yes
Uh, so that was one
That was my new experience as a tour
Not from just one live. Yeah, that was different
and um one more like the biggest thing
For this tour for me is I you know, we went to kyoto
Yeah for that first. Mm-hmm
Show yeah
that's where I
I had been working. Yes office. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
And then decided to quit my job. Yes
and decided to
To live as a musician
With the struggles, you know, and that's the that's the place where I decided to to
To you know quit my job right and become musician. It was sort of like the start of your journey
Yeah, that was the start place. Yeah, and I remember the night I invite
My parents. Yes to my little
kyoto apartment
and then
one night like hey dad and mom I um
I
Decided to quit my job. Mm-hmm, and I
Decided to become a musician. Yeah, you know and then they were like
What?
Like
Musician, is that a musician musician?
And then yeah, I remember the night. Yeah, we talked about I revealed my
Passion. Yeah my dream
And they were like at first they were very surprised. Okay
But um, you know
They were kind of yeah, it's your life your dream you just go for it
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And we just want to support you
Mm-hmm
and
You know those conversations, right?
And have you ever wrote any song songs yet?
Not yet. Oh, yeah
Okay
Okay
Yeah, but I I told them that I like I one day I make like tons of songs and make an album maybe
And like distribute through like spotify and everything and then one day maybe do a live show. Yeah, maybe I can
Do like, you know, maybe tour maybe one day. Yeah, and I will invite you guys you you my parents invite you to
That's my
You know dream. Yeah, and they were like, okay
You got it. Yeah, and you know that night. Uh-huh was was you know where
That was in kyoto
And I kind of finally
You know got back to the place. Yeah, and I invited my parents
From tokyo to kyoto. Oh
So, yeah, that's that's such a nice. Yeah, like
You know story there. Yeah, so that's
That's the biggest part for me. Uh-huh this tour. I
When I was singing at the kyoto live house, I could see my parents faces. Yeah, and um, yeah, I I was
You know, I remembered that night
And you know those memories while I was performing and I was
You know
Yeah, yeah good. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I performed the first very first song that I wrote
when I was in kyoto, which was
Like the day I decided to quit my job and start new things, which I completely don't know about
But I just want to do it. Yeah
Is is the song?
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah and then perform that
and I was so like
Inside of me was like, oh
Yeah, you know you're feeling it. Yeah
Yeah, it's nice
It's a good story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right
That was good
Uh-huh
Emotional moment. Yes. Yeah. Yes that was
And I um
So it was a sunday. Yeah, they came like we go to kyoto at saturday, I guess. Okay
um
I reserved up one restaurant. Okay, which was in giong. Okay. Yeah, you know gion's pretty like yeah
Yeah, good good place. Very good place. Yeah
that restaurant was the place where I
reserved
for the clients when I was
Working when I was working. Oh, okay
For like some vips. Oh, so you knew it was a good place. Yes
I'm, you know those people and I reserved for them and then they told me like they wanted to do these things and I was
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Like, okay. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes, I kind of uh-huh
And now I kind of reserved that place
For myself for my parents. Yeah, my brother. Uh, we go to that place and uh, that was also like one moment
That's a moment. Oh, I
finally like
Came to this place. Yeah for ourself. Uh-huh
And uh, we talked about you know those things
Like how the day we decided I decided to
Told those things to my parents
You know and everything. Yeah
Yeah
So that was it. It's lovely. Yeah, very lovely. Yeah
So very
How should I say very
Feels to me like I it's like one
long story
kind of
Ended. Oh, really? Yeah
Kyoto like it's it's
It's like it's end of a chapter. Yeah end of one chapter a long
Not the end of the novel, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right, right. It's a hushie man, right? Right. I felt yeah, that's right
It's shimmy, right? I felt so strongly. Oh
Kind of
So cool. Oh
That's that's so awesome. Yeah to be able to feel that. Yes. Yes. That's awesome. Yeah
So that was my Kyoto live. Well, how long was it? How long was the
Chapter there. How many years was that? So I entered the company at
2017 and worked so, uh
So I quit my company at
Five years. Yeah
Five years exactly five years
Was it long?
We're short
Seems quick though. Yeah. Yeah
For that. I mean for that story
Seems more like a 20 or like 15 years, right? Right, right. I mean
I didn't even
Like it's very short
Yeah, right
So at that moment at that night
I you know talked about that. Yeah with my parents five years ago
I said it
Like yeah one day I will do live and meet great musicians and right, right
but
like honestly, I didn't
I didn't know
and I had no like
um
Like um
That I actually am able to do that or not. Yeah
and uh, yeah, so
it's
amazing
right, it's
Yeah
Right. Yeah
Right. I've never imagined that
this quickly
Or like even if longer span, right? What did your parents say?
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At that Kyoto live. Yeah, they were like, um
How was their vibe like were they like
very very like surprised or they like kind of like emotional or they like
we
um
Shake shock shook shook. We shook hands. Uh-huh, and we hugged okay
Like after the live after the live show. Yes, very emotionally. Uh-huh
Also, they were like happy that you sort of very happy able to do what you wanted to do. Yeah
I was so happy that they seemed so proud of me
Um, yeah
but not much
Like a talk we just you know shook hands, uh, and he's like sort of understood and yeah, and we smile each other and
Uh, like the ending of la la land
Just like that
Yeah, yeah, yeah and they were like, um, my mom was like
After the that there was the you know show cars and everything. Yeah, and she brought um little okashi
Okay for the sashimi. Oh, yeah, that's a gift. She was like, yeah, i'm a you know, also
like very beginner of
as a parents of
A singer. Okay. She she said so I have no idea. What should I brought to this life? Oh like, okay
Is it enough like is this is this like yeah
She worried about that and no problem. I think that's
Oh, yeah, yeah, and she said and my mom and my dad she was like they were
um
like a saying thank you to every
band members and every
people around
Yeah that that's I remember like my dad was like very deeply like bowing to everybody
Yeah, yeah
That was emotional. That's that's emotional. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah
It's like you see their support through their action. It's like
It's like fries like
It touches you. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Very supportive fairs are very supportive, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, how's your dad
What do you mean? I mean i've talked to him once
Uh, you know very great character
Yeah, I I just was wondering if he's all if he's all good. Yeah, he's all great. He's all good
healthy
very, you know
Healthy having living life happily does he have a like a mustache? Um, but like a year ago
He one day he shaved everything. Oh, okay, but now he's got
Still he he's back to growing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see but like
not as
Big as before. Okay still like a little sharper. Okay, let's say
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Oh, all right
So they so the live was sunday. Yeah
And I went to kyoto at saturday afternoon because I had to prepare things and brought many things. Yeah
so I
Arrived at kyoto around like 5 p.m. Okay, but my you know younger brother
Um, he took a shinkansen at 9 from tokyo station, okay very early very early
And I arrived at kyoto around at 11. Okay and went to fushimi inari
Oh sort of kanko went to that temple went to wagashi store and went to everything. Yeah
And he walked every every city and my parents uh wrote
I took a shinkansen at 11 from tokyo station. Okay there about after
Noon and we got our lunch. Yeah and went to like that temple the old temple. Yeah and
And then we meet and have dinner together at gyo and then stay together
And the next day the live day I had I had a like preparation and rehearsals. So I
you know did everything like individually
but
They my parents and my younger brother they woke up like six or seven
and then just
go
Right, they were they were touring the whole day. Yeah, right. Yeah went to some or something just came to my show
And then next day monday. Yeah, he took a day off. Okay. So from that from the very early morning again
They toured again
Wow, and finally we meet me at kyoto station and get back with the same shinkansen
They had like
That's good that place that place
Oh, yeah, I mean, it's good thing. I did enjoy, uh, you know a little trip to kyoto, right? Yeah. Yeah, it was so fun
Yeah, that's fine. It's fun energetic, you know
walked
tons of
route. Oh, yeah
It's that's that's good. Yeah
It's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
so
Yeah, that was kyoto. All right. Yeah
and um
Just quick. Yeah two days ago. I did a tokyo live. Yeah, and um that was in yurakucho
Okay, which is a kind of east part of tokyo. Yeah, and my parents house is in chiba
So it's relatively close. Okay from my parents house
And my grandma, yes, she's now 90. Mm
um
i've never
Invited her to any of my live concert because you know someday far. Yeah loud, you know
um
I've been dreaming one day I could invite her to my live concert. That would be great
And because because she's been watching
YouTube
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This podcast too and everything. Yeah, and she every time I go back to that place and she
Like greet me and like I saw your video. I saw yourself. Uh-huh. Okay
Yeah
and recently she
She's 90. Um
Her problem is like
Back back the legs. Yeah, it's difficult for her to walk long distance or like take a train and go somewhere
So I didn't
So I invited her. Okay to the show, but I we were not sure if she could
Like make it or not. Yeah, it's completely depends on her
Like physical health. Yeah. Yeah and
Mentally as well. Okay. Yeah
So I didn't know if she was there or not. Oh, okay performance. Okay
And then but after I the show whole show I ended and I went to like the places
And she was like waiting for me my grandma was there
and she was like
And then she looked so happy and she looked so
Healthy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. And I was
Yeah, I was crying, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Wow
Yeah, uh-huh and she said like
Wow, we were we were like don't say like that
It's how you grab my nose
But yeah, yeah, she said like
Yeah, so that was fun that was big moment too
Lots of lots of things happening there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right
So great two weeks great two weeks. Yes
many
Like historical moment to me right in my life, right?
Great, uh, great chapter there in your life there. Yeah
So I feel like kyoto live felt like one chapter ended. Hmm
But like tokyo live it was so as it was so fun. Yeah, I feel like oh
It's like I feel like new door is like opening. Ah, like the beginning of a new chapter. Yeah
Yeah, so it's
It's gonna be fun from now too. So
Any plans coming up? Uh next yeah, so what's gonna happen?
um, but I
It's still not like fixed yet. So I can't say that but
Around april around april
Yeah, next spring. Mm-hmm
Another tour. Yeah
Yeah, good thing good thing might happen
Can't say yet. Yeah, because it's not just fixed. Oh, I see. Yeah, but you're I mean, I would love to say
Uh, not fixed. Yeah, it's not fixed. Yeah working on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right
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Yes
And i'm so happy that I can share this with you. Oh, yeah. Thank you. I mean i'd love hearing your stories man. Thank you
Yeah, man
Oh, i'll invite you. Oh, yes, please if you if you have time. Yeah, the right
Are you are you ever gonna do like a like a live stream of your show?
um
For the first one. Yes, I did. Mm-hmm
But with all the technical difficulties you said yeah
It wasn't worth it anymore. You need like five six cameras. You need streaming things
Wait too much. Yeah, that's
Yeah
I say for some live houses
They they said oh, no, it's impossible for us. Oh, I see
All right. Is it on footage? Like do you?
Is it like was there a camera guy that sort of like?
videotized
Event or no this time. Yeah. Yes. Okay, but he wasn't
like
Fully filming for whole show. Uh-huh. He like took pictures. Oh, I see videos too just several moments
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I see and I had to
I I used my camera
It was a
Just beside that. Oh, I see stage. Yeah, and that's what I get for the whole show. Gotcha
Yeah, but i'm not sure if
It's just too far from here
Okay, i'm not sure if it's if I I would be like
Really start to public but oh, okay just for like a record
and see
How we did. Oh, I see, you know, I see like
Let me see gotcha. All right. Well, but yeah
Yeah
big
Big weeks big week big week. You're it's getting bigger and bigger man. It's getting bigger and bigger
It's it's it's unbelievable how fast you're it's getting bigger and bigger. Yes, it is
I i'm surprised like last time I remember was like it's my first time being in front of people. Yes singing
Now you're like, oh, oh one two places
Two i'm actually going on tour two places
You're gonna be like next neck like next year you're gonna be like, oh, yeah, I just uh collabing with uh, uh new jeans
No, I mean honestly i'm the one who is being surprised
The most yeah, i'm sure
But yeah, yeah i i mean thank you for everybody
Including you and all the people who came to the show and listened to my music and
It's amazing. It is. It is amazing. It is amazing. Yeah, I mean
Yeah
Such a great journey. You're riding there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right
so
Well, thanks for asking me that. Oh, yeah
Awesome. Awesome. Yeah
Well, congrats on the event congrats on the tour. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah looking forward for the next one. Yes
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Yes, thank you. I will. I will let you know and yes, please
Keep supporting you. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thanks listening guys. Thank you. Bye