e.MU (part 1)

Hi people, we're back!
It's Pel here! Where are you Jem?
She's not there Sorry!

So I take the chance for talk 'bout a J-rock band I love from much years.
They are:

  e.MU

  

Line Up:
Sakagami Mizuki - Vocals
Satou Daisuke - Guitar
Yukku - Bass
Takahiro - Drums

Origin:
Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

Style:
Japanese Pop-Rock

Biography:

e.MU are a japanese band born on April of  1998 in Hakodate.

At 25th of September 1998 they released their first indie single: Heart and to try to publicize it they played in 

nightclubs  of Sapporo, Hakodate, Niigata, Tokyo, living in the seedy suburbs of the cities, because they get no money to pay for more.

On January 21, 1999 the band released their second indie single, Message. 

Exactly a month after, during a performance in front of 350 people, the guys are noticed by a producer who convinces them to move permanently to Tokyo for hardly playing live .So, in October of that year, the band started for the first national tour, called Promise Tour that will stop in various cities such as Sapporo, Hakodate,Niigata, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, Urawa, Maebashi, Yokohama,Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo.

Back from tour with a good group of fans, the guys are hired to play the songs of a fictitious band present in the adapted anime from manga Kaikan Phrase. So in the April, 19 was released their debut single, Love Around which enshrines their success, finishing in fourteenth place in the Oricon charts, in the first day of broadcast. Meanwhile the band held a radio show  called OBC Bunbunrikuesuto on Radio Osaka and setted off for the Core Fighter Tour that will land in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo and Hakodate. 
...to be continued...

 

e.MU (part 2)

e.MU's Biography continuing:

On May 31 e.MU released the second official single : Summer Day's Drive but it reached only the twenty-eighth place. In the next month e.MU are hired by JOQR issuer  to conduct the radio program WOO Shinnosuke Furumoto Parasuka, during which, on June 28, will be announced the release of their first album,called  FORCE of FIFTH . The album reached the thirty-fifth place Oricon, and was followed with the FORCE of FIFTH Tour  that will feature them in Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya, Niigata, Sendai,Sapporo, Hakodate and Tokyo. After it, they was assigned  to keep an entire radio channel from the Hokkaido G-AIR FM, called e.MU No Gattsu ! Radio.

Faith, the third single comes out on November 29, with its PV and gain the forty-fifth and tenth place. 

On 31st of December the band playing live in the program "Live Countdown Cafe Psyencethe 2000 Adios," which opens the way for E.mu Special Live 2001 LiveFree, You Too!. In spring e.MU will open Racer X's (Californian heavy metal band) Japanese gigs of the WHISKY A GO GO Tour, and at summer they will follow them in Los Angeles.

In Autumn e.MU came back to Japan, and they started the first of three tours that will keep them busy for all the next year, until the spring of 2002 when they keep part in various television and live events.

Between May and June of 2002 the band made ​​a promotional tour for their new album release, but, for reasons unclear, that short tour is only followed by the release of the fourth single, Will / Didn't Say (in July) and of the fifth single, Another Way / Ai no katachi (in October).

The band takes  also part in new live performances, and at Another Way Tour which will keep them engaged until January of the following year, when they, although exhausted, will start for the national tour called 2003 Tour to promote the sixth single, Sakura, which will be released on March 26.

With the tour's end, on April 3, band's problems and weariness get out, driving to extreme choice, so in the July 18 e.MU had a live gig, during which they announce their final disbanding . The gig is enclosed in a DVD titled  e.MU. LAST LIVE.

Note:

After e.Mu disbanding, the guitarist Daisuke joined ACID(Alternative Rock Band) and following their disbanding in 2009, he founded Needless Lyrics (J-Rock Band) along with e.MU former vocalist Mizuki , ACID former bassist Amari Yuta and ACID former drummer Seiichiro Hayakawa.

Someone says they are disbanded in the end of January 2011.

...and in the next post I'll put in e.MU discography!