Summer is over in 9…8…7…

I think the climax was marked by this past weekend and the Nagasawa summer festival and now that the event is over, I am a little sad. The band was fun but I don’t think I will have the opportunity to play with them again as my internship is almost half over (yikes!). Since Sunday night I have been plotting a way to join another band. Such schemes mostly involve buying a ukelele and singing outside a studio until someone feels sorry for me and adopts me.

But really, the performance went well (I think…still have to see the videos). The heat made my fingers a little slippery and sweaty on the keyboard but in general, I hit most of the right notes.

I guess I did not talk much about the band or the summer festival. Basically, there is a “music circle” at NTT and the members of the circle form bands for various events, pick some songs to cover, practice for a few months before the event, play, and then retire (can’t find right word).

I was invited to join one of the bands to play keyboard for 3 songs, and sing another 2: a Japanese song by PUFFY and Franz Ferdinand’s “Do You Want To”. The PUFFY song was a little hard, not because it was in Japanese but because it was a tad high for me and not totally inline with my regular music tastes. But I had fun with it and managed (again…I *think*…need to see video) to coordinate my dance moves and Japanese lyric recall at the last minute. *Almost* made no mistakes with the words. “Do You Want To” was great to perform in terms of there being a particular mood to the song that I had fun acting out. Hmm…I hope there is another opportunity in this lifetime to get on stage.