Nov 13, 2011 23:17
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!
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