At the same time, my desire to tour foreign countries became bigger and bigger. How did you end up moving to Sweden? “One day I realised I had mostly Swedish bands and artists in my CD collection. After a while, Macaroni got a chance to be the support act for The Hellacopters’ Japan tour in 1999.”
My band and The Hellacopters miraculously had contracts with the same record label. Our A&R knew a guy at the promoter and we talked about how much I love The Hellacopters and other Swedish rock bands too.
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We played together for only a few years, but it was a very useful experience for me even now as a professional musician. Another major record label paid for our demo before Kitty. We signed a contract with Kitty (Universal Japan) before long. But people from some major record labels liked us. We rehearsed a lot, like three or four times a week and played around Tokyo, We didn’t have that many fans. I met the members of Macaroni around 1996 after playing in some bands. People usually think it is crazy if you want to be a professional musician. I was looking for a band while working at Hard Rock Cafe in Tokyo. At the beginning in Tokyo, I had only one friend who was from the same high school. I moved alone to Tokyo after graduating from high school as I had planned. The band might have wanted a male bassist or something else. I played in a band in my home town when I was a teenager but I was kicked out of my band. “Yes, first, I have had a big dream of becoming a professional bassist since I was 11 years old. You were the bassist for Macaroni, a Japanese band that opened for The Hellacopters in Japan in 1999. Tell us about your early music career in Japan. Her love for Swedish rock led her to move to Sweden. Having had initial success and a record deal in Japan in the 1990s, she wanted to take her music and herself out into the world. Stockholm-based Japanese musician Tomoko Sukenobu is currently the bass player of Atomic Swing and “Demons”. Atomic Swing’s Tomoko Sukenobu talks to Roppongi Rocks about her musical and personal journey from Japan to Stockholm.
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