Helping Out for Nick Lowe's Interview
In the beginning of May, which was middle of the Golden Week Holidays in Japan, my friend asked me to help out English translation for an interview with Nick Lowe.
To be honest, I didn't know about him. However, when I researched him, his music, I could hear familiar sound, which kind of reminded me of life in somewhere overseas, maybe London. According to Wikipedia, he is a founder of Pub Rock, which ended up creating Punk Rock. I got too excited, which caused my mind to go blank! However, Nick was so sweet reading a manuspript of the interview which I translated into English and answered the questions to Mike who was an interviewer. The interviewer, Mike Koshitani whose English was fantastic! He described himself too modest, I mean, he learnt English through rough conversation with native English speakers. That is an ideal way because you can learn real English. His English sounds natural. Even he could be an English teacher in junior high schools, I'm sure. He wrote an article about this interview on https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000155297 (You could see my name as well. But this article is written in Japanese. )
Even though my mind went blank, I could kind of contribute to the interview. Of course, I absolutely appreciate such a brilliant opportunity. It could be the first time as well as the last time in my life.
After the interview, I visited Tokyo Tower and Zojoji, around where my grandmother used to live. And also my mum was born. Yes! My family roots were in Tokyo.
I saw Nick's concert as well. He was powerful enough. As I saw him singing, I got something energetic. It was because his voice gave me some kind of courage. Not only that, I felt peaceful atmosphere which I hadn't got for a while. Lovely! When the concert ended, I could see beautiful urban skyscrapers through the big window in Billboard, Tokyo.
To be honest, I didn't know about him. However, when I researched him, his music, I could hear familiar sound, which kind of reminded me of life in somewhere overseas, maybe London. According to Wikipedia, he is a founder of Pub Rock, which ended up creating Punk Rock. I got too excited, which caused my mind to go blank! However, Nick was so sweet reading a manuspript of the interview which I translated into English and answered the questions to Mike who was an interviewer. The interviewer, Mike Koshitani whose English was fantastic! He described himself too modest, I mean, he learnt English through rough conversation with native English speakers. That is an ideal way because you can learn real English. His English sounds natural. Even he could be an English teacher in junior high schools, I'm sure. He wrote an article about this interview on https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000155297 (You could see my name as well. But this article is written in Japanese. )
Even though my mind went blank, I could kind of contribute to the interview. Of course, I absolutely appreciate such a brilliant opportunity. It could be the first time as well as the last time in my life.
After the interview, I visited Tokyo Tower and Zojoji, around where my grandmother used to live. And also my mum was born. Yes! My family roots were in Tokyo.
I saw Nick's concert as well. He was powerful enough. As I saw him singing, I got something energetic. It was because his voice gave me some kind of courage. Not only that, I felt peaceful atmosphere which I hadn't got for a while. Lovely! When the concert ended, I could see beautiful urban skyscrapers through the big window in Billboard, Tokyo.
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