Hi there! Pagoda here.
My name's Amie, or Ames. I hail from the fairly obscure city of Adelaide in South Australia. Anyone else from Adelaide on here?
Anyway. I first started listening to Japan when I was about 14, maybe younger. My dad, who'd been a fan in the early eighties but lost all of his LPs somehow, found Tin Drum on CD and put it on the big HiFi at home.
It was the weirdest thing I had ever heard; there were a few instruments in there that I had never heard before. I was almost embarassed by it, and tried to turn down the volume. But there was something in there that I liked very much, and I kept listening.
Needless to say, before long I was digging out the CD and listening to it when no-one else was at home too. Great fun. I've collected a few more albums too, but I can only find one music store in town that stocks Japan or David Sylvian, and I already have the ones they stock. Frustration.
As it is, a few years have passed, I'm Eighteen years old now, about to put on my highschool clothes for the very last time. I'm a geek if there ever was one. I like to wear ties, if only because people inevitably say 'You're a girl, what do you have a tie for?'. Meanwhile, I'm imagining I have a shiny red jacket to go with it.
Anyway, it's lovely to see a site like this after ages of thinking I was the only Japan fan still in existance. In retrospect, that was pretty silly of me, eh?
I suppose you can tell I'm fairly talkative. Please do stop for a chat!
Peace