Walking past the train station tonight I heard a guy singing a Beatles cover. I stopped and was surprised to see he was Japanese because honest to god he was so good at both singing and playing the guitar. I have never heard anyone sing any Beatles covers as well as this guy (and I am the kind of girl that goes to the pub to listen to the bands!)
If I wasn’t so in love with Shumpei then I would have asked him out!!
He is playing outside the station again next week and I have marked it in my diary. (He also had original songs and did some Japanese covers but it was The Beatles covers that got me hooked!!!)
Ps: Okinawa post later, but for the record I had the BEST time!!!!
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I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
Hey there. I found your blog through Adam’s. I wanted to know more about the chick who so casually said that guys on the train in Japan just go the grab.
I also just wanted to point out the reason your old Blogger account says you’re a Pisces when in fact you’re an Aquarian: You’ve typed your birthdate in as an Australian would (DD/MM/YY), instead of how an American would (MM/DD/YY). Blogger is an American-based site, so if you swap your month and day around, it’ll fix the error.
Perhaps you already knew this and were keeping it that way for laughs, but I thought I’d help out.
Cheers.
Hi Lulu! Reading your post has brought back memories of Japan, not that I heard a guy sing the Beatles, but the endless travel I did on the trains. Sigh… I miss it already!
Finding someone that does good covers of the Beatles is a rare, rare thing.
I love The Beatles but a Japanese guy doing a cover is so cute!!
P.S Can’t wait for the Okinawa post!!
Can’t wait to hear about Okinawa!!
Wow, so cool that you live in Japan and get to see all of this stuff! Take a photo of this dude singing!!