094. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The festival will be held in Tokyo, and there are limited open-air space options.
The Planning Committee considered large parks and plazas throughout Tokyo, as well as open parking lots. Among them, the application time for car parks is the shortest, only three months, and the park is the longest, which takes one year.
The plaza is in between.
Depending on the venue, the stage effect will be different, and nothing will be possible until the decision is made. The only thing is to start contacting and negotiating with the co-organizers to share the pressure of the festival.
Watanabe Productions holds a stake in Warner Pioneer and has also cooperated frequently with Fuji Sankei's Polly Kanon in recent years, so the two record labels have become their target for cooperation.
The purpose of holding this music festival is to increase the influence of women's rock on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also to attract fresh blood in this field through this music festival, so people in the underground music circle naturally enter the scope of invitation.
Watanabe Productions threw out the bait that the two record labels could take advantage of to discover potential newcomers.
Warner Pioneer is a record company that has a very good set of idol production, and the big star Akina Nakamori publishes songs under this label, and Porie Kanon is relatively weak, but it is Watanabe Productions' record company that has worked closely in recent years.
Nowadays, the idol market is saturated, and although everyone continues to invest in idols, they have also begun to pay attention to other directions.
Record companies, which have been collecting market trends for many years, have also paid attention to the band's rising popularity among teenagers, and Watanabe Productions is now going to hold a music festival, although it may not be a good opportunity for the record company to return home.
Finding a good co-organizer is a way to reduce financial pressure on the one hand, and to attract more attention and support through the co-organizer's network.
Poli Kanon, which belongs to Fuji Sankei, is an affiliated company with Fuji TV, and can also provide media attention for the festival, not to mention the Warner Pioneer, a behemoth.
Watanabe Productions even approached private companies to seek sponsorship – emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and Watanabe Productions is ready to do anything even if it is in the background.
When looking for a co-organizer, the venue was roughly decided.
Taking into account the effect of the venue, the scale of the festival, and other issues, the final location was Wangan Plaza in Koto Ward.
There are a bunch of warehouses in Jiangdong District at this time, and there is no need to consider the problem of disturbing the people when opening here - it is said that the ability of ordinary people to complain is ten out of ten.
The plaza is very open, and if it is fully opened as a concert venue, it can accommodate about 30,000 people, and it is said that there is an expansion plan to enter Koto Ward, and the rebuilt plaza is a fattened version of a super-large open-air concert that can hold 50,000 people.
The reason why the plan to expand this square is related to the current infrastructure atmosphere in China.
The real estate craze began before Tanaka Bulldozer Kakuei came to power, and slowly climbed between the 70s and 80s.
From the beginning of poverty alleviation in the 50s to the present day, the government and the private sector have strong financial resources.
Since the signing of the Plaza Accord, the yen has risen sharply, which has caused a setback in trade exports. In order to cope with this situation and to improve the damage caused by the appreciation of the yen, the government has begun to promote the expansion of domestic demand and the promotion of consumption, and has set the current goals of urban development, housing improvement, people's livelihood improvement, and public utilities...... Speak human words.
Oh, I can't spend a lot of money, so I use it to speculate in real estate and stocks.
That being said, shouting that there is too much money to spend, in the end there are still rich people who have too much money to spend and throw it away, and the rich people are wrapped up in this atmosphere of drunkenness and gold and are struggling, and if they are not careful, they fall into the trap, they will be ruined and fall into the hell of extreme poverty, and at the worst they will be sold as laborers and dispatch girls to die without a place to be buried.
In the legal version of the society, the dark place is so dark that the nine suns do not shine.
In short, Koto Ward responded positively to the call, and how did you think that this plaza was too small, so it was better to expand it and change it into a super large plaza that also attracts attention throughout Tokyo......
However, for this festival, the real situation is that it is afraid that it will not be able to absorb even the 30,000 people, so it is only going to use about two-thirds, and the target number of people mobilized is 15,000.
After starting to negotiate the venue, Watanabe made a map of the site that he obtained from the Wangan Plaza, designed the stage according to the topography of the venue, and planned the site. Where is the main stage and where is the sub-stage, how to divide each area, where to sell souvenirs, where to solve the problem when people have three urgency, and how to set up the stalls...... These are all questions.
Shinichi Iwahashi's work is almost entirely focused on "people".
On the one hand, she agreed with the members of the committee to invite the people and posted the heroes, and on the other hand, it was Keiko Terada who drew a thread for him and introduced him to the musicians she had previously recruited who were interested in the festival.
There is a group originally called Akasaka Komachi who was dissatisfied with the original company style and jumped to CBS Sony's newly debuted band called Princess Princess, and Keiko Terada and the band's drummer were friends who had known since their debut. Mishio Ogawa, the lead singer of the avant-garde rock band Chakra, and another one is amazing, a singer of heavy metal, named Mari Hamada.
Saying that she is powerful does not mean that she is so famous that she needs to deliver a famous post and visit with a gift, in fact, before this, Iwahashi Shinichi didn't know which one Mari Hamada was. But on the day I went to see her, she happened to have a performance at the club in Kitazawa, so I went to observe it by the way, and then ......
I was shocked by her terrifying high voice that could kill.
What did this kind of person eat to grow up with?
And when the performance ended, Keiko Terada introduced Shinichi Iwahashi to Mari Hamada, and learned that the girl who sang for her with a high note that could kill two more people than Mari Hamada was her own sister......
I really want to see where their sisters' parents are sacred and can raise such a daughter.
The music industry is indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, people who are beautiful, sing well, and can create can move from the underground to the mainstream, first of all, a big threshold, blocking 98% of the people.
Even if he debuts as he wishes, there are very few people in the industry who can become popular in the right time, place and indispensable.
Because of the fierce competition, opportunities are even more important. This festival is also a kind of "opportunity".
And the idea of Keiko Terada, which was promoted to become true, was in a sense to provide an opportunity for this opportunity to appear. Because of this, whenever Keiko Terada introduces him as "the agent who proposed the project in Watanabe", her friends will be kind to him even if they meet him for the first time.
Because of this project, Shinichi Iwahashi became famous in women's rock.