Years active 1989–present | Associated acts Scanners Record label Saddle Creek | |
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Labels Saddle Creek RecordsFive One Inc. Website www.hadashino-ongakusha.jp Past members Tohru MitsuhashiTomokazu Ninomiya Albums 感受性応答セヨ, What You Can See From Your Place Members Hisashi Yoshino, Tomokazu Ninomiya, Atsuya Tamori, Tohru Mitsuhashi Similar Bloodthirsty Butchers, MO'SOME TONEBENDER, OLDE WORLDE, Tarō Kobayashi, BRADBERRY ORCHESTRA Profiles | ||
Eastern Youth is a Japanese punk rock trio formed in 1989 in Hokkaidō. Their sound blends many different styles, and is especially complex for a three-piece band. Their lyrics express the helplessness of Japanese youths. Their influences include Fugazi, Jawbreaker, Stiff Little Fingers and Discharge.
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Eastern youth
Career
Eastern Youth was formed as Scanners in 1989 by childhood friends Hisashi Yoshino and Atsuya Tamori in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. From 1989 to 1993 they were the top Oi!/Skinhead act in Japan. The released 3 albums, 1 single and were on several compilation albums. The band changed the name from EASTERN YOUTH to eastern youth, and shed the skinhead image of their past. The band moved to Tokyo in 1990. In 1995, they put out their first release on their own record label, 坂本商店: (Sakamoto-Shoten) 口笛、夜更けに響 Kuchibue Yofuke-ni-Hibiku ("A Whistle Rings Late At Night"). Within the next 5 years, Eastern Youth became legendary to the Japanese indie rock scene and in 2000 they played in the United States for the first time, with At The Drive-In, largely broadening their popularity. They continued to tour America with Jimmy Eat World in 2001, and Saddle Creek band Cursive in 2006, with whom Eastern Youth split sides on 2003's 8 Teeth to Eat You EP. During the "Bottom of the world"-Tour 2015 Tomokazu Ninomiya announces that he will be leaving the band. He was replaced by Muraoka Yuka.
Members
Singles
Albums
DVDs
Songs
Corrected Eyesight: 06DON QUIJOTE · 2004
Make for the Waste Land365-Step Blues · 2006
East end landEast End Land · 1989