Sawako Yamanaka - Rhythm Guitar (guest, one show)Īside from the task of playing an instrument, Mio and Tsumugi both have organizational roles in the band as well.

Azusa Nakano - Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals (alongside Yui, one show).

Tsumugi Kotobuki - Keyboard, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals ( one song).

Mio Akiyama - Bass, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals.

Yui Hirasawa - Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals.

Eventually, the band joined the university's Light Music Club where they started a friendly rivalry with the band Onna Gumi. Women's university where they continued Ho-kago Tea Time without Azusa. While Azusa stayed behind to form her own band, Wakaba Girls, out of the new cast of the Light Music Club, the four seniors Yui, Mio, Ritsu and Tsumugi started to attend the J. As the third year of the four seniors came to an end however, the band had to split. Together, they experienced many events like visiting the 'Natsu Rock Fest', performing alongside the band Death Devil or even in London at a 'Japanese Culture Festival'. įor the next several concerts, rather than performing as the Light Music Club, they referred to themselves as Ho-kago Tea Time.

The members, although disappointed about not being able to decide the name on their own, accepted it willingly. After endless and fruitless discussion, the club's adviser Sawako Yamanaka, irritated, gave the band its current name, Ho-kago Tea Time, which is an allusion to the main activities in the Light Music Club - gathering together to drink tea after school has ended. The only real problem was to find a name for the band.

The idea was to gather together to play music while out of school. The five Sakuragaoka High School students Yui Hirasawa, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Azusa Nakano had already been members of their school's Light Music Club for a reasonably long time when the first questions about forming an independent band appeared.

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