2008/03/15＊Takuro

「We won」

Discommunication won the “BEST NEW ARTIST” award at the Space Shower TV Awards. And so, up until now we were at Budokan where they held the award ceremony. Thank you to everyone who watched the live broadcast. Ahh, we were really nervous! And I thought it’d be a piece of cake. To explain just how nervous we were… when being asked to give our speech to everyone for winning the prize, all we could say was “we’ll do our best!” That’s it. After coming back from the ceremony and trying to remember what it was like standing up on the stage, pretty much all I can remember is the shape of Seikou Itou’s glasses. Anyway, because of those circumstances, I couldn’t say all the important things I wanted, so I’ll write them here. “The fact that the video won a prize is all thanks to Mr. Shimada, who directed our video, as well as all the staff at the studio. All we did was go there, grab our instruments and get filmed while playing them. During that one take at the filming scene, everyone was yelling words of encouragement like they would during a middle school baseball club match, but I remember that the people who first started shouting were not the band but the staff. The band — who like overdoing things — got in really high spirits because of them and were able to get in a nice swing of things. I look forward to working with them again one day. Thank you very much.” And, of course, all the people who voted for us. Thank you.

Tomorrow I’ll have to get up from bed at half past four, get on an airplane and fly to Sapporo where we’re playing at an event called Yumechika that same evening. When you’re high up there, the plane makes a rather dreamy sound, don’t you think? Crossing over the Japanese islands, you can sense the dynamic movement of time. I wonder how cold we should expect Sapporo to currently be. We’re also looking forward to the show itself. We’ll see all of you coming there later!