2010/10/02＊Takuro

「Shinkiba Crisis」

“Shinkiba Crisis”. It’s finally been announced. We’re playing at Studio Coast — where we’ve already played several times this year — once again with the wild enthusiasm like that of September 9th… is how it feels like. It’s been about a year since we last played with Midori, and two and a half years for Rin Toshite Shigure. Saying “it’s been a while” would be quite fitting indeed. All three bands put out an album this year and they’re all splendid (one third of that is self-flattery, though).

The ones who brought up doing this event were us, but Hajime from Midori gave the impetus for us to do so. We were talking one night at some club and he said “Let’s play together～. We’re the same age and all“. “In that case, I also want to bring Shigure along…” And that’s how splendidly it all came together. I’m glad. The important thing this time is how we’re all the same age.

On the day of the show, I think it’ll be a fierce 3-way struggle of performances where you can’t even tell apart the stage, the venue or who’s who. I’m not saying it’ll be all the members on stage o jamming or anything, not like that — it’s three bands who you couldn’t even really imagine doing that in the first place. Ah, but the members of CHAOTIC SPEED KING are all present though, and the groove created by the male team of Midori seems like it could take anything… how about everyone joins in there, and then we have the performance captured on a TK cassette tape recorder? How does that sound? (laughs) All the way up to mastering. Nah, that’d be no good, no good at all. (laughs) Let’s just make it a hard-hitting joint show like always — if I don’t become tense from being too fired up for it, that is.

Definitely, definitely do come over and check just what kind of a crisis there’s going to be at Shinkiba, everyone.