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  • 3031 | 2011/11/11*Takuro

    2011/11/11*Takuro

    「The end of MAXIMUM THE HORMONE Movement → return from Hokkaido (it’s another long one)」

    We’re back home from touring five venues around Hokkaido together with MAXIMUM THE HORMONE on the extra edition of MMT2011 (my first time using the abbreviation, meaning of course “Movement Moment Tour”). After the last show in Hakodate, we did a primary wrap-up party, a secondary wrap-up party and then headed for the morning market without sleep after that (still surviving at this point were only me, Taki, Kazuhiko and Nawo. Daisuke was supposed to come, too, but he tragically retired). I was so tired, the middle part of our commute was quite warpy. I was thinking it’d be nice if this was how all commuting was like on tour… but I guess that’d be a little too much if if was constant.

    The Hakodate show. Described by everyone from HORMONE as looking “totally looking like a foreign club!“, Club COCOA has a spacious stage and a high ceiling so the air doesn’t get thin, either. It was a hot performance that showed the results of our tour. We were waiting for our turn while watching HORMONE put on their MAXIMUM-level show like always, thinking “Alright! They’re amazing today, too…!“. HORMONE’s setlist each night was completely prepared with the intent to just crush 9mm. It was a completely different HORMONE from what we’d seen at festivals. When the band who’s playing with you is aiming to downright crush you like that, there’s no way a band man wouldn’t get all fired up. It’s not like it was just the finale that was special, but we were definitely way excited. With everyone watching us from the side of the stage and with the excitement of the audience of our first ever performance in Hakodate, 9mm just kept getting more and more into it, and the show was over in a flash. In the end, each of us got off the stage looking like hell.

    Each and every show we did in Hokkaido became an unforgettable memory. To everyone who came to see us in Wakkanai, Kitami, Kushiro, Obihiro and Hakodate, thank you. It was thanks to MAXIMUM THE HORMONE who accepted our invitation, the excitement at each venue, all the delicious foods we ate (along with HORMONE getting psyched over them), the staff at each venue for saving us at every venue and blowing away our anxiety over if our equipment would arrive safely or not… it was thanks to everyone that we could accomplish this tour. I can’t promise it’ll be quite next month or anything, but we’ll definitely come again. When that time comes, let’s create another huge uproar!!

    With this spirit, we’ll be heading over to Kyushu with POLYSICS next. Actually, as we were touring Hokkaido, it was as if we were following in POLY’s footsteps as they’d just been touring all the same venues in Hokkaido themselves two, three weeks before us. We might just be talking solely about Hokkaido backstage. (laughs)

    Ah, and one more thing I shan’t forget!!

    We’re playing with Atari Teenage Riot at Ebisu LIQUIDROOM on the 17th!!

    This is great!! We might have a chance to hear “Digital Hardcore” live, the song 9mm uses as their intro music!! Getting to hear the same song within an hour twice, with the second time being performed by the original artists themselves, isn’t something you get to experience very often. This is just pure speculation, though. (laughs) Nevertheless, we’re also looking forward to performing in front of pure Atari fans. There are a lot of Atari fans among our acquaintances who are from a generation a little bit older than ourselves. My arms and throat are going to be hard at work — no, I’ll make them work. That’s about it for now. Later.

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