May 18th, 2007 0:00
Posted by Takuro
Kazuhiko spilt some blood yesterday.
It happened as we were playing The World it seems.
During our solo live at Osaka on 4/28, Taki broke his front tooth, also during The World… Thanks to this tune, I think we’ll just keep steadily getting injured and end up having to cancel the rest of the tour or something.
I guess the song has a good tempo, eh?
Everyone, take care not to injure yourselves please.
The venue, performers and staff were all in very good spirits yesterday.
Performing with us were
BEATCRUSADERS
KEMURI
FRONTIER BACKYARD
So, a bunch of bands who’ve already been around for 10 years. Needless to say, it was a wonderful stage. There were heaps of divers, too (I wonder if the guy who looked like a flying fish was okay?).
Thank you very much to everyone who watched 9mm play yesterday. It was really fun. It was a good night, wasn’t it?
By the way, on my way back home, I ran into a friend for the first time in ages.
My excellent day even had a lovely finish, right?
Well then, this was Takuro.
May 17th, 2007 0:00
Posted by Takuro
Hello, this is Takuro of 9mm Parabellum Bullet.
“The World e.p.” goes on sale today on May 16th.
At around noon, the band + staff all headed towards CD shops.
It was in order to write some nonsense on comment cards and signs, see.
Today we went to Shinjuku, Shibuya and Yokohama (Tower Records, HMV, TSUTAYA, etc).
It got pretty extreme every place we went to. The signs and comment cards, as well the shopkeepers’ enthusiasm, you can sense this kind of energy from it all.
I feel pretty confident about them but I wonder how you all think. Definitely go see them with your own eyes please.
As we were at the shop, we saw several people giving the album a trial listening and buying it there on the spot.
I know, spying is bad… sorry about that.
A friend sent me a picture from another shop and it was pretty great there, too.
It seems the tickets to our Shibuya Tower Records event are sold out as of yesterday.
Also, I think some of you might already be aware, but “The World e.p.”…
Entered at 10th place (!!!!!!!!!) on the Oricon album chart today.
That really feels incredible to me.
The people who bought the CD, the shop employees, thank you very much everyone.
I’m still in awe thanks to all of you guys. I’ll keep working harder and harder.
First off, it’s tomorrow’s live at ZEPP Tokyo.
Well then, I’ll end here today. This was Takuro of 9mm Parabel– whatever.
May 14th, 2007 0:00
Posted by Takuro
How do you do!! We’ve at last started a blog!!
I’m the vocalist and guitarist of 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Takuro Sugawara!! Pleased to make your acquaintance!!
Right, that was my attempt at doing a much too over-enthusiastic introduction.
The first impression people often have when they see our name is “I can’t read this shit.”
I think there are some among you who can’t either. I’d like to have furigana on here to show you, but for now I’ll just write that again in katakana.
I think its destructive power will remain in any case.
I’m the vocalist and guitarist of Kyuumiri paraberamu baretto, Sugawara Takuroo.
That’s how you write it. It’s too complicated, I know.
To avoid accidents, us members as well as staff like to just say kyuumiri.
When talking about us with friends and family, definitely call us kyuumiri please.
(By the way, thus far the one who’s been having the most accidents is me. I suck.）
Well then, 9mm Parabellum Ba…t’s new CD “The World e.p.” is just about to be released!!
We’re excited about the fact that the music we created is going to be made into CD’s and be put on shelves for sale. It’s quite difficult to put the joy we’re feeling into words but damnit, I’ll try. Quite simply put, yeah: it’s the best!!
The band’s all excited, happily going “Won’t it come out already?“, “Is it really coming out?“, “If it’s coming out, then when? (May 16th)” and so on. The other day this actually went as far as one of us asking “Wait, didn’t it come out already?” Quite an obvious case of the May Blues.
However, there’s been an incident going on that completely blows those kind of thoughts away, an example of which you can find in the picture above.
Before the entrance to the Tower Records store in Shibuya, they have this poster put up as kind of a prank. Blocking the way to the escalator is this news about the in-store performance we’re doing on the 26th. Moreover, it’s not just that, but it seems this kind of prank phenomenon is occurring at several other CD shops as well. There must be people who’ve seen this picture in several places and are thinking “Who the hell are these guys? Don’t block the way to the escalator!“, but I can with confidence say that we’re the most surprised out of anyone. I think there must be several gates blocked by our posters. It’s not our doing.
We plan on taking peeks at CD shops all over Japan after we embark on our nation-wide tour at the end of the month. And of course, before the tour even starts, we’ll continuously keep you updated via this blog, lots of pictures included. I ask that you look forward to it.
I think I’ll end the first post around here. Starting from the next one, it’ll be nothing but “what we ate today” kind of posts (maybe), so please keep reading everyone.
Well then, I bid you farewell.
This was 9mm Parabellum Bullet’s Takuro Sugawara.
