2007/12/04＊Takuro
『2007/12/04』
Our second show in Hiroshima is over!! It was fun!!
We’ll get even better before coming back on the ’08 tour.
Yesterday I was writing about how people on the streets seem different depending on the city you’re in, but today I realized you get that even more when playing live. It’s interesting. Even though Japan’s supposed to be such a small country, there are obvious differences in the people. You do get influenced by the place you live in after all. Back when we came out with our first indies release, a friend was telling me how it reminded him of the town we lived in.
Tomorrow it’s Matsuyama.
It’s our second time playing there, too!
Oops, I forgot!
Tonight we also visited Okonomi-mura……
2007/12/03＊Takuro
『2007/12/03』
We left our inn at noon and reached Hiroshima at dusk.
After our meeting, we’re now all having okonomiyaki. Walking the streets of different cities is really fun. Depending on the city, the people are all a little different as well.
Thinking I needed some more stuff, I went inside the bookstore in front of me to find that their entire product line was very very pink. It’s one of those ones that are open throughout the night, see.
I managed to lose my portable music player so my CD Walkman made a comeback. I was thinking “man this is bulky～” but then realized it’s actually convenient as I can use it to listen to the new CD’s I buy on tour right away! Since it uses two external batteries, I’m now interested in getting eneloops. It’d be nice I had some free time tomorrow since I also want to buy earphones.
That’s what’s going on today. Everyone coming to CAVE-BE tomorrow, see you then. Let’s make it a good evening.
2007/12/02＊Takuro
『TAKTAK — a venue we always wanted to play』
Today we played at Kyoto Takutaku. Dohatsuten were unreasonably cool! As expected! We promised we’d meet again on the 29th at CDJ. The guys from Tetsu to Namari with whom we played on the opening day also put on a hell of a show. I think there’ll be more to come of the bands who’ll beat us if we lose focus even for a second. It’s starting to get interesting.
Thank you to everyone who came to these past two shows.
Tomorrow we’re commuting to Hiroshima.
2007/11/29＊Takuro
『Garasu Goshi no Bousou』
It ended safely!
Thank you. It was a great night.
If you include today, this marks the beginning of our tour that’ll keep going almost continuously until February. The tour goods are pretty cool as well, so look forward to those!
Now then. First up, the opening night at Kobe. Wait for us!!
2007/11/21＊Takuro
『!!!!』
An interview conducted by Kazuya Yoshii for next month’s issue of ROCKIN’ON JAPAN took place. Just who did he interview, you ask? You guessed it: me.
Ah man, I was nervous. Taking a picture together, as my shoulder brushed Yoshii’s it felt like an electric shock was rippling through my body. I’m serious. The photographer today was this woman of extraordinary good looks called Mari Amita. All in all it was a really memorable day.
I feel powered-up!
I’ll keep on doing my best tomorrow.
Takuro
2007/11/19＊Takuro
『Good afternoon! Bitter melon tea!!』
Okinawa yesterday was the best. We’re doing a live radio broadcast after this!
2007/11/15＊Takuro
『The day after Termination』
It’s the first morning after the release of our album.
Yesterday we drank a load of cheap alcohol in cheerful celebration and went to a certain party on the spur of the moment. We would’ve wanted to play there～
Some of you might be aware already, but the stores whose pictures we’re uploading, they had crazy exhibits of us. Seriously, it didn’t matter which store we went to. Somehow there were places with our posters everywhere, places nothing but our album jacket going round and round and round, places with several racks where you could give the album a trial listen, places where they’d misspelled the band name as 9mm Para「d」ellum Bullet (gahahaa), you name it! I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was like, “is this really a place where they sell CD’s!?“
Thank you very much, everyone. Thanks to you, we entered 4th (!!) on the daily chart. I’ll do my best so hard, they’ll write about me in the papers if I die.
2007/11/14＊Takuro
『What we put all that we had into: Termination』
Hello!!
Finally the day our first full album Termination goes on sale has come!!!!! Yeeeeessss!!!!
I don’t know if it has anything to do with our CD’s release, but yesterday I was able to sleep soundly and today it feels like I might lose my mind from smiling so much, or end up kicking around signposts because I feel so happy, or spend the whole day in commute since I’d always mess up when transferring trains because my head’s somewhere else.
Today we’ll be dropping by CD shops that ought to be full with our album’s advertisements. We plan to just dance out of sheer joy out there.
We’ll upload the pictures of that later～
2007/11/08＊Takuro
『The night in Sendai is over』
We’re riding the shinkansen back from Sendai. Thanks to everyone who came to see our live radio broadcast. On this Retsuden tour whenever we’re going to radio stations or CD shops we’re always running into monobright, but we didn’t today.
The only thing left is the tour final in Tokyo!! Well, I say that even though we’re going to Okinawa next week, and just when you’d think our headlining shows are over with our show on 11/28, we start our tour in December. It looks like 9mm is going to be busy for the remainder of ’07. But, looking at the footage from yesterday, our shows are getting better and better and we’ll still keep on improving, so definitely do come and see us. Our shows are sold out in various places, so we’re going all out all the way until year-end!!
Alright, I’ll lie down and get some sleep.
Nights.
2007/11/08＊Takuro
Our 5th show on the Space Shower Retsuden tour at Sendai has ended.
I think Kazuhiko is going to talk more about all the happenings in Sendai.
Alright, I’m off to our live broadcast～
