2011/12/08＊Takuro
「All legs of Movement Moment Tour 2011 over」
The December 9th content of the Kamome e.p. special privilege trigger disc — live video of the tour finale — will be revealed any minute now!! Only five minutes to go at the time of this writing! (laughs) The video’s just an excerpt, not the full show, but it has enough power to not lose to the official set of videos we’ve released before.
Now then, everyone. While giving applause to the team who did such great work in such a short time (seriously, it was a really short time they had to work on it!), do start your preparations for the trigger disc. I’m grateful to everyone who came to see us on Movement Moment Tour. Thank you. Nonetheless, 2011 is not yet over. We continue asking for your support!!
P.S. It got posted as I was writing this!
P.P.S. We’ve received a challenge from MAXIMUM THE HORMONE. We will be answering it.
2011/12/06＊Takuro
「The night before the tour finale」
Tomorrow’s the final day of avengers in sci-fi Movement!!
It’s also the 2011 tour finale for 9mm. The day’s starting to draw to a close for us at last.
We’ll kick some ass and some more ass tomorrow as well! See you there!!
2011/12/06＊Takuro
「Fukui CHOP」
It was our first show in Fukui and that seems to have been the case for avengers, too. That kinda thing’s nice. It was a sold out, full house at CHOP!! With different staging than usual (it had its plus sides, too) there might’ve been some spots from where it was hard to see us, but everyone got sufficiently fired-up for the semi-finale! Thanks to everyone who came. We’ll definitely come again!
2011/12/03＊Takuro
「Kanazawa night」
Last night we visited the ESP store BIG BOSS.
We were signing autographs and trying out instruments.
Also, tonight’s EIGHT HALL is sold out!! We’ll play in high spirits!!
2011/12/01＊Takuro
「The curtain rises for the final leg of the tour’s extra edition」
We begin from Shinano no Kuni (Nagano)! The final leg of a long tour. avengers in sci-fi’s show begins soon!
2011/11/21＊Takuro
「We’re in Kagoshima」
MMT2011 extra edition, the Kyushu leg w/POLYSICS. People have been really fired up. To those who came to see us in Nagasaki and Saga, thank you. They’re both places we hadn’t been to in a while, so I was really happy we got to play there again. It was fun, too. It’d be nice if our next time there was a bit sooner. POLYSICS are actually also in the middle of touring for their album (“Oh! No! It’s Heavy Polysic”. It’s getting popular! Taki’s taken quite a liking to it.), so they’re quite an exciting band to play with. It seems there are still a few tickets left, so those of you still hesitating, definitely do come and see us. If you have friends who are hesitating, grab them by the neck and bring them along, too. It’ll be fine. We’ll make it so that you’ll go back all buddy-buddy. Let’s have fun.
Oh, and I also want to write about our show with Atari, but my head’s all filled with thoughts about tomorrow which is making it difficult so I’ll save it for later. But I want to use this place to express my gratitude to Atari Teenage Riot again. Thanks!! Alec and Atari’s manager (who’s Japanese was really good) were saying “Won’t you go to Europe with us? We’re touring there so just give us a holler. Let’s go to Germany and Denmark!” Of course! We’ll definitely be in touch!
With that, see you tomorrow. We’ll meet at the live house!
2011/11/16＊Takuro
「The night before opening for ATR」
If we’re talking in worldwide terms, tomorrow begins the season for Beaujolais nouveau. But for us, it’s about Atari Teenage Riot’s first ever performance in Japan. Come on!! Let’s go!! Are you ready!! Activate!! (That’s all for yelling as I type.)
Alright, let’s turn LIQUIDROOM inside out tomorrow!! Yeeeah!!
2011/11/15＊Takuro
「Checking the band score」
We’re in the home stretch! I want to get it done before the Kyushu November sumo tournament. However, there are mistakes I didn’t notice on the first time around… here and there… Alright! Let’s get this done!
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.
2011/11/08＊Takuro
「Obihiro → Hakodate finale」
The Obihiro show was super hot, too! It’s the only venue on the tour we’ve played before. There were people who’d been to our previous show who came again this time as well. Thanks, everyone. However, on our commute to Hakodate, I couldn’t seem to fall asleep, so I just endured it by playing guitar inside our bus. What’s strange is that I don’t seem to get car sick when playing guitar. We then safely arrived. The finale is starting soon! Best regards!
