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First week sales for their album was 1140 copies which def wasn't BPR level (Royz in comparison usually sell at least 6000-8000). But there's far less weight given to sales than the potential labels recognize in the band, which in the case of LONDBOY was pretty promising in terms of their growing popularity (at least around that time last year).
 
I've heard rumors that they had already secured a deal to sign with BPR in principle, but something happened at their tour semifinal in Nagoya last year which led to the deal being dropped and the rest of unannounced dates cancelled.
 
But those are unverified and I don't really want to say more about that, other than the band pretty much went downhill from that point. They also seem to have the worst of luck with just about everything (Kanade's accident, Rio's affair, etc.)
 

i've literally just been talking to @echo about londboy this entire past week before this happened. i feel so terrible.
 
pretty sure 90% of MH will be rushing to join the queue that's chalking this up to the rio affair. for what it's worth i'm skeptical about that. anyone who's actually following the band would have noticed that just as everyone thought they were about to sign to BPR last year (which didn't happen), they downgraded their website, releases slowed down, and generally activities became suspiciously spotty for a band their size.

The band will continue. As for Takashi he says he hasn't decided what he's going to do after 8/25...

Clear played at Takadanobaba AREA for the first time in a year the other night (7/17)! But it was also their last time playing there T_T They all really love this livehouse (it seems like a lot of bands do actually) <3
 


 
Their set list:
1.星流る夜に (Hoshi nagaru yoru ni)
2.DizzlingDance
3.モノクロの未来  (monochrome no mirai)
4.Surround
 

 
It was a completely different setlist from 7/11. I love how they can have a completely different set list, but I'm never disappointed. Like most bands have that one song that they will play without fail at every single live, but Clear doesn't really do that. I mean like if it's their shusai I think they tend to play Yume Utsutsu for their encore, but it's not like a MUST at EVERY live. Like if they DON'T play a song, maybe I'll be like "oh I wanna hear that next time" but it's not like I'm upset about it. I mean, like last time I saw Tra they didn't play Kamikaze and I felt SUPER weird about it haha. But yeah, CLear also usually does a pretty good job of matching the other bands their playing with so that the other gya will maybe give a shit about them haha idk they're just really smart with their set lists <3
 
Anyway, I really liked their set list last night! I mean, I love their set list every time really haha When I first got into CLear, Surround, Dizzling Dance and Hoshi Nagaru Yoru Ni were like my top three songs for sure so it was just really nice for me <3333 Also, I think I just like jumping in circles, which you def do a lot of in Dizzling Dance lolol <333 Jumping in circles and throwing hearts. It's the fucking best. hahaha <333333 Maybe that's why they don't really play Dizzling Dance the same time they play Mousou Closet... too much spinning in one set list?? lolol I'm glad more ppl joined in for Dizzling Dance! I always feel kind of dumb if I'm the only one doing the furi for it in the second row haha it's really fun though!! lolol
 
Before they went into Surround, Miu (the support bassist) had some technical difficulties (all the bassists were having problems that night for some reason), but Tsukimi didn't notice and played the track to go into Surround cos he didn't notice, so they had to stop it suddenly lol they recovered pretty well like Tsukimi just started playing a good beat and Wataru and Kai joined in and it was like a nice jam session, but then they stopped suddenly. They should've just kept going lolol then Ryota started talking and Tsukimi told us a story of him spilling his salad all over the floor before he was even able to take one bite... but no one really laughed and Ryota was like... yeah that's not very interested (I found it interesting though cos I've def done that before??? lolol)
 
Anyway, but then they fixed w/e problems Miu was having and all was well. 
 
I really REALLY like Surround <33333 That was the first song that from CLear that I was SUPER obsessed with haha
 
Anyway, here's some picspam from after the live <3
(they all changed their looks a bit! Ryota pinned his bangs back! <3)
 
 
Their next live is 8/8 @ Shinjuku Club Science!

http://eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002231230P0030001
(they aren't listed on the eplus site cos they were added last minute I think, but they will def be performing!)
 
The only other live they have in August is on the 31st, but they haven't announced any details yet.

Clear played at Takadanobaba AREA for the first time in a year the other night (7/17)! But it was also their last time playing there T_T They all really love this livehouse (it seems like a lot of bands do actually) <3
 


 
Their set list:
1.星流る夜に (Hoshi nagaru yoru ni)
2.DizzlingDance
3.モノクロの未来  (monochrome no mirai)
4.Surround
 

 
It was a completely different setlist from 7/11. I love how they can have a completely different set list, but I'm never disappointed. Like most bands have that one song that they will play without fail at every single live, but Clear doesn't really do that. I mean like if it's their shusai I think they tend to play Yume Utsutsu for their encore, but it's not like a MUST at EVERY live. Like if they DON'T play a song, maybe I'll be like "oh I wanna hear that next time" but it's not like I'm upset about it. I mean, like last time I saw Tra they didn't play Kamikaze and I felt SUPER weird about it haha. But yeah, CLear also usually does a pretty good job of matching the other bands their playing with so that the other gya will maybe give a shit about them haha idk they're just really smart with their set lists <3
 
Anyway, I really liked their set list last night! I mean, I love their set list every time really haha When I first got into CLear, Surround, Dizzling Dance and Hoshi Nagaru Yoru Ni were like my top three songs for sure so it was just really nice for me <3333 Also, I think I just like jumping in circles, which you def do a lot of in Dizzling Dance lolol <333 Jumping in circles and throwing hearts. It's the fucking best. hahaha <333333 Maybe that's why they don't really play Dizzling Dance the same time they play Mousou Closet... too much spinning in one set list?? lolol I'm glad more ppl joined in for Dizzling Dance! I always feel kind of dumb if I'm the only one doing the furi for it in the second row haha it's really fun though!! lolol
 
Before they went into Surround, Miu (the support bassist) had some technical difficulties (all the bassists were having problems that night for some reason), but Tsukimi didn't notice and played the track to go into Surround cos he didn't notice, so they had to stop it suddenly lol they recovered pretty well like Tsukimi just started playing a good beat and Wataru and Kai joined in and it was like a nice jam session, but then they stopped suddenly. They should've just kept going lolol then Ryota started talking and Tsukimi told us a story of him spilling his salad all over the floor before he was even able to take one bite... but no one really laughed and Ryota was like... yeah that's not very interested (I found it interesting though cos I've def done that before??? lolol)
 
Anyway, but then they fixed w/e problems Miu was having and all was well. 
 
I really REALLY like Surround <33333 That was the first song that from CLear that I was SUPER obsessed with haha
 
Anyway, here's some picspam from after the live <3
(they all changed their looks a bit! Ryota pinned his bangs back! <3)
 
 
Their next live is 8/8 @ Shinjuku Club Science!

http://eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002231230P0030001
(they aren't listed on the eplus site cos they were added last minute I think, but they will def be performing!)
 
The only other live they have in August is on the 31st, but they haven't announced any details yet.

For those of you who haven't seen/heard of it yet, Purple Stone started an official Line account!
 
 
Go add them now! <333

For those of you who haven't seen/heard of it yet, Purple Stone started an official Line account!
 
 
Go add them now! <333

album art for their new single!!!
 

 

 
they are so pretty T_T

Hahaha does he??? Rey as in Astaria's Rey???

btw, Tsukimi finally posted a pic from the other night!
 

btw, Tsukimi finally posted a pic from the other night!
 

He really does haha
 
THANK YOOOUUUUUU!!!! I hope so toooooo T__T Well actually. I feel really conflicted. It would be perfect, but I'm also curious as to what a completely new song from them would sound like haha. But I'd def be really happy if the last CD was Goodbye coupled with Chocolate cake or Mousou Closet lol <33333

hahah watarock really loves selfies <333
 
i'm happy you finally got to hear Goodbye live! Hopefully thats the song on their last CD ._.

CLear played at Shibuya REX tonight! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و
 
Tonight's set list:
1.グッド・バイ  (Goodbye)
2.チョコレヱトケーキ (Chocolate Cake)
3.妄想クローゼット (Mousou Closet)
4.夢うつ (Yume Utsutsu)
 
I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY FINALLY PLAYED GOODBYE I'VE LITERALLY BEEN WANTING TO HEAR THAT SONG SINCE FOREVER!!!!! I've been watching the shit out of CLear TV and they used to play it a lot (before I got into CLear) and they even played it during their acoustic set (again, before I got into them), but they haven't played it in a LONG time it seems. AND THEY FUCKING OPENED WITH IT TONIGHT AND I DIED AND I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH AND IDK WHY BUT FUCK W/E I LOVE IT <3 I wish I could've heard the acoustic version in full!!
 
And I also fucking love Chocolate Cake!!! I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hope they release these two songs on CD or something some day T_T I really like them T____T
 
Four songs is definitely not enough T_T It was over before it even got started T___T But it was a really fun set list nonetheless <333 They have gyakudai in Mousou Closet and Oharyo always waves me over haha <333 Kai waved me over too when Oharyo went to kamite <333 they had like 2 fans in the second row (including me) and the girl next to me was a fan of Miu (the support bassist) lolol but w/e it was fun! <3
 
Anyway, here's some picspam from tonight!
 
Next live is 7/17 @ Takadanobaba AREA!
SPEEDDISK PRESENTS「桜華乱舞」
[Cast] 　i.Rias / CLear / DAZ / BABOO / マゼラン / マーブルヘッド
[Time]　OPEN/START 17:00/17:30
[Tickets] Presale ¥3,300-/Doors ¥3,800-(plus drink charge)
http://sort.eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002227528P0030001

It really does T____T Just gotta support the shit out of those remaining two!! 

They made a kind of farewell/we're disbanding/thank you song that they played at the live tonight. They wanted to make it a happy song and all the members had a part to sing. It was super cute! They even did the furi along with the fans haha
I didn't follow them very closely, but I'll be sad to see them go T_T

CLear played at Shibuya REX tonight! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و
 
Tonight's set list:
1.グッド・バイ  (Goodbye)
2.チョコレヱトケーキ (Chocolate Cake)
3.妄想クローゼット (Mousou Closet)
4.夢うつ (Yume Utsutsu)
 
I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY FINALLY PLAYED GOODBYE I'VE LITERALLY BEEN WANTING TO HEAR THAT SONG SINCE FOREVER!!!!! I've been watching the shit out of CLear TV and they used to play it a lot (before I got into CLear) and they even played it during their acoustic set (again, before I got into them), but they haven't played it in a LONG time it seems. AND THEY FUCKING OPENED WITH IT TONIGHT AND I DIED AND I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH AND IDK WHY BUT FUCK W/E I LOVE IT <3 I wish I could've heard the acoustic version in full!!
 
And I also fucking love Chocolate Cake!!! I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hope they release these two songs on CD or something some day T_T I really like them T____T
 
Four songs is definitely not enough T_T It was over before it even got started T___T But it was a really fun set list nonetheless <333 They have gyakudai in Mousou Closet and Oharyo always waves me over haha <333 Kai waved me over too when Oharyo went to kamite <333 they had like 2 fans in the second row (including me) and the girl next to me was a fan of Miu (the support bassist) lolol but w/e it was fun! <3
 
Anyway, here's some picspam from tonight!
 
Next live is 7/17 @ Takadanobaba AREA!
SPEEDDISK PRESENTS「桜華乱舞」
[Cast] 　i.Rias / CLear / DAZ / BABOO / マゼラン / マーブルヘッド
[Time]　OPEN/START 17:00/17:30
[Tickets] Presale ¥3,300-/Doors ¥3,800-(plus drink charge)
http://sort.eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002227528P0030001

They made a kind of farewell/we're disbanding/thank you song that they played at the live tonight. They wanted to make it a happy song and all the members had a part to sing. It was super cute! They even did the furi along with the fans haha
I didn't follow them very closely, but I'll be sad to see them go T_T

They made a kind of farewell/we're disbanding/thank you song that they played at the live tonight. They wanted to make it a happy song and all the members had a part to sing. It was super cute! They even did the furi along with the fans haha
I didn't follow them very closely, but I'll be sad to see them go T_T

They made a kind of farewell/we're disbanding/thank you song that they played at the live tonight. They wanted to make it a happy song and all the members had a part to sing. It was super cute! They even did the furi along with the fans haha
I didn't follow them very closely, but I'll be sad to see them go T_T

Honestly, out of my top 10 favorite bands, only two are still active. I've heard several people saying the same thing. It feels like a losing battle sometimes!

Yeah it feels like every band I start to like ends up disbanding too T_T I'm glad you like them! And yes! You should def keep listening to them even after they disband!

I'm always late to the party! Every time I get interested in a band, I find out they're disbanding. I just got the Resistar Chigaihouken 2017 DVD and while normally I never pay much attention to the Riostar bands, I noticed when watching it that Dangan and LEZARD were both sounding really good. It's great to hear how well loved they are. I guess I'll have to listen to them in retrospect.

Dangan played their last 3man with their labelmates, LEZARD and Jack Caper, last Sunday at Shibuya REX!

 
Dangan is so loved by their labelmates! <33 Sora was saying how when he first came to Tokyo his only friends were Miyuu and Chika so he's SUPER sad that Chika is retiring. All of LEZARD were saying that they have faith the rest of the Dangan guys will continue on with music. Kousuke said that there are a lot of bands you meet in the scene, but Dangan are one of the few bands that he could truly call friends <333
 
 
Here's Dangan's setlist for the night:

 
I fucking love Dangan lives!!! <3333333333 I wish everyone could experience them at least once T_T I was super lucky too cos REX was packed, but some Jack Caper fans didn't wanna be in the front for Dangan's set so some girl asked me if I wanted to trade with her friends in the second row so I got to be dead center, 2nd row, right in front of Miyuu @_@ I was kind of dying though. I'm pretty sure I didn't stop jumping that entire set and so much clapping and waving of the arms... it's literally a full body workout going to a Dangan live haha 
and it was just SUCH A GOOD SET LIST <3333333333 I mean. Every Dangan live is a good setlist... I don't think they could have a bad set list if they tried *not biased* 
I love how Miyuu will also sing to his bandmates on stage <3 and during one of the songs he went back to the drumset and put the mic in front of Yusuke and Yusuke yelled KAMITE MOSSHU! and all the Yusuke gya squealed haha <3333 I hope he makes Chika do it one day haha
 
AND I'M SO GLAD THAT LEO'S INJURIES DON'T SEEM TO BE CAUSING HIM ANY TROUBLE!!!
 
I was really surprised when they didn't play BULLET, but was glad when they played it at the end in the huge session! 
After Dangan's set (they played last) Jack Caper and LEZARD came back and out and talked for a while about Dangan. They mentioned how Dangan basically started Riostar and then invited LEZARD and Jack Caper came in after that. Jack Caper's Hinata and U fucking love Leo haha <333 When Dangan came back out to join everyone, they were both like hanging on Leo a lot <3333 Apparently U is just a huge Dangan fan in general <3333 and all the LEZARD guys are super close to Dangan. It was really nice seeing all the bands of the same label being so close on the same stage. 
 
For the huge session set Jack Caper played a song.. idk their songs, but it's the one where they just make us do random dumb shit haha and lots of gyakudai. Miyuu was grabbing people and kissing their hands!! I'm pretty sure Yusuke loves gyakudai when he doesn't have to sit behind his drums haha <333 Dangan played next and Hiro asked Miyuu if Dangan had any dumb songs where the crowd can mess around with and Miyuu was like... no... we have BULLET... where you make a gun with your hand and shoot it at us... that's like the closest thing?? And Hiro was just like wtf?? haha
 
BULLET IS SO GOOD LIVE UGGGHHHHH LEO'S GUITAR SOLO WHAT <33333333333 and literally EVERYONE saku's him. Like you can't NOT saku him in that song haha <333333333333
 
LEZARD had the last song in the huge session... I'm not really familiar with their songs either, but the Dangan guys seemed to be. haha and Kousuke said it was a song that he really wanted Leo to play! So Leo played that song and Kousuke... sang? I'm not sure what he did haha
 
After all the bands played each vocalist said a few words and had to to  a "Riostar pose" w/e that is. The bandmen didn't even know. One of them was even like "wtf is a Riostar pose anyway???" and everyone looked around like "idk???" haha Sora had to go first and he was kinda nervous cos he's the newest person to Riostar lol but he did this like super dramatic circular arm sweep thing like Sailor Moon and the crowd seemed pleased and everyone was like WooooOOOooOOOOOOO haha. Next was Miyuu. I forget what they were saying, but he wanted to do a new pose cos his Riostar pose last time was super lame, and the bandmen were like no do the old one!! and Miyuu was like nooooo and they were like fine do both!! and he was like uggghh I don't wanna do both so I'll just do the old one.... and he did... and it was lame... hahahaha he did it and everyone just stood there like -____- and after a brief pause everyone just laughed hahaha <3333 Hiro was last and did the same like last time too I think. It was like make an "L" for LEZARD with one hand, and the shape of a gun for Dangan with the other, then thrust your hands forward from your hip kamehameha style with the power of Jack Caper... or something. haha 
 
After that the bandmen tried to make Chika do something cos it was his last live with everyone.  He was super wtf about it though cos he was caught off guard. I think he's the type who like rehearses what he wants to say haha so he kinda refused for a while then finally went up and said thanks and all that and tried to leave and the bandmen were all like NO YOU HAVE TO DO THE RIOSTAR POSE!!! and Chika got super whiny like GUYSS WHYYYYY I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DOOOOOO hahaha so he said he'd do something if they make it up for him but then he pointed to Hiro and was like "anyone but you" cos Hiro is weird af haha He was like, idk... Natsume, you choose. And Natsume was like "huh?? uh sure?" and he put Chika up on the vocalist box, back facing the crowd, had him spread his legs then hold his arms out so he looked like a starfish lol. Then he told Chika something and did some gestures, and it was really obvious that he wanted Chika to bend over and stick his head between his legs hahaah and Chika freaked out like WTF NO I CAN'T DO THAT! hahaha so then he made, I think Suguru? make something up for him, but he just did the exact same thing as Natsume hahaha I think Chika legit got kind of annoyed. He was stalling for so long finally Miyuu saved him and was like "okay that's enough THANKS EVERYONE!" kinda thing haha and finally ended it. <333 Chika's so awkward haha <33
 
Anyway, it was a really good live. I'm glad Dangan is loved by so many people <3333 I'm really sad that there are only a few more lives left T_T but I hope lots of people go see them!! <333
 

 
More picspam from after the live: