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Last week I shared his BAND SEARCH and today I share with you his full interview! Sho knows Japanese and English, so I did do the original interview with him in English and he translated everything in Japanese, so if you understand Japanese (almost/fluently) I recommend you to check the Japanse version, since it's all his own words! Hopefully you guys will read this interview, Sho is a XJAPAN/Yoshiki fan and beside visual kei he also loves Gothic bands a lot. --- Next week I have an interview with Aya(彪) ex-RE:VEIN -- English version https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/interview-with-sho-kotani/3/ Japanese version https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/interview-with-sho-kotani/2/

well since it''s used..... But anyway, I doubt Yasu used it in a racist way.... I always saw it as an anti racism statement. since you have with and black even kissing... so to me it says.. whatever someones color, love doesn't matter, to mix it doesn't matter. something like that ^^

Some can, but still playing lives is important. lives are important to find and to keep your fans.

Well the money also goes to LOFT. so you helped to safe LOFT with buying a ticket. And yes their streaming quality is damn great. (I watched 2 different streams)(I also did record them ) So loft gigs, I recommend to support! I'll check the album later.

04: Sho Kotani discover more here https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/jrnr-band-search-sho-kotani/ Next week I publish his interview!

My love for visual kei never will fade away. I love the magic happening. However, the music quality of the past 10 years... I've no clue why the hell people like this kind of sound so much.... So I switched more to rock bands with members over 40 years who still play that beautiful older "rock/metal" style. or who really can mix down current mainstream with old style. (aka VERTUEUX and NEiN). But younger bands well... it's hard. Still it's fun to see how visual kei is changing and who knows the older styles are coming back within a few years again. Or we get a completely amazing new mainstream kind of vibe.

any twitter of them would be nice...

Hello folks, I already have 3 band search profiles available for you guys which I published on JROCK'N'ROLL. Time to time, band search profiles also will appear on vkgy. so keep also an eye on that website. BAND SEARCH is something not written by myself, everything which you read has been written by the band/members themselves! So with BAND SEARCH they introduce themselves to you. - I'll update this post every time if there is a new band search available! 2$4 THIS VERY DAY MAGENTA OF AMBITIONS Sho Kotani prewords 極東ファロスキッカー LiQuid ButterFly 大人のSilver-Rose by vo. Visual Laboratory METALIC フルダヌキ ヒミツノコウドウ 花魁ロマネスク DOGMAS THE RICKY DRIVE SHOW The トリコロール by vo. Toru BEBOP 餃子大王 LOOSE RIDER EASTBAY ---------------- The first 3 bands I would like to introduce are all non-visual kei bands and more "mainstream" type of bands. 01: 2$4 2$4 formed in 2013. 2$4 continues to aim to create music that transcends genres, Incorporating elements of chords, emo, and hip-hop into the songs, as well we add digital sound effects to our songs. Learn more about them here: https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/jrnr-band-search-24/ 02: THIS VERY DAY THIS VERY DAY was formed in August 2019 and has appeared at Japanse TV in the show「踊る！さんま御殿」. They are a new generation rock band in the center of tokyo and thanks to “Prince (王子)” Yuchaso which is an SNS influencer the band received more than 100,000 followers! Learn more about them here: https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/band-search-this-very-day/ 03: MAGENTA OF AMBITIONS January 2019, MAGETA OF AMBITIONS formed as a band in Tokyo, in August 2019 the band went on a hiatus. On April 2020 the band released their 1st single “Another Story” via digital platforms. Learn more about them here: https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/jrnr-band-search-magenta-of-ambitions/

ALCYON is a Nagoya (名古屋) based visual kei band who formed in December 2017, and started activity in July 2018. They typically focus on heavy-toned music which contrasts beautifully against the high voice of vocalist Sera. They celebrate their second anniversary this July at Nagoya Fits ALL. Read on to learn about their two years of activity so far. It's a band who we somehow never really notice, however their music isn't bad at all and since last month we also can enjoy their music via digital platforms! So please check them out here! https://vk.gy/blog/an-interview-with-alcyon/

3000 yen for a streaming... that's expensive. Oh well usually their gigs are 4500yen(paid in advance). so a bit cheaper😅 Their CD is also 3000yen, so they kinda expensive band anyway. (Lot's of normal rock bands sell their CD's for 2500yen maxium (tax off)) but anyway their twitter is https://twitter.com/afro_skull I already paid for 3 other amazing gigs. so.. kinda skip the rest for this month 🤣

Well it worked before.. and yes it was popular I guess?

but this kind of pop also not 😂

yup https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYh2vBGUMAIsrz3?format=jpg&name=medium but if it really fits the style... you get pop Lovers by metalcore/trashrock lovers 😂 weird combo unless people really only support bands for their looks and actually love poppy sound the most. well we will see.

Ah, this is totally mainstream sound. It's not bad. but why the hell are you doing this via the visual kei way?... I mean this sound is popular in Japan anyway... not that pop cannot be visual kei. but it's just weird to see visual dressed guys.. dancing around as a typical mainstream pop group. Oh well, or maybe the visual kei way, just gave them the opportunity to kinda play lives.... I'm looking forward to see with who the guys will play in a couple of months, since their sound doesn't really fit any visual kei event...

didn't that work before?

http://www.glia-official.com/news/0/51795/

Shinjuku Loft is doing steaming all month long https://loft-prj.zaiko.io/ watch lives to support the artist and the livehall. gigs are about 1500-2000yen. And streaming quality is perfect Also save Holiday Nagoya and Shinjuku https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/281481

This time, an interview with rock band COOKAI members Cathy and Rachel! The vocalist was sadly too busy to answer the questions. Cookai is a similar band to ex-Calmando Qual Hibiki (now SARRMATH) ROCK band THE HIGH GRIP Read: https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/interview-with-cookai/

Everything is via e-mail or DM. So bands get a digital document file with our questions included which they can answer whenever they want.

Scarlet Valse is a symphonic metal band who is at the frontline of the Starwave Records lineup. They've been active since 2011, and are renowned for their charismatic and responsible nature. Read on to learn more about them. READ: English READ: Japanese

INTERVIEWS 01) NEiN 02) スネメガマフィー (SUNEMEGAMAFY) 03) THE VACK'S 04) THE HIGH GRIP 05) THE MINKS - Vocal Okada Yoshiaki 06) VERTUEUX 07) Night Pirates 08) MMS R&R ENGINEERING 09) The Doggy Paddle 10) BELLMONDO 11) Cookai 12) Sho Kotani 13) Nagasawa Tomonori 14) ex-RE:VEIN bassist 彪(Aya) 15) LiQuid ButterFly 16) 大人のSilver-Rose 17) Menopause 18) Visual Laboratory 19) DOGMAS 20) METALIC 21) リブラヴェル (LIBRAVEL) 22) EASTBAY 23) shigeta (el:cid) 24) 餃子大王 25) Eins:Vier 26) Ranze 27) BEBOP 28) CHOKE 29) mikinormu 30) MOB. 31) ダミットランド 32) 愛沢絢夏 33) Andend boom 34) 723chatoNne 35) NightingeiL 36) RANA 37) Dear Loving 38) GUNIX 39) POISON RAT 40) WONDER SNAKE 41) BEAST 42) BAND SEARCH 01) 24$ 02) This Very Day 03) MAGENTA OF AMBITIONS 04) Sho Kotani 05) prewords 06) 極東ファロスキッカー 07) LiQuid ButterFly 08) 大人のSilver-Rose by vo. YOWMAY 09) Visual Laboratory 10) フルダヌキ 11) METALIC 12) 花魁ロマネスク 13) ヒミツノコウドウ 14) THE RISKY DRIVE SHOW 15) DOGMAS 16) The トリコロール by vo.TORU 17) 餃子大王 18) BEBOP 19) EASTBAY 20) LOOSE RIDER 21) MOB. 22) DAMMITLAND 23) CHOKE 24) Dear Loving 25) DAMILA LINER NOTES NEiN (LIVE) BAR/RESTAURANT SEARCH Mother Earth (Restaurant) 中野Oicho (BAR) 呑み処 洋海 Crepe monkey STAR☆CAFE やんちゃなアマリリス 黑猫RONDO

if you go bit more underground I can remmend you https://jrocknroll.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/jrnr-band-search-24/