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This band is not my cup of tea at all, but I enjoyed reading this (even more so than most of the interviews posted so far), thanks for this!  

Heck yeahhh, this dude is awesome with this project.

@patientZERO Awww thanks! 

Apparently in 1999 there was a sports game for Playstation released in Japan titled R [アール], also known as Rock'n Riders. It featured characters named and modeled after actual J-rock/VK musicians! According to the game's story in the "distant future of 20XX" a Japanese rock band called R go to Los Angeles for a gig, but for some reason rock music is outlawed so the authorities chase them through the US while the characters race each other on...snowboards?? Yeah.

The members of the band:

- vocals: Ellemo

- guitar: Kyoji Yamamoto (BOWWOW)

- guitar: Kiyoshi (media youth, hide with Spread Beaver, Lucy, machine)

- guitar: Chisato (PENICILLIN)

- bass: YASUMICHA'N (Sleep My Dear)

- drums: O-JIRO (PENICILLIN)

It also looks like these guys actually went ahead and recorded an album under this band name.  Anyway, various tracks composed by the members also appear as background music in the game itself (here's a YT link to the full soundtrack). The 2CD limited version of the game also had a photo gallery of the real-life musicians dressed as their game characters it seems.

A bunch of in-game footage can be found in this YT playlist.

An assortment of screenshots and other info here.

By the way a totally random tweet sparked this post, bless the abyss of the internet!

So, uhhhh it's just some comment on the Shinjuku LOFT support website, lol.

...although I can't seem to find it yet.

lucy+peter=esolagoto and some other dudes made a song to support 町田 The Play House.

The track can be purchased digitally on multiple platforms HERE.

マルコ (Marco) / THE VELVET acoustic live broadcast by Ikebukuro CHOP @ 2020/05/19 - 20:00 (Japan time)

HALKAMANIA 2020 live event (emmurée acoustic set) broadcast by Ikebukuro CHOP @ 2020/05/20 - 20:00 (Japan time)

2 hours ago, sads123 said:

They announced a live for 2nd Jun, while other bands cancelled entire tours for the whole of Jun & Jul? 

I guess they're optimistic...  CHOP already has a "real" live booked at 05/31 too. Well, they also mention that depending on the situation it might change.

Apparently the band's hiatus was pretty short, as it looks like they'll be returning to live activities starting from the beginning of June:

Bassist YOSHIPON (luin, TEARS OF THE REBEL, f.k.a. Sally in KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND) recently hinted on Twitter that there will be an announcement concerning "ex-KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND" on 2020/05/18 at 6 PM (Japan time). He was also quick to point out that it's nothing big or serious (awww lol).

Anyway, thought I'd make a thread cuz it might be something interesting. My bet is on KGF-style facemasks to raise money for livehouses or something like that. We'll see tomorrow I guess~

On a funny unrelated note, I've always been amused how KGF's official site has been up all these years, even though it's been almost a decade now since they disbanded. :'))

Now for something a bit different.  

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano for the Isolated (filmed in Tokyo on 2020/04/02)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6td9KUZMfw

^ Yeah I guess we will see, but so far it seems to me to be a bit more serious, as he mentioned that he will  stop playing the guitar altogether.

52 minutes ago, Ikna said:

Maybe I am overreacting, but shit like this makes me a bit angry.

Well, it's not like they could've predicted that one out of the three musicians would develop an uncurable illness that prevents him from playing regularly (if the story they presented is to be believed)..... But I get it, it sucks for sure.

Entertaining trash, just how I like it.

Okay, so it was two parts. They pretty much played everything they released I think (?). It was massive in any case (2 x 45 mins), four cameras and surprisingly great sound. The performance itself was excellent too, now I have a LOT more respect for their guitarist who did basically everything live without any backing track (I know this sounds like a silly compliment but it's VK we're talking about.....), and even the bassist switched to playing synth for a few tracks. It was all very impressive! (and surprisingly emotional at the very end)

I can't figure out for the life of me how to record or save these stream vids but I made a few screencaps at least, lol.

I edited this post to contain the two parts of the livesteam. These are working now and can be re-watched but I'm not sure how long till they take them down.

Part one

Part two

I see the guitar was sold, good for them lol. Karma's "art" still in stock tho, aww.

Oh fuck...  Okayyyy let's say:

deadman - °C
kein - 朦朧の実
KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND - エクスタシー
LAB. THE BASEMENT - 人間牧場
ムニムニ - ヒー

Some honorable mentions:

D'espairsRay - Gärnet
Laputa - 私が消える
MALICE MIZER - 麗しき仮面の招待状
VELVET EDEN - Witch on flames
Versailles - A Noble Was Born in Chaos

We Summon the Darkness - I had this movie for a long-ass time on my to-watch list so figured I'd better get to it. Well it wasn't great. I liked the premise and where they were going with it but it sort of turned really silly and dumb really quick. I admit I laughed a few times and enjoyed about half of it, the other half was just kinda boring and going through the motions. Mediocre movie, the very definition of "watch once and then forget".

Shoutout for the Mercyful Fate song tho, even if it was kind of weird/awkward in context.

I never knew I needed this in my life, but here we are.

I just finished (a Hungarian edition of) Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice. I liked the narrative structure and I thought it had a really cool premise (a djinn telling more or less the story of his life up till the present day), but towards the end the plot became kinda stereotypical melodramatic pulp fiction / fantasy schlock. I didn't mind that much tho, overall it was an enjoyable reading experience. I haven't read anything else by the author yet, so I don't know how this would stack up to her other works.

...aaand I'm still on the Lovecraft anthology and the Ken Follett book, so gonna continue with those now I guess.

Here's the new MV by the way, sadly prolly one of their most boring songs imo...

So far this album is shaping up to be pretty mediocre based on the released tracks... or idk, I feel like they had more of a unique flavor in the past. These songs just sound like watered-down pop punk with a slight metallic edge that any band could be playing if I didn't know it was them.

When the selling point of your Z-tier trap album is that it includes artwork and photos: 🔥👌🔥👌🔥👌

@KrumpingChihuahua That looks like a pretty nice lineup! I'll be definitely tuning in for D'ERLANGER and maybe DEZERT and MUCC.

Here are the YT links for both days (for easier access):

Watched some documentaries, hell yeahh~

Fix: The Ministry Movie - Chronicles mostly the '96 tour of Ministry with some major drug abuse going on. I always thought of Al as kind of a funny lunatic (especially after reading his book) but here he was mostly obnoxious, pitiful and irritating. The doc itself was mostly okay but I had to struggle to get through some parts so all in all it didn't win me over completely.

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution - A really interesting look into the so-called "queercore" punk movement that was basically just a handful of people in the beginning who managed to will the scene into existence by pretending it was a nation(or even world)wide phenomenon. Absolutely cool stuff, very nice talking-head segments (such as Bruce LaBruce, John Waters, Genesis P-Orridge, Kathleen Hanna etc.) and live footage both from queer and feminist punk bands.

Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts - Nice introspective look into a short period of drag queen Trixie's life on the road as a country/pop musician. His whole demeanor and attitude is just so funny and down-to-earth it's very easy to relate to him, even if obviously his way of life is totally different from mine, lol. Out of these three docs I watched this one flew by the quickest, it was very entertaining and cozy to watch (but I really like him and his drag persona to begin with so maybe that's why).