nexUs Tour 2018 comment translations
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A new two-man tour with Hitorie has begun! With, androp, go!go!vanillas, FIVE NEW OLD, a flood of circle, Frederic, Buzz Mothers, Village Man’s Store, THE ORAL CIGARETTES, … there’s much curating and much music curing to be had,
If you’re interested in any of those bands’ relationships with Hitorie members, please read their comments to each other below! thank you abababa,
Osaka Umeda CLUB QUATTRO w/ androp
One day, the bassist, Mae-kun, messaged me asking “Where do you often go to get pizza?”, and that gave me the courage to invite him to a crossover.
Back in the year 2011, androp’s music probably gave me strength, for me to become Hitorie, I admired them to become the person I am today,
And I’ve become a fan again, in seeing their determination to perform with us.
ygarshy (Hitorie)
When did I first meet igarashi-kun anyway… I can’t even remember exactly but, I think our auras just clicked or something.
At some point he just became a good friend.
Personally there’s not many other musicians I can send private messages to, so I’m really happy that one of my few friends, igarashi-kun, invited me.
I look forward to what kind of show him and Hitorie will give.
Maeda Kyousuke (androp)
Tokyo Mynavi BLITZ Akasaka w/ go!go!vanillas
The first time I ever talked to Maki-kun was during a new year’s party last year I think.
I have a vivid memory about how happy I was that there’s no difference between the music he performs and his person himself.
I was having such fun that I just drank until I ended up knocked out asleep but…
I had gone out drinking with him again, just the two of us, to ask him to join us for this performance, but,
We ended up talking to each other about music for a straight four hours and a half.
Just as I thought, from his attitude to his core, he was the epitome of man.
I felt it from the first time I listened to him, the lucidity of his voice, how I can almost smell the earth and it’s charm, and then his physical form which strongly reinforces all of that. Even though our means are differed, the goals that we aim for seem to be something similar, I feel.
They’re an amazing band. Already I want to see what they’re capable of.
wowaka (Hitorie)
Gunma, Takasaki club FLEEZ w/ FIVE NEW OLD
When I drank with wowaka-san and the more and more we talked,
I started to see Hitorie’s music from the depths out, and I came to love it.
They’re so rock. Yeah.
From their tasteful performances to their rough humanness, Hitorie are the like the spitting image of Dio from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
Let us both put on shows that surpass humanity.
Please join us!
Maki Tatusya (go!go!vanillas)
I played a gig with HIROSHI-kun (Vo.) at a convention once,
and that was when I first saw the appeal in his beautiful voice,
I hope we can have a battle of the bands that’s like a match of mixed martial arts.
They’re a band that I’ve personally been listening to for 2 years,
So to have a joint concert with FIVE NEW OLD makes me feel emotional.
I can’t wait to bask my body in their pop music.
Yumao (Hitorie)
Miyagi, Sendai darwin w/ a flood of circle
Yumao-kun and I had met for a gig session at Shimokitazawa,
and as we played music together, we immediately came to understand a lot about each other.
From there did this crossover take form.
As one musician there’s no other person I’d be happier to be invited by.
Even if the sounds we release are different, our love for music is the same.
I’ll show off the sounds of FIVE NEW OLD as best as I can!
HIROSHI (FIVE NEW OLD)
He’s my senior and my friend, Kazutaka-san, I always have many chances to meet him, so when we meet we chat a lot,.
As long as we have a short amount of time to talk we’ll always just be sharing new information on drums and music.
So if we have this close of a relationship
then it’s about time I challenge him to a serious match,
Or such was my thought process, when after we had drank through the night, right before the south ticket gate of JR Shinjuku Station was where I invited him.
I’m sincerely happy to be able to do a joint concert with them again.
Yumao (Hitorie)
I thankfully accept this challenge.
Yumao and I share the same principles, between the things we like to the things we’re moved by,
He’s a valuable person to me but,
As a performer, his output and his means are extremely different from mine.
Yet maybe that’s just the reason why, he’s someone who can I seriously respect, to the point of delight do we have such a special relationship.
I think that’s reflective of the band, Hitorie, and us, a flood of circle, our relationship as well.
I want to fight this special opponent with all my strength and more.
Their last tour final at EX THEATER was spectacular.
So I look forward to this.
Watanabe Kazutaka (a flood of circle)
Niigata LOTS w/ Frederic
I think it’s been about 3 years since we first met and started talking to each other…
Except about 6 years ago, I coincidentally found “The Ghost on the Pass” on Youtube,
Ever since then, I’ve always been a fan of theirs. A while after that, “oddloop” was released and I had listened to it literally immediately but, the happiness and the frustration I felt then was beyond belief, really.
I vividly remember how the other members and staff of Hitorie were going around the studio hyping over how sick of a song it was.
Then after that was when we came into contact and started talking.
I’ve shared a drink with Kooji-kun in a hotel room we were staying at while touring, I’ve gone to the aquarium early in the new year with Ken-chan.
The personalities of these people are the appeal of Frederic. I like music of which I can see their faces.
Their music and their will are super high-dimensional, like they’re firmly holding it all in their hand.
They’re such a strong band.
I’ve been hearing that their concerts are amazing these days, so us too have to start training.
wowaka (Hitorie)
‘A two-man show with Hitorie’, I’m so honored.
Back in our indies era, before I moved up to Tokyo,
when I was riding the night bus back down to Osaka alone, the music that fired up my fighting spirit was Hitorie’s.
This is a two-man with Hitorie, the band who brings a new wave, who pushed me forward, who influenced me like hell. This is crazy.
I’m going to enjoy this more than anyone.
Mihara Kenji (Frederic)
Hokkaido Sapporo DUCE w/ Village Man’s Store
Aichi Nagoya JAMMIN’ w/ Buzz Mothers
May I have your attention everyone. Buzz Mothers have joined nexUs.
They were the ones who invited us to take apart in their joint concert projects in the past, and last December we had discussed how “We should do continue to do this once a year~”.
But I feel bad making them wait until winter so,
This time I thought maybe I should be the one who starts our third fight.
First was Tokyo then was Osaka, and now it’s the town where my and Buzz Mothers relationship all began: Nagoya. So, the third times the charm huh.
It’s about time we settled this eh Ryou-chan.
That said, I’m not sure why I have such belligerence for these guys but
Buzz Mothers are a band that strangely make me feel this way.
Shinoda (Hitorie)
The first time I went to a love-hotel was when I was a high-schooler.
I was the one who had asked my partner back then to go,
Still in our school uniforms, I held her hand as we went. When I think about it now it was a pretty radical sight,
The lady at the front dest, she admitted us a room like it was nothing, surely she had something wrong with her morals.
The second time we went to a love-hotel, of course again, I was the one who asked.
We were both wearing our casual clothes. I was wearing a Nirvana T-shirt, and she in a lovely one-piece dress.
Only after many dates from then, for the first time, with an embarrassed look on her face did she ask me, “Why don’t we go somewhere where we can be alone?”
I felt like I actually lost my virginity for the first time that day.
When Hitorie invited me to join them for a concert, I just sort of remembered that time.
This is the first time I’ve ever happily accepted a fight.
The third times the charm, you say? Don’t you mean everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time eh, poor Shinoda?
I look forward to this.
Yamada Ryouichi (Buzz Mothers)
May I have your attention everyone. Welcome, Village Man’s Store.
“When are you going to do a joint concert with Village? Why haven’t you done one with Village? Where are Village?” I’ve heard all of your voices but,
But please! I’m the one who wanted to do this the most y’know!!
Village and I have known each other for a long time, ever since we both had booths at Nagoya and were both swindled out of our high sales quota by the most fishy event organizer,
It’s been 10 years, more, since then,,, You gotta be kidding,,, It’s been so long,,,.
Then I joined Hitorie, and even after I left Nagoya these guys continued to overcome various trials,
They haven’t thrown away their hot sweaty looking bright red suits,
And they’re even, they’ve even grown even more hot and sweaty.
I finally get to face these guys head-on, I honestly feel so happy about this.
We don’t get to do it in Nagoya but.
Shinoda (Hitorie)
Fukuoka DRUM LOGOS w/ THE ORAL CIGARETTES
Hitorie, when I met Shinoda-san I was in my teenage years.
Whenever I would hang out at a certain music club, for concerts I didn’t really understand the points of, put together by a certain crooked event organizer,, for some reason Shinoda-san would always be there. Even though I was young and still faintly smelled something fishy, I couldn’t help but enjoy those concerts.
Well, because I got to see Dr. Right (the old band Shinoda-san used to be in).
Thinking about it now, as the shitty country brat I was, for me Shinoda-san was the first “guitar hero” I ever met in my life.
The guy who was ridiculously skilled at guitar even since then, Shinoda-san, the Shinoda who would always praise other people like crazy, the Shinoda who somehow 100% of the time would always perform at the same shows we would, the Shinoda who would always be kicking the other performers or be the one getting kicked around on stage, the Shinoda who would at a 60% chance have sound issues mid-show, or break his guitar mid-show, for one of my support members to lend him their guitar only for him to just break that one too, the Shinoda who looks like an unhealthy Dave Grohl, the Shinoda who used to be the butt of nonsensical rumors about how the air conditioner in his room made air that smelled like shit, the Shinoda who performed a street show on Christmas and then somehow was never able to get home… No matter how you look at him he’s a guitar hero.
If Shinoda-san was in a part of the music industry that never let him see the light of day, I probably would have stopped playing music.
I’m always behind Shinoda-san’s back chasing him, buying his CDs,
I’ve completely turned into a Hitorie fan, and now my wish of a joint concert is finally coming true.
It’s even a two-man show, it’s the day of my dreams. I’m glad I’ve continued to play music.
Mizuno Gui (Village Man’s Store)
To have another crossover with THE ORAL CIGARETTES,
That has always been one of the biggest motivations for me to continue on with Hitorie.
3 years ago,
You summoned us to your “Kuchibiru Taiban TOUR 2015 ~ORAL’s indebted repayment and mixed martial arts selfish greedy volume~”. This time we summon you.
Thanks for your consent. I love you on and off the stage.
ygarshy (Hitorie)
We respect Hitorie’s music so much, for that reason we want to continue fighting with them forever.
This joint concert is based on those emotions alone!
There’s definitely things we’ve both forgotten, or never noticed about each other,
So we’d be happy if this could be a concert of discovery, to aim for higher and higher places.
We look forward to working with everyone!
THE ORAL CIGARETTES