The Sludgy CULT

Arena Vol 48 2008 With Uruha (^_*)

In what way are you troublesome, Uruha? (Arena Sp vol.48 2008) U: My stomach aches a lot! It’s really troublesome lol So u get stomach aches when ure nervous? U: No. It’s different. Somehow- when I get in the car, I get stomach aches. U: I had stomach aches on the way here too. So I always have my stock of Sutoppa pills in the car lol I guess hoping that you wont get a stomach ache wont really help eh? Power of the mind, they say? U: Ure 100% right. Doesnt help at all! Then what about lives then? U: I dont get stomach aches at lives. Good! I thought you’d have your pills put nicely on top of your amp lol. U: If my stomach feels upset during a live, I dont care what’ll happen- I’d just rush to the toilet lol And after that you can continue rocking out?! Wahaha! U: Yeah, the break time was for me to go to the toilet luls. Pls dont say it like that haha! U:After my toilet break,I’ll be like “I cant make a mistake now!” while playing but then I do make one lols. I guess somehow, things like that just happen. U: It’s fate. I gave up trying to fight it. You gave up!? U: No. For instance, you’ve already practised it perfectly. You can play it perfectly. But on stage- you mess it up. Its fate. In that case, its not ur technique, its your mental state thats causing the problem. U: But when it happened I wasnt nervous at all… U: And when that happen- I know, fate just wont let me finish my guitar plays cleanly at that time lol Rather than think “I cant mess up now”, why not think hard “I never mess up!”? U: Ah, but you’re still aware that you cant mess up “now”… Ahaha..ha..hmmm You’re one troublesome guy lol U: I know right? lols I feel that way aswell. How different is the GazettE Uruha and the real you? U seem to be really easy going tho. U: Aah… Maybe you see me with 2 personalities bcos I don’t talk on stage. But my easygoing personality shows even when I’m stage yknow! Really? Haha~ U: Yeah, I think it shows. But I can’t really do MCs U: I can’t take the mic and say stuff like “Oi! I…fucking love all of you!! ” lol. I’d probably laugh when I’m halfway through saying that I would be too embarrassed to say that too. U: I would look ridiculous if I said that… U: For the vocalist, their voice is their weapon, right? So its cool when they convey their love using their voice. But I am a guitarist. U: I am a guitarist so please let me convey my love to you using my guitar. U: Me talking on the mic is just ridiculous. Unless I suddenly become the vocalist lols I see. Then why not try shuffling ur positions with ur band members? U: I can totally be the vocalist, no prob! Ah no… U: I have bad memories of becoming a back-up vocalist before. I take it back, I don’t want to be a vocalist… What happened? U: I sang LINDA LINDA. It was terrible hahaha! Why you chose to sing that song is also a mystery. U: Cos it was like an easy karaoke song. The tune was also easy for a band to play. U: We had to sing it in front of people so we chose and easy number. We were like- it’ll be interesting~ Let’s try it out~ U: We thought we were going to perform in a multi-band event but… in the end, unfortunately we had performed it at Shibuya AX… Let’s bring the timeline forward abit. What’s in ur head when you see urself in the DVDs, say- ur finale at Yoyogi for example? U: Hmm… I’ve never thought about it. I always watch our DVDs tho. U could say that I’m my number 1 fan when I watch the DVDs. U: Or you could say that, I watch myself perform on the videos… the way a parent would watch over their child? So do you think this musician Uruha as a really cool guy? U: Such thoughts seldom come up to me in my mind…. URUHA DOESNT THINK HES COOL?? He is sooo the opposite of Aoi haha…ha…. U’re too hard on urself. U: I guess so. But I feel that I have a long way to go still. U: There’s still lots I have to do lol. I’m almost, kinda frustrated with myself. U: I’ll be watching vids & commenting on how the guitarist need to work harder only to realise that I’m commenting on myself. What would the guitarist Uruha say to you then? U: Nothing. We are one of the same U:Whatever is directed to the guitarist Uruha is directed to the real me. But dare I say the guitarist Uruha and the real you are two different people? U: I used to treat both of them as two entities but- ah, I don’t get it! I do feel that both of them are different but, we’re the same. U: Yes, my point is. The real me and the guitarist Uruha is always together. We’re always together. What made you think that way? U: I started thinking about it when someone pointed out that the me on and off stage are 2 different people. U: I’m still the same person, with or without make-up, right? U:All these questions come up. Maybe I do have 2 personalities? Maybe Uruha is what I portray myself to be? It’s still a mystery, even to me U: But in the end, whatever I do will effect Uruha as well so… what’s the difference…. Uruha’s having a headache answering this question lol Simply put it, when you have your make up and costume on, you’re just completely transformed. U: If only it was that simple… U: I had that kind of mindset long ago, but I don’t think I can apply such simplicity to it now… Or… maybe there is 2 Uruha’s jajajaja Ahaha, I guess you cant treat it like a transformation suit, eh? U: Yeah. Stuff like that are only in fantasy tales or in animes. Or rather than expressing urself thru Uruha, you want Uruha to be more closer to you? U: Yeah, I’ve thought about that as well U: The more I think about the relation between the real me and Uruha, the more I realise how complex this is… If you were to be asked this question again after a long time, your reply would probably be different. U: I hope I answer, “Yes, I have this switch I turn on &off when I go on &off stage~” lol.But then again, even I myself can’t forsee that. Hahahaha!! The end of Uruha Arena Special vol48 2008 Cr: hakitaruntrans Enjoy `Dana~

6 ♥ / 27 December, 2011

Peace&smile Carnival Tour 2005 pamphlet
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0 ♥ / 26 December, 2011

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0 ♥ / 26 December, 2011

MUSIC UP’s TOXIC Interview -RUKI & Uruha

On October 5, new album will be released! For this reason it has been requested, the purely high “poison”. Indeed after 2 years and 3 months, this is the GazettE who has completed the long-awaited new work [TOXIC]. The “toxicity” which gives meaning to this title symbolizes the band itself. RUKI (Vo) and Uruha (Gu) will reveal the true color of the “poison”. The ideal way for a self-confident work confined by the time close to “the moment” of our life time. - = First of all, please let us hear your response about the album completion. RUKI: In the state when all of the packaging is done, I can’t feel relieved until it reaches everyone. But it’s just the sensation of having entirely made something in accordance with your ideal thoughts. Somehow, perhaps I should say inside me there are ideals embodied in an ambiguous state. Uruha: At the same time as being in accordance with our ideals, I think this has become an album which is easy to emphatize. Up to this point it seems that from the whole music scene, the heavy and hard music has been something whose position is in the corner, but for us now this is right in the centre, it feels good doing it, and it’s also easy to express. Because we have no intention to deviate from our own “temperature”, upon facing the tour after this, there must be completely no need to change the mode as well. =Upon facing this album, what are your specific ideals? RUKI: Anyway [VORTEX] (the single released in 25 May 2011) was a hit inside me. At the end of last year, there was a series (of lives) towards the performance in Tokyo Dome. Actually leading to the single we made after Dome is over, once again we were able to confirm the things which exist right in the centre of us. From there when we started going towards the album, we have a strong feeling of wanting to only make it something like that: the things we call a self-confident work in life for us, even to the details. Everything was concerned, even about the sound quality, nature of the songs, order in which songs are played, such detailed matters are also included. Uruha: Yes. As a result, “Speaking about the GazettE, it’s this album” There is a hope that (someone) can assert something like that. In fact, because of something which have triggered [VORTEX], we got the confidence that we can fight in this direction. For the world, we want to establish that kind of personality: that this is us. There is something like a sense of duty in us that we have to push it forward in this album. RUKI: So the success there is to make what you call the songs for the album in such a short time. We made it once we finished recording [REMEMBER THE URGE] (the single released in 31 August 2011). The songs which were like a miracle even for us were born one after another (laughs). Because we had a similar image as the previous album in our head, it was easy to make it. Uruha: Because those are the songs we have just made very recently, for us as well they still have this freshness. In the end, this is not an album whose nature resembles all that’s packaged during the time flow after the previous album [DIM]. Instead, it is something we squeezed in during the short period of time which seemed like a split second. For this reason, wouldn’t a settlement be okay? Because we have understood since the beginning that in addition this would be an album with a lot of songs from our singles, thereby we wanted to avoid the image being unraveled, and we wanted the freshly made songs for the album to be something which have the same aura. =Concerning that aura, had something like a keyword been presented? Uruha: No, there really hadn’t been any. There has never been anything like presenting it in words. RUKI: Yes. In short, I think it’s like everyone could see the same direction in the silence. =Isn’t that too cool! RUKI: Hahaha! But in reality, it was like that. Uruha: Because a band isn’t a business or a corporation, even if we don’t have meetings one by one, or write something out in a white board, it’s something that we can confirm naturally as we draw what each other think from everyday conversations. However, I think wouldn’t the band be over when it became hard for you to understand it at the stage where you’re about to start making the album? The moment you fall into the situation when you can’t understand why each of you create such songs. =To say it conversely, in the GazettE now there isn’t anything like that kind of anxiety factor. And then, the vital part about the album title. Related to the implication of such word as “TOXIC”, straightly there wouldn’t be any problem to interpret it as a “poisonous” nuance, would it? RUKI: Yes. I have thought about this word since around the time of the previous single [VORTEX]. Perhaps I should say that it symbolizes the things we are facing. The word sounds nice, too. When we suggested it after the song selection meeting was over, there also wasn’t any dissenting opinion, right? Uruha: I think it’s a suitable word for this album. It isn’t only about our work, perhaps I should say that it symbolizes us in personal. It doesn’t mean something like evil people gathering (laughs). In the end, anger, the problems one has to confront, such things always become a driving force. Naturally we have dissatisfaction that we have to confront. There are also times when one points at things like that and call them “poison”. In the end, when there’s no such thing one can’t advance to the front. If it’s only because of happiness, one can only advance a little. I think certainly there are parts in me which have grown because of poison. RUKI: Right, right. Rather than something like a poisonous work, it was in that meaning. But of course, poison is expressed in the lyrics as well (laughs). Anyway to express this album in one word, it will be “poison”. - The theory and rule of right we created ourselves, what they can change is also ourselves. - =About the musical composition you created for this album, I want to ask about some of them, for example the co-existence of violent songs like [VENOMOUS SPIDER’S WEB] or [SLUDGY CULT], and songs which give a sense of dancing beat like [THE SUICIDE CIRCUS] or [MY DEVIL ON THE BED]. I think something like that is (quite your) characteristic. RUKI: Certainly. Naturally it became like that, didn’t it. [THE SUICIDE CIRCUS] was made in the beginning of the song making for the album. I think this song has become the basis. Uruha: How should I put it, if looking from the direction, it’s quite different. I think those songs seem to be different in the genre itself. However, this time we didn’t follow and approach each and every song direction, instead we arranged it based on our own standards. Even if it’s being called as the exact opposite direction, if we dared to apply the same methodology, we would be trapped. Of course it seems like the situation won’t be understood in detail if we don’t explain it, but there is product differentiation here and there. However, for the GazettE we don’t investigate various genres thoroughly, it’s more like we try to apply various genres to our own formula. I think that’s a quite dangerous method though. But as the result, in general they fit, that’s why it connected through the whole album and gave it a sense of unity. =To say it in metaphor, it’s like even though there are various cuisines lining up, actually their tastes are based on the same broth. Uruha: Yep. However all of those are delicious. (laughs). In the end I think that’s what we discovered in VORTEX. That’s why that single is like our “secret sauce”. If we hadn’t been able to do that, this album wouldn’t have been finished, and because of that I think such way of producing in itself wouldn’t have been possible. =There must be a part of you which is aware of such things like the way the lives after this should be, right? It feels like the sensation in [THE SUICIDE CIRCUS] will be able to change the scenery of the audience seating. RUKI: Yes. No matter what, aren’t there such things like when the audience spirit tend to be somewhat monotonous. There we were conscious about the BPM which can allow them to ride in each and every way they wish. There are times when one can get excited only by fast songs, but if it’s too fast no one will be able to keep up. Uruha: I think clearly there are songs which seem to be different from our songs up until now. However, I think that’s good. If it’s ourselves who have made that sort of theories so far, I think it’s okay if what those theories can change is also ourselves. For example we wouldn’t mind even if there we were told, “The spirit in the old times is better.” Nevertheless it would be somewhat like a training we have to persevere in. Anyway this is ourselves now, it’s something which doesn’t contradict our feelings now. Because this isn’t like an album which was made to drag out the old songs. =Last year in the middle of the path going towards Tokyo Dome, you also recorded a single containing three songs to be released. However, miraculously there isn’t any uncomfortable feeling even though the brand new songs carried a really different vector. Uruha: Maybe it was a good luck. In fact, there have been such songs beforehand, and for this reason when we were concentrating for this album, it was something which have been made devotedly “present”. RUKI: The singles from last year, perhaps I should say that they have attacked the rule of right. While yearning for and basing on the roots, we were also aware of our public image. For the sake of doing it at Tokyo Dome, I thought it was necessary. But when we tried putting it into practice, I thought it turned out to be different. Uruha: Yes. In the end, when we think to overturn something, the rule of right is useless. First of all, we have to overturn ourselves. In reality, I think as a band things such as the rule of right can change as time goes by, and as the result perhaps I should say that we have realized that [VORTEX] is the rule of right for us now, RUKI: That’s why, to say the truth, there were options to not put those songs into the album. Finally the decision to put the three songs in is because we wanted to avoid strangely creating a sense of detachment. But, now when I try to listen it like this, I think it’s a good thing that we put them in, for us as well it has been an album we can listen to comfortably. Moreover, including the artwork, it can embody the “present” wonderfully. =This is the first-run limited edition producing with a large booklet, isn’t it? It seems to be a quite elaborate producing. RUKI: The images are influenced by each and every song’s lyrics. We wanted to create a scenery in which one can’t be inspired only by listening to the songs. Of course there will be rebellious spirit here, too, but perhaps I should say that the reality one thinks about is being blocked. Uruha: I think the same. Now, for us [TOXIC] isn’t about the world of images, it’s reality. That’s why in the tour which will start on October 18 as well, we want to do live which can transmit it. For that reason, it might turn out to be the opposite methodology than what we have done so far. We are also looking forward to how we will be from now on. Enjoy `Dana~

0 ♥ / 26 December, 2011

Aoi’s Personal Interview Shoxx vol 228

Thanks for having me. Sorry for intruding your work here at Mie Center of Arts! A: You’re not intruding at all! Didn’t we plan this? So a live here in Mie! Something like returning home as a hero, eh? We have a lot of requests to interview here in your hometown. A: Err- I wonder if I can say this but… This place here isn’t really my hometown. Are you not from Mie prefecture? A: ‘Prefecture’ covers a really big area, right? If I were to drive to my hometown from here, really really fast, it would take me 1 and a half hour to reach there. I don’t usually go into the small details when organizing the lives. Usually Uruha and Ruki take care of it with the staffs. Even in determining the set list for the lives, I leave it to them to figure it out. But there are times when they present a set list a day before. But then on the real live day, we’d totally make new set list. And when that happens, I’d say to them “This is totally different from what you told me yesterday!!!” It’s really hard to stay with just one plan when you’re on tour. We go through changes almost every day. We want to make our lives fun, even to someone who have been to a lot of our previous lives before. But then again there are fans that only go to see us play once. In the end, no matter where we perform, we’d like to give the fans a great live performance experience. A similar live experience, anywhere- that’s mostly where all our troubles come from. It’s a serious matter if we want to change something. For this tour, we’ve decided that we’ll do our finale at Yokohama Arena in early Jan. We only do changes to improve our live performance by focusing on the finale… This is really hard to do cos the finale is still far away and in the middle of the tour, we’d get bored of the same concept. So sometimes in the end the concept changed a bit. But as I said before, I don’t really mind about all those small details. I just genuinely want to perform really great lives every day. Were there songs from TOXIC that turn out to be different than you imagined when you performed it on stage? A: Yes, PSYCOPATH for instance. It’s undeniable that in the beginning, we were still finding our way around our new songs. Like, even though PSYCHOPATH is our song, we really don’t know how to perform and rock it out on stage- meh What do you feel about this tour? A: I’m surprised at how TOMORROW NEVER DIES has become a fixed song for this tour. And it was really unexpected that BREAK ME was not in this tour. It was deleted from the set list since the 2nd day of the tour. Didn’t someone say in an interview that BREAK ME was created in consideration to how we’ll perform it live? If you talk about lives then I do take the initiative and share my ideas of what I want to do. But I don’t go as far as forcing my ideas on to them. I’d say it like, ”These are my ideas’ not ‘You must do these’ I’m thinking a lot about the band’s direction- where will we go after this? And I’m really curious about how far our music has reached the world. You’ve done half of the VC tour. I heard Ruki and Reita suddenly fell sick! I guess that’s the harsh reality of tours. Ah, the first half of the tour is always the hardest part. Look at this full schedule we have. If I were to skip some stuff here in this schedule the tour manager would definitely curse me lol If any of the members fell sick, have you ever stood up and say “I’ll take care of your work!” A: Never. How am I supposed to do their part? Ah! You mean, like for RIDE WITH THE ROCKERS, I’ll take over the mic in Reita’s place? Were you in perfect health for this tour, Aoi? A: I had a slight cold. I never had a fever. Or maybe I did but it was just my imagination. Ah… but I got ganglion this time. We’d have rehearsals for the tour. It was about 1day and 6 hours. Usually I’d just get a sore wrist. Then tour started and I went all out on stage. My wrist started to swell. But it’s my first time getting ganglion~ You mean u went thru treatments during the tour? A: Nope! An excellent doctor returned back my hand power to me in just one check-up! Will you do something special at Mie lives? A: I’ve told the fans that whenever we do a Mie live, we’d play Sugar Pain. But this time around that song didn’t fit in with the concept of VC… And I can’t do MC just at Mie. It would be unfair to the other fans that come to see us perform at other places. Cr: hakitaruntrans@Tweet Enjoy `Dana~

0 ♥ / 26 December, 2011

2 ♥ / 26 December, 2011

One word you want to hear from a girl

Ruki: a-arigato gozaimashita nee
Kai: Kakoii (cool)
Uruha: Sugoii (amazing)
Reita: nee nee (hey hey)
Aoi: aishiteru (I love you)
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1 ♥ / 26 December, 2011

TOKYO DOME backstage comment

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0 ♥ / 25 December, 2011

VORTEX comment

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0 ♥ / 25 December, 2011