Personally I'm not a fan of Vamps. But it was an easy interview and I'm in the mood to check out other bands/musicians etc so just randomly reading around.

Vamps' 69 Q&A [69 becoz of release date on june 9th]
A word to K.A.Z who is in America now
HYDE: How are the blonde girls?
A message to HYDE who is in Japan now
K.A.Z.: Finally the single and ( Read more... )

In the midst of moving and packing. and so decided to flip through my stash of magazines and translate short articles that interest me.

Tokyo Galaxy Pamphlet Mini solo interviews (2010/2011)

ShouBeing part of a rock band, I believe that performing in Nippon Budoukan is something that we should be aiming for, so when it was decided that we will ( Read more... )

Link

cross posted to aliceinrainbows

PSP1800 Vol 15 Saga x Rui

Naoki, Reika, Saga, and now Rui. Recently it has been a chain of bassists.
Saga: Sorry, somehow it all got connected (lol). But well, i was told that i can ask
anyone, and just when i was wondering who to ask...
Rui: So why me? (lol)
Saga: It was easy to ask you (lol)
Rui: Hahaha. Thank you! No matter ( Read more... )

Link: http://natalie.mu/music/pp/alicenine03

When was the last time i did an alice-nine/v-kei related translation...?

First of all, I would like to briefly go through Alice Nine's activities in 2012. During the interview for album '9', Shou-san mentioned "The album that we can say "This is Alice Nine" was finally completed." That essence of it ( Read more... )

Wink up 2009 April Vol 18

Before we head into your 4th anniversary, for the sake of knowing even more about the members, this time, the theme will be "Members talking about members", we hope to hear more about the changes within members.

Hiroto: Well, let's start with Nao-san. I think recently Nao-san became tougher than before. You probably can't ( Read more... )

Wink up 2007 December Vol 003

TORA

This is Alice Nine's guitarist Tora. So i'll be talking about myself when i was in my teens. For this period of time, i guess it's mostly student life. Personally what remains most in my mind is my middle school period i guess. It was around that time that i start having a sense of self. Because i started the guitar ( Read more... )

KERA SHOU March 2012

Saint Valentine's Day Memories

For Valentine's Day memories, I guess I was most excited about it during my time as a student. But because i was from a boys' school, I was living a life with no 'bittersweet' memories. In this period, i want to try doing something like dating or valentine-like things like this. Now, every year i ( Read more... )

Wink Up 2009 Vol 15 - TORA

【What got me started on Rock = PANTERA】

Without knowing about the genre rock, when i heard about Pantera, i was like "Waaa! what is this amazing feeling!", and started liking them. I learned about Pantera from TV. Since i often watch MTV. After that, it was like "So this genre is known as Rock!". When I'm in junior year 6 ( Read more... )

Arena37c October 2006
Scans credits: jungsoo @ jrock_scans link

In last month's issue, we've heard the details on the new songs, this issue please tell us in detail about the various parts of NUMBER SIX

Nao:In order to create a lively variation of live and recorded drums, i tried to make it refreshing. The sharpness behind the hi-hat holds one of the ( Read more... )

Arena37c September 2006
Scans credits: link

Every member in Alice Nine are born in summer right?

Shou: From early summer till late summer

Tora: May to September

Hiroto: That's why we love summer~

Shou: For us, summer tours have a more festival feel than winter tours

Hiroto: In summer, we often becomes 'joura'

Joura?Hiroto: Naked on our upper half, ( Read more... )