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- Because there were probably a lot more things that needed to be done apart from producing and preparing the live, weren’t there? Still, it also included the most recent material. Since it would be the first time to play the album’s songs, one might want to do it thoroughly, too, wouldn’t you?
Reita [Yes, with the new songs certainly.]
Aoi [Since we never really got past being in the studio, we couldn’t actually recapture that sensation…We basically started from there. At the beginning, the feeling (of rehearsing for a live) didn’t really come up. Suddenly there was just this really loud sound, which would make my ears hurt... ]
Ruki [Your ears would be like [wooooaaaah…]]
Aoi [Yeah. As the rehearsal continued, bit by bit we would get used to that sensation.]
Ruki [Also…for this tour there had been a (certain) image. For that reason, we needed to see what it is all about and really had to practice to the highest amount possible. Until the day prior we had basically been standing on stage to confirm all of this. Well, anyway… Arranging the songs from what was there of this image, a lot of things had been quite exhausting.]
Uruha [And if we consider all of this, it was really necessary to have that much of rehearsal.Because at first we had been doing the rehearsal without that certain image, we couldn’t actually realize how to do this on stage, which was in most parts exhausting as well.]
- During this time’s tour a lot of that image seems to have been taken from the first song [The Invisible Wall]. We had been writing a live report as well, and when it comes to songs that would leave an impression with their atmosphere concerning the stage production, it would have been [Nakigahara] or [DIM SCENE] as well. This is including light effects and stage setting.
Ruki [Yes, it’s like that. The LED, too. We had been using those for the first time at Mukahari Messe Hall. It was then, that I said, that I wanted to use them. I wanted to create a stage set, where the images in the back would form the silhouettes of the band members in that shape.]
Uruha [We wanted to do it the whole time. Still, it is pretty difficult in different circumstances.]
Ruki [The thing with the set was pretty exhausting. Depending on the stage, there had been different restrictions. During this tour from the very beginning I had this image of piling up a lot of TV monitors on stage. However, with LEDs set in fixed rows, I was told that it is not possible to arrange them in diagonals. Therefore we changed the plan to creating just one large LED frame in the back… Then suddenly it was like “Wait a second!” Maybe it would have been ok to do this just the normal, more common way. However, I had gotten pretty tired of this thing, which you had seen and taken in as normal on so many different stages already. Therefore I wanted to create something more individual, discussed that and in the end we got what it turned out to be.]
- If it is Gazette, then not being able to show such a stage seems pretty meaningless. This time, speaking of the tour… I was surprised to see that Reita-kun had been injured. Was your finger OK then?
Aoi [That had actually been part of the performance.]
Ruki [Efficient, wasn’t it?]Uruha [His nose had been injured as well. (laughs)]
Reita [(laughs) My nose had been injured, too…Like it would have been OK if I broke another 3 to 4 fingers.]
Kai [In the end, we would have just glued you pic to the thumb. (laughs)]
Reita [(laughs) Well, but it was OK. However, it had been hurting from the very first day in Toda… I went to the hospital in Tochigi, I think (The performance was on August 2nd in Tochigi-prefecture Sougou Bunka Center Main Hall)]
Ruki [Sometime he had to turn to the back and have his bandage fixed in the shadow of the amp. For me, seeing that had been a total shock…It was not very nice to look at and I felt a bit miserable…]
Reita [Well, it couldn’t be helped. The first day, when I had that finger bandaged, it would get all messed up. (laughs)]
Uruha [Don’t you wanna tell, why it actually hurt?]
Reita [Aaah…no I won’t tell.]
Aoi [(In a powerful voice) Why wouldn’t you tell us, why it actually hurts???]
Reita [I. Won’t. Tell.]
Kai [(laughs) Not even if you are asked that nicely?]
Ruki [Maybe because he was the one who caused it himself?]
Reita [(laughs) Well…I had been throwing my bass, I missed it, it fell and hit my hand…]
- Uuuwaaah! That must have hurt!
Aoi [Actually, the pure action of throwing an instrument…]
Reita [I felt sorry… (laughs) Really, for a long time already, I had been told by almost everyone that it was pretty dangerous and that I should rather stop doing it. But I only said, that if I did it, it would be always successful. The contract when using a guitar said that, too. (laughs)]
Aoi [There is no contract about throwing guitars!]
Reita [I’m really sorry…]
- Please be careful. Honestly… Even if we need to stick to the rules of that contract. (laughs) Alright, so we want to hear about the live a little later on, now I would like to hear a bit more about what had been going on backstage. Something that people not really get to see about you, and I think the fans would be also interested in that.
Ruki [There is… Nothing to be shown!]
- (laughs) There has to be something. Before the live, when there was a little free time, what did you all do? Did you get something from other people, did you go anywhere, any kind of sightseeing, or I’ve heard that you had gone to the onsen (Hot spring) (laughs).
Ruki [Aaah…How to say…Pretty much, we didn’t really do anything. (laughs)]
Aoi [We are pretty stoic as that, when it comes to going sightseeing and such…]
Reita [Mr. Stoic (laughs)]
Ruki [However, really actually…wasn’t there really anything? Did we have any days off?]
Reita [No, there were none. (laughs)]
Ruki [Well, yeah since we didn’t take any days off…]
Aoi [Even the days we would be returning (to Tokyo), there had always been work. No matter how often we actually did return.]Ruki [There had been the recording and such…]
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