News: Get Kagrra, to Perform in the US!

The Japanese Student Network (JSN) here in the United States will organize an event called Tokyo Night 2007 on March 31/April 1 in Los Angeles, California.

Q: What is Tokyo Night?

Our objectives of Tokyo Night are to promote a spirit of unity among those of different backgrounds, and to introduce them to both traditional and popular Japanese culture. We are also committed to helping young aspiring artists to expand their creative possibilities in the U.S. We will produce a synthetic entertainment event for our anticipated more than 2, 800 attendees by combining latest club music, visual arts and a fusion of Japanese goods and services. We strongly believe that it is important to create goodwill between people of different backgrounds: our goal remains to promote understanding and respect for differences along with a will to work together to achieve similar goals as members of the same society in order to advance harmony. These are the major themes for upcoming Tokyo Night 2007.

According to the related threads on Batsu J-Rock Forum, JSN is now in serious talks with Kagrra,'s management about the possibility of performing at Tokyo Night, but they must bring in an audience of 2000 or more. If you're pretty damn sure you can make it, please let the organizers of the event know. Bring our beloved Kagrra, to the US! (Please note that Tokyo Night is a 18+ event.)

Related Batsu threads...
Tokyo Night 2007: http://batsu.org/viewtopic.php?t=17562
Bring Kagrra, to Tokyo Night 2007: http://www.batsu.org/viewtopic.php?t=18851

News: ガゼット (Gazette) / European Edition「Nameless Liberty.Six Guns…」[2006.11.03]

I am SO bloody jealous of Germans right now.

The German company CLJ Records will be releasing the European edition of Gazette's Nameless Liberty.Six Guns live DVD set. This release will consist of the two concert discs and include both German and English subtitles. The booklet will also contain English lyrics.

Price: 24.99 EUR (about $32)

A special fan edition with DVDs and a T-shirt is also planned. Details will be announced soon.

I'm disappointed, however, that the European edition doesn't include the third disc from the Japanese limited edition. The third disc is the one that contains backstage and interview footages, and kicks absolute ass. Guess the company's too lazy to translate and subtitle it. Because the third CD's not included, I hesitate in buying this...

Bah. We Americans are so neglected. *kicks Free-Will America* Why can't you do the same for us?! PS Company is a sub-label of Free-Will, for god's sake! The euro-dollar exchange rate sucks.

I Missed Dave Matthews Band Concert (By Choice)

Okay, call me foolish for missing Dave Matthews Band's hometown concert.

My house had a fundraising event in which residents could volunteer to be backstage curtain handlers on the two nights Dave Matthews Band was performing here. This was of course the perfect opportunity to be close to the band during the concert. The idea of watching the band from backstage and only being a few feet away from them is indeed quite attractive. Had I remotely been in my right mind, I'd have jumped at the chance.

However, I wasn't anywhere near being in the right mind. The concert nights happened to be on the same week in which I averaged 3 hours of sleep every night due to having to work on massive projects. By the time the concerts came around, I was so burned out and felt so dead that I couldn't have cared if lightning struck and killed my pet dog (figuratively speaking). All I wanted to do was to sleep for 3 days straight.

So, while my housemates were out having fun helping out at Dave Matthews Band concert, I was sleeping.

Pooh.