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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Ai-chan on April 16, 2007, 08:38:00 pm
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no, I am not French. they're a band, and I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about their tour dates. Everything i find is in japanese, and even I am not that good to translate it. If anyone knows the dates, and locales, or itf they're coming here, I would he evernally grateful.
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The last time I knew of them being in the area was a few months ago. I first saw them at Otakon... 4 or 5 years ago. They're a japanese band (rather obviously), hence why you probably won't see info on them other than Japanese.
I play Final Fantasy XI in a Japanese based LS, and we often talk about music. if i find anything out i'll post it. lol.
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the only way you will see them in the states is at otakon or something like that. its the only place a crowd that listens to them will gather.
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thank you... It is rather obvious that they are japanese, i just figured that enough people might like them that they would have info in something other than japanese. I mean, the vocalist, Hideto/Hyde speaks and writes in English and Japanese really good.
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(Hmm... street teamer ahoy?)
Their website does have an English version. The tour dates are listed only in Japanese (at http://www.larc-en-ciel.com/jp/popup/Tour2007.html (http://www.larc-en-ciel.com/jp/popup/Tour2007.html) ), but they're all for Japanese cities.
There's no real market in the U.S. for commercial Japanese music. To have much of a following here, Japanese projects generally need to have some sort of indie/underground cred and/or critical acclaim (Pizzicato Five, Fantastic Plastic Machine, the Boredoms, Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc.). I think Puffy (a.k.a. Puffy AmiYumi) sort of squeezed in because of their retro-pop sound, and they were spun as "offbeat."
I can't remember what the L'Arc-En-Ciel vocalist's English diction is like, but that also poses a stumbling block for a lot of Japanese artists. Pizzicato Five's Maki Nomiya has very good English diction, but Aco and a lot of others don't. Fantastic Plastic Machine used a Japanese vocalist in an English-language song on his album "Beautiful," and I remember wincing when I heard her sing, "Set me free and fry away."
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