- The last solo-fotoshooting was last year (2006) in July in magazine number 29, wasn’t it? Last time you were all blood-stained. (laughs)
Ruki: And this time I am all drenched. (laughs)
- The idea of wanting to go into the water came from Ruki-kun, but why did you chose to do that?
Ruki: First of all, when seeing this as a personal thing, somehow plain clothes are drawing a certain image, aren’t they? That’s why I thought, would it be nice to go back to the band’s style from back in the days. And as I kept thinking that, this came out…like a women during the funeral rites. (laughs) And about going into the water with a kimono; I just like the atmosphere of that image. And to be honest, I’m sort of into the ‘Japanese’-style right now.
- Into the ‘Japanese’-style? That is unexpected!
Ruki: I think this came from the images in ‘Chizuru’.
- I see. This time I would like to start this with talking about the ongoing tour from July, the hall tour that eventually ended with the Budokan live September 7th. So looking back at that, what was it like?
Ruki: Hmm…When I think about the fans or the lives, there was nothing in particular. I think, apart from the feelings, we started from a very high position. The tension also wasn’t shaking us up, and the lives felt neatly made up. Concerning the songs we were able to concentrate on them very well.
- But because it was a summer tour the exhaustion must have been pretty rough.
Ruki: Surely during the lives, it was pretty hot. That was just because of the costumes (bitter laugh)
- That’s something you bestowed upon yourself, isn’t it.
Ruki: Yeah (laughs). Even though it is hot no matter what kind of costumes we are wearing, we are wearing hot costumes again. On top of that the building we played at are pretty old, the backstage room was also hot.
- And then you were welcomed at the Nippon Budokan on September 7th. The last time you were all crying but this time you left a rather calm impression didn’t you?
Ruki: Last time everything around us seemed to be rattling with excitement, since it was the first time we were playing at a hall of that size; there were different things we had to bear. This time it was the tour that still was, an unchanging set-list and the work of entering the stage. It was a feeling that there was no option, so we could do it without too much nervousness. We were always able to pass that.
- The range of Budokan is just as wide as the variety of the fans. I have seen older men around their 50s. (laughs)
Ruki: That’s pretty common with the fan-mail also; there are even people whose age is pretty high.
- What kind of impression do those people write about?
Ruki: Of the mail I have received they wrote things like: “It reminded me of the old times, like –Carol-“(laughs)
- But –Carol- and Gazette are pretty different. (laughs)
Ruki: Even though they are different (laughs). But they say something like “It reminded me of the time, when I went to a live of –Carol-, it was hot again.” There are people like that, too.
- Isn’t that an absurdly nice story? Wasn’t –Carol’s- time around the 40s and 50s? How very different those Gazette fans tend to be, don’t they?
Ruki: Why would it be like that? I wonder how they got to know about us.
- They probably heard it along with their daughters and sons, when they did.
Ruki: And then they thought: “How cool!” (lughs)
- After Budokan, there will be the standing tour from November and the number of lives is really conspicuous, isn’t? It happens a lot that after a final at Budokan, there is some off-time.
Ruki: For example, when the summer one-man tour ends, I think the live at Budokan is not as impressive and moving. When it comes to moving, the feeling of completion is missing. That’s what I understood with the ending of the last tour. Last year’s winter tour and even though we did the live at Yokohama Arena in March, the tension couldn’t be brought to an end…of course we did it as a final, though. Also the number of lives we did at the end of the tour was also rather low…it was only 12 lives. At that time, doing that felt strange. [?] Every time when the tour ends, the songs have a good atmosphere to them; this time we did it like that, and we would always do it like that, if it was possible to, I think.
- That’s how you are going to process until next year in April. And then on the 19th and 20th of April at the Yoyogi National Stadium in the big hall, that is going to be the real final, isn’t it?
Ruki: With Yoyogi and the live at Osaka-Jou Hall on April 13th it does feel like the end.
- Roughly within a year the album was concluded, which is a thing not easily accomplished.
Ruki: Establishing the band’s style, while certainly a lot of things come together, that’s something we did not find. Even if we do it normally, there is almost no kick to it, no such thing as excitement. [I'm really not sure here!! m(_ _)m]
- Exactly, when this magazine comes out in November, the Hall Tour is going to start, so what kind of meaning would you like that to have?
Ruki: There are probably a lot of fans who come to our hall tour for the first time, don’t they? There are also places in the halls where they can watch safely, but after all live houses are a little different. If they understand the danger of that, they can get totally absorbed by the feeling. Because live houses are dangerous and… Of course no one is supposed to get injured, but the atmosphere of it is good.
- When there are more male fans during the standing lives also, it happens the fans are stepping on each other. Isn’t it that Gazette also has gotten more male fans now?
Ruki: Just a little, but also when it comes to the kids, who have become more. If it was possible, we would like to become a band that they think of as “We want to be like them!”
- I think there are enough bands copying already. (laughs)
Ruki: When there are boys at the venues, it is a feeling like that, isn’t it? Back in the days, when we went to seeLuna Sea
Ruki: While we are training them, we are neglecting the song writing (laughs)
- Yeah. Just like that. But is it ok, if you do so many lives and almost have no time to write new songs?
Ruki: The truth is, right now we are in the middle of pre-processing. There are songs I have written during the tour as well.
- That means there are lots of raw diamonds?
Ruki: On my cell-phone. (laughs) So if I ever drop that into water, I am going to cry. (laughs)
- So eventually, what kind of new song is this going to be? I am really curious now!
Ruki: As for the atmosphere, it is somewhat nostalgic. When I should say something about the lyrics, it is similar to the darkness of the early days. Saying that, it has this ‘Japanese’ feeling.
- Ah, I see, so that is the connection to this time’s photo-shooting. So this wasn’t just a determined idea, wasn’t it.
Ruki: It was not just an idea. (laughs). It was appealing to the fertile ground. It was showing something I cared about. For example, when I did [Filth in the Beauty] and [Hyena], I wanted it to be absolutely cool, this time I wanted it to spiritually burn…with burn, I mean to show a real feelings.
- That seems like it is going to be very deep sound-wise.
Ruki: When referring to Gazette’s songs it would be like [Taion] or [Chizuru], a malicious feeling, isn’t it. The parts people wouldn’t like to show, I wanted to pursue that a lot more. That is when it comes to the melody also. It’s not just aggression, and during the live the colours will emphasize the feelings.
- In October the European tour starts, how do you feel about the upsurge of emotions there? It is something like a hype, isn’t it.
Ruki: We could just continue, about how it is here. InJapan
Ruki: I don’t want it to go there. The Neo Visual Kei. I think ‘Neo’ is right for the people coming on stage now, but we are doing this for 5 years already. (laughs) I don’t like it, when something is made up like that. It is like putting everything into one pile and hyping it up.
- But I think that there a lot of people who know that Gazette have walked a pretty unique way, even if that’s just a small thing.
Ruki: Ah, that’s something I have been told by other people in different bands, too. Well, that’s why I came to think the ‘we’ will always be ‘we’. And that is never going to change, certainly.
Ruki: And this time I am all drenched. (laughs)
- The idea of wanting to go into the water came from Ruki-kun, but why did you chose to do that?
Ruki: First of all, when seeing this as a personal thing, somehow plain clothes are drawing a certain image, aren’t they? That’s why I thought, would it be nice to go back to the band’s style from back in the days. And as I kept thinking that, this came out…like a women during the funeral rites. (laughs) And about going into the water with a kimono; I just like the atmosphere of that image. And to be honest, I’m sort of into the ‘Japanese’-style right now.
- Into the ‘Japanese’-style? That is unexpected!
Ruki: I think this came from the images in ‘Chizuru’.
- I see. This time I would like to start this with talking about the ongoing tour from July, the hall tour that eventually ended with the Budokan live September 7th. So looking back at that, what was it like?
Ruki: Hmm…When I think about the fans or the lives, there was nothing in particular. I think, apart from the feelings, we started from a very high position. The tension also wasn’t shaking us up, and the lives felt neatly made up. Concerning the songs we were able to concentrate on them very well.
- But because it was a summer tour the exhaustion must have been pretty rough.
Ruki: Surely during the lives, it was pretty hot. That was just because of the costumes (bitter laugh)
- That’s something you bestowed upon yourself, isn’t it.
Ruki: Yeah (laughs). Even though it is hot no matter what kind of costumes we are wearing, we are wearing hot costumes again. On top of that the building we played at are pretty old, the backstage room was also hot.
- And then you were welcomed at the Nippon Budokan on September 7th. The last time you were all crying but this time you left a rather calm impression didn’t you?
Ruki: Last time everything around us seemed to be rattling with excitement, since it was the first time we were playing at a hall of that size; there were different things we had to bear. This time it was the tour that still was, an unchanging set-list and the work of entering the stage. It was a feeling that there was no option, so we could do it without too much nervousness. We were always able to pass that.
- The range of Budokan is just as wide as the variety of the fans. I have seen older men around their 50s. (laughs)
Ruki: That’s pretty common with the fan-mail also; there are even people whose age is pretty high.
- What kind of impression do those people write about?
Ruki: Of the mail I have received they wrote things like: “It reminded me of the old times, like –Carol-“(laughs)
- But –Carol- and Gazette are pretty different. (laughs)
Ruki: Even though they are different (laughs). But they say something like “It reminded me of the time, when I went to a live of –Carol-, it was hot again.” There are people like that, too.
- Isn’t that an absurdly nice story? Wasn’t –Carol’s- time around the 40s and 50s? How very different those Gazette fans tend to be, don’t they?
Ruki: Why would it be like that? I wonder how they got to know about us.
- They probably heard it along with their daughters and sons, when they did.
Ruki: And then they thought: “How cool!” (lughs)
- After Budokan, there will be the standing tour from November and the number of lives is really conspicuous, isn’t? It happens a lot that after a final at Budokan, there is some off-time.
Ruki: For example, when the summer one-man tour ends, I think the live at Budokan is not as impressive and moving. When it comes to moving, the feeling of completion is missing. That’s what I understood with the ending of the last tour. Last year’s winter tour and even though we did the live at Yokohama Arena in March, the tension couldn’t be brought to an end…of course we did it as a final, though. Also the number of lives we did at the end of the tour was also rather low…it was only 12 lives. At that time, doing that felt strange. [?] Every time when the tour ends, the songs have a good atmosphere to them; this time we did it like that, and we would always do it like that, if it was possible to, I think.
- That’s how you are going to process until next year in April. And then on the 19th and 20th of April at the Yoyogi National Stadium in the big hall, that is going to be the real final, isn’t it?
Ruki: With Yoyogi and the live at Osaka-Jou Hall on April 13th it does feel like the end.
- Roughly within a year the album was concluded, which is a thing not easily accomplished.
Ruki: Establishing the band’s style, while certainly a lot of things come together, that’s something we did not find. Even if we do it normally, there is almost no kick to it, no such thing as excitement.
Ruki: There are probably a lot of fans who come to our hall tour for the first time, don’t they? There are also places in the halls where they can watch safely, but after all live houses are a little different. If they understand the danger of that, they can get totally absorbed by the feeling. Because live houses are dangerous and… Of course no one is supposed to get injured, but the atmosphere of it is good.
- When there are more male fans during the standing lives also, it happens the fans are stepping on each other. Isn’t it that Gazette also has gotten more male fans now?
Ruki: Just a little, but also when it comes to the kids, who have become more. If it was possible, we would like to become a band that they think of as “We want to be like them!”
- I think there are enough bands copying already. (laughs)
Ruki: When there are boys at the venues, it is a feeling like that, isn’t it? Back in the days, when we went to see
Ruki: While we are training them, we are neglecting the song writing (laughs)
- Yeah. Just like that. But is it ok, if you do so many lives and almost have no time to write new songs?
Ruki: The truth is, right now we are in the middle of pre-processing. There are songs I have written during the tour as well.
- That means there are lots of raw diamonds?
Ruki: On my cell-phone. (laughs) So if I ever drop that into water, I am going to cry. (laughs)
- So eventually, what kind of new song is this going to be? I am really curious now!
Ruki: As for the atmosphere, it is somewhat nostalgic. When I should say something about the lyrics, it is similar to the darkness of the early days. Saying that, it has this ‘Japanese’ feeling.
- Ah, I see, so that is the connection to this time’s photo-shooting. So this wasn’t just a determined idea, wasn’t it.
Ruki: It was not just an idea. (laughs). It was appealing to the fertile ground. It was showing something I cared about. For example, when I did [Filth in the Beauty] and [Hyena], I wanted it to be absolutely cool, this time I wanted it to spiritually burn…with burn, I mean to show a real feelings.
- That seems like it is going to be very deep sound-wise.
Ruki: When referring to Gazette’s songs it would be like [Taion] or [Chizuru], a malicious feeling, isn’t it. The parts people wouldn’t like to show, I wanted to pursue that a lot more. That is when it comes to the melody also. It’s not just aggression, and during the live the colours will emphasize the feelings.
- In October the European tour starts, how do you feel about the upsurge of emotions there? It is something like a hype, isn’t it.
Ruki: We could just continue, about how it is here. In
Ruki: I don’t want it to go there. The Neo Visual Kei. I think ‘Neo’ is right for the people coming on stage now, but we are doing this for 5 years already. (laughs) I don’t like it, when something is made up like that. It is like putting everything into one pile and hyping it up.
- But I think that there a lot of people who know that Gazette have walked a pretty unique way, even if that’s just a small thing.
Ruki: Ah, that’s something I have been told by other people in different bands, too. Well, that’s why I came to think the ‘we’ will always be ‘we’. And that is never going to change, certainly.
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