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tetsuya’s press!

ラルクTETSUYA バンド結成25周年について語る L'Arc~en~Ciel

My Japanese is limited & I don’t understand Osaka-ben but basically:

-he explains that L’ started 25 years ago at their first live where 150 people attended.  they discuss this for awhile

-then he mentions that this year is also his 15th anniversary of his solo career, so they talk about that some more.

For context, this is a clip from the radio show Appare! Yattemasu, in a segment where they read and respond to listener emails.

So, it starts with another host reading such a letter. It goes “Hello tetsuya-san, do you know what day it is? Of course you do, it’s L'Arc-en-Ciel’s birthday and 25th anniversary! Happy birthday! Are there any plans for band activity this year? Please tell us anything you can.”

The other hosts are confused but tetsuya explains today was the date of L'Arc’s first concert, in 1991 at Namba Rockets in Osaka. Another guy chimes in saying that back then, people went to random concerts at clubs like this instead of to theatres :p The venue held only about 200 people, at most, IF they were all standing very close to each other.  Actually about 150 people attended that first concert.  They had some fans because people knew the members from previous bands they were in. tetsuya jokes that there are now at least 400 fans of L'Arc :p

In answer to the question, he confirms that nothing is going on.  Besides this radio conversation (joke)

However, he also points out they didn’t do anything for the 10th anniversary either.  Probably nobody noticed, he thinks, because that was the time the solo projects were starting.  This is why his solo project has similar anniversaries to L'Arc’s. He wants to do something for his solo 15th anniversary, even though he knows everyone is looking forward to L'Arc and not his solo.  He can’t announce anything right now though.

Then there’s a bit of chatter about how things have changed since 1991, in terms of venues and types of events and such.  Now, L'Arc is so big it’s hard to find any venues at all that will accommodate them.

They also wonder about those 150 people who went to the first ever concert, and tetsuya doesn’t think they’d be still interested.

When asked, tetsuya says the point of anniversary concerts is to get close to the fans to play songs that haven’t been played in a while, wear their old costumes, and so on.  Also, video comments from other bands who congratulate them.

ラルクTETSUYA バンド結成25周年について語る L'Arc~en~Ciel

My Japanese is limited & I don’t understand Osaka-ben but basically:

-he explains that L’ started 25 years ago at their first live where 150 people attended.  they discuss this for awhile

-then he mentions that this year is also his 15th anniversary of his solo career, so they talk about that some more.

ラルクTETSUYA バンド結成25周年について語る L'Arc~en~Ciel