2018.12.07 音流~ONRYU~ with Die
First they greet each other and comment on how many times Die came to the program before and that it has been a while. He apologizes it's always just him to which of course hosts protest.
(and excuse the rubbish quality of screenshots, the app didn't allow screenshots so I went old school and then couldn't be bothered to look for my laptop, so you get a picture of a picture quality 😂)
They look at photos from European tour in 2015 2018 (the view from his airplane seat, then tour bus). Die explains they usually get around Europe using such buses. There's no photo but Die explains that front of the bus has a 'lounge' with sofas where everyone can eat together etc. The middle and back of the bus has bunk beds. Onryu staff is surprised, but Die explains that abroad most bands tour using buses like that. "The bigger the band the bigger the bus".
Next photo is from the concert in Paris (2018). Hosts comment that the venue is like a painting, in gothic style, Die comments that even the backstage looks amazing, having a lot of sunlight and a balcony. The bathroom even had a bathtub (in Japan that's pretty important 😁), so Die could take a bath as soon as they arrived at the venue.
One of the hosts asked - you were touring a lot in Japan and abroad, did you have any incidents?
The top3 incidents when touring
Die: There were quite a few things until now. My number 3 will be from London in October (2018), during the show we had a problem with our computer so we had to stop/pause the show few times. We couldn't get it fixed, so we tried choosing songs we could play without computer backing, but for this tour we didn't have any extra songs. We had to create a totally new setlist from that point on, changing about half of it. But in the end all members enjoyed it.
Host: ドMだね/quite masochistic of you (Die and everyone laughs😂)
Die: As my number 2... a while ago when we were touring in the US, as I said before, abroad we tour using a bus, but that time our bus engine broke down on our way to Seattle. In the end we rented a van, staff and band members, all of us sqeeeeezed in tightly (everyone starts to giggle as Die tries to show how tight it was 😂). But even so, we didn't make it in time. Yet, the venue was not booked on the following day. So we moved our show. It's pretty unbelievable right? We knew not all fans could change their schedule, but we had to do that while feeling sorry for that.
Host: So what about number 1?
Die: Number 1 is really something else. It also happened in the US, I think it was 5 years ago? When we arrived at the Los Angeles airport and we were waiting for our bus there was an announcement to not leave the airport. There was a shooting incident, so the whole airport was shut down. The shooting took place at the domestic terminal, we were scheduled to take a flight to Texas from that terminal the following day. If our schedule was set one day different we would probably have been there.
Hosts: that's scary / there are many one day differences here. / going to various places brings different experiences / but the scale of trouble is totally different!
Next is 'part time job corner' - things you normally can't talk about.
Die: I have done many different part time jobs, but there was a time I worked at Amerikamura in Osaka, the shop is gone now, but I used to sell boots. Now you can buy Dr.Martens everywhere, but at that time you could only get them in that shop. There were so many customers you couldn't move around in the store. When a customer asks for a size you usually go to the stockroom to bring it for them, but that was actually hard, it was so crowded. So when I had a customer try on a bit tight fitting pair I told them that as it's leather it will stretch gradually so most people buy such fitting boots. If I had someone saying the size is a little bit big, I was telling them they should just tighten the laces... as 'most people do it that way'( everyone laughs). It was all because the shop was too crowded.
Host: like in military, your body should fit the uniform.
Die: Japanese people believe easily, if you say 'everyone buys it' they will buy it.
Last was a message from Die:
DIR EN GREY has released our 10th album 'The Insulated World'. And we will hold a tour with the same title that will start in spring next year. I hope you will come to experience the album live.
