Category: music interview
Maximum The Hormone: It’s My Shit
Miyavi – Don’t Get Inked Too Much!
Miyavi is probably most famous over here for his role as the sadistic prison guard Mutsuhiro Watanabe in Angelina Jolie’s film Unbroken. But he is a killer guitarist with a most unusual style. Miyavi has toured over 250 shows across 30 countries and even opened for the magnificent Lenny Kravitz. I was lucky enough to catch up with him to talk about tattoos, headbanging children and his role in Unbroken.
Miyavi’s responses unless otherwise stated.
Introducing Dempagumi.inc
“Can you see the Death Star from The Big Dipper constellation?” asks Eimi from Dempagumi.inc (or simply Dempagumi). She is (of course) referring to a comic named North Star: “In the first of the North Star comic there is a faint star in the Big Dipper and if you can see it with the naked eye, death is upon you”.
VAMPS: Rock n Roll Isn’t Supposed to be Healthy
Not be confused with the British band of the same name, this Japanese rock act have been making quite an impression internationally with their brand of hard rock and unique image.
I was fortunate to catch up with them online and asked founding members HYDE and K.A.Z their thoughts on vampires, time travel and, erm, internet marketing. Continue reading
In Conversation With Scandal
Scandal are a Japanese all-girl rock band and while relatively unknown on our shores, are bigger than the proverbial Godzilla in their home country. The group have sold out practically every leg of their current world tour, including 2 nights at the mighty 20,000 capacity Budokan in Tokyo and were in the UK to play a capacity concert at the Islington O2 Academy on April 26.
An Interview With BABYMETAL
Fellow journalist Emily, photographer Simon and I are lurking at the backstage entrance of The Forum concert hall in London waiting to interview Japanese death metal/pop music viral sensation BABYMETAL. We are hopelessly early.
An Insight Into Japan’s Idol Avante Guarde
As many visitors to my almost award winning, world famous, now ex-food blog know, I have been writing a lot about Japanese music recently – well, mostly about Babymetal TBH – and have totally got into a lot of other Japanese bands. One of which is the fascinating Neconomidol (or Necronima).
Anyway, I had the opportunity to catch up with Ricky Wilson, the band’s producer, who explains what it’s like to run an idol unit and how the outer fringes of Japanese music work.
It’s very interesting, that’s all I can say.
Najinsan!!!!!!!!! 