Accorin's a giantShe belongs on the festival stage at Coachella because she's big enough.
In interviews, I've heard some enthusiasm toward Coachella — I've been told
all sorts of things like, "overthrow Beyoncé, beat up Eminem".
But I'm completely unaware of Beyoncé or Eminem or X Japan.
They're completely unrelated.
We're just going there seriously, at life size, to do what we do.
The co-stars are not the opponent. It's all of you. Toushindai (等身大)
Literally, the same size as in real life. Applied to hopes and expectations,
it means staying realistic and not losing all proportion. In Otobi's case,
life-size is plenty big enough.
The next time you're being killed by them at a show… it's because you are the opponent.
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The Hardest Working Band in Show Business Want to see how crazy their April tour is? They are technically committed to one berth
on Day One at Coachella, but Day One happens twice on two consecutive weekends,
and the band only has a week or so of vacation from work.
Rather than scratching around the West Coast of the US for 6 days, they fly to the UK
to deliver 3 hits in 3 evenings in their British stronghold, and then fly back across the
Atlantic plus 3,300 miles of North America, to California for their second festival date,
before driving hours to LA so they can climb on another jet for an 11-hour trans-Pacific
ride to Kansai International... where ambulances will be waiting.
That's roughly 11,150 miles in the air alone, one way.
Multiply by 2 for the round-trip.
Earth is ~24,900 miles around, at the equator.
They're traveling around the globe in one week, to do 2x1 festival, plus 3 club dates.
The UK shows are worth doubling the exhausting effort, because they keep a fire lit
under Spotify in the UK and give their representation there a way to make a couple
of GBP to maintain the relationship. Every other J-rock group is slacking off.
And the cost of all this must be something else. They need to sell a lot of t-shirts.
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Meanwhile…Piling onto this month's Next Big Thing continues:
Interviewed for episode 32 of the Waiting Room, a regular iTunes podcast
by their Kyoto neighbors,
the emo-rock band Bed:
You can listen on the Bed website if iTunes doesn't work for you, but...
it's an hour of people bantering and laughing in Kyoto Japanese.
At Spotify, tastemakers can't playlist the new single fast enough.
Spotify
Japan, let's remember, but No. 1 is still No.1.
And, a performer prepares:
Studio on my own@accorinrin replying to @yokotaminamiI was reminded of the time when I was showing people around a large karaoke room by myself @gonnosukezaka replying to @accorinrinIf you get tired of playing alone, play with everybody—♪♪♪
But if you want to work on your delivery for the stage, or just keep
that situation feeling like second nature, a little booth is useless
and the band might not be able to help.