no, I am not French. they're a band, and I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about their tour dates. Everything i find is in japanese, and even I am not that good to translate it. If anyone knows the dates, and locales, or itf they're coming here, I would he evernally grateful.
L'arc~en~Ciel?
The last time I knew of them being in the area was a few months ago. I first saw them at Otakon… 4 or 5 years ago. They're a japanese band (rather obviously), hence why you probably won't see info on them other than Japanese.
I play Final Fantasy XI in a Japanese based LS, and we often talk about music. if i find anything out i'll post it. lol.
I play Final Fantasy XI in a Japanese based LS, and we often talk about music. if i find anything out i'll post it. lol.
the only way you will see them in the states is at otakon or something like that. its the only place a crowd that listens to them will gather.
thank you… It is rather obvious that they are japanese, i just figured that enough people might like them that they would have info in something other than japanese. I mean, the vocalist, Hideto/Hyde speaks and writes in English and Japanese really good.
(Hmm… street teamer ahoy?)
Their website does have an English version. The tour dates are listed only in Japanese (at http://www.larc-en-ciel.com/jp/popup/Tour2007.html ), but they're all for Japanese cities.
There's no real market in the U.S. for commercial Japanese music. To have much of a following here, Japanese projects generally need to have some sort of indie/underground cred and/or critical acclaim (Pizzicato Five, Fantastic Plastic Machine, the Boredoms, Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc.). I think Puffy (a.k.a. Puffy AmiYumi) sort of squeezed in because of their retro-pop sound, and they were spun as "offbeat."
I can't remember what the L'Arc-En-Ciel vocalist's English diction is like, but that also poses a stumbling block for a lot of Japanese artists. Pizzicato Five's Maki Nomiya has very good English diction, but Aco and a lot of others don't. Fantastic Plastic Machine used a Japanese vocalist in an English-language song on his album "Beautiful," and I remember wincing when I heard her sing, "Set me free and fry away."
Their website does have an English version. The tour dates are listed only in Japanese (at http://www.larc-en-ciel.com/jp/popup/Tour2007.html ), but they're all for Japanese cities.
There's no real market in the U.S. for commercial Japanese music. To have much of a following here, Japanese projects generally need to have some sort of indie/underground cred and/or critical acclaim (Pizzicato Five, Fantastic Plastic Machine, the Boredoms, Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc.). I think Puffy (a.k.a. Puffy AmiYumi) sort of squeezed in because of their retro-pop sound, and they were spun as "offbeat."
I can't remember what the L'Arc-En-Ciel vocalist's English diction is like, but that also poses a stumbling block for a lot of Japanese artists. Pizzicato Five's Maki Nomiya has very good English diction, but Aco and a lot of others don't. Fantastic Plastic Machine used a Japanese vocalist in an English-language song on his album "Beautiful," and I remember wincing when I heard her sing, "Set me free and fry away."