Pick Up Artists Interview

Iulia · Trimis: 24/10/2007 19:59 Titlul subiectului: Pick Up Artists Interview

BOU: I'm Bou, the guitarist.
TERUKI: I'm Teruki, the drummer.
MIKU: I'm Miku, the vocalist.
KANON: I'm Kanon, the bassist.

QUESTION: What is the story of the band's formation?
MIKU: Right, I saw Bou's internet post. It said that he played guitar and wanted to do a live with a comical story concept in the style of visual Kei. I also thought this was a good idea so I sent him an e-mail.
BOU: Thanks.
MIKU: Thanks. I e-mailed him and then met him briefly. He was such a gentleman. (Teruki points out to Miku where the camera is so he turns to it) Yes, such a gentleman that he treated me to dinner. I thought that was awesome, but I found out that he was unreliable, especially in regard to meeting times. I didn't think we could do it like this so I quit.
BOU: At taht time, even though Mi-kun and I put an ad to find band members, Kanon snatched it up. We tried to do it together. We didn't become very close, but we tried to form a band anyway.
MIKU: During this time, I thought about wanting to do it again so I called Bou. Bou-kun and Kanon were together. We made arrangements to get together after that at a McDonald's. We listened to the song, and decided to get together. That day we went to Kanon's house. And then we made a song and it began!

QUESTION: What is the story of your band's name?
BOU: The story of the name Antic Cafe. I like horse racing and there is a horse whose name is Manhatten Cafe who is quite strong. And I said, let's call us Manhatten Cafe, but I was told that the name as it was is not good.
MIKU: And it isn't. Well, we are playing at an antic, no, not antic, athletic club, So then I thought let's name it Athletic Cafe, but we thought that wasn't good. So we looked athletic up in the dictionary, and the word Antic was close by so we became Antic Cafe.
TERUKI: I have a lot of free time. Even though I'm sitting in the middle on purpose, I haven't spoken yet.

QUESTION: What are your band's characteristics?
MIKU: So, Teruki, what are the band's characteristics?
TERUKI: So far, I haven't participated very much. Damn it! Our band's characteristics is this one keyword!
ALL: This one keyword!
TERUKI: Uh...what is this one keyword?
MIKU: What are you saying? You're the one who led us all!
TERUKI: One word, one word, I said. What is it? One word? I've thought of three. Harajuku.
MIKU: Harajuku.
TERUKI: Dance rock.
MIKU: Dance rock.
TERUKI: Nyappy.
MIKU: Nyappy.
TERUKI: Which should we try explaining first?
MIKU: Well, first, let's go in order from Harajuku.
TERUKI: From Harajuku. So, Bou-kun, explain Harajuku.
BOU: (so confused) Harajuku? We're a Harajuku-like band.
TERUKI: Things such as stage costumes are always bought in Harajuku when we're walking around with everyone.
MIKU: Yes.
TERUKI: Okay, next.
MIKU/TERUKI: Dance rock. (Gesture to Kanon.)
KANON: It's dance. And rock.
MIKU: What the-?
TERUKI: The third one! Nyappy.
MIKU: Nyappy is widely popular in An Cafe. It's a greeting. So we do nyappy this way.
TERUKI: I hear nyappy has a lot of meanings.
MIKU: Nyappy is good morning, evening, happening, morning. It has various meanings. Anything nyappy, anything nyappy.
TERUKI: When you call and someone answers. "Nyappy?"
MIKU: "Nyappy?" Everyone try using it.
TERUKI: Even when you call the store's employees shall say nyappy.
MIKU: They come to be all "nyappy, nyappy".

QUESTION: Is there something that you want your band members to change?
KANON: Well, this is something I can say to all the members, but they are a little too mean to me.
TERUKI: You like it, you like it.
MIKU: Certainly.
TERUKI: But, even though he's saying that, he really likes to be teased. He actually said that he has confidence in his ad-libbing ability when he's being teased. The other day when I was cast in an ad-lib part-
MIKU: You're nervous, you're nervous.
TERUKI: When I couldn't react quickly and stopped thinking, "It's awful, it's awful", Kanon said, "Look here, say something, Suck-at-adlibbing-Teruki-san!"
KANON: But I wanted to get revenge.
MIKU: I have something I want Kanon to change. The times when we're drinking, he definitely changes to a crazy person and does things like knocking stuff over. For example, when we went on tour, we were drinking sake in the town of Niigata, and Kanon starting saying, "Hey, hey, hey, hey!"
TERUKI: To some young girls, right?
MIKU: He started hitting on some young girls. And he was totally ignored.
TERUKI: He was ignored.
KANON: Then, Miku-kun did it with me.
MIKU: I did not! No, I did it too, but I was still in control. I don't know to say it, but I want him to control himself when he drinks.
TERUKI: When he goes to drink, he's the type who is a bother to everyone, huh?
MIKU: What about you, Teruki-san?
TERUKI: This person (Bou), I think. He's dirty.
BOU: What?
TERUKI: Let's see. When we go on tour together, his life style is messy. Well, first of all, he doesn't wake up on time for the departures, he doesn't get up, and around this person's futon it's all untidy. At the hotel, his stuff is spread out everywhere, and I'm always telling him to clean up.
MIKU: It's true.
BOU: I'm sorry.
TERUKI/MIKU: Well, how about you, Bou-kun?
BOU: Teruki-kun.
TERUKI: What? It's revenge.
BOU: Please stop getting naked when it's just the two of us.
TERUKI: You, stop saying that, what are people going to think?
BOU: No, when it's the two of us, well, at the house or the hotel, you take everything off.
TERUKI: Isn't it just once in a while that I take everything off?
BOU: No. Because you take everything off, I want you to put on something on the bottom at least. Or so I think. Please correct this behavior.
TERUKI: No way.

QUESTION: What are some memories from the one-man tour that you did in March of this year?
MIKU: Well, of course, the lives keep piling up rapidly, but as expected, the final live in Sapporo turned out to be the best live.
TERUKI: We did eight one-mans in a short period of time, and everyone properly reflected on the performances day after day. It was especially great to have PA-san telling me some big things. And each day, he came and reported to me about how we did, and the next day I dealt with those problems. I think it was a satisfying tour.

QUESTION: Please tell us about your upcoming activity.
TERUKI: Well, it was August 2nd at a place called Yoyogi Outdoor Music Hall in Tokyo, and, uh, we did a free one-man. Uh, and it's been decided that we will have a one-man on December 24th Christmas Eve at Shibuya Public Hall.
MIKU: That's awesome, isn't it?
TERUKI: As we move toward this, we are doing our best.

Please give a message to your fans.
BOU: Um, from now on, we'll be moving fast. Um, please pay attention to things like lives and music research. Please keep your eyes on us. Please cheer for us.
TERUKI: Uh, this is true of all the band members and staff too, but I intend to make the relationship we have with the fans very precious. Uh, because we will definitely send back the support you give us by trying hard, please cheer for us again. We will return it again. Please take care of us in the future.
MIKU: I think there are people who don't know Antic Cafe and people who do, but I think that the band called Antic Cafe consider their fans very precious. If you try us out even once, I think you will probably find us interesting. We will deliver fun music so everyone please cheer for us.
KANON: Let's see, people who don't have Christmas plans on December 24th, please come to the Shibuya Public Hall.
TERUKI: Oh!
MIKU: It's a CM (commercial), huh?

TERUKI: We will be giving a signed Antic Cafe poster to the viewers as a present.

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Am gasit si eu interviul asta cu trupa :-)