PS COMPANY PRESENTS SCREW ONEMAN TOUR 2012 "BIRAN NO ORI" at Akasaka BLITZ 2012/04/07

It was a stage SCREW and their fans had long been yearning for, and it was April 7th 2012, that they climbed the stairs to Akasaka BLITZ amidst the cheers of their fans and the heavy beats of the opening SE. Byo was the last to appear and without much of a break SCREW went right into their first track "The Abyss", which was the lead track of their latest album "BIRAN". Powerful chords of Kazuki and Manabu drove the audience to its utmost, firing each and every spectator up and creating mosh pits in the center of the hall. "Come on!!!!" Byo shouted, in between "UNWORLDLINESS KINGOM", where he received vocal support by Rui, while Jin was smashing on his drums, not allowing anyone to rest. Only after "DUALITY", was the audience for a moment able to breath, while listening to the vocalists short MC. "Welcome! It's hot at Akasaka BLITZ. It's the final of this tour, so let's have fun together!" "BRAINSTORM" and "daring driver" kept the up-tempo pace of the previous songs, but held somewhat of a lighter atmosphere, which was just to smashed the next instant, when Byo would scream and growl into his microphone. The fans responded with fist pumps and head banging, shouts and jumps at full power.

"桜と雨 / Sakura to Ame" in contrast opened with a swing rhythm on Jin's part and invited to dance along to the lighter guitar play. Manabu joined Rui, playing back to back, while Kazuki engaged in a splendid solo. Gradually the atmosphere of the live performance turned softer, until it turned deeply emotional for "邪心に爛る子守唄 / Jashin ni Tadareru Komoriuta ". Only the silhouettes of the members could be seen through the hazy lighting on stage, while Rui's bass lines led to the guitars into an emotional solo on Manabu's part. While SCREW were able to steal the audience breath with moments like these, they managed to do it in quite opposite fashion right after with "DEEP SIX" and "TRANCE". All members gathered at the center if the stage, seemingly overlooking the swirl of a mosh pit the audience once again turned out to be. Heads and towels were spun alike during "JELLYFISH" thereafter. "Are you having fun?" Byo asked the question that was nearly unneeded if the reaction of the fans was any indication. "You look really good from here, so let's keep flying higher until the very last moment!!!"

Whispers and screams, growls and fragile guitar solos led through the rest of the main part of the concert, before "VOID..." finished off the set in the same heavy fashion as the gig had started. Of course a tour final demands and encore sand the audience was shouting for it the moment SCREW had left the stage for a second only. Jin and Rui were the first to return to heat up the audience once again with a drum and bass solo, after which they were then joined by the other band members. "Akasaka!!" Jin shouted. "We have been on tour for 12 different performances and until the very last moment I had been wondering what this performance here would be like. And it's fun!!! So let's do this together until the last moment!" "You did well, Blitz." Rui praised the fans. "You look happy and during Jin's solo part you looked especially cute. However, I want the girls to be less cute now and become more boyish! The boys are fine like that." He laughed, hinting at the more aggressive performances that was certain to follow. The member's names were shouted out loudly during "ムラッキーヘビーマーチ" and "スカーレット / SCARLET" let into another MC that held the thoughts the members. Manabu: "It's been a while, Tokyo, and it feels really good to be here. Akasaka BLITZ is a place I connect many memories with. However, this is not the final place for me, as there are still dreams and aims to pursue."

Kazuki: "Soon it will be six years with SCREW and it does feel like a long time as we are now able to stand here. We are very honored that you have supported us until here. It's been a great live today. Thank you very much." Another three songs, led the encore to a finish, but it did not mean the live was over. Once again all members were called out onto the stage, performing one of their signature songs "VEGAS" and eventually it was Byo's turn to convey what had been on his mind and what his fans had been waiting for. Byo: "As this is the tour final of the BIRAN tour there are emotions greater than gratitude within me tonight, towards all those who helped and supported us. It was a great tour and soon SCREW will be six years old, too. There have been many changes and developments in the band and we came here with what we have now. We will keep going further, so I ask you to come along with us. Thank you." Applause filled the hall to Byo's emotional speech, before purple glitter tape exploded over the crowd and SCREW finished with "Dearest Wish." "Your smile is our greatest treasure." Credit : MJP

SCREW Open Official Facebook Page!

While having just celebrated the tour final of their "BIRAN no ORI" Tour on April 7th, SCREW are in the middle of preparing their European Tour, which will start at the end of May this year. For the occasion, the band has now opened its official Facebook page and is of course welcoming all fans to join! The page will be filled with info on the band and certainly info about and from the tour. Please make sure to check the URL below! SCREW Official Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SCREW_Official/432556250091153 Moreover, the application period for SCREW's meet&greet in Europe on their tour is still ongoing, so if you would like to meet the band, make sure to join the GLOBAL PS COMPANY FAN CLUB! Please see the links below for details!

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ARENA37c SPECIAL #73 SCREW - Kazuki x Manabu x Rui Interview

"As a conclusion: I like the members of SCREW (laughs)"
In the last edition, we had been starting the three-volume project featuring SCREW and this time we present you number two with Kazuki, Manabu and Rui. As a special guest Rui's beloved cat Maru-chan also made an appearance and jabbered away.
This issue certainly brings you something usually not seen!

-- Is it OK if we start from where you have met each other?

Kazuki [Rui and I have known each other for a long time already. There was someone we both knew and the first time we talked was probably at a live house.]

-- Had you been in different bands at that time?

Rui [I was in my band and Kazuki was in the band of a friend of mine. It was still at a time, when we were about to or not about to graduate from high school.]

-- So this is how long you have already been acquainted to each other. What has Manabu done at that time?

Manabu [I was probably in Osaka at that time, because only after I finished school I left for Tokyo. The moment I met Kazuki, was by the chance of (forming) SCREW.]

Kazuki [At that time, I really wanted to have another guitarist in the band, so I had been looking for band members and an acquaintance introduced me to Manabu. That was how I met him.]

Manabu [That was about three years ago at this point. It's been about four and a half year since the formation of SCREW, yet, during the first year, I joined the band. As for Rui, I had seen him play in his old band, seen like that I already knew him. The moment I really met him, was when we eventually talked about him joining SCREW.]

-- I see. So what was your first impression of each other?

Manabu [The first time I met Kazuki was at a cafe or so and even though we had just met at that very moment, I let him eat parfait from my spoon, like "aahh"... (laughs)]

-- That's the kind of game you like, Kazuki-kun?

Kazuki [That's more like Byo and Jin. (laughs)]

Manabu [(laughs) At that time, I was a little late to the time I had promised to come, so it was kinda to make up for it. (laughs) That's still what it's like today and it's Kazuki natural self, yet because it was the first face-to-face meeting, the impression still remains strongly. (laughs) Rui on the other hand I sort of knew. In the band he previously played, his hair was really long and completely red and I thought that he was a very scary person. Yet, when I actually met him, I noticed that he wasn't scary at all and actually there was this gap of his, being a really gentle fellow.]

Kazuki [My first impression of Manabu was, that he had a very cool aura, a high school student that looked like someone who'd not get into a circle of friends without resistance. And he was someone who drinks a lot of coffee (laughs).]

-- Even though he is pale like that.

Manabu [But that has DEFINITELY nothing to do with it right?]

All [That was drastic! (outburst of laughter)]

-- It's a bit of a random image, but I think he is more of the tea-type person.

Kazuki [Certainly. (laughs) However, sometimes Manabu has this kind of stern preciseness coming through now and then. (laughs) My first impression of Rui...I can't remember how I first met him, so I can't remember the first impression. (laughs) However, before he joined SCREW there was this shocking "mew".]

--- M..mew?

Kazuki [Yes. (laughs) There was a time, when he was in a rather cute band.]

Manabu [Yes, yes! Honestly, I was also a little surprised about this "mew". From the first band I knew him, he was in an extremely heavy band, being sort of a sadistic bassist, but that was an extreme metamorphosis.]

Rui [Ahahaahaha! Well, that's been part of my personal history. (laughs) I have a lot experienced in my life.]

-- Incredible, that really must be the utmost gap in his aura.

Kazuki [That's certainly one of the great points about Rui. Yet, in that aspect I too, thought he was a very unapproachable person, because he had left a scary impression. But actually he is really fluffy.]

Rui [ahahahaha (laughs) My first impression of Kazuki was, that he was a very correct person, when concerning etiquette. As for Manabu, he seemed to be a serious person you wouldn't be able to make laugh even with a joke. He is actually a very shy person, and in the beginning we didn't talk very much.]

Manabu [We didn't. Jin is also someone who is rather shy in front of others, yet, he is sort of a different type. (laughs) Therefore, at the beginning, Jin and I really didn't talk very much overall. Yet, with Rui it was kinda a natural opening up to him, because he really broke down that wall.]

Kazuki [All members except Rui were facing a number of worries, when our previous bassist quit. He possessed the strength to overcome this trouble of those four of us, which meant, that with Rui joining the band and with five members as a whole again, it was a new start and a make-over of those feelings. We got the positive feeling that we can continue from there on.]

Manabu [Since the quitting of a members is always a big thing for a band, he has saved us with a very good atmosphere. With Rui entering the band, we were once more able to look ahead positively.]

Rui [However, it was also thanks to the four of them, who created a very good atmosphere to actually enter the band. I thought that I can work hard with these four people and that I really wanted to give my best with them together. Honestly.]

-- You really do have a great relationship. Do you know the part of you which resemble each other or which are not alike at all?

Manabu [Me and Kazuki are complete opposites in character, I think. Kazuki is really social and outgoing, while I am completely introverted.]

Kazuki [Yes, exactly. However, that also shows in the guitar-play as such. (laughs)]

Manabu [Yeah. And on a musical basis as much as usual, Kazuki is certainly the one, who has a lot of overlapping opinions, it's really mysterious. From my perspective Kazuki and Rui have very many friends, they are very sociable and close, it seems.]

Kazuki [That's because the other three (Byo, Jin, Manabu) are not very sociable in general. (laughs) They are all shy boys.]

Rui [Yet, when you get to know the three of them, they are not like that at all! (laughs) It just takes a lot of time to get there eventually.]

Kazuki [Yeah. Uhm...can I have some of that? (He says and takes some of the rice omelets, which Manabu had ordered)]

Manabu [Go ahead. It's really good.]

Rui [This is really what it's always like. (laughs)]

-- So what is your favorite type of girls? Ah, but wait, came I try to guess?

Manabu [Yes, please try to guess it DEFINITELY.]

Rui [He's said "definitely" again. (laughs)]

Kazuki [That "definitely" was the sort of challenging in the way that "If you think you can do it then do it!" (laughs)]

Manabu [No, I thought it was interesting. Like, how are you looking at it, kinda?]

-- Of course. (laughs) Rui is the one would likes the little sister type to spoil. Kazuki likes the more grown up type, the beautiful girls with soft curled hair. And Manabu is into the friend-like, natural kind of girls. Right?

Kazuki [For me it was correct. However, I have a rather wide ranging taste, so I like the cute-type as much as the beautiful-type. But not just from the looks. More that I get never tired of being together and girls with a good “mood” are nice. So when it comes to the type, I'd pass that on to Manabu. (heart)]

Manabu [Huh?? Let's not go there! For me the "strike zone" (strike as in bowling) is pretty wide. It could be anyone from 14 to 40 years. (laughs) I am not very particular about the looks, but someone I can have a good time with when being together, would be nice....just like Rui.]

Rui [Huh?? That's the way things are moving on? (laughs) Well, certainly a good flow. (laughs)]

Kazuki [Hey! If Rui now chooses me, then we complete this triangle relationship.]

Rui [Well, then that's what I am going to do. (laughs) It is like that, actually. Someone I can share my hobbies with would be nice. Someone who is cute, which is yet not necessarily obvious. (laughs) So when referring to that, I'd go with Ka-chan. (heart)]

Kazuki [Great, triangle relationship complete. (great excitement)]

Manabu [That's probably nothing to be THAT happy about. (determined) ]

Rui [Ahahahahahah, there he goes again all "determinedly."]

-- Well, then what are your ambitions from here on.

Kazuki [I hope we can incorporate into the sound what SCREW is like with these new five members. We have started again from zero with Rui joining and I think that within this one year we need approval by a number of people, starting out with the fans, therefore, we can do nothing but work hard.]

Rui [I think we can make good music with the incredible relationship of ours. Since Kazuki as the leader is pulling us along, I hope that we can build this into the sound of the new band SCREW together as five people. (At that instant Kazuki passes him 10Yen, much like the bride for his praise.)]

Manabu [This is something very personal; however to me Kazuki is really a very "humane" person. As a leader, he is working extremely hard, and while he is dragging us all along with him, he also has this taste to himself, that he is not perfect. With that at the heart of it, he always wants us to support him, while he also supports all of us with this feeling we share. And I think that this feeling of a band's relationship definitely reflects in the sound. In that sense, just like the other two said, with the five of us, who we are now, the sound changes and I hope the band SCREW will be even better from here on. (That said, Kazuki hands him 50Yen. laughs)]

Rui [Oh! That's 40Yen more than me!]

Kazuki [Ahahahaha! In the end it became this sort of incredible interview, sorry about that. (laughs)]
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ROCK AND READ 023 – Interview with Kazuki of SCREW

Firstly, please tell us where you were born.
★I was born and raised in Tottori’s mountain recesses, and when I was small I was really cute or so my mom says. As I as a bad child, I occasionally had lower grades in primary school and to my classmates I said such things as “It’s because you have to call me Kazuki-sama” and also “If you don’t call me by that name then our friendship is over”. Well, I am a person that helps people get to their feet, so all they had to do was say “Kazuki-sama” as if they were crying. Replacing my heart from there, I became a good child (laughs)

Generally a brat?
★Yeah, I was pretty much the biggest brat.

Was it like that around the time of kindergarten?
★The time around kindergarten, I almost don’t remember anything. But I remember coming to class as showing a girl’s underwear……

So maybe that beginning of life is a memory?
★……you could say that (laughs). It gives an awful impact for the event, but I didn’t put the underwear on or anything. Though I remember giving up to display the skirt, it’s a really intense memory.

Surely that is intense.
★Even now I’ll recall that moment. I went out with that girl in middle school, she’d say “We’ve known each other since kindergarten, haven’t we. And you still won’t come [to my house]?”, so I would say “I can’t do such things. I don’t care.” (laughs)

The time around primary school?
★I was doing tennis. For about 4 years of primary school I began it regularly.

You began tennis on chance?
★I have 2 older brothers, and both of them did tennis. At home is a beauty room, but my parents wanted my to do sports, so I did a little of it at the time. That stream, I also began to do it [more].

So just by yourself, you wanted to do tennis?
★That’s right. My elder brother was very good at it. With that I got better at tennis, and a few times I had become Japan’s best*. At that kind of level, I was small and longing to be like “awesome brother”. However, when I first started tennis I was really happy.

How long did Kazuki-kun do this?
★During the time of primary school there was this national athletic meeting that I went to, and the prize was never taken. Around the first year of middle school, so things like “Kazuki has his brother’s talent, keep at it” were said but in the end I stopped playing. If I continued, I probably would’ve been in an article about tennis players (laughs)

So no more than with utmost effort, you didn’t do anything but tennis in primary school?
★Tennis was really my life then. Though I studied as usual, at the time of recess I would have a racket [and hit the ball against] the wall. If class finished, I’d go do it at the school’s court and play tennis, so tennis really effected me.

Well, weren’t you popular?
★That’s right! In those days, I think I had the best life. I had a cool brother that had a fan club at another school. So I was really noisy and all in hopes of achieving that. Eventually, I didn’t get a fan club but the people from the other school said “Let’s be friends”. Also with Valentines chocolate, I’d get it from [girls of] my school, and a lot from the other school. And now I think I get more than ever (laughs).

How old is your brother?
★I have 2, so the oldest is 5 years older than me, and the second is 4 years older than me. They both played tennis.

It’s like you’re tennis siblings.
★My first year, we were the 3 brothers that were raised [playing] tennis. I think mom and dad thought “It’s good to raise you this way~”.

Did you have a good relationship with your older brother?
★It was a good relationship. But for the oldest one, when I was in my 2nd year of primary school it wasn’t until I was a junior high school student, and I had went to a school in another prefecture and graduated there with tennis, so I don’t really have memories playing with him. My second brother I played with a lot, and met neck to neck at tennis a lot so our relationship was good.

And your parents?
★As a child, it was a good relationship. Everyone played tennis very hard, and so growing up quickly, we became closer on a grand scale…… or so I think that’s what it is in my memories. Actually, I preferred playing with my brothers but somehow I was the one that only left [the house].

So you took that as a chance to stop tennis?
★Well I stopped tennis, but my excuse for stopping is because I’m not good with socializing so I wanted to start on that more. To say that it’s typical, I made friends with a senior, and so with tennis I began to slack off. I didn’t go to practice, and the advisor started saying “Do you have any interest in this? In what way?” and so I ended up not seeing the advisor anymore. After that was a bit of a naughty time that I rushed into, but at that time I was thinking of stopping tennis like “I wasn’t able to play tennis anyway”.

So you stopped out of feeling?
★Yes. From that time, my Dark Ages began.

So under the good people, why did you make friends [with your senior]?
★Basically, my senior was a graduate from the school. It was in the middle that he was my brother’s classmate, and so my senior, and I used to drop by [my brother's class]. My brother was really serious but that person wasn’t a good one, so that senior and I became friends, and from then on the darkness began.

What about study?
★From the 2nd year of junior high I didn’t do anything.

But you did it in primary school?
★For my 1st year I was doing my best, since I think I got relatively good results then. But in my 2nd year it was almost nothing. Nowadays the good manager says “your head is unskilled!” and “I don’t know Sinology“, since they don’t think I studied flat-out in school. However, for Christmas I always get the Sinology Drill (laughs).

So why was it a dark time with your parents, Kazuki-kun?
★I desperately was made to reform my life. “You do things this way” was given to me to teach, but the parental advice of puberty, I resisted it. As a child I said “I won’t obey you, you can’t make me”. And also “I’ll do as I want”. I couldn’t do anything (laughs).

Did you like things at that time?
★I had in interest in bikes, and my senior gave me a ride and taught me how to ride one in a parking lot.

So you weren’t interested in music then?
★I was after that. My senior is from a different neighborhood and he’d say things like “Why do you like bikes? Come riding with me”, and so I’d get on and we’d go to his place to play. That person played guitar and I thought “Oh, that’s cool!” and so I began playing bass.

You thought guitar was cool but you began to play bass?
★For some reason the atmosphere was like “Let’s start a band”. I didn’t have an amp at the time, and so no band and it was like “We’ll join it together”*. We’d do it at my senior’s house, and he’d say things like “You, play the bass”.
[*Usually guitar amps are made for guitar and guitar only (same for bass) but there are a few that can play both instruments. You just have to put it in the different input jacks, and the bass would likely go on the higher one to hear and keep up the rhythm.]

So you didn’t know there was a difference between bass and guitar?
★ Not at all (laughs). In a magazine was Sex Machine Gun’s bass player NOISY-san (in those days), and I was reading that he said “I think it’s a simple thing to begin and learn that guitars have 6 strings but bass have only 4″ and so I thought, ah I see. But there wasn’t really anything I wanted to do, since I merely wanted to go have fun with my senior.

What did you do at that time?
★At the very beginning, LUNA SEA’s “MECHANICAL DANCE”. I has a bass solo in the middle, so I have a memory of playing that solo for the first time. To some extent I had hoped that I could play it [perfectly], but I played X and Halloween and Gamma Ray instead. I did those 3 at the time.

It’s metal isn’t it. So you were listening to their music?
★No. The ones I listened to were SPITZ, Mr. Children and Imai Miki. But while with my senior it was metal, so gradually I ended up listening to it. Of course, I had a feeling of wanting to become that good [at playing], so I started listening to metal myself.

And what about tennis at that time?
★I already stopped. My 3rd year of middle school, I wasn’t going to school. I didn’t go to school since I was with my senior and playing bass. Which reminds me, my parents, it raised a problem each time I got to buy something. I think they probably wanted to make me reform myself, but I got advice from various people. Also it raised a problem in school, “come for awhile!” and so for one week I actually attended. During that time, I was given an invite that said “we’ll go shopping” and what I wanted to buy the most was an instrument.

Each time was difficult, but your collection is increasing!? (laughs)
★Each time was difficult, but they were very kind about it. It’s my parents’ love.

So you knew of that parental love?
★I didn’t at that time. And also at that time I didn’t eat dinner with them, so we weren’t able to talk. I was always alone in my room, and I’d go out with my senior. During middle school [his house was a] short distance from mine, so it was like we had a gathering point. That sort of time, my parents were really gentle and connecting. Of course I’d get mad and end up fighting with my dad, but thinking back now I have very strong and gentle memories [of them].

Were your brothers peevish to you as a younger brother?
★I was the one sulking, since my older brothers went to another prefecture and did tennis there. So in my house I’d swagger around freely. But during summer vacation my brothers would come back, especially my eldest brother who had a horrible temper. An absurd muscle man that returned and got angry. But at the time when my brother came back, I wouldn’t come home as much as possible. At that time my dad said things like “saying that is useless, you’ll see the circumstances soon”, but my brother came back and I said “Hey don’t make our parents cry” and I’d get a harsh scolding. And he lied about that situation by saying “I didn’t.”

So he made a mistake in his answer.
★At first he could only say “Isn’t it because of the connection”. So, each time my brother came back it got more scary and frightening, it couldn’t be helped.

And so the result didn’t change?
★Yeah. At the time of my parents’ home, it didn’t mean I behaved like a spoiled brat. So I think I could only do what I could.

Around your 3rd year, you didn’t go to school?
Even then it was compulsory education, and I’d be near school and say “I won’t turn up”. Once, after school a friend and I went on a ferry. Then a teacher and everyone would come and they said “Why did you go for”. It seemed like “It’s none of your business. But we’ll go soon” (laughs). The high school principal came too, we were actually surprised.

Were the teachers afraid?
★They were afraid, but came loose. It was only one close part for about 5 people and they didn’t say anything, and so I went to the junior classroom and the atmosphere was something like “Ah, I really came here. What to do”. I was an idiot, now that I think about it. But I was trying to appear smart.

What about senior high school?
For senior high school, at first I didn’t have any motivation to go. At that time I was thinking of wanting to do a full-blown regular band. But even if I did have a band in my parents’ home I had thought it’d be nonsense, so going out for Tottori I was thinking of relying on myself. Everyone was nearing finishing middle school and thinking of things like “Where will I go for senior high?” though I wouldn’t say things like that. To me, everyone that went to high school was an idiot (laughs). Though, I was thinking that my wish of starting a band would come true. Speaking my mind to the teacher, they said “You won’t get into senior high”. It was a feeling like “I don’t plan to go anywhere”.

You thought you had a chance to start a regular band?
★On TV I was watching a VK band, and thinking that they were cool I took the chance to start one. After that, I spent a day in my room to spray my hair and only listened to VK songs. Because of that, I didn’t think I’d ever leave Tottori. I wanted to move out of the house so much at the time.

You didn’t do any bands or lives?
★At that time in the house, I was pounding the drums and had a small 10 watt amp. Though I couldn’t do lives, I stood on stage in my 3rd year of middle school at the culture festival. We played Sex Machine Gun’s “Mikan no Uta”. Somehow at that time I said “I’ll play guitar” and so I played it. It was a suitable solo. There was no way I could play [the actual one] (laughs).

What kind of feeling was it?
★It was a good feeling. I wasn’t able to imitate the solo with my right hand, but I did it in the middle of the stage. It was fun.

But at the time of your 3rd year, your teacher had already said “you won’t get into high school”?
★Because it was the culture festival there didn’t seem to be a relation. I couldn’t help it not coming to class late? While going through the corridor from the gymnasium to the classroom, it seemed that I wouldn’t go at all (laughs). But I think the teacher actually said I wasn’t a bad person……

So what did you do after graduation of middle school?
★I went to Osaka. Both my brothers remained in Tokyo, so not everyone was wanting to move to Osaka. Because I was 15 I wasn’t of age, but at the beginning I moved with my parents*. At that time with my parents help it was like “You’ll like this experience”. Deciding to only live in that place, it was by chance. At first my room was empty. On a futon, TV and bass.
[*he means that they helped him move there]

By what means were you thinking of living there?
★I was thinking if I was living there then I’d get something like a part-time job. There was a lot of light riding (laughs). I was found working at restaurants, but the first day there I was late. It was only because I slept in late, but while they were angry their necks were getting red I’d say “I made a mistake and came to the [train] station late. I’m sorry, it’s my first time in Osaka”.

So you began a band then?
★With my senior and starting music, it was after I came to Osaka that I went to a music store to see leaflets to see if there were any for recruiting members. But I thought the [bands were] left unpaid at first. So for that time being I worked! I thought that working for 6 weeks, my senior and I could basically live at the music store then.

You always did a band with that senior?
★No, it’s not really that kind of thing to joke about. The result was that we didn’t do one.

So Kazuki-kun didn’t go to Osaka to start a band with his senior?
★No. He came to Osaka to get into university. He was a person that really loved bikes and guitars.

So how long did you continue living that sort of life?
★I guess for about 7 months. But I didn’t get money. Mom sent the money to me, and I had planned to cook for myself but…… somehow I guess it was unbearable? I had thought many times that I was a burden. Since I did buy a lot of equipment.

So you practiced?
★I did but…… I’d play bass after coming back from work, and I’d play a little guitar too although I was really worn out and did lie down then. On the way I had thought “What the hell did I come to Osaka for?”. Because I was living by myself in Osaka, I understood my parents’ blessing to me. Then I thought “What have I been doing until now?”. After that I tried not to worry as much as possible.

So when they visited your life changed?
★My senior at work, he was a person that liked VK. This person was a roadie for an Osaka-based band. Because of that he invited me by saying “Let’s do it together”.

So you weren’t in a band, but started as a roadie?
★Yes. I hadn’t decided to be in a band, and I didn’t know anything of roadies then, but for that time being I thought I’d try it out. That person said “Being a roadie is useful”, in a way like it was a good experience for the world, I think. And because of that I began [being a roadie]…… I was really random (laughs).

What kind of things did you do?
★Things for the equipment, all the staff-like things too. Insertions (handing out leaflets), and it was also things like shopping for the person. But the main thing was the equipment on stage. So I remembered the [settings of] the equipment. I think it was exactly that time I really stuck with guitar.

Why was it that time that you thought of it?
★I met a very skilled senior. I met my senior that went to university, but the people of the Paul Gilbert group said things like “You’re great”, and I didn’t really know anything but it was skillful. Watching that person, I thought “I have no choice but the guitar”.

So you thought of it while watching that person play guitar?
★That’s right. I was so shocked and thought “How can you do such things [on guitar]?”. Little by little at that time I would play guitar, and I think it was since then I found the guitar interesting.

So being a roadie became a good experience?
★It was very useful. I followed with a whole-country tour, and I got a lot of experience. At first it was all fresh, and then seeing things I was deeply moved by them and was like “Aa, so these two things are like this”. The equipment van for the tour, my seat was on them (laughs).

It seems that your back would get sore (laughs)
★It was painful at that time. On the contrary it was quite fun. But it’d be scary if I got angry (laughs).

So you did work?
★I did. But since I was busy I couldn’t do it all the time. For about 2 months I didn’t go to a single day of work, and so I’d call mom and say “I’m sorry mom. Can you pay the rent?”.

Your parents are good, aren’t they.
★It really seems that way. I can do things freely, and it’s thanks to my parents I am who I am now, at that time I had thought deeply. Because of that, I received 43,000 yen to pay the rent.

So it seems that you studied being a roadie, so you weren’t able to do band activities?
★The time that I began as a roadie, I promised myself “I’ll stay on for 1 year” and after that I was thinking about starting my own band. I said “I have many side-to-side connections”, and so for a year as a roadie I continued to do my best. And then just after a year, that band broke up.

And because of that you started a band?
★Yes. Me being a roadie and going on tour to Tokyo, of course I had thought that the band would reach to Tokyo [before breaking up]. And then graduating as a roadie I went out to be different.

Again it was random?
★No. This time I was with a vocal roadie, and so we started a band and he was always with his younger brother so it was us 3. That was when it was random, that we had 1 member right before us. We lived together in Chiba, but the rent was 16,000 for 1 person. And then we began a lot of band activities.

At last you started?
★Yes. Because of that, being members with the vocalist we went to see lives and at once we got 3 members. They were exactly for the opposite side [of the stage] too, guitar, bass and even drums, and we already had a vocals, a guitar and keyboard. And because of that combination, we were Clover.

What kind of band were you guys?
★I’ll say one word: Utamono*. We were considering the melody so seriously, since we were a fresh band. We’d wear over-the-top makeup and costumes not similar to other bands, and I thought of becoming a band that was just about music.
[*Utamono - one word in Japanese, but the translation for this would be "classical Japanese poetry". Think... IRODORI or Kagrra,? XD]

And little by little the metal influence of music came, didn’t it.
★That’s right. At first with metal, it was very much like VK to be doing [such songs], so from there we did soft visual. While I was a roadie there was plans for magazines, it was a good plan [for the band] to take pictures of their roadies. At that time, my mouth was covered in blood so it was really visual. We used fake blood (laughs). But there were various events for the band, so I think that the cool utamono band began then, and I think with the vocalist we said “I’ll absolutely do utamono”, and with my nature we did an utamono band.

What kind of activities did Clover do?
★If I think about it, it was that thing, making way of what we thought (laughs). I think now that we weren’t really aiming on getting big. Before the band I hadn’t made a single song. All the songs I made were rejected. Though I did my best making them utamono, they were no good. With the exception of me, an experienced person with bands, or so that’s what someone said about me in the beginning. But it was fun. I went for one thing and it was fun, so I was cheerful and was like “Ah, so now I’m on tour♪”

Were the lives good?
★Where we performed was away from perfection (laughs). The first band’s live, opposite to [our van was] D’s van. We were really happy, being able to play at AREA. But the guest seating at the other lives were somewhat lonely, although we were knowing of the reality. At that time I had thought senior roadies were really cool. And now I can go try on the world that’s relentless; it was a feeling that sank deeply into my mind.

How long did Clover do activities for?
★For about a year. We did 2~3 tours, and organizing 1. We weren’t able to do a one-man. And the for the first time we had recording experience, we were thinking of various things while recording.

Considering Clover’s activities, how were you thinking it to be?
★Honestly saying this, I was thinking that perhaps I could get better. I had thought that it was a cold world (laughs). But that time with a live video, it was embarrassing that I didn’t see it. I was intending to play so well, but I could only stand there and play [guitar] like it was out of fashion. It was only the rhythm that moved around. After looking they said “What are you doing? It’s like you’re in the studio?” and as myself I wanted to do something about it. The stage-left guitar is a person that moves a lot, and I seemed like a stage-right guitarist that just silently played. But playing as still person wasn’t my plan.

What was the cause of the breakup?
★Before the vocalist quit, the remaining 4 went out seemingly looking for a new vocalist. But we couldn’t find anyone so we continued doing lives without one, though our motivation was falling. Someone said “This isn’t the right time?”, and so we disbanded. We quickly organized a last live and even got the vocalist to come, so it was the last for us 5 together.

And after that?
★I continued my part-time job. It seemed that I wasn’t thinking of a new band, but slowly I did get that feeling.

So I guess you met a feeling of fire?
★I didn’t catch the fire, because I felt I couldn’t do anything. I came to Clover around a time that it was very new to me, and so I didn’t think of replacing it with a new band. A lot of people were calling out to me for session bands, so for a little while I did both work and sessions. That was the time I got to meet SCREW.

So with that mind you did it?
★I had met Byou before. At that time, he had disbanded from Joker, and made a new band. Yuuto was already there, and once we talked at a session. At the beginning I used the session for my own convenience, but I saw the members in my free time with any chance. Then I found that Byou and Yuuto were quite cool, so I was surprised how popular they were. Their aura is different. Well, those 2 and I were pleased when we watched the session, and so we came together. The makeup for Clover was light, and so they said to me “We’ll make your look darker” and that wasn’t even it for the live, they said “We’ll all do it for the lives” (laughs). It all began from there.

So before that you were doing a session band, were you thinking of making a new band?
★I was barely thinking of wanting to look for members, and I wanted to do simple lives. Before, I got an invitation from a senior but I rejected it (laughs). For a moment it was a cruel thing [to do], like “We decided on THIS day”. It wasn’t “We’ll do this”, so it was always those days. But he was a good senior, they did fun sessions.

Because of that SCREW started.
★Yes. Somehow the beginning was a great impact, and our fighting spirits settled in greatly. Clover’s vocals didn’t look at things from the outside, but Byou thought and looked at things like “This person is great”. But that wasn’t [the reason] for Clover wanting to break up, it was actually that we wanted to do our best. Though since meeting by chance, SCREW began [activities] not long after [the breakup] and I think it was about half a year [later that we started]. At that time our drummer Jin joined officially, and for about 1 month we prepared and started as a session band.

So SCREW is the first time for Kazuki-kun where it’s the music he likes.
★Isn’t it. I guess it was turning back to the start of music. I couldn’t head bang [and play guitar at the same time] until we did that live (laughs). Byou is saying “Head bang” and while playing I’d shake my head as if in denial for practice. The music stirred up the most of it, though it was good that none of us had cut our hair then.

So there were a lot of fresh things to do.
★They were wonderful things. Somehow there was a popular pair each time a live came our way. Everyone would get excited seeing those people, it was a feeling like “What is this!?” and “The live is so good”. Though I didn’t see all the guests [while on stage], they were head banding so it felt really good. The ones that I saw head banging, they were doing if since it was their first time. It was an amazing mobilization, so I thought “This session is so cool” (laughs).

So that kind of mobilization was great?
★We always had about 100 people that came. Because of that me and Jin-chan said things like “We’re probably not useful, but it’s good right?”.

SCREW’s first live was a one-man wasn’t it?
★That’s right. Before that secret there were about 15 lives that we were doing. Our first live was 23/04/2006, but for the one-man we were making the amount of songs needed for it, and in March there were a lot of secrets that came and the lives would finish before everyone could hold hands at the end and jump. Because they were secret [lives], we didn’t have our regulars all the time. We had a premonition of beginning something, and I think everyone was happy with it (laughs).

So for Kazuki-kun, SCREW’s first one-man was a birth one-man?
★Yes. We did the best we could. I saw the one-man video and thought it was horrible. It was an awful performance, though we’ve had a severe change. But everyone is lively. Well, everyone is young (laughs).

As for your own impressions?
★I didn’t realize that I didn’t do well. Though we played 10 songs, I don’t remember what I was actually playing. I didn’t have any self-confidence at that time. It was good that we had a lot of guests but I didn’t really look at the guest seating then.

And thinking of that time, you felt that you’ve grown?
★Yes. Next year will be SCREW’s 3rd year, even though we haven’t grown very much (laughs). SCREW plays negative things, turning our backs to things, though now I think it’s become positive.

Why did it become a negative band?
★We came up with imagining the band’s progress, so then it wasn’t all so different. Mobilization and a problem of mathematics came about. We thought that such music was useless. As a matter of fact, just recently it’s that kind of thing that’s negative that we’re not going to worry about. But now it’s about our pace, step by step and walking in a sexy way, so we think it’s good that it’ll be this way. But now and then, we weren’t looking. Though I think that the other members have a lot of thoughts too, but now I think we’re all going for one target.

So it looks that you’re doing well, but you had a time of worry didn’t you.
★I did. I wasn’t thinking about anything else but worry, and as I was performing I was bearing it. So, for SCREW’s lives, from the stage there was probably a negative aura radiating.

That’s from Kazuki-kun alone?
★I think it was from each person, but the members weren’t thinking of similar things. What we were doing was already going badly, and it was unsuccessful struggling out of it. But now there is none of that.

So you surpassed it, but what was your reason for it?
★Me and the members say to be positive comes with feeling, so there are a lot of new things like challenges that come, and I think it’s good that we’re tied together this way. So, everyone is thinking flat-out I guess (laughs). Before stepping into this office [for the interview], I think there was a part [of me] as a child. Thinking of it now, I was thinking of things like “I wonder if I should bother worrying if this is going to be really serious?”. I didn’t think of anything, only doing lives. But there were a lot of people speaking, and though we don’t think of the seriousness, I think some seriousness came about it. You had met the former seriousness, but that seriousness was easy-going wasn’t it. Recently it’s doing things precisely while before it was we won’t advance and won’t think of anything. The band’s current status and situation is great, and I think that the band wants to do their best in their power

Interview With ScReW

One day before Jrock Invasion we got the opportunity to make an interview with SCREW, a relatively young Visual Kei Band, who performed at the Rock Identity Event Jrock Invasion in Germany. The five musicians - all in bulky jackets - and apparently a little battered from the long flight greeted us friendly in one of the backstage rooms in the Palladium of Cologne.

Hello. Please introduce yourself to our readers!
Jin: I am the drummer of the band, Jin.
Yuuto: I am Yuuto, the bassist.
Manabu: My name is Manabu and I am guitarist.
Kazuki: I am a guitarist aswell and my name is Kazuki.
Byou: I am the vocalist, Byou.

You are in germany for the first time. Which impressions could you gather and what do you think about Germany?

Jin: I have heard beforehand that Germany is great and that the german fans are generally in a good mood. I like that and I hope it will be proven true tomorrow!
Yuuto: I have only seen Cologne so far, for me the city is beautiful - like from a movie.
Manabu: Since I have arrived at the airport, I feel that the air here is kinda different.
Kazuki: I have heard that in Germany, it is very cold. But personally, I find the climate very pleasant.
Byou: I think the germans are very good at soccer. *laughs*

Tomorrow you will be performing at Jrock Invasion. What are you expectations?

Jin: I would be pleased if we could enthuse the fans.
Yuuto: When I perform in Japan, it is more of a matter of the head. Here one is so close to the fans, I think that's great.
Manabu: I think the german fans react and feel different that the fans in Japan. I am really curious about how the fans will accept us, what it will be emotion-wise.
Kazuki: Tomorrow we will play together with bands who are above us, so to speak. Especially because of this, we would like to show our abilities and deliver a good show.
Byou: We want to - especially as a japanese Band - leave an impression with our performance.

Manabu, you are a regular member of SCREW since May 2007. Have you settled in well?

Manabu: I am really happy to be a member of this band. It is a beautiful thing and it is a lot of fun.

Which meaning does the name "SCREW" have?

Byou: I'm not quite fond of things that are 'straight forward', I prefer things were you need to use your head and think. Screw means Screw translated, and as a listener, you have got to occupy yourself with us, to 'screw yourself in' and we as a band want to screw us into the hearts of our fans with our music *smiles*

How did you meet each other?

Yuuto: Well, me and Byou have done music together before, Kazuki was introduced to us through acquaintances and we immediately thought that he would fit to us. We met Jin on the Internet *laughs*, we thought he was cool and he fit to us, Manabu then was also introduced to us personally through a friend and then joined us.

Byou and Yuuto, so you have been together in a band before. How come you are in a band together again?

Yuuto: In between, I made music with other people too but I realized that Byou and me fit together best. It is most fun with him, additionally, together we achieve the best results musically and take advantage of this.

You are a relatively young band and already have the chance to perform abroad. What do you think about that?

Jin: When we got to know about this, we were very astonished, precisely because we are a young band. We never would have expected that but this chance has made us very ambitious - we definitely want to deliver a good show and not 'loose' to the other bands.

I heard that your stage performance is very interesting. How does it distinguish?

Jin: Our songs are very hard on the one hand, but they also contain beautiful melodies. We try our best to convey this interplay on stage aswell.

Byou, you were a roadie for the band kagerou and said once that the vocalist Daisuke is your role model. Why?

Byou: Yes. I learnt a lot through him, he was kind of a teacher for me. His influence has definitely heavily influenced me.

Different music styles do influence your music. Do you decide beforehand in which direction a song should go or does it happen spontaneously?

Kazuki: Byou usually allows and sets up a structure and tells us how he imagines a song. The rest of the band then creates a certain image on this base how we like it. So we actually decide beforehand in which direction the speficic song should go and what kind of topic it has got.

Has the joining of the Label Indie PSC helped your career in your opinion?
(the band shortly confers with each other and the manager)

Byou: First the band was pushed a lot, of course. Additionally, Manabu joined us, and the band grew, he really is an enrichment for us. So it was a positive decision which definitely helped us.

Why did you only play Secret Lives at first?

Byou: We wanted to see what it is like to perform with four people at that time. We had to approach slowly to the whole thing and that is why everything happened secretly *laughs*

Do you have a certain kind of message which you want to convey in your songs?

Yuuto: We do not have a special message, it always depends on the song we play. The listener has to let our music sink in and then decide for themselves which message he sees in it.

How did you get into Visual Kei and fascinates you about it?

Jin: I was mainly influenced by X Japan and my passion for music got me into Visual Kei. This band has definitely thrilled me.
Yuuto: What really like about Visual Kei is that in this scene there are different styles of music. There are pop bands, very hard bands and very different melodic bands. I like this variety.
Manabu: I got hooked by the whole package in particular, especially the exceptional style.
Kazuki: I can only associate with that. The style really fascinated me, additionally I was influenced very much through my older friends who were interested in this style and the music and they finally got me into it.
Byou: God told me to follow the Visual Kei *laughs*

And what kind of music do you listen to private?
SCREW: Mainly Slipknot and Radiohead. But we often listen to our own music privately!

Do you have any ambitions as a band for the future?

Jin: We want to evolve as a band and be successful.
Yuuto: We do not want to perform in germany alone but wish to play our music everywhere in the world.
Manabu: We want to become successful step by step and improve music-wise.
Kazuki: I think one should set a goal at a time, reach this and then set a new, higher goal. Currently I am looking forward to tomorrow and see this performance as a goal. After that I will search for a higher goal!
Byou: We would like to do a oneman tour in germany.

Do you have got a final message to our readers?

Jin: I hope you will get to know SCREW better and that we will please you.
Yuuto: We want to become a famous japanese band and we would be happy if the readers of JaMe would support us in this matter.
Manabu: I'd also be happy if our popularity would increase with the help of the readers. Thanks!
Kazuki: We definitely want to come back to germany and hope for your support!
Byou: I would be happy about new friends. *laughs*

Wawancara setelah SCREW TV SHOW Vol.1

Hari ini adalah hari 'SCREW TV SHOW Vol.2' disiarkan.
Apakah kalian siap?

Sebelum acara dimulai, mari kita baca komentar personil SCREW setelah 'SCREW TV SHOW Vol.1'!

Para personil SCREW juga menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang tidak sempat dijawab saat 'SCREW TV SHOW Vol.1'.

Sementara para staff bersiap-siap untuk 'SCREW TV SHOW Vol.2', nikmati artikel ini dan juga laporan backstage dari siaran pertama!

Informasi mengenai program hari ini akan diberikan pada akhir artikel ini, jadi pastikan kalian membacanya juga!

＜Komentar mengenai 'SCREW TV SHOW Vol.1'＞
―Terima kasih sudah tampil di 'SCREW TV SHOW Vol.1'. Bagaimana perasaan kalian?

Jin: Sebelum acara dimulai, entah kenapa saya merasa gugup. Namun ketika siaran berlangsung, saya sangat bersemangat ketika saya berpikir berapa banyak orang sedang menyaksikan kami.

Manabu: Saya sedikit takut ketika saya melihat semua staff dan peralatan di dalam studio...tapi saya juga merasa kalau saya ingin tampil lagi! Program TV internet benar-benar luar biasa. Orang-orang dari seluruh penjuru dunia sedang menyaksikan kamu (tertawa). Saya ingin banyak dan banyak orang lagi menyaksikan kami.

Rui: Saya tidak terbiasa tampil di TV live, jadi saya tidak tahu ke arah mana saya harus melihat ketika berbicara... masih banyak hal yang saya harus belajar. Namun karena ini adalah kesempatan yang bagus, saya harap saya dapat menikmatinya di lain waktu.

Kazuki: Ini adalah siaran pertama kami, jadi kadang-kadang saya tidak tahu apa yang harus saya lakukan. Namun saya menikmatinya juga. Kami dapat berinteraksi baik dengan fans yang berada di Jepang maupun yang berada di luar negeri, dan saya merasa kalau itu sangatlah keren. Lain kali, saya akan berusaha untuk lebih santai sedikit jadi saya dapat berinteraksi lebih banyak lagi dengan fans kami!

―Byo-san, bagaimana menurutmu?

Byo: Saya sangat gugup. Namun sangatlah menyenangkan untuk tampil di TV (tertawa).

―Oh begitu. (tertawa) Sudah diumumkan kalau akan ada siaran kedua. Saya yakin banyak fans tidak sabar untuk menyaksikannya. Kami yakin itu akan menjadi acara yang menyenangkan!

Byo: Kami akan berusaha sebaik mungkin.

＜Sisa pertanyaan dari Wawancara selama SCREW TV SHOW Vol.1＞

Untuk Byo

Q. Ketika kamu masih menjadi siswa, siapakah artis favoritmu?
A. Coba kalian tebak.

Q. Kenapa kamu memilih untuk menjadi vokalis?
A. Sekali lagi, coba kalian tebak.

Q. Bagaimana SCREW dibentuk?
A. Itu adalah takdir kami.

Q. Bagaimana kalian terinspirasi dengan nama "SCREW"?
A. [Itu mengekspresikan] bagaimana kami menyalurkan emosi kami [ke dalam musik kami].

Q. Kalian merilis single pertama kalian 'ネジれた紫相 / Nejireta Shiso' pada bulan Juni 2006. Lagu side-b 'S=r&b' sering dibawakan saat konser. Tolong beritahu kami apa pendapatmu mengenai lagu ini!
A. Kami mencoba menciptakan sebuah lagu yang dapat populer saat pertunjukkan live.

Q. Sejak tahun 2008 kamu sudah mengadakan banyak acara live solo berjudul '○○主義の非公式集会 / ○○shugi no Hikoshiki-shukai'. [Harafiahnya 'Perkumpulan ○○ Informal'. Kata-kata yang menyertai '○○' berubah untuk setiap acara.] Apa bedanya dengan konser biasa?
A. Lebih kasar, lebih keras.

Q. Pada bulan Januari 2009, [agensi manajemen] PS COMPANY merayakan perayaan kesepuluhnya di Nippon Budokan! Bagaimana perasaanmu ketika berada di atas panggung?
A. Saya berharap kami dapat mengadakan konser solo di sana!

Q. Barangkali ada banyak fans luar negeri yang ingin melihat SCREW. Jika kalian mengadakan konser di luar negeri, ke mana kah kamu ingin pergi?
A. Amerika.

Q. Apakah gol SCREW?
A. Meraih posisi puncak.

Untuk Kazuki

Q. Ketika kamu masih menjadi siswa, siapakah artis favoritmu?
A. HELLOWEEN

Q. Kenapa kamu memilih untuk menjadi gitaris?
A. Saya lebih tertarik dengan senar 6 [gitar] daripada senar 4 [bass].

Q. Barangkali ada banyak fans luar negeri yang ingin melihat SCREW. Jika kalian mengadakan konser di luar negeri, ke mana kah kamu ingin pergi?
A. Eropa.

Q. Apakah gol SCREW?
A. Untuk menjadi nomor satu dan satu-satunya.

Untuk Manabu

Q. Ketika kamu masih menjadi siswa, siapakah artis favoritmu?
A. Bermacam-macam artis.

Q. Kenapa kamu memilih untuk menjadi gitaris?
A. Berdasarkan intuisi.

Q. Pada bulan Januari 2009, [agensi manajemen] PS COMPANY merayakan perayaan kesepuluhnya di Nippon Budokan! Bagaimana perasaanmu ketika berada di atas panggung?
A. Saya sangat gembira.

Q Barangkali ada banyak fans luar negeri yang ingin melihat SCREW. Jika kalian mengadakan konser di luar negeri, ke mana kah kamu ingin pergi?
A. Perancis, London, New Delhi.

Q. Apakah gol SCREW?
A. Untuk meraih puncak yang tertinggi.

Untuk Rui

Q. Ketika kamu masih menjadi siswa, siapakah artis favoritmu?
A. Saya menyukai banyak artis.

Q. Kenapa kamu memilih untuk menjadi bassis?
A. Itu adalah takdir saya.

Q. Barangkali ada banyak fans luar negeri yang ingin melihat SCREW. Jika kalian mengadakan konser di luar negeri, ke mana kah kamu ingin pergi?
A. Seluruh dunia!

Q. Apakah gol SCREW?
A. Untuk meraih puncak.

Untuk Jin

Q. Ketika kamu masih menjadi siswa, siapakah artis favoritmu?
A. Tré Cool.

Q. Kenapa kamu memilih untuk menjadi drummer?
A. Saya suka membuat ketukan ritmis, dan saya rasa itu keren.

Q. Kalian merilis single pertama kalian 'ネジれた紫相 / Nejireta Shiso' pada bulan Juni 2006. Lagu side-b 'S=r&b' sering dibawakan saat konser. Tolong beritahu kami apa pendapatmu mengenai lagu ini!
A. Kamu sudah memainkan lagu ini sejak konser pertama kami. Lagu ini sangatlah berarti bagi SCREW.

Q. Pada bulan Januari 2009, [agensi manajemen] PS COMPANY merayakan perayaan kesepuluhnya di Nippon Budokan! Bagaimana perasaanmu ketika berada di atas panggung?
A. Suatu saat kami akan datang ke sini dan mengadakan konser solo.

Q. Barangkali ada banyak fans luar negeri yang ingin melihat SCREW. Jika kalian mengadakan konser di luar negeri, ke mana kah kamu ingin pergi?
A. Amerika, Eropa.

Q. Apakah gol SCREW?
A. Untuk meraih puncak.

Apakah kalian menikmati wawancara ini?
Para personil berkata kalau mereka sangat gugup dengan siaran sebelumnya. Namun mereka juga ingin tampil lagi! Seperti yang sudah disebutkan di atas, selama siaran pertama ada pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang dikirim oleh penonton yang kami tidak sempat bahas karena waktu yang terbatas. Para personil SCREW menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan tersebut dalam artikel ini, dan dengan jelas hal ini menunjukkan kalau mereka bercita-cita untuk meraih ketinggian baru sebagai band.
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■ Informasi Siaran
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Saksikan Siaran di: Halaman Atas MJP (musicJAPANplus) (http://www.musicjapanplus.jp/)
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[Full PV] ScReW - Ancient Rain

lyric SCREW Ancient Rain

Sore kara koboreru kanashimi no namida de
Nurenai you ni to dare yori warette miseta

Nigori kaketa shikai wo tokashi Takute musou ni hiro kara hoshi wo nagameru

Soko kara me wo roshita daichi wa donna iro darou
Ishoni no hikari mo atsu me nakute

Ancient Rain...
Sore demo ano hiwa iro asenai
Ato mou sukoshi de tobira ga kireku kara
Umare motsu kono sugata katashi wo kaeru koto ga de komena kute mo
Kawaranai hokori na koko wo ni

Tozashita mado gara sugoshi ni koe wo koroshi ryou te wo awaseta
Kogoeru hodo ni subetai yoru wa
daite ah ... daite ah...
Atatamete

nige wa no nai fujiyuu to iu kusari Nando tsuna kare demo e shinai

Dare ni mo kokoro made shibaru koto nante de kirai
Sou tatoe wa eien ni mezamenai asa ga kite mo

Sore kara koboreru kanashimi no namida de
nurasanai you ni kibou wo kono mune ni

Ancient Rain...
Sora demo ano hiwa iro asenai
Ato mou sukoshi de tobira ga kireku kara
Umare motsu kono sugata katashi wo kaeru koto ga de komena kute mo
Kawaranai hokori na koko wo ni

Tashi kana asu kuru ima de kore wa koroshi inori wo kome you
Kogoeru hodo ni tsumetai yoru wo
Daite ah ... daite ah...
Atatameta

[MJP] SCREW Welcomes New Member and Sends Video Comment

For this musicJAPANplus video comment, we are going to feature SCREW!
During the live event 'PS COMPANY PRESENTS THE UNDERGROUND THEATER' on February 9th the band's new member Rui made his debut. It was the first time for the 'New SCREW' to perform! It also happened to be the birthday of the vocalist Byo! There were many things to celebrate that day, and we asked the members their thoughts about the live event.

By welcoming in a new member SCREW has taken a new step forward. Be sure to check out their comments!

fact JIN

to make more people know about him I made this. He loves fanmails! *-* Send him some~ I'm going to send him something for Christmas~! And I don't understand why people think SCREW's new album ''X-Rays'' is a huge fail.. All the songs are good in it, including the one I used in the video. So tell me why its a fail?! I'm dying to know. And I hope he doesn't suffer from tonsillitis anymore.. We love you Jin~ ♥
Here is some extra info on him:
- Screw had to cancel three lives of their tour in January 2008 because of Jin had been suffering from tonsillitis. On their OHP, theyve said that just before the live he had a fever that rose to more than 40゜C (around 105゜C), and his tonsils become inflamed. Due to his hazardous condition and laboured breathing, and since doing lives require intense activity, hes under doctors orders to stop (for the time being).
At Kyoto MUSE, Jin truly wanted to perform, however, the result from his discussion the members and staff was to cancel the lives. Of course they all apologize to the fans and to the people who were looking forward to not only this live, but the upcoming lives.
Extra info on him:
- He loves Go-Cart
- As a child Jin was uncontrollable
- He loves to laugh
- MacDonald's is his favorite food
- If he wasn't the drummer he'd want to sing
- He has tattoos on both of his arms
- SCREW found Jin over the internet
- If he were an animal he'd like to be a small dog
- When it comes to kids he'd like to have a boy and a girl
- He sleeps in a tank top
- If Yuuto were a woman he'd date him
- Jin usually wears glasses
- His favourite place to relax is the bed
- His previous band was "Living Dead"

fact MANABU

Unfortunately there isn't a lot of info on him, I did what I can to get more. It looks like he was bullied by Yuuto when he first got in... its unexpected, I know. But this was a LONG time ago, they are all very close to each other now. He's just as special to us as the other ScReW members. I really like Manabu, he has something so unique about him and his skills are amazing. We love you Manabu~ ♥♥♥♥ I hope Jin, Byou, Kazuki, Manabu and Yuuto are having an awesome Christmas and a happy new year~ Even if Yuuto is leaving on January 9, 2010 and already making the beginning of the year a bad start... all we can do is support them until the very end!
Extra info on him:
- He has a brother who lives in Osaka.
- He didn't have friends in high school.
- Yuuto always use to get annoyed by his smoking.
- He's a worrier
- He used to be a support guitarist for ScReW before he joined as an official member
- He likes to read books
- He loves to play videogames
- He had trouble identifying Kazuki's hamster Milk as a hamster
- If he weren't playing the guitar in the band he'd like to play drums
- He likes to stay at home on his day off
- He thinks his voice is too deep
- He's a total techie-nerd-fanboy
- He loves to relax on the sofa or when he's using his PC
- He has a bromance going on with Tohya from Vistlip
- According to the other members he is smart, gloomy, young, and cool
- He thinks he's too pale and would like to have longer arms and legs
- He has poor eyesight
- He likes to read romance stories
- He would like to have lots of kids at some point

fact KAZUKI

Another request. Our favorite and hyper guitarist. He's a special one. Haha~!♥♥
Extra info on him:
-Family; Father, Mother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, older brothers
- An ongoing joke between Byou and Kazuki was that they had twins together
-He is an uncle of a young boy named Miroku.Its the one Kazuki usually plays with and you see in the making of Genei no Kusari and the making of Kairos.
- Kazuki had a hamster named Milk, who also appeared with him in the Rock & Read photoshoot in 2009, but he recently blogged Milk passed away.
- Byou and Kazuki used to blog about running around their houses naked.
- He is the band's current leader
- He is friends with Kenzo from Ayabie, Aki from SID and Yuuki from Unsraw.
- He loves beer
- Jin and he are the comedians in the band.
- According to the band members he is cheerful, mature and dependable
- He was a wild child when he was young
- He loves to go on roller coasters if he's in an amusement park
- If he could play another part in the band he'd be a dancer with Byou.
- Before he was in a band he was a roadie
- He moved out of his parents' place when he was 15 years old and went to live in Osaka
- He has a lot of piercings, including a belly button piercing but he doesn't show it as often anymore
- He used to live with Byou for a while, but he lives on his own now
- His previous bands are V-Friends and Clover
- He loves motorcycles and he owns one

fact BYOU

Extra info on him: Byou is the eldest of his family, he has two younger brothers (the youngest is an owner, the other is a stylist), he will often help / buy at the store the second. ( "The greatest singer son is a pervert. The second son is a stylist. The third son is an owner.") Jin is NOT Byou's younger brother, they said they only joke about it, so do not believe what others say.
- He doesn't watch a lot of TV
- On New Years, Kazuki, Yuuto, Jin and Manabu called Byou's family to wish them a happy new year. (Aww..)
-Byou went to an all guys high school.
- He likes to play video games, collects toy cars and anything with skulls on it
- He hates rain, vegetables and exercise
- He's a family man, is known to blog about his brothers, mother and grandmother
- He likes glasses and wears them often, but it is not yet known if he actually needs them or not
- He is a baseball fan
- He loves coffee
- He does not like roller coasters
- He's a bipolar pervert, one minute he's all perverted and next he's all cute or serious
- His favorite place to relax is his bed
- He once said if he were an animal he'd be a lion
- He is afraid of motorcycles
Want to read an interview from Byou? Here:
http://lysalie28.livejournal.com/6305...

little bit i know

SCREW cursed hurricane new single

2010.05.12 on sale
「Cursed Hurricane」
【初回盤A】 2010.05.12 on sale
「Cursed Hurricane」
【初回盤B】 2010.05.12 on sale
「Cursed Hurricane」
【通常盤】
PSIM-30018
¥1,890(tax in.)

[収録曲] [CD]
01.Cursed Hurricane
02.小夜啼鳥
[DVD]
「Cursed Hurricane」MUSIC CLIP収録

予約はこちら PSIM-30019
¥1,890(tax in.)

[収録曲] [CD]
01.Cursed Hurricane
02.小夜啼鳥
03.Dainsleif
撮り下ろしブックレット付

予約はこちら PSIM-20017
¥1,575(tax in.)

[収録曲] [CD]
01.Cursed Hurricane
02.小夜啼鳥
03.JELLYFISH

予約はこちら



2010.05.12発売「Cursed Hurricane」、初回盤A・初回盤B・通常盤の3タイプを同時購入で、
ここでしか手に入らないオリジナル直筆サイン入り2L写真を3種類の中から1枚プレゼント！
※特典は数に限りがありますので無くなり次第終了致します。
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