Geo's Blog: -=About the band name GAZETTE=-

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

-=About the band name GAZETTE=-

Well kinda think of it, I read there full profile and this is there result.

Ruki, Uruha, and Reita (all former members of both Ma'die Kussë and Kar+te=zyAnose), and Aoi and Yune (former members of Mervilles and Artia) formed the band named Gazette (ガゼット, in Japanese) in March 2002.

Signed to the Matina label, they released their first single—"Wakaremichi"—and a VHS video in April. By September they had released two more singles and another video, playing their first headlining show that October.

In early 2003, Yune decided to leave the band, and he was replaced by Kai, formerly of Mareydi†Creia. Shortly after, they signed with the PS Company label, and in May released their first mini-album, Cockayne Soup. They started their first tour, with the band Hanamuke, and along with the tour, the bands collaborated on two songs. A second tour followed, with the band Vidoll. One issue of the music magazine Cure featured both Vidoll and Gazette on the front cover.

In early December they played a co-headlining show with deadman. On December 28 they performed at Fool's Mate magazine's Beauti-fool's Fest; other bands included Kra, lab., Gullet, Pink Halleluja, deadman, Miyavi, D'espairsRay, Daigo Stardust, Merry, and MUCC.

On January 16, 2004 they recorded their headlining performance at the Shibuya-AX, which was released on DVD as Tokyo saihan ~Judgement Day~. On March 30, 2004 they released their Madara mini-album, which reached #2 on the Oricon Indie Charts. This was followed in May by a companion DVD, which included six music videos and an in-the-studio documentary. A second live DVD, Heisei Banka, was released in August. During September and October they toured with fellow PS Company bands Kra and BIS. Their debut album, Disorder, was released in October, and made it to the top 5 of the Oricon Daily Charts.

The band spent the remainder of 2004 and most of 2005 touring extensively, releasing Gama (another mini album) in August and a single, "Cassis", in December.

Starting 2006 with a name change—from Gazette (written in Japanese characters) to The Gazette (written in English)—they released Nil, their second full-length album, on February 8, 2006, and embarked on another Japanese tour. That July, The Gazette performed at the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Germany, their first shows outside of Asia. The concerts were arranged in conjunction with the AnimagiC anime and manga convention.

Two more singles, "Regret" and "Filth in the Beauty", were released in October and November, with "Filth in the Beauty" peaking at #5 in the Oricon charts.[1] They finished out the year with another Japanese tour, dubbed the Decomposition Beauty Tour.

The "Hyena" single was released on February 7, 2007 and peaked at #3 on the Oricon charts.[2]

"Stacked Rubbish" was released at 2PM Japanese time on July 4th, 2007. The day after the release, on July 5th, the limited edition of the album reached the #2 spot on the Oricon charts. The release of this album is to be followed by a promotional tour from July 15th to September 9th. A song from Stacked Rubbish, "Chizuru", is to be included on the soundtrack for the film Apartment.

posted by Geo @ 9:03 PM

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