Zy 41: The GAzettE

Let the good times roll, and never let them stop!



After finishing a marathon tour of seventy-one lives around the country, the GazettE successfully completed Osakajo Hall and two Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyogijo Daiichi Taiikukan live concerts to packed audiences. By the time this article is published, they will be back in the studio working on their upcoming music. Perhaps we will be able to hear some of their new work during the open air live, GAZEROCK FESTIVAL IN SUMMER'08 [BURST INTO A BLAZE], which will be held on August 23rd. In this interview, we were the first to be able to ask about their new work.


The photo shoot for the front cover of the magazine was done quite a while before this interview.

Aoi: Ah, yeah, it was taken a little while ago.

Uruha: Was it the one with lots of nails around us?

Ruki: No, it wasn't. (laugh)

Um…that shoot was about a year ago and it was used for issue number 35. (smile) This shoot was actually just before the tour's "GRAND FINALE."

Ruki: That was ages ago!

Doing all those live I am sure that it must get confusing. Recently I heard a rumor that you have already started working on new songs.

Aoi: So, it's just a rumor? (laugh)

I heard it from someone who knows you well. (laugh)

Aoi: Yes, well you are right. We have finished our tour and are supposed to be in our off time, but we just keep going. (smile)

So, do you have an idea of the types of songs you want to write?

Ruki: We are meeting to select songs for making a new album.

So you have gathered many songs, I take it.

Ruki: We have a few.

Aoi: Well, it was like we selected three songs out of four. (laugh)

Ruki: (laugh)

Aoi: Just joking. (smile)

So you chose from about forty songs. (laugh)

Aoi: Well, yes!

Ruki: Take a few songs from that number. (laugh)

Uruha: No, we actually had about that many songs, but we brought in what we wanted to use individually.

What was your impression when listening to each others' songs?

Aoi: My impression? Kai's songs are especially good!

Uruha: I think that out of all of his songs, up until now that is, the guitar part was really solid. (laugh)

Kai: Well...What can I say? (laugh)

Oh, you had pretty high criteria for selecting them. Um...quoting Ruki.

Uruha: I don't think that our songs have ever been light, until now.

Ruki: But I think that this single will be a little bit different than usual, including the coupling songs.

Do you mean your approach for each song is different?

Aoi: Maybe, maybe not.

That sounds complicated. (smile) But that means they all have a unified theme, right?

Uruha: Yes, maybe it's the tempo. They are separate, but almost the same.

That is a little difficult to follow. (laugh)

Aoi: It's difficult to say. We have just opened ourselves. I think that we are trying to find things out about one another, even during this interview.

Ruki: We kind of have a way of choosing coupling songs that are different from the first song that comes out.

You mean it's not a ballad. It will be a song where people can rampage at lives.

Aoi: It was kind of like "Let's make it like that."

It looks like you still have to work on them. (laugh) So what is the process you go through? the GazettE makes quite a complicated sound.

Aoi: Not really. Only Reita does strange things.

Reita: I don't do anything special.

All: (burst out laughing)

That can't be right! (laugh) You have a very original way of tuning, right?

Haha , seems like Aoi loves to speak the most ...