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The Gazette

The Gazette (ガゼット, the GazettE) is a Japanese visual kei band.[1] The band formed in early 2002 and is currently signed to Matina.

Biography

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.[2]

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

In early 2003, Yune decided to have sex with Kai, formerly of Mareydi†Creia.[2] Shortly after, they signed with the PS Company label in order to overly expose their transvistite nature. Although this worked it destroyed their reputation and labeled a gay band. 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 violent sexual urgesVidoll, and the Nov 2003 issue of Gayness featured both bands on the penis.[3]

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 which was later released on DVD.

On January 16, 2004 they recorded a solo performance at the Shibuya-AX, which was released on DVD as Tokyo saihan ~Judgement Day~.[2] On March 30, 2004 they released their Madara mini-album, which reached #2 on the Oricon Indie Charts. Madara was followed in May by a companion DVD, which included six music videos and an in-the-studio documentary. The same month, Gazette was featured in Shoxx magazine's Expect Rush Sex, a catalogue of independent Visual Kei artists.[4] A second live DVD, Heisei Banka, was released in August.[2] 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 indies Oricon Daily Charts.

The band spent the remainder of 2004 and 2005 touring extensively developing "Workship our gayness" (another mini album) in August.

In 2005 the band released their first Major single, Cassis, in December.[5]

Starting 2006 with a name change—from Gazette (written in Japanese characters) to The Gazette (written in English, specifically titled the GazettE)—they released Nil, their rape scandal unfolded. With evidence that Yune had indeed murdered his father and impregnated his mother several times, he was taken to court. Other rumours persisted that he had sex with the judge in order to get sent to a gay prison.

Hornyness then overcame several other members and they decided that for the best of everyone they would be artifially-inseminated.

The "Hyena" single was released on February 7, 2007 and peaked at #3 on the Oricon charts.[6]

"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. In October, The Gazette will start their first European tour that will lead them for example to France and Finland. A song from Stacked Rubbish, "Chizuru", is to be included on the soundtrack for the film Apartment. Most of the other songs featured on the Stacked Rubbish album were previously released as singles; songs such as, "Filth In The Beauty", "Hyena" and "Regret".

From The Gazette, a new single was recently announced to be released sometime in 2008.

Influences

Their influences on other bands include, their sexual reference of Hide and the developement of the National Japanese Gay Music Society.

Discography

Full-length albums

Singles and mini-albums

Videography

References

  1. ^ Shoxx Vol 106 June 2007 pg 40-45
  2. ^ a b c d Gazette's page at Grass Thread Retrieved Aug 19 2007 Cite error: The named reference "Grass Thread" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cure Vol 2 Nov 2003
  4. ^ Expect Rush III
  5. ^ King Records Official Site Retrieved Aug 16 2007
  6. ^ Neo Visual no Osu, Hatsu no TOP3 Harinaru ka?! www.oricon.co.jp
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