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Veronica's Violet "Where Should I Go"
Veronica's Violet has recently been featured and praised sky-high in such monthly music magazines as Player February 2005 and BURRN! May 2005. They were also reviewed and listed in the monthly magazine CD Journal February 2005. They had their first overseas shows at such renowned venues as PIANOS and Arlene's Grocery in New York City, USA in March 2005, and the Dublin Castle in London, UK in December 2006.
New Album released on April 3 !
You can get a copy at such stores as
HMV
amazon.co.jp
The History:
Veronica's Violet was formed in 1997 by bassist-vocalist Natsuko together with drummer Hirokazu and a vocalist-guitarist, and they began their performing career in Kyoto as a rock trio. After the vocalist-guitarist found her own way and left the band, vocalist Sono joined the band in 2003 and guitarist aki in the following year. Sono left the band in 2007.
In July and August 2000, their tunes "No Way Out" and "Easy" got No.1 at the contest held by the Tokyo-based TV program Tokyo Hot Indies. The two songs got included in CD-ROMs attached to the monthly PC magazine Nikkei Net Navi, whose circulation boasted about 250,000 copies all through Japan. They contributed the two songs to the compilation CD Tokyo Hot Indies Super Recording Vol.3 released in April 2001.
They were featured twice in the programs on the UK-based Internet / satellite TV station NOW in 2001. They won the keen competition in the program The 30 Second Pitch in April, beating their London counterpart. They were featured again in The Battle of the Bands Pitch show from the same TV station in June.
"With an oeuvre encompassing everything from the glam operatics of Queen to the maudlin introspection of the Smiths, via the hard-rock rifforama of Led Zeppelin, this is one band it is simply impossible to pigeonhole," wrote the MP3TV Reviewer Darren Lee, praising the achievement.
While touring around the club circuit of hometown Kyoto and the neighboring cities of Osaka and Kobe, they expose themselves worldwide through the Internet. They smashed into the mp3.com Asia chart at No.3 in 2003. They also got No.9 on the mp3.com grunge world chart. They released their long-awaited debut album titled Veronica's Violet from the Japanese indie label Access Entertainment in November 2004.
Veronica's Violet at Kyoto MOJO, Feb 2008 "To the Hiding Place"

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Member Since: 09/12/2006
Band Website: veronicas-violet.com
Band Members: Veronica's Violet are Natsuko (Vo & Bass), aki (Gt) & Hirokazu (Dr)

Female vocal from the front girl, bassist-vocalist Natsuko, provides a melodic and dramatic foreground, while furious bass-driven guitar riffs and skillful solos by aki chug away menacingly at the side. Drummer Hirokazu completes the line-up, contributing to the appropriately heavy sound of the band by providing a passionate rhythmic energy.

"If Veronica's Violet didn't already exist, someone with a keen sense of the absurd and a penchant for feisty riot-grrrl zeal would surely have to invent them."
UK TV NOW MP3tv Reviewer Darren Lee
Sounds Like: Veronica's Violet

This rock trio from Kyoto, Japan, turn the Japanese cutesy pop stereotype on its head by rocking like the mutant offspring of Sound Garden, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, or Filter.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Yokohama show cancelled

We are very disappointed and sad to announce that the Yokohama gig on May 3 has had to be cancelled.  Die So Fluid had already postponed the Japan tour plus Dice has decided to cancel the show. It is ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 02:00:00 GMT

New video

  We uploaded our new official video!   Please watch it!   I hope you're gonna like it!    In Japan, many people are suffering from a hey fever.  I am also suffering from a terrible hey fever.        ...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:55:00 GMT

New Album to be released!

Our New Album is going to be released on April 3!!  We have uploaded 3 out of 11 songs so that you can figure out what the Veronica's Violet second album is  like.  Hope you're gonna like 'em and purc...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:54:00 GMT

Veronica's Violet 's MySpace!

Don't know very much yet how to do things on MySpace, though ...Anyway, we're going to have a gig in London UK in about two-week's time.  You should come and see us at the Dublin Castle in Camden, Lon...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:43:00 GMT