Member Since: 12/7/2007
Band Website: sky.geocities.jp/duwleague/index.html
Band Members: azusa suga vo/gtr/programming/songwriting
ibook g4 drs/bs/any other goddarn instrument involved
also, i would like to say that japanese comic books (especially the ones with cute girls) have influenced me a lot. i thank the girls for inspiring me.
Influences: the usual shoegaze stuff; adorable, all natural lemon and lime flavors, amusement parks on fire, asobi seksu, blind mr. jones, the boo radleys, catherine wheel, chapterhouse, coaltar of the deepers, cruyff in the bedroom (key influence!), drop nineteens, the ecstasy of saint theresa, hammock, hartfield, honeydip, ides of space, the jesus and mary chain, lilys, luminous orange, lush, the majestic high, majesty crush, malory, medicine, monocism, my bloody valentine, my vitriol, paint in watercolour, pale saints, pia fraus, revolver (they have had a huge impact on me), ride, secret shine, sleepy.ab, slowdive, supercar (my first gazin' heroes!), swervedriver, telescopes, velocity girl, venus peter
some '60s bands; the beatles, the beach boys, the doors
others; nirvana, the stone roses, teenage fanclub, northside, the high
akiba-pop artists; kotoko, marie, yui sakakibara, miyuki hashimoto, mosaic.wav, yuria, marble (simply adore them for their melodious and delicate pop), eufonius
j-rock; asian kung-fu generation, base ball bear, bump of chicken, fleet, flipper's guitar, number girl, quruli, spitz
favourite comics/animation series; hitohira / izumi kirihara, azumanga daioh / kiyohiko azuma, shimai no houteishiki / chiki nonohara, school rumble / jin kobayashi, otome cake / mako takahashi, sola, serial experiments lain, ef -a tale of memories, D.C., higurashi no naku koro ni, shuffle!, all makoto shinkai movies (especially byousoku 5 centimetre), true tears, clannad, haibane renmei, seraphim call
Sounds Like: extremely amateurish shoegaze, bursting full of youth and akiba-pop inspired sentiment. for fans of revolver, supercar, paint in watercolour or whatever.
Record Label: duw league
Type of Label: Indie