Lighting for X Japan’s Art of Life. 30 & 31 December 1993 at Tokyo Dome

X Japan’s album, Art of Life, was released on 25 August 1993. But I am not going to write about the album in this blog entry; I'll probably do that next year to celebrate its 30th birthday. In fact, I don’t even have the album, at least not yet, as it’s stuck somewhere in Chiba....

Hide Our Psychommunity – hide’s First Tour

I have earlier covered ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒’s second tour and the one that was carried out under the name ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟 (ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 joining the rest beyond the border). Lastly, I will write a bit about his first tour that took place in the spring 1994. The full name of the tour was HIDE OUR PSYCHOMMUNITY...

hide with Spread Beaver appear!! “1998 TRIBAL Ja, Zoo”

The date was 20 November 1998 and the place was Yokosuka Arts Theatre. It was the last gig of the 1998 tour by a group called ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟. The band had played in 12 locations, 14 gigs altogether, starting the tour also from Yokosuka, the birthplace of ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒, and playing two nights in...

hide: Psyence A Go Go Tour (1996)

ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒’s second solo tour, Psyence A Go Go, took place in September and October 1996. The tour started on 4 September and the last two shows took place in Tokyo on 19 and 20 October, exactly 25 years ago. When I was watching the very last show of the tour show on DVD at the...