X JAPAN To Play Two Shows In Yokohama In August
June 6, 2010, 14 years ago
According to BW&BK;'s Japan-based source X JAPAN will play two shows in Yokohama this August. They will take place on August 14th and 15th at Nissan Stadium, tickets will go on sale soon. Attendance is expected to hit approximately 150,000 people over the course of two days. More details will be revealed soon.
As previously reported, X Japan drummer Yoshiki revealed at the Grammy Awards' red carpet on Sunday that his band agreed to appear at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago from August 6 to August 8. The band received an offer to play at the festival's main stage in Grant Park. X Japan would be the first Japanese musical act to perform at the festival's main stage.
Yoshiki attended the 52nd Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles as a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, after having walked the red carpet in 2008.
X Japan's most notable anime contributions were the songs in the X² music video collection and later X movie. The animation studio Madhouse adapted both productions from CLAMP's X manga. The surviving band members — Toshimitsu "Toshi" Deyama, Yoshiki Hayashi, Tomoaki "Pata" Ishizuka, and Hiroshi "Heath" Morie — reunited in 2007, ten years after they first disbanded and nine years after the death of guitarist Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto.
