Sho: I'm Sho, the singer of the band.
Hiroto: My name is Hiroto, the srage left guitar player.
Tora: My name is Tora, the stage right guitar player.
Saga: I'm Saga, and I play the bass.
Nao: My name is Nao, and I'm the drummer for Alice Nine.

Sho:
Hiroto = passionate guy
Tora = nihilistic cool person
Saga = natural person
Nao = strange, but a nice guy

Hiroto:
Sho: He is an artist who is sure of himself
Tora: He is a person who suddenly comes up with excellent ideas
Saga: An easy going person. Sexy.
Nao: ???

Tora:
me = a lone wolf
everybody else = party animals

Saga:
Sho: Goku
Hiroto: Gohan
Tora: Piccolo
Nao: Kuririn

Nao:
Sho = Ura-hara-kei
Hiroto = Gyaru-o-kei
Tora = Onii-kei
Saga = Visual-kei

Sho: "Akatsuki Ikuoku no Chandelier" is the hardest to sing, because of the high notes. "Lemon," the coupling song of "Fantasy," is my favorite.

Hiroto: "Fantasy." For me, the song is emotionally charged. And all three songs on "Kowloon -Nine Heads Rodeo Show" are also my favorites. Make sure to go wild when we play them live.

Tora: "Kowloon -Nine Heads Rodeo Show." It rocks!

Saga: All of them.

Nao: If I need to choose one, then it would be "Ikuoku no Chandelier."

Sho: I wanted them to express Alice Nine's extremities, the 2006-style.

Hiroto: The concept was to express both ends of our music.

Tora: "Kowloon" is heavy, and "Fantasy" is easy to listen to!

Saga: "Kowloon" = Red Flame. "Fantasy" = Blue Flame.

Nao: The hard, and the pop.

Sho: "Kowloon" is similar to "Yami ni Chiru Sakura," and the world view of "Fantasy" is closer to that of "Gin no Tsuki Kuroi Hoshi."

Hiroto: They are related in how we approached them. There are similarities, but at the same time, there is a contrast between them.

Tora: There is a relationship. All of our songs are Alice Nine.

Saga: They are opposite of each other.

Nao: The releases are to show the hard and the pop, and they are the body and soul for 2006.

Sho: I tried to take each song to a higher level. Personally, I like the melodies that I came up with, and I feel really good about the lyrics. Some of the lyrics have messages, while some of them don't. I set them apart from each other. I also love some of the lyrics that are poetic.

Hiroto: When recording them, I did not make any compromise at all. Personally, I played the guitar to make sure that my emotions and feelings are put into every aspect of the music, and I want people to feel that.

Tora: Basically, it was a mixture of the heavy and the crunchy sounds.

Saga: I was really into making sure that there would be a common ground for all types of the songs.

Nao: This time, I tried to expand our music, to let a new aspect of Alice Nine to shine through.

Sho: accent, emotion, heart

Hiroto: nuances and emotions

Tora: Rhythm

Saga: thick groove, pronounced bass

Nao: To make hard songs harder, and to try to not make the simple songs too simple.

Sho: When Saga is around, it's a comedy show everyday (laughs).

Hiroto: Everyday, we recorded hard, from noon until about 8:00 in the morning the next day. Through it all I lost a lot weight, about 5kg.

Tora: There was a Dreamcast console in the studio, and I played for some time (laughs).

Saga: To make sure the nuances come out right, I altered the tuning of my bass for different parts of the same songs. It required quite a bit of work...

Nao: During the recording, we worked hard without getting enough sleep, and after a while, and our minds were almost in trance (laughs).

Sho: A long time ago, a friend of mine had tragically passed away, and it was not possible for me to cope with it so easily. I came up with the melody and the lyrics for "Fantasy" when I was struggling to come to terms with the loss. Also, Hiroto was inspired by how the stars fade away from the sky at dawn when he wrote the music, and I tried to express that image as a poem.
I also did a lot of thinking about how my feelings and thoughts continued to change over time. Basically, I worked hard at night when I was able to focus.

Hiroto: I wrote the music for "Fantasy" when I was outside at night, looking up at the stars. During the arrangement, I simply followed my feelings.

Tora: Inspirations always come when I am in the middle of doing something of no importance.

Saga: Everything will be OK as long as I come up with one phrase.

Nao: I arranged them by imagining the world view of each song.

Sho: Hiroto, who wrote the music, loves stars, and I love stars, too. I thought of "Fantasy" sort of as an alternate ending of the same story.
While "Heisei Jushichinen Shichigatsu Nanoka" is a fairy tale, "Fantasy" is a message for someone important to me.

Sho: The song really is a love song that tells a decadent story of a man who lives for the moment, and yet dies of illness. He longs to meet again the girl he loves. It's actually about the simple and pure bittersweetness of love. Also, when I imagined the hospital room, there was a lemon in it, and these things connected.
So I named the song after it. While the world view is permeated with sepia hue, the feelings are so vivid, and that was another reason I wanted to name the song after a fruit.

Sho: For "Kowloon" video, the theme is an oppressed child in a locked room trying to reach out for the light outside. The stars, dawn, and a boy are the themes for "Fantasy" and it's also a collage of people's interpretations about such themes. The lyrics are a bit serious, you know.
So, we tried to make the video simple and stylish. In that sense, it's similar to the music video for "Gin no Tsuki Kuroi Hoshi."

Tora: In "Kowloon" video, a child is saved in the mountains.

Saga: "Kowloon" is aggressive. "Fantasy" is stylish.

Nao: The music video for "Kowloon" is opaque, and it looks really cool. "Fantasy" video is simple and really stylish. I hope people enjoy the videos in perfect synch with the music.

Sho: We play the music with our souls, and there is nothing else to it. How hard we played, and how crisp we were, are the highlights.

Hiroto: Everything is the highlight. Alice Nine at that moment, and the heat of the people who were there that day are all packed in it. So, it's everything.

Tora: There are a lot of highlights, including parts where we cried (laughs).

Saga: Characters of each of us, and the songs that are best to experience live.

Nao: It is packed with tears and laughs, and completely captures Alice Nine. I really hope a lot of people get a chance to watch the DVD.

Sho: "Red Carpet Going On" would be it. It's a party tune.

Hiroto: "Kowloon" and "Red Carpet Going On." "Kowloon" is for toasting people, and "Red Carpet Going On" is for making people go wild.

Tora: "Kowloon -Nine Heads Rodeo Show"

Saga: "Red Carpet Going On"

Nao: "Kowloon -Nine Heads Rodeo Show." It's an excellent song to be performed live!!

Sho: I really want to tour a lot. I want the band to express music through all five senses.

Hiroto: I want to continue to do things that only Alice Nine can do.

Tora: We'll just charge forward!

Saga: More evolution.

Nao: 2006 will be a year in which our bounds are expanded.

Sho: It will be another swinging year, and we'll keep on giving it all we've got. Please come running after us hard. See you!

Hiroto: Together we'll go far.

Tora: Thank you for supporting us. Alice Nine will write more great songs, and we look forward to seeing you all!

Saga: Let's all be sexier, at the stage right in particular.

Nao: Together, let's continue to make the music scene more exciting!