BiSH have announced that all dates of their 7-date solo tour “BiSH’S GASP!!GOLD!!GHOST!!GALAXY!!GARBAGE!! TOUR,” which was set to begin on Thursday (May 21), as well as their first taiban tour “BiSH’S 5G are MAKiNG LOVE TOUR,” have been cancelled as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The staff and band considered postponing or altering the tours in some way, but it turned out to be difficult for everything to go to plan. All dates on the tours had told out. Information regarding ticket refunds is to be announced at a later date.
BiSH posted a video of their performance of beautiful sa yesterday on their official YouTube channel. The performance is taken from their show at NHK Hall back on January 23 which was part of their longest tour to date, the “NEW HATEFUL KiND TOUR,” which ran for four months.
BiSH / beautiful sa [NEW HATEFUL KiND TOUR] @ NHK Hall
Below is a comment from BiSH member Lingling
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How are all of our Cleaning Staff* doing? Today, we announce the cancellation of our spring solo tour and two-man tour, which we were looking forward to ourselves too.
We are dying to perform live, so much so that it’s almost become a favourite phrase of ours recently to say, “When can we do it live again?” It’s sad that our schedules and the promises we’ve made which we were excited about are rapidly rolling further into the future, but in all of our tours up to now, at all venues, we leave our footprint by saying, “We’ll see you again! We are BiSH!” We haven’t forgotten that promise. We keep it close. So I am confident the day will come when we will meet again!
It might not change anything for all of our Cleaning Staff, but we have released our live performance of “beautiful sa” from our NHK tour set list. We have received letters from people who have said that this song has helped them. I myself have felt encouraged reading those letters, so we decided in a time like this we would release this happy song in particular in hopes that we can give something back and bring smiles to BiSH, bands, and all of you.
When the day arrives that we can finally perform live for you again, let’s all smile together again like this. I want to toge toge jump through the roof with everyone. Until then, stay safe and healthy. I can’t wait to see you again!!!
ーTranslated from Japanese by MMN
*The BiSH fan base is known as the Seisouin (清掃員) which translates to “cleaning staff” or “garbage collectors”
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The band have also posted the key visual of what was to be their new look for the tour. The clothes, design, and shoot were all done by Kenta Sotobayashi.
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Comment from Cent Chihiro Chicchi
BiSH will disband in 2023.
We started here at Nakano heavysick ZERO, a live house with only an 80 person capacity. We’ve been so lucky and so happy to have the support of so many people.
Thank you for loving us and giving us a place to be ourselves.
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Each of us has a distinct personality, and I think that BiSH was a place where we could each be ourselves without restraint.
We promise to make 2022 our best year ever. Before we hit the finish line, there’s so much we want to do!
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04.August.2021 | MUSIC
Tower Records have been promoting artists in-store with their Monthly Tower Push campaign, and the next group to be getting the big Tower Push will be BiSH as they promote their 4th major album, GOiNG TO DESTRUCTION, releasing on August 4, 2021.
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Tower Records Limited Bonus: Jigsaw Puzzle *Not available with HAKAI-BAN (AVCD-96749).
Between August 1 and 31, these special collaboration posters will be available at all Tower Record and TOWERmini store. Each store will be promoting the release alongside a commemorative panel exhibit to mark the release of GOiNG TO DESTRUCTiON, BiSH’s first full-length album in over 2 years.
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BiSH x Tower Records
Availability: August 1 ~ August 31, 2021
Information: https://tower.jp/article/feature_item/2021/05/25/0703
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