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RADWIMPS Concert at London's Roundhouse on May 21
posted on by Andrew Osmond
There are links for the concert here and here - the latter is RADWIMPS' own site.
According to RADWIMPS' site, presales by Crunchyroll will begin on Wednesday March 29 at 9 a.m. UK time (equivalent to 10 a.m. CET). The Crunchyroll presale code will be CRUNCHYROLL. Tickets will go on public sale at 9 a.m. on Friday March 31 (UK time).
These will be extra tickets for the concert. The London event has been upgraded from a smaller venue, 02 Forum Kentish Town Road, and all tickets that were previously purchased remain valid.
The London event will be followed by RADWIMPS concerts in Barcelona on May 24, Cologne on May 26, Paris on May 28, and Berlin on May 30.
The members of RADWIMPS include vocalist and guitarist Yōjirō Noda, guitarist Akira Kuwahara, bassist Yūsuke Takeda, and drummer Satoshi Yamaguchi. The band formed in 2001, although three of the original members left the band in 2004 (to be replaced by Takeda and Yamaguchi). The band released their first single "Moshi mo" independently in 2003 during their third year of high school, and also released their first self-titled album independently during the same year. The band made their major professional debut with their fourth single "Nijūgoko-me no Senshokutai" in 2005 under Toshiba EMI.
RADWIMPS are notable for providing the complete soundtrack to Makoto Shinkai's your name. film, which opened in Japan in 2016 to major box office success. RADWIMPS composed over 22 tracks for your name.'s soundtrack, as well as the film's theme songs "Zen Zen Zense (movie ver.)," "Sparkle," "Yume Tōrō (movie ver.)," and "Nandemo Ii ya (movie edit/movie ver.)." The soundtrack is the first RADWIMPS album to top Oricon's weekly album chart, where it stayed for two weeks. The soundtrack earned the Special Award in the 58th Japan Record Awards, as well as the Soundtrack Album of the Year award for the Japan Gold Disc Awards for 2017. Additionally, the soundtrack won Outstanding Achievement in Music at the 40th annual Japan Academy Prizes in March 2017. RADWIMPS produced English versions of the film's theme songs.
Similarly, the rock band provided the soundtrack for Shinkai's Weathering With You.
RADWIMPS scored Makoto Shinkai's Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari) anime film in partnership with the composer Kazuma Jinnouchi. The score was nominated for Best Music in the 46th Japan Academy Film Prize Association awards.
