This is a translation of the two hour All Night Nippon broadcast on July 8, 2005, with L'Arc~en~Ciel. I worked primarily from a transcript posted on Pieces, but also had an mp3 of the show as reference. The translation should therefore be quite accurate. This is a spellchecked version of what I posted earlier on Pieces.
Enjoy!
The choruses of HONEY, HEAVEN'S DRIVE, Niji, Pieces, NEO UNIVERSE, STAY AWAY and READY STEADY GO play.
Narration : Having released their first album in 1993, L'Arc~en~Ciel has had innumerable hit songs along their sparkling career.
Posessing an amazing vocal sense and always rising up to new challenges : the vocalist hyde.
Putting life into all varieties of music and taking the band into all directions : the guitarist ken.
The leader who controls the band, yet takes the initiative in a more playful way than any other : the bassist tetsu.
With a coool, avant-garde image and far-ranging capacities yet to be revealed : the drummer yukihiro.
Tonight, these four characters are on the air with us on All night Nippon, to look back on ten albums with the release of a new one!
all : L'Arc~en~Ciel's All Night Nippon!
hyde : Good evening! This is L'Arc~en~Ciel's vocalist hyde.
ken : The guitar, ken.
tetsu : The bass, tetsu.
yuki : The drums, yukihiro. (Not said clearly at all)
hyde : This time every Friday with Motoya Yukiko. Tonight's All Night Nippon feels like some kind of theatre!
tetsu : Yes.
hyde : L'Arc~en~Ciel... I think the four of us want to reach out.
ken : (laughs)
hyde : All four of us are kinda nervous... on the radio.
ken : More nervous than going alone, before. (laughs)
hyde : The moment I got here, I wanted to turn around and go home. (laughs)
all : (laugh)
hyde : Somehow, we're doing this... Um, does anything happen on this radio show?
tetsu : What will we have to do?
ken : Maybe nothing?
hyde : Maybe.
tetsu : Nothing...?
hyde : Yeah right (laughs) Something's gonna happen. Definitely.
ken : Bring it on? (laughs)
tetsu : There's nothing planned~~?
ken : There's probably some way to avoid it.
hyde : Yeah yeah yeah.
ken : If we manage to avoid whatever it is... It'll be an All Night Nippon that doesn't really stand out, so they'll want to do something to us.
hyde : Yeah yeah yeah. At least... we're not in front of people. I want to make a plan. Basically, all four of us need to stick to the same story, so we don't start any rumours.
ken : Right.. But right now it's only two of us chatting. We should get a third one going.
hyde : Yeah, yeah.
ken : Although they say it's all four on the radio...
hyde : That's not going to happen. (laughs)
all : (laugh)
ken : Ahahaha (laughs) Well, let's do our best.
hyde : Work hard?
ken : I'm trying hard. (laughs)
hyde : Let's see... We, L'Arc~en~Ciel that is, released our tenth album on the 22nd of last month. (He sounds like he's refraining from laughing) We released AWAKE (he says the word AWAKE with a flourish)
ken : Yep.
hyde : It comes, what... a year and three months after SMILE?
all : Hooo~~
hyde : ...really (laughs). But still, I think it turned out to be a great album.
all : (laugh)
hyde : You guys (laughs). This is the tenth one.
ken : Hmm.. really, it's hyde who worked hard.
hyde : Oh, me? (laughs)
ken : Consequentially. (laughs)
hyde : Yeaaah... it shows, right?
ken : It does show.
hyde : It shows that I worked hard.
ken : The last thing we did for that album was look over the cover jacket.
hyde : Yes yes.
ken : Yeah, and next to each song it says who wrote the words and who wrote the music. hyde's name comes up a lot.
hyde : Wonder why.
ken : Why? You sound embarassed.
hyde : Hehehehe (laughs) Seems so. (laughs)
ken : Hahahahaha (laughing hard)
hyde : Yeah, so AWAKE is out. Hm.. Tonight. What else can we talk about, besides the new album?
hyde and tetsu : New single!
hyde : That's coming out. That's why we came to L'A.. All Night Nippon.
ken : Yes.
hyde : Right? On July 20th, we're releasing Link.
ken : Yep.
hyde : This song will be on tonight's show. For the first time.. in the universe!
ken : Haa... (Sounds like he cannot talk)
Here, sound effects abruptly start. It sounds like a voice being distorted.
hyde : Hm?
tetsu : What's that??
Voice : Members of L'Arc~en~Ciel, Welcome to All Night Nippon.
tetsu : That scared me~ (laughs)
Voice : It is true that this was rather abrupt, but we felt that L'Arc~en~Ciel would give a good reaction to the surprise. Oh, and congratulations on the new album getting number one on the Oricon chart!
all : Thank you very much.
Voice : Tonight, the Nippon broadcast wants to congratulate you. Before we start out two-hour chat, here's something to wet your throats. Help yourselves!
hyde : Whoa.
tetsu : What's this?
(All sound like they are suprised when they realise what it is)
Voice : The program desperately scrambled to get you this champagne.
ken : Is this expensive?
hyde : Wow~
Voice :
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