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[ 🥳 BIRTHDAY] SAIKI + World Tour & Interview?

Next Sunday, on February 8th, Saiki will celebrate her birthday!
As you can imagine, I already planned a video for the occasion, following Saiki's "instrumental" evolution since she joined BAND-MAID as a lead vocalist.

Hopefully, we will soon know when the tickets will be sold for the first half of the World Tour and we'll be able to plan in advance.
I can already confirm you that I will be at the three shows in Germany and also in Paris.
As mentionned in the title, I sent a message to MAIDIT, asking for an interview with the members.
I don't expect a positive answer but who knows, right?

I just learned that the tickets for Paris are set to be released on Feb 12-13 according to LiveNation France but it's the only show listed on their website.
Let's see if the rest follows.

4 days ago | [YT] | 668

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[ 📢 ANNOUNCEMENT ] A World Tour and a hiatus

A few hours ago, BAND-MAID posted two very important announcements:

First, they announced the dates for their highly anticipated World Tour 2026 with 5 shows in Europe and only one for Asia in Hong-Kong but a 2-days finale at the Nippon Budokan!
I truly hope that there will be more for fans in the Asia area outside of Japan.
On my side, I booked the transportation and hotels to attends the 3 shows in Germany and the concert in Paris so I'll see you there!

Second, BAND-MAID announced that after the finale in November 2026, they will go in a hiatus from live performances during the whole year of 2027.
According to their communication to OMEISYUSAMA members, the members will continue to write more songs and prepare for World Domination in 2028.
I don't know what we can expect but it could be the largest World Tour ever performed by BAND-MAID.

I think that it's really nice from them to plan that much in advance and I can tell you that the message they sent to OMEISYUSAMA member was way more heartful than the one they sent to everyone.
BAND-MAID do love their fans, everyone who is supporting them for song long and we can see that it took a long time for them to write and rewrite this message.

My plans for this year is to try to vlog my trip to Germany and to Paris to make a video or a series of videos that I'll release this Summer.

For next year, I already have a plan so we can continue to make content even if BAND-MAID releases nothing and doesn't perform live.

How do you feel about those two announcements?
Leave a comment below!

1 week ago | [YT] | 479

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[ MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄 ]

I’m joining everyone who helps me run this channel to wish you a Merry Christmas, or happy holidays, and all the best for the end of 2025.
We’re all eager to learn more about BAND-MAID’s plans for 2026, especially with their recently announced world tour.
I hope many of us will get the chance to meet during this tour and bring even more people here to talk about food and BAND-MAID.

In 2022, I had the chance to fly to the US and meet many of you for the first time.
You can’t imagine how happy and proud I was to meet so many amazing people 🧡

Thank you all for being part of this wonderful community of fans supporting the best hard rock band on the planet.
Here’s to the best, biggest, unforgettable, one-of-a-kind world tour in 2026 🍻

1 month ago | [YT] | 863

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[ 🌍 WORLD TOUR ]

BAND-MAID is going to tour the world next year, finally!
Even though they used to travel a lot before COVID, they never did a "proper" world tour with a lot of dates in different parts of the world.

Unfortunately, we don't know where and when they'll travel except for the two Spin-Off Okyuji planned in February.

What is your wishlist for this BAND-MAID World Tour 2026?

For me, a one-man tour in Europe with a lot of concerts to make up for leaving us for 7 years.
I have plans for 2026 so I hope that they won't come when I'm far away 😅

1 month ago | [YT] | 564

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[ 🥳 ANNIVERSARY ] BAND-MAID Community Discord

On September 15, 2021, my sister sent me the link of the music video of "Choose me" from a band I never heard of called BAND-MAID.

I was hooked by they musicianship and started to listen to more with DICE and live performances.

Since then, I asked myself what could I do for the community and to talk about this new band I'm being already a fan of.

About 2 months later, I decided to create a Discord server after joining ‪@ryanmear‬ Discord server with so many kind fans who shared their knowledge of the band with me.

I immediately friends I made in that Discord server to help me with the moderation and give me ideas to improve the server.
I also recruited ‪@nair0n819‬ who made a huge datasheet with a ton of interesting data about BAND-MAID.
A document still up to date thanks to the work of the community.

With the support of almost everyone from the community on Mearcord, on Reddit and from YouTubers like ‪@ryanmear‬ and ‪@WavePotter‬, the BAND-MAID Community Discord, or BMCD, grew over the years to become the largest Discord server 100% dedicated to BAND-MAID.
Today, we have more than 2,600 members and more continue to join every day.

Thank you everyone for your support to BAND-MAID and to my work.
I'm so happy that we were able to grow into the best community ever ❤️

Join us now: discord.gg/band-maid

2 months ago | [YT] | 679

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[ 🥳 11th ANNIVERSARY 🎉 ]

11 years ago, BAND-MAID relased their first MV for the song "Thrill", B-side of the single "Ai to jonetsu no matadoru".

This music video became a huge hit overseas thanks to the Facebook page Jrock Radio and saved BAND-MAID from disbandment.


I made a video explaining how this MV literally saved BAND-MAID a year ago, please check it out and watch the MV of "Thrill" one more time 🔥

2 months ago | [YT] | 78

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[ 🤔 What If... ] BAND-MAID x NEK!

May be not in 2026 even though NEK! only planned concerts until April, but I can really see BAND-MAID taking NEK! for a World Tour at some point.


We know that NEK! members really like BAND-MAID and go to some of their concerts.
They also covered "Choose me" and performed it during their early days.
The members also covered other BAND-MAID songs on their YouTube channel.

Both NEK! and BAND-MAID are now under the same label: Pony Canyon and as NEK! is rising in Japan but also overseas, it would be a wise move from Pony Canyon to send their two bands touring together to save money in logistics while promoting the bands overseas, marking the return of World Domination and showing to the world what NEK! is capable of.

What do you think of this idea? Would like to see BAND-MAID and NEK! together on a tour?

2 months ago | [YT] | 512

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[ ⏳The Finale is Approaching ]

We are officially UNDER A MONTH away from BAND-MAID's grand finale at Tokyo Garden Theatre! 🔥
Let's discuss some of the things we're absolutely expecting from this show 🤘🏻

🕊️ What song are you hoping to see in the setlist?
🕊️What's surprise you're hoping for? (An announcement? A special guest? A new blu-ray?)
🕊️What do you hope the Maids have in store for us to close out the year?

Let the speculation and the hype begin! 🥳

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Let's wrap up SCOOOOOP! 🔥 Out of the four songs of the EP that don't have Music Videos, which one is your favorite?
Don't forget, You Must Pick One! 🤘🏻

Did the new songs surprise you? 🤯

3 months ago | [YT] | 124

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[ 🚅 TRAVELING ] London 🇬🇧

Today, I'm taking the train to London where I'll stay until Sunday.

Vii is handling the channel since last week as I took a 2 weeks vacation.

I have two videos to be released in November (I already started to work on one of them) and there might be a special livestream coming soon.

I hope that you are all doing great.
I'm very happy to finally finished the documentary series, I hope that you like it as well.

Have a great day and an amazing week ✨
See you very soon 🫡

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