We were very excited to go in Japan ! After our last trip in Taïwan at Spring Scream Festival in April, we understood that Japan was really different from the other asian countries. Special people, and an island with a lot of history: honour, bravery, and
also tragedies with the atomic bombs of these fucking americans.
:-)



After a single show at the Wall in Taiwan, where we saw again our friends Loïc,
Steph, Jimi, and all our fans that we met at Spring Scream, we went to Tokyo,
Japan. We spend our first night in a large building, like in a movie...



We took advantage of our free time to eat some typical food (sorry to break your
balls with the food, but that's it : americans love money, we love... food).





We are then greeted by our friend Yoko Yamada, from the French Export Office, and
by Cyril, from the French Ambassy, who actualy doesn't make anything except saying bullshits all the time. He is payed for that, and for going on tour with french bands
just to say that great France is all around, thanks to our taxes. But he's cool, he
really desserves to be payed for doing nothing, because he's doing nothing very well. Cyril hold now our fan's website in Japan, at least it is useful, for once! At the opposite, Yoko thought she'll be supposed to work a lot, as she's used to when she
goes on tour with french bands. Lot of them are some mentally retarded guys, with
15 press attaches and technicians for two artists. We're just three and we're doing everything ourselves, so we hope that Yoko had a great time at Fuji Rock: for the
first time she doesn't have anything to deal with! Anyway, we thank you a lot, Yoko (and not you, Cyril).


Yoko !

Yoko, Cyril & the giants condoms

Our very first show at Fuji Rock was at Red Marquee. It was some kind of festival
"pre-release", 4 bands on stage for 8500 crazy people. That was cool, and we
checked that the japanese sense of organization wasn't a legend.





Another thing which is not a legend is the rain at Fuji Rock. We have been told that
it's always raining at the festival, and it's true! But the audience doesn't really care,
as you can see...

Live @ Naeba Shokudo, under the rain

That second show was one of our best time in Japan. While a lot of people were
being bored by Oasis show on the big stage, 700 fans of TIC were waiting for us in front of the Naeba Shokudo, expecting for a powerful gig and a careful breaking of
the drum set. Naeba Shokudo is a kind of "showcase" stage, closed to a restaurant... on this video, there is some people sitting and eating, but they won't finish their lunch, jumping all around before the end of the show. This gig will stay one of our biggest memory; with great vibes! We love that, this kind of extreme conditions... there you see which bands have balls or not. That was fantastic, with two curtain calls and a totaly crazy audience.

Live @ Naeba Shokudo, final

Our Japanese record house, brave guys from Surf Rock, will get wet but very happy! Thanks again to our friends for trusting us, Taichi and his family, his lovely children who's listening to TIC all the time (so he'll succeed in life... a children who's listening
to Slimy, BB Brunes or Plasticines - some shitty french bands - will certainly slip, it's obvious), Taichi's wife, Randy (that's a pity, he's american but he's cool!) and Meri, thanks for everything guys, we love you! Thanks to Nambu San, our agent, and
Smash (Fuji Rock owner), they are very precious people in these troubled times :
they really love music, they serve the music. We'll have to send them all the rock
critics from London, Paris and NY; so they can learn something about music!
Nambu San, we love you so much, you're so fantastic!



The day after, we played at Orange Court in front of 5000 supercharged people, who came to see us after the two good first shows we did, even if they had to walk 40 minutes to go from the entry to this stage, in the middle of the mountain! Merchandising was sold-out, we sold all our tee-shirts (like 200 in two days!


"Two Days" Live @ Orange Court

That third show was awsome, a great memory of absolute communion with the audience. We met Eli Reed, who was playing just after us. A charming boy, and his bands are good guys too! We're a bit sorry because that wasn't very easy to play after us, that day... but keep going rock'n'roll, Eli, we love you !


"The Inspector Cluzo" Live @ Orange Court

Just after a meeting with our record house and our agent, making some plans to
come back very soon in Japan, and we left the festival. 5 hours of driving to the hotel in Tokyo, we're flying at 7 in the morning to Seoul, South Korean, where we're
supposed to play. Hardcore trip, but we love that! Thanks a lot to Surf Rock, Smash and Nambu, and thanks to all TIC's fans in Japan. We'll be back each year, and our second record will be release first in your country. And another time, Cyril, we don't thank you, you're such a fucker!

TIC



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Interview by Fuji Rockers