Grass Arcade is a

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rock-band under the

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label and were active in 1998/1999. Their management office was Ading.

History

The band was formed in 1998, when Seri Kamimine and Keishi Sanada were high school classmates. Later on in the summer of 1998, Kouji Ueno joined and the three then performed together, live on the streets. In February 1999, they made their major debut on the same day as Giza Studio artists

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. Their debut single was ''Brave'' which was released in two formats: 8cm and 12cm maxi single. The single was used as an opening theme for Anime television series ''

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''. The single reached number 36 in the Weekly Oricon rankings, charted for 2 weeks and sold over 10,000 copies. In the same month they released their first mini album "''!"'' under the indie label, Garage Indies Zapping Association. The mini album includes the demo version of the single ''Brave'', the b-side track ''So Long'' and two cover songs by the bands Happy End and The Spiders. In June 1999, they released their second and final single, ''Butterfly'' which was used as a theme song for

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television program ''Tokoroteki Dazoku Kousa.'' Bassist Hiroyuki Wakita then joined shortly afterwards. In July 1999, there were plans to release a debut album, ''Sing-a-horic'' (with the disc code ''GZCA-1010''), however during the recording the band disbanded and as result the album was never released. In August 1999, Hiroyuki left the band and Grass Arcade then disbanded. Hiroyuki would then join the band

as their new bassist in June 2000. In 2014, when they reached the 15th anniversary of their debut, Seri and Keishi performed under the name Grass Arcade in a live session called ''QUNIWO☆SONIC'' in live house ''Ogimachi Para-dice'' as guest members of the band ''Robo&Peace''. Ueno and Hiroyuki weren't involved.

Members

*Seri Kamimine (上峰芹) - vocals *Keishi Sanada (早灘圭志) - drums *Kouji Ueno (上野幸司) - guitar *Hiroyuki Wakita (脇田啓行) - bass

Discography

Mini albums

Singles

Unreleased studio album

Magazine appearances

From Music Freak Magazine: *Vol.51 1999/February *Vol.55 1999/June *Vol.56 1999/July From J-Rock Magazine: *1999/03 *1999/04 *1999/08

References

External links

*Official website by Being (in Japanese

*Oricon profile (in Japanese

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