Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her is a Japanese band formed by guitarist Aiha Higurashi in 1992. Beginning as a two-girl band in

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with her friend Sachiko Ito, it was not until after they had played a few shows that the band got its name, which was lifted from the 1984

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song.Haw, Bill, Nippop, http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-76/artist_name-seagull_screaming_kiss_her_kiss_her, 2005. Aiha returned to

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solo in 1994 where she enlisted bassist and vocalist Nao Koyama and drummer Takaharu "Takape" Karashima. Karashima left the band after recording ''Pretty In Pink'' in 1999.

Discography

Studio albums * ''Give Them Back to Me'' (1996) * ''It's Brand New'' (1997) * ''17'' (1998) * ''No! No! No!'' (2000) * ''No! No! No Star 2000'' (2000) * ''Future or No Future'' (2001) * ''Eternal Adolescence'' (2015)

References

External links

*
Album page on Arrivederci Baby

Louder Than War - Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, A Retrospective, July 2013
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