livehouse 新宿 (Shinjuku) Blaze will close in 2024

livehouse 新宿 (Shinjuku) Blaze will close on 7/31/2024

https://twitter.com/shinjuku_blaze/status/1683416739886014464?s=61&t=l4Vkn-NFDiP_7AwZmCaPZA

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Not a good week for visual kei huh.

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More like not a good year at this point. That’s a major live house :sob:

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Not a good decade to be fair lol

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This hurts :((

This is… absolutely sad. Damn…

For fucks sake.

it’s probably an operational issue (building teardown, expired fixed rent contract), something like that?

those aren’t VK-exclusive venues, they’ll probably come back in some form too.

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Lease contract expired on the building. Yes it might get reused but for who knows what depends on what the new owners will do but Its highly unlikely it will be open to vkei bands or it could turn into a different building.

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Oh no :frowning:

Holy shit. Not cool.

Damn, kind of an iconic venue. Curious to see if they’ll restart somewhere else…

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Can we convince a couple retired bandmen to open a new venue instead of another bar??

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新宿BLAZEは本日をもって営業を終了いたしました。
2010年12月3日より13年8ヶ月、ご愛顧いただきありがとうございました。
たくさんのお客様・アーティストの皆様・関係者様に愛していただき、誠に感謝しております。

またお会いしましょう!

Shinjuku BLAZE has closed its doors as of today.
Thank you for your patronage for 13 years and 8 months since December 3, 2010.
We are truly grateful to our many customers, artists, and related parties for their love and support.

See you again!

#ShinjukuBLAZE
#ManyThanksBLAZE

The last artists to perform there were saxophonists Naruyoshi Kikuchi (菊地成孔) and Pepe Tormento Azucarar.

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