10th July 2008
Sorry, Thank-You and Bye!


Well if anyone still visits Ringo Catalogue, it's unfortunately time to say goodbye! I really had a great time creating and maintaining RC and I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for everyone who visited and supported the website! It really has been fun.

It's not that I don't love Ringo anymore or anything insane like that (in fact, ZAZEN XSTASY!??!?! OMG), it's because of a number of other reasons. My university course has recently become increasingly insane, and I've ran out of time to maintain the website. Plus, since I have changed computers, many of the original files I use for the website have become unusable for various reasons.

On top of that, I've started a blog, which is mainly for my design work, but also for everything else I feel like commenting on. So if you'd like, please visit www.jessemallon.com. Theres some photos of the recent Ringo 10th anniversary releases there!

I'll be leaving the content of Ringo Catalogue up for everyone to use, until my web host decides to take it all down. So, until then, enjoy everything that is Shiina Ringo, thank you for supporting RC and I'm sure I'll see a few of you around the place!

Thank you and goodbye!
 


28th January 2008
Hello!

Hi everyone! Long time no update... I thought I better explain what's going on. Well for one, there hasn't been much major news regarding Tokyo Jihen for quite the while. The only thing that really happened was the airing of the live tour 2007 Spa & Treatment concert. You can grab a JPS torrent for it here, if you haven't already. Other than that, all has been pretty much quiet.

Secondly, a few months back I got a new computer, so all the files for the website (which were made in an old crappy version of FrontPage) were migrated into the latest version of Dreamweaver (as I has moved from Windows to Mac). Okay, so this is a good thing, no? Dreamweaver being the much better program and all. However, the files did not like this change, and it has become extremely hard to update any of the pages without knocking everything out of place and changing fonts and such. I would just completely redesign the whole site, if there was not hundreds of pages to redesign, and with university and work, this just isn't possible.

So, as it stands at the moment, I will try my best to keep the site updated, the main page at least. A redesign isn't out of the question, it would just be a much smaller site, concentrating on news, discography and the like. If anyone has any ideas, you're free to e-mail me at ringocatalogue@gmail.com.

Thanks to everyone for supporting RC and sorry that it can't be the best website it can be right now!
 


1st of December 2007
Senkou Shoujo on Music Station [UPDATED]

Tokyo Jihen have appeared on Music Station, performing Senkou Shoujo. You can either download the whole episode here (a JPOPSUKI torrent), or you can watch it here (streaming thanks to pariscombo of EMF). It features a new hair-colour for Hata and some odd outfits for everyone else!

Update: You can now check out the performance at YouTube and as a (very large) HDTV mpg, seperated from the rest of the episode, at JPS.

Also, you can listen to the English, slower version of Senkou Shoujo, aka put your camera down, here, on YouTube.
 


26th of November 2007
Senkou Shoujo DVD Write-up

HEDOfloe has written a great write-up on the Senkou Shoujo DVD release, exploring each of the tracks, including the End Roll feature. This contains the put your camera down track from the Senkou Shoujo vinyl, which is the Senkou Shoujo track at a slower place with added piano and English lyrics. Anyway, for the full picture check out HEDOfloe's blog.
 


6th of November 2007
Senkou Shoujo PV


The Senkou Shoujo PV has aired and you can find it at the following links:

JPOPSUKI Tracker: MPEG2, AVI, MP3 Rip
YouTube: Link
 

19th of October 2007
Senkou Shoujo DVD + Variety Vinyl + Yokohama Blitz Setlist


Information has surfaced for the upcoming TJ November releases. There will be a PV DVD including a new track titled Senkou Shoujo, and a vinyl containing the Senkou Shoujo track and both the OSCA and Killer Tune singles. Details for the DVD can be found here, and details for the vinyl can be found here. There's also a preview of the Senkou Shoujo track here.

Tokyo Jihen played the first night of their Spa & Treatment tour at Yokohama Blitz last night and vayerism and Op2 from Electric Mole Forums shared the following setlist. All Variety songs were played, excluding BB.QUEEN. Kabuki, Gunjou Biyori, Marunouchi Sadistic, Shuraba and Toumei Ningen were the only old tracks performed. One new track, Senkou Shoujo (lifted from the upcoming Senkou Shoujo DVD release), was also played.

01 - Fukushuu
02 - Sake to Geko
03 - Kabuki (link up with osca into one song) SR sang with Megaphone
04 - OSCA (serisouly cool) SR sang with Megaphone
05 - Ramp
06 - Mirrorball (Variety Version)
07 - Kingyo no Hako (SR played guitar)
08 - Gunjou Biyori (SR and Izawa played guitar)
09 - Pinocchio (SR played guitar)
10 - Boutomin (after Pinocchio, SR went to change clothes, and four of them spoke to the fans, the first lyrics of Shiina she sang at the back stage, and UKI sang YOKOHAMA instead of YOKO at the lyrics)
11 - Tsukigime Hime (SR whisper at the endling)
12 - Kaban no Nakami
13 - Marunouchi Sadistic (JCHI version, Kameda solo, and he annouced they will play a new song)
14 - Senkou Shoujo (Izawa played guitar solo)
15 - Shiseikatsu
16 - Shuraba (the ending supposed playing by UKI but this time changed playing by IZAWAs piano, no mistake this time and they played excellent)
17 - Kronekodow
18 - Killer Tune
Encore
19 - Karada (before the song started, Kameda taught fans to say tour name Spa and treatment)
20 - SSAW
21 - Toumei Ningen
Double Encore
22 - Metro
 


9th of October 2007
live tour 2007 Spa & Treatment Merhandise

Kronekodow has revealed the tour merchandise for the upcoming Tokyo Jihen tour here. It includes t-shirts, a towel, a bag, ribbons, patches, a sleeveless t-shirt, a keyring and a flipbook-style manga. You can also view the new logo and typeface for the tour on the same page.
 

4th of October 2007
Variety Debuts at #2

Variety debutted on the ORICON Weekly Album Charts at #2, behind Otsuka Ai's fourth original album, LOVE PiECE. It sold 102,475 copies against Ai's 208,031.

In comparison, Adult sold 169,551 copies in it's first week. However this is not as large as Otsuka Ai's drop, with her third album LOVE COOK selling about 130,000 more copies in it's first week than LOVE PiECE.
 

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