69ing With… RAY (Seremedy) 日本語あり

Interview

by Leela McMullen, posted October 14, 2011

English | 日本語
Seremedy guitarist RAY gave very straight-forward well thought out answers through which you can really feel his love for music and the VK genre!

Self Intro

  1. Name: RAY
  2. Role you play in the band: Guitar
  3. Country & City of Birth: Sundsvall, Sweden
  4. Languages Spoken: Swedish, English, some German
  5. Hobbies: Music, movies, video-games
  6. Pet Peeve or Personality Quirk: Bad memory…
  7. Birthday: 4th June

Physical Traits

  1. Height: 185 cm
  2. Weight: 65 kg.
  3. Natural Hair Color: Natural blond
  4. Current hair Color: now brown
  5. Do you wear contacts/glasses? No
  6. Do you have or want any piercings/tattoos? I have a crown tattoo on my wrist. I’ve had five piercings at most before, but none now.
  7. Name someone you’ve been told you look like: Karyu (D’espairsRay)

Childhood

  1. Were you a good student? I had the potential to be a good student but I didn’t use it..
  2. Were you loud or quiet? Both
  3. What was your favorite subject in school? Civics and English
  4. What was your least favorite? Math
  5. Did you participate in any extracurricular activities? No

Travel

  1. Where have you travelled to? A lot of different countries.
  2. What’s your favourite country and why? Japan, I loved the foods, fashion, culture and citys.
  3. Where would you most like to travel to? USA

Japan

  1. What cities have you been to? Tokyo, Nagoya
  2. What’s your favorite place and why? I loved Harajuku and the shops there.
  3. What’s your best/strangest memory of Japan? The best was all the nights on Star Café with my friends, and playing live at all the live houses. Don’t really know what the strangest was; Japan is pretty strange overall, haha!
  4. Interest in Japan aside from visual kei? Japanese fashion
  5. Favorite word in Japanese? KANPAI! (Cheers)

Likes/Dislikes

  1. Do you prefer rain or sunshine? Sunshine in the rain
  2. Which season do you like/dislike most? I like summer the most, and I dislike winter
  3. Cats/Dogs? Cats
  4. What animal/s do you like aside from cats and dogs? Turtles
  5. What’s your favourite colour? Purple and silver
  6. What sport are you best at? I don’t like sports
  7. What sport are you worst at? I don’t like sports
  8. What’s your favorite Olympic category? Nothing
  9. What’s your favourite flavour? Coffee
  10. What’s your favorite food? Chicken with noodles and vegetables
  11. What food can’t you eat? Fish
  12. What food do you want to try? Habanero chili, the hottest spice in the world
  13. Do you smoke? (If so, what brand?) Yes, Lucky Strike
  14. Do you drink alcohol? Yes
  15. What’s your favorite drink? (Soft drink or alcoholic.) Rum with coke and lime

Fashion/Romance

  1. What’s your favorite guys’ street fashion? Don’t really know
  2. What guys’ street fashion do you hate? I don’t hate any, people can dress however they want
  3. What’s your favorite VK brand? 9GOATS BLACK OUT and Jinkaku Radio (Bands)
  4. What VK style do you like? Nagoya kei
  5. What’s your favorite girls’ fashion?
  6. What girls’ fashion do you hate?
  7. What type of person is your ideal partner? A mature and intelligent but fun partner
  8. What type of person can you not stand? Liars
  9. Do you prefer long hair or short hair? Long
  10. Do you want to date someone taller or shorter than you? Shorter
  11. Do you want to date someone older or younger than you? Age doesn’t matter

Music

  1. What’s your favorite type of music? Post-Punk and Alternative Rock
  2. Who’s your favorite Japanese artist? Dir en grey
  3. Who’s your favorite non-Japanese artist? Radiohead
  4. Who is your musical inspiration? Dir en grey
  5. What song would you most like you cover? I don’t really like to cover other artist’s songs…
  6. Have you always wanted to be in a band? Yes
  7. If no: What did you want to be? Since I started to play guitar I felt that I wanted to show my feelings through my music to as many people as possible, and it was only natural to start a band
  8. Did you always want to play the part you play now? If not, what did you want to play? At first I wanted to play bass, but I ended up playing the guitar instead
  9. What was your first instrument/the first song you sang? Guitar.
  10. Do you come from a musical family? My father sung and played guitar in some punk bands when he was young
  11. Have you been in any other bands? No

Seremedy

  1. What country do you most want to perform in? In every country where fans want to see us!
  2. What’s your favorite Seremedy song? A song we haven’t released yet, that SEIKE and I finished not so long ago
  3. What song do you recommend where your part most stands out? Every song, just listen to the right speaker!
  4. What should we expect from Seremedy in the future? World domination!
  5. Please share a message with ROKKYUU’s readers: Thank you for reading this, I hope you’ll check out Seremedy and our MAD world, and if you’re already a fan, thanx for your support, it means a lot!

Leela McMullen is a strong believer in the philosophy "no music, no life." Having traversed the range of Japanese fandoms, she found her home at last in visual kei and has made it her mission to share what she loves most with the world. Leela completed her B.A. in Japanese language from Griffith University in Gold Coast Australia. She now lives and works in Japan, striving to bring you the goods, hot from the scene. Follow her on twitter for juicy hints of upcoming articles if you've got a bit of Japanese language under your belt! http://twitter.com/#!/LeelaInTokyo

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