Antic Café is a typical Oshare kei band. They look colourful, cute and boyish (or girlish). Their music doesn’t always match with their image, because next to upbeat, poppy rock songs they also produce heavier songs.

An Café’s material ranges from fast rock songs with screaming vocals and catchy choruses, for example 3p’, to cute pop-like songs about love such as ‘Hatsukoi'.

Author : Kay

BIOGRAPHY
Antic Café was formed in May 2003, by the vocalist Miku, guitarist Bou and bassist Kanon.
Miku’s former band Revirii had disbanded two months earlier in April, and even though the band did not have a drummer at this point, the band started to perform at several events. By performing at these events next to other vague indie bands, the Antic Café managed to gain a little publicity. The band released two demo-tapes; ‘Opu-ngu’ and ‘Uzumaki senshokutai/Hatsukoi’. Both were very limited and only sold at the early live shows.

Teruki was still with his former band Feathers-blue around this time, but he left them in August and he became a full member of Antic Café instead.

Antic Café spent the remainder of the year giving performances at various events. Their cute image and upbeat songs soon garnered a small but enthusiastic fanbase who in turn gave the band their nickname An Café.

2003 seemed to be more of a ‘try-out’ year for the young members of Antic Café, but 2004 was really the start of their serious musical career. Through a record deal with Loop Ash (also the label of bands like Mask, and Scissor) the band released their first maxi-single, ‘Candy Holic’ in March. Within a week of it’s release the single was ranked as the second biggest seller on the Oricon indie charts. This was quite an amazing feat for a band’s debut single!

Antic Café‘s first one-man performance was in May at the Takadanobaba area, which was an important concert, just like it is for all bands. The concert entitled “Happy Birthday Tsuyu”,was a sell out event and the band distributed the single ‘Hatsukoi’ for free.

The following months were quite busy for An Café. They toured a lot, released the singles ‘√69’, ‘Cosmos’ and the live-only singles ‘Touhikairo’ and ‘Tourai – café-‘. In addition to those releases, the band were featured on no less than six omnibus albums. Shoxx magazine also released a DVD/VT special featuring the band.

In December, Antic Café closed their successful year by taking to the road for a short one-man tour which ended with performances at the Takadanobaba area and the Yokohama aka renga hall.

February 2005 saw Antic Café release their first mini-album; ‘Amedama rock’, which was a compilation of their previously released singles. The mini-album was shortly followed by the maxi-single ‘Karakuri hitei’ a month later.

In the summer of 2005 the band released a trilogy of one-track singles, ‘Tekesuta Kousen’, ‘Escapism’ and ‘Merrymaking’. They were released one at a time over a three month period. Fortunately for all the fans that wanted to listen to the songs but didn’t want to buy three separate singles with only one track on each, all the songs were also featured on their very first full length album, ‘Shikisai moment’ which was released in November 2005.

The new album showed a slightly new side of An Café. The songs still had the typical An Café sound, but it seemed they had matured a bit as the band experimented with new styles and instruments.

vocals:MIKU
GuitarOU
bass:KANON
drums:TERUKI

 

 

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