Buck-Tick Zone

2006

In February, the book Oral History was released.

On March 9, Toll made a guest appearance at Auto-Mod's concert at Shinjuku Loft. The show was part of the 30 year celebration of the concert venue.

Lucy released their first single "Bullets -Shooting Super Star-" March 29, their second album Rockarollica II on April 26, and held a 20 date tour, covering the country from Hokkaido to Okinawa. On November 1, two live videos were released: Lucy Show 002 Live at Studio Coast and Lucy Show 002 Live at Unit.

On August 2, Buck-Tick released the single "Kagerou", it's b-side is "Utsusemi". Both song titles are chapters in the classic Japanese literary work, Genji Monogatari ("The Tale of Genji"). Could the band be headed towards another concept album?

The band played at "Summer Sonic 06" on August 12 in Osaka and on August 13 in Tokyo.

In September, Buck-Tick played 3 fan club only gigs.

Takagi-cho Missiles played an event called "Wear Red Shoes vol. 3" on September 14 at Shibuya O-East. The band consisted of Shigeru Nakano (Anarchy) on vocals, Hisashi on guitar, J (ex-Luna Sea) on bass, Motokatsu (The Mad Capsule Markets) on drums. They played a short set consisting of 3 Anarchy songs and 1 cover each of The Stalin, Jagatara, and Bob Dylan.

On November 22, Fake? released the album Marilyn is a Bubble. Hide played guitar on and U-ta played bass on the track "Turtledove (Introducing the Glow Rock)".

Hide announced that he has gotten married.

Buck-Tick played 3 dates at the end of the year under the banner "The Day In Question".

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