その結果、こうした驚異的サポートに触発され、また、この唯一無二のYFEサウンドを切望する驚くほど大量のリクエストが殺到したため、彼ら6人は2007年4月、自主レーベルHopeful Tragedy Recordsの設立を決意。同年6月1日、Your Favorite Enemies初となるEP ”And If I Was To Die In the Morning…Would I still Be Sleeping With You”(セルフプロデュース曲5曲+EPのみ収録のボーナストラック1曲)を同レーベルより全世界送料込みでたった10ドルという価格でリリース。しかし、当時のバンドのアドバイザーらは、それを無謀なやり方と決めつけ成功を疑問視。結果、彼らの強硬な反対に遭い、バンドは必要なサポートを得られないという事態に直面した。それでも彼らは、忠実なファンたちを第一にするという確固たるヴィジョンを保ち続け、モントリオールから東京に至る世界中の彼らのEPを待望するファンのために、無謀とも言える低価格かつ世界均一価格でのEPリリースの実現化に踏み切った。
多くの人々が歴史的大失敗とバンドのキャリアにおける大失態を予想していたが、インディーレーベルを設立し、ファンの気持に応えるべくレーベルのオンライン・ストアのみでEPを販売するという決断は、けっかとしてYour Favorite Enemiesの決定的な分岐点となり、バンドは様々な活動を行い、2007年を終えた。仏”ROCK ONE”誌をはじめとする数々の国際メディアにインディーバンドとしては異例の扱いで取り上げられ、夏には東京でのmeet and greetを開催、秋にはバンド初となるヨーロッパ単独プロモーション・ツアーを敢行、2007年末にはEP の売上は3万枚を記録。加えてマルチメディア部門をHopeful Tragedy Records内に設立。ウェブ上で斬新な企画を進め、毎週更新のポッドキャスト配信番組「YFE-TV 」を制作し好評を博している。こうした様々な取り組みによりYFEは、日従来型音楽モデルから次々と登場している新たな「DIY」バンド達の中でも最もエキサイティングなバンドの一つとして頭角を現しつつある。
言うまでもなく、彼らを待ち構える未来を占う上で2007年が好調の前触れであったとするなら、2008年は、このモントリオール出身の6人のミュージシャンにとって間違いなく面白くなるはずだ。ちなみに彼らは、すでにBillboard Magazineが選ぶ2008年要注目バンド・トップ5のひとつとして紹介されている。その記事は、2008年に彼らが収めた驚くべき成功の後では否定することはできないだろう。マイスペース上でライブ映像を世界に向けてリアルタイムで放送した初のバンドとなり、初の日本ツアーで大成功を収め、Hopeful Tragedy Recordsより2008年6月1日にリリースされた2ndアルバム、「Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye」は6万枚以上の売上げを記録した。そして名高いゲームシリーズ『ディシディア ファイナル・ファンタジー』に参加したバンドとなった。
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heelllooooooo!!!!! hahahaXDD waaah~ TT __ TT i miss u too...btw...fo my bday...i didn't get anything special..hehe...no present fo me..so u have to giv me one ok???...so sad..haha...sorry if i hadn't been around lately... im busy with my so called campus life...hahahaXDD anyway thnx fo ur message...im looking forward to meet u guyz one day...rock on kay???!!!
Hi Alex! Great!jazz festival?i like it! Jazz is suchlike a romantic music.haha. Will you go there to have some fun? Hei,i'm in bad mood now,i still confused about my new hair.i want to have a long hair so i gave some extension.but my hair extension was so dried.i think its not a real hair.i think my hair extension was blend with some plastic hair.i was be cheated by the sales.aargghh.. So,what are you doing lately? Please give me some news about you! Much love, Your sister s
Thank u 4 ur message, Alex.. In this weekend, i dont know what to do! I have no plan.. I just know about Java Jazz Festival, maybe its similar but not the place name.. Very famous here, but i dont like jazz.. Yeah! I hope i'll follow ur step to germny!!
Thank you for sending a message. I am very glad. And the recent news had a fortune-teller. One's future was uneasy. As for the result, the leader of a passionate organization was called a person of my fate. But such a terrible person cannot think it to be the person sharing my fate.
And I wanted to really watch the show of Beatles. I cannot watch it, and they are very disappointed. But, as for the Japanese performance, the encouragement of the girl is persistent. Therefore I wanted to watch their show in a different place. And I like Yoko. But I have not been every year to never watch her though she does a show near. And John and Yoko are my ideal couples. I love like John and Yoko and want to support a beloved person. However, there is not the person loving me now.
And there is JAZZ festival in Montreal. I think that there is absoluteness in Japan. But it is old JAZZ to like me. Therefore there is not that I went in Japanese JAZZ festival. And did Stevie Wonder come in JAZZ festival of Montreal? I wanted to watch the show of Stevie Wonder. I think that he is a very great artist.
I think that I can understand the English from the front. Therefore I understand that it is written in Twitter a little. But the English is not perfect though I can talk a little now. I want to talk by one's words if I can talk with you. Therefore I want to get possible to speak more English. So a more English study is need. That reminds me I watched the photograph of your and your father in Twitter. I thought that it was a very wonderful photograph.
And does U2 give an album in 2010? I did not know it. Surely it is a tour of this album that they come to Japan. But I want to do the request to want them to come to Japan.
And I bought DVD of "SHINE A LIGHT" of the ROLLING STONES on the weekend. Therefore I intend to watch this.
The place where I work part-time is Japanese food shop.
I usually make only easy-to-do dishes because living alone though like dishes.
Clothes shop where my lover is working is not famous.
Because the lover had begun to work, I learnt the shop.
Encouraging is taught you by one in each album though there are a lot of favorite tunes in the Kokeshi Doll!
It is a tune of 血液 (blood) in first album "こけしDoll (Kokeshi Doll)".
Second album "ピル子類 (I'm sorry it is not possible to translate into English) " Then, it is a tune of 白い箱(White box).
When it is "Tantalus Rhnthm" of the third album, it is tune of 混合色(Mixed color).
When it is "殺生体内(Cruel the inside of the body)" of the force album, it is tune of 宙 (Sky).
By the way, I do not think that it might be correct though the title in parentheses translated into English.
Atmosphere is valued though it is not possible to express well when I choose music.
There are likes and dislikes also in the band that performs a similar tune.
There is consciousness that has been biased somehow though it listens as the genre doesn't worry especially.
Please teach to me when there is your recommended band by all means.
I want also to learn a lot of you.
Thank you for the comment. Joe Dassan was very good. Thank you for teaching. It came to like it. There were a lot of famous tunes, and I was surprised in Japan.
It has not been to foreign countries. The first country wants to make it to Turkey.
Salam Unagami is a journalist of world music. It was influenced by him.
Hi Alex,Thank you for your comment!I am very pleased to receive your message. Lately I am spending my life with my cat as usual, because my cat kurota regain his strength and health. In the meantime,How was your Shadow? I heard that your Shadow had a surgery to remove a cancerous mass on her belly... >she was mistreated before, she doesn't trust the people that she doesn't know, and she hate animals hospital! I understand it's circumstances.Animals hospital is very noisy because each dog cries in disorder.Perhaps They all feel lonely. You determined what is best for Shadow.It might be best one.
>Is your hometown far form where you live now??? Where is it??? I am curious to know! Distance of my now living house to hometown(mother's house) is about 230 Km. My house is in Kobe and hometown is in Nagoya.Both are big city in Japan. In your country,such as distance of Montreal to Quebec. I often transfer between Kobe and Nagoya at least one time a week because I work at Nagoya at the first half of the week and I work at Kobe at the second half of the week. My job is a part time teacher at night high school. So I can check my old mother's action every week though I live far from mother's house. Alex,where is your hometown? I am curious to know too!
Hey!!! i'm doin well here! YUP! i like music so much! Urmm,,,about the band i really2 like Click 5 the US boy band! but i also like all the another band!! Have a nice day!
Bonjour Alex!! Comment vas-tu récemment? Oui, j'étudie le français.
Really!? Thank you very much. When I have a trable with my French class, please help me. Learning French is really fun for me. I love learning English too!! Learning foreign language give me freshness and another way of thinking!!
Yees, I enjoy working at the theater and can wathch many movies. Working at the baseball stadium sounds exciting!!
Umm.. No, I am not ready to the exams yet.. Yes, they will start next next week..
Hello Alex. In Japan, now is fireworks season. I wanna wear Yukata this year!! I couldn't wear Yukata last summer... Kimono and Yukata culture is completely outdated... But we wear Kinomo on coming-of-Age celebration!! I will wear next Junuary!!
Japanese eat fried noodle, shaved ice, apple candy...these are like junk food! And children and old people dance "Bon Odori". It is traditional dance in Japan. But it is not cool! LOL Young people don't dance Bon Odori now.
I have a part-time job this weekend...and also today X( It is hard job about mental.
I thought your new hair is cool! I like it because I'm also Japanese. LOL
Hello, Alex! I am cheerful. I wore cool clothes in an interview of the work.
It is an EMINEM size enthusiast. Music My Dad's Gone Crazy (feat.Hailie Jade) is particularly good!) which is collected in THE EMINEM SHOW ! Of course I watched 8Mile! The DVD lasts, too. I always think that it is a splendid movie