Quoting Toraboruta <v-babe@...>:

> Hi I'm new, just joined ^_^

Hi, welcome to the ML. ^_^

> 1. is there something going on with pictures of Lareine online? I
> heard something about the fact that lareine doesn't want their
> pictures online or something.....? I'm a little sonfused about that...

This is pretty typical of Japanese visual kei bands, actually. Most of them
don't like copyrighted pictures of them to be put online without permission.
And as a general rule they won't give this permission to fans who are running
unofficial sites. Personally I think it's a rather short-sighted approach that
hurts promotional opportunities, but I'm not the one making the rules.

> 2. Is Lareine together or are they not. Some places I read they are
> together and then the broke up and some say.....yeah I'm a little
> confused as to what they're status is right now...

They are definitely together. In fact they're playing a concert in Tokyo on
Saturday, and releasing a new album called "Never Cage" on Sunday.

To make a long story short, in August 2000 3 of the members left. Kamijo
continued with the Lareine name by himself for a little while, but then he
joined New Sodmy. They never officially disbanded, although very few fans
noticed that at the time. (-_-;) After New Sodmy disbanded in August 2002,
Kamijo restarted Lareine. In March 2003 Lareine officially began activities
again with Emiru re-joining and new drummer Kazumi. And in May 2003 Mayu
rejoined Lareine. They've been working pretty constantly since then and have
released a ton of stuff.

> Not much else to say.oh Destinee is my favorite song by them so far.

Oh, that's my favorite song too! ^_^


- inertia