ORANGE RANGE

Name of performance: ORANGE RANGE
Venue: Zepp Fukuoka
Open: 2019/05/11 (Sat) 10:00
Notes:
* Drink fee not included * Videos and photos inside the venue, including customers, may be released.
* Tickets are required for elementary school students and above.　
* Admission of preschool children is based on the premise that visitors within the parent's guardian's guardian will be able to view it without disturbing others.
Limited number of tickets: You can book up to 4 tickets per application. Application limit twice times.
Type of seats and fees: 　
1F standing: ¥ 5,000
2F reserved seat: ¥ 5,000

Orange Range (オレンジレンジ , Orenji Renji) are a 5-member Japanese rock band, based in Okinawa, Japan. Formed in 2001, the band began with Spice Music and later signed with Sony Music Japan's gr8! records division in 2003. The band left gr8! records in 2010 to start their own label, Super Echo.

One of the top J-rock bands of the mid-2000s, Orange Range achieved fame and multiple animé credits invitations due to their ability to carefully interlace heavy riffs and commercial hip-hop elements in their predominantly pop/rock songs. They hail from Okinawa, the point of contact between Japanese and American culture thanks to the abundance of soldiers serving on the local U.S. military base, which has a profound effect on the local music scene; Orange Range is definitely proof of that even though the group formed in 2001 simply as a J-rock cover band. The group, made of high school buddies, soon moved on to original material, played local clubs and school events for a while, and secured a deal with an indie label. Their commercial debut single Michishirube only reached number 250 on the Oricon charts in 2002, but they still progressed, getting signed to a Sony Music sub-label, and scoring number 50 and then number five with their two subsequent singles.

The band's transfer to top league status was completed with the inclusion of their song "Viva Rock" into the credits of the popular animé series Naruto in 2003. Orange Range's debut album, 1st Contact, was delivered that same year, stopping just one place short of the top of the Oricon, and although it fell off the charts very fast, this was still a success -- and a sign of things to come, as after that the band embarked on a near-fantastic commercial rampage, scoring eight consequent number one singles. This was a record for the 2000s, and even the accusations of plagiarism against Locolotion did not stop Orange Range's advancement, which culminated in the second LP, musiQ, selling 2.6 million units in 2004, and in their songs getting picked for another big animé, Bleach, as well as numerous TV commercials.

The third album, Natural, sold 1.9 million copies in 2005, but Orange Range's winning streak ended the next year, when drummer Kitao Kazuhito, one of the founding members, left the band. Initially it was said to be due to health problems, but eventually the truth got out that it was creative differences -- more precisely, Kazuhito's aversion to the band's drift from rock to hip-hop. The group still managed to have their track "Champione" accepted as the official song of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, and then went on to have a 100,000-copy of their "limited" single Un Rock Star released; however, their fourth, self-titled album became their lowest-selling (only 347,000 units). Still, in 2007 they were back to form, writing songs for a J-drama, animé series Code Geass, and releasing a best-of double-CD that topped the charts just as their fifth studio album, Panic Fancy, did in 2008. ~ Alexey Eremenko, Rovi

Schedule & Ticket

Place information

• Niigata LOTS (Lotts)
  新潟LOTS（ロッツ）

  Address

  日本、〒950-0908 新潟県新潟市中央区幸西４丁目３−５  Map

• Zepp Fukuoka
  Zepp Fukuoka

  Address

  日本、〒810-0065 福岡県福岡市中央区地行浜２丁目２  Map

• Zepp Tokyo
  Zepp Tokyo

  Address

  日本、〒135-0064 東京都江東区青海１丁目３−１１  Map

• Wako civic culture center San Azeria
  和光市民文化センター サンアゼリア

  Address

  日本、〒351-0106 埼玉県和光市広沢１−５  Map

• Harmony Hall Zama
  ハーモニーホール座間

  Address

  日本、〒252-0021 神奈川県座間市緑ケ丘１丁目１−２  Map

• Musashimurayama Civic Center (Sakura Hall)
  武蔵村山市民会館（さくらホール）

  Address

  日本、〒208-0004 東京都武蔵村山市本町１丁目１７−１  Map

• Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
  愛知県芸術劇場

  Address

  日本、〒461-8525 愛知県名古屋市東桜１丁目１３−２  Map

• Shimizu Cultural Center Marinert
  清水文化会館 マリナート

  Address

  日本、〒424-0823 静岡県静岡市清水区島崎町２１４  Map

• Kitakami City Cultural Exchange Center Sakura Hall
  北上市文化交流センター さくらホール

  Address

  日本、〒024-0084 岩手県北上市さくら通り２丁目１−１  Map

• Shelter what hole
  シェルターなんようホール

  Address

  日本、〒999-2232 山形県南陽市三間通４３０−２  Map

• Saeki Cultural Hall
  佐伯文化会館

  Address

  日本、〒876-0831 大分県佐伯市大手町１丁目１−１  Map

• Arao Cultural Center
  荒尾総合文化センター

  Address

  日本、〒864-0041 熊本県荒尾市荒尾４１８６−１９  Map

• Nakano Sun Plaza
  中野サンプラザ

  Address

  日本、〒164-0001 東京都中野区中野４丁目１−１  Map

• Civic Cultural Center
  市民文化センター

  Address

  日本、〒914-0078 福井県敦賀市桜町７−１  Map

• Orix Theater
  オリックス劇場

  Address

  日本、〒550-0013 大阪府大阪市西区新町１丁目１４−１５  Map

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