This Is A Masterclass on Awesomeness Given By BAND-MAID 

I’m a 55 year old that discovered Band-Maid a few years back. I went down the pigeon hole and have not come out. I then discovered The Warning thru them. I was fortunate enough to win tickets to the Japan show with The Warning next week. My first trip to Japan. All because of a little pigeon !😂.

60 year Marine vet, been listening to rock since the early 70's. These girls are right at the top of the list of my favorite Bands

Kanami is one of the greatest rock music composers in the biz right now.

When MISA ditched the French maid outfit early on she started to wear a Chinese inspired maid outfit - in black of course. (Saiki's was Spanish inspired). It's partly how MISA got her nickname 'The Barefoot Assassin' . Well, she always plays barefoot, and Miku joked her outfit was an 'assassin maid'!

MISA's bass tone is allways top tier.

Years ago, an interviewer asked why MISA didn't dress in maid gear, Miku explained that MISA is, in fact, an assassin maid. So... She's a maid. A deadly one.

Warning x Band-Maid is next week!

Actually, the Band-Maid and The Warning show in Tokyo is coming up in a week on June 12th; it's not in October. And, The Warning is playing an additional headlining show in Tokyo without Band-Maid and one in Osaka.

Many of us saw Band-Maid play “From Now On” live. OMNG! Kanami riffed her ass off. The DB’s matched the BPM’s! So FROM NOW ON, Band-Maid will grow in popularity even faster as their awesome, sold out 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR wrapped up at Japan’s 17,000 seat Yokohama Arena on Nov. 26 and at Hong Kong. AND they’re writing and recording for their new album! The Maids are one of the hardest working supergroups in the business! Their music, their sound, each of the Maids... and the love that permeates their live events is an experience not to be missed. Hope you can catch them LIVE! Thx, Pent!

The bassist MISA is actually wearing a maid outfit. It just happens to be an Assassin Maid outfit ;) hehe

The fact that these ladies can deliver this live (along with pretty much everything else they've recorded) is pretty awesome.

In fact? Misa doesn't even wear dress anymore. Her new battle armor is a 2 piece. It's pants and A. Top. Still has that awesome assassin maid look thou

“BabyMetal, BAND-MAID, Love Bites…I love all of them.” But mostly BAND-MAID!!! WOO HOO!! More BAND-MAID please!

MISA (bassist) is an/the Assassin Maid-..... she was never "down" with the Maid attire, so they gave her, her own outfits.... the same with Saiki,, although her attire is of a Maitre d.' Akane (Drums) is a maid, but to her own personal /Drumming style.

Band-Maid is just so damned good, you can't help but smile when you hear their music. The one thing I love about the group is their incorporation of MISA's brilliant bass playing in their music. They have just redefined the importance of the bass guitar in rock and roll.

Miku (Red Rose)- Lyrics/Backing Vocals/Guitar is the band founder, who was previously working in a Maid Cafe, when she she decided that she wanted to form a rock band to play "Cool music". She was keen to continue the maid theme in the outfits for the band, but after a short while Saiki (Lead Vocals) and Misa (Bass) soon began changing their look until you get what we see today- a sort of Goth/Maid mix. Miku, Kanami (Music/Lead Guitar), and Akane (Drums) meanwhile are still happy to sport the general maid look.

Thank you for your reaction. I fell in love with these ladies about three years ago. I am also decidedly in the older end of the demographic, raised on hard rock. This is basically a 3+ minute guitar solo with instrumental accompaniment. My only (small) quibble is that Miku does not really get to shine much, although I love her rhythm playing on this. With 120+ songs available, I envy you being able to hear them for the first time.

9:22 -We're called "Maidiacs". To answer your question, you're seeing a slow evolution of their maid outfits away from traditional maid costumes to a more subtle appearance. If you check out Hate? (Official live), MIku is the only one left wearing a super-obvious traditional maid outfit which is poetic considering she founded the band back in 2013.

Tho this is Kanami's tour de force Akane keeps pace with her every step of the way :)

Misa and Saiki used to wear maid outfits, but neither much cared for them. Go watch the music video for "Thrill" and you'll see them. That was the song that got them going and saved the band.

Band-Maid has always put a smile on my heart, this instrumental is pure joy. Like every band they have their ups and downs, yet Band-Maid keeps pressing forward and if you don't like one song just wait a hot second and the next one will be fabulous.

I know the Misa reason has been explained, she basically doesn’t like the maid outfits so she’s just in black outfits at this point. There is an interview called “Music Goldrush” where the host calls her out on her outfit not being a maid outfit. Miku jumps in to say it is a maid outfit, it’s an “assassin maid”. The host basically says that’s not a thing and everyone has a good laugh. This is where the “barefoot assassin” moniker was born (the barefoot part being her preference to play barefoot)

Kanami Tono is a genius. Other bands try to write and perform stuff like this and when they get to the studio their producer has to figure out how to flesh the track out. But not Band-Maid, Kanami has a MIDI based piano and orchestral synth track ready to go. And she has Misa, Akane, and Miku there to fill things out. I watched perform this in Detroit last year. They were perfect. I was ten feet in front of Kanami and her figerwork is amazing. The explanation for Misa's non-maid maid outfit is, like everything about Band-Maid, circuitous. From the beginning Misa was not a fan of the maid costumes, nor was Saiki. Misa went along to get along. She was in Band-Maid at her friend Akane's invitation and grudgingly accepted the maid costumes. But as soon as the band caught on and they were allowed a hand in designing personalized costumes, Misa went for an all black look that mimicked that of a Chinese housekeeper's dress and ceased looking like a maid. The first interview after that change, the interviewer noted that she didn't look like a maid, but more like a ninja assassin, and called her "The Assassin Maid". She prefers playing barefoot and so the nickname "The Barefoot Assassin" stuck. The outfit has gradually evolved into her current pantsuit.

The reason why Misa the bassist doesn't wear a maid outfit is pretty simple, it's because she didn't like to wear it so they made it an exception. But they say that It's still a maid outfit🤣

From the moment Miku takes that step back, you know you're in for a ride! Akane really goes off on this one.

Kanami did the singing on this one! Saiki and Misa never really liked wearing the maid outfits. I believe Saiki tore off the apron part during or after their first performance. They actually didn't even tell her about the outfits when she auditioned because they knew she wouldn't like it. I believe Misa said hers was an assassin maid's outfit, which is probably how she got her nickname, barefoot assassin!

MISA is just too cool for a maid outfit.......plain and simple.

The instrumental, and there are three of them, they wrote when Saiki was recovering from surgery and needed breaks from the concert, they played instrumentals and a song where Miku sang

Thanks again from Japan 有難う💛。 I witnessed this song performed live four times with this MV quality in Japan and dropped my jaw four times 😲. I believe so did many of American audience in their recent three US tours. This song has been normally played in the middle of the setlist to give Saiki, lead vocalist, some break. They played this song, however, as opening at festivals and in Guns N' Roses concert in Japan as support to the legendary band. Yeah! they showed off their skills and talents to the audience who knew nothing about the girls in maid outfit on the stage. I felt as if I heard them screaming "Hey guys! Listen to us and open your eyes wide! We are not the persons that you think ! Salute us!" 😄

MISA is dressed as an 'assassin maid', which concept is largely the product of Miku's fertile mind. The fact is that she and Saiki hated the more traditional maid outfits so they were allowed to modify them, MISA ending up with a Goth look and Saiki with a kind of Spanish-flavoured 'hostess' look.

There are actually four officially released instrumentals (Onset, Don't Be Long, Without Holding Back, From Now On), as well as many instrumental versions of their other songs released as B-sides, bonuses, etc., and a full instrumental version of the album Unseen World released with the official score book. There have been some "unreleased" instrumentals that were made available for a limited time that you can find (Go Nuts, which was used on a radio program iirc, and Want More, which was a demo that eventually became Without Holding Back) and I believe one of their new songs that they've played in Japan a few times (Go Easy) is an instrumental as well. Most Band-Maid songs actually work quite well as instrumentals due to Kanami's compositional style. All Band-Maid songs are composed music first (Guitarist Kanami us the primary composer, but Bassist MISA and drummer Akane also contribute), with the lyrics added after by Miku and/or Saiki based on how the music makes them feel.

Kanami🥰took the vocals in her own hands on this one.

When I saw them in 2023 they opened with this .

Each Maid could literally give a masterclass in her respective field, they are all THAT great ♥

Some Japanese bands, old and new. Take your pick: BAND-MAID [All their songs... really!], LOVEBITES [Break the Wall, Raise some Hell, and all the other songs], BABYMETAL [All their songs, because they are all different], MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [Yoshu Fukushu], DEXCORE [Earthworm], CROSSFAITH [Catastrophe, Zero], SiM [Killing Me], NINGEN ISU [Heartless Scat], ADO [Unravel (LIVE)], UNLUCKY MORPHEUS [Black Pentagram], YOUSEI TEIKOKU [Astral Dogma, Patriot Anthem (Live)] and their other band: DenKare [Detonator], COLDRAIN [Die Tomorrow], CRYSTAL LAKE [The Circle], GIVEN BY THE FLAMES [Ronove], LONESOME_BLUE [Face the Fear], ANGRY FROG REBIRTH [2Step Syndrome], SILENTLY SHOOTING TRAITORS [Manipulate], ALDIOUS [Dominator], EAST OF EDEN [Evolve], TRiDENT [Ambivalent, Spoopy], KOKESHI [Fetal Sea], BRIDEAR [Light in the Dark, Brave New World Revisited, Ignite], CINQ ELEMENT [Destiny], MARY'S BLOOD [Marionette], GRAUPEL [Bereavement], DOLL$BOXX [Take my Chance], SOKONINARU [Tenohira De Odoru], HELLO SLEEPWALKERS [Flying Saucer], TELECiDE [Tied up Memories], NEKO [Ghost on a Record], MARDELAS [G-Metal], FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS [Tear Down], MERGINGMOON [Greyen], ROTTENGRAFFTY [Hallelujah], JILUKA [Mephisto, Overkill, Venom, Lluvia], BROKEN BY THE SCREAM [Emotion Cross-Counter], FATE GEAR [Unbreakable Wings], LYNCH [Devil], GACHARIC SPIN [Mindset], DIR EN GREY [Ningen wo Kaburu], X JAPAN [Kurenai], DAZZLE VISION [Second], DEVILOOF [Torture] _(Deathcore Band),_ JUPITER [My Enemy], SEIKIMA-II [Fire After Fire], NOKUTO [Life of Desire], GALNERYUS [Angel of Salvation], SAISEIGA [Ride On], BLOOD STAIN CHILD [Del-Sol], IRONBUNNY [23], NEMOPHILA [Rise, Hypnosis], DADAROMA [Lucid Dream], PaleNeØ [aLiVE], Takayoshi Ohmura [THE CATACLYSM], HANABIE [We Love Sweets, Be the GAL], ZEILE [Deathside], A CROWD OF REBELLION [Re:Create of the Re:d], PALEDUSK [Area PD], POLKADOT STINGRAY [any song], MUTANT MONSTERS [Abnormal], BLACKLAB [Insanity], ASTERISM [Fiction, Rising Moon, Unravel, or Church], NOISEMAKER [Hunter or Prey], BiSH [The Night When Stars Twinkle], SCANDAL [A.M.D.K.J.], DEEP GIRL [I kill], Mrs. GREEN APPLE [Inferno], BRATS [Doudatte Yokatta, Kimarigoto], THE ORAL CIGARETTES [Frenzy Hey Kids!!], GIRUGAMESH [Drain], LiLiHoLi [From Darkness to Light], THE DEVIL’S KILLING MERRY-GO-ROUND [Diabolos], OTOBOKE BEAVER [Don't Light My Fire, Love is Short], GLIM SPANKY [Breaking Down Blues, Fighter], and many many more...

Misa and Saiki only wore Maid outfits in the very early days, in fact the management and Miku didn`t even tell Saiki about the maid outfits until after she had rehearsed and agreed to join the band because they thought it would put her off joining. She and Misa have worn various black outfits since then. Great reaction as usual, and as a massive fan of the Maids, Lovebites, Babymetal, and The Warning I look forward to many more reactions from you.

Great reaction as usual. I have a sneaky feeling that when they go on tour for the upcoming album, it will not be in the US at first. I think they will hit Europe, Asia and maybe South America first. I am in Australia, praying that they will come here. Anyhow, it is all speculation. Rock on 🤘

Another awesome reaction to the Maids. You're one of now, get used to our name...Maidiacs.😂 I'm in the same boat as you. If I want to see Band-Maid live, it's road/air trip for me. All I can say, if you can, it's definately worth it! It's the only way for me to see them. 😱 Keep on rocking with the Maids! PO!🕊 🤘😆🤘

Such a fantastic instrumental song from these amazing ladies! I would recommend "Giovanni" in both instrumental and with lyrics, the same song, but when it's the instrumental version it takes on a life of it's own! I've seen The Warning three times and I know you enjoy them!

Misa is also called "Bouncer". According to one version, Miku and Kanami are dressed as French and English maids, Saikou is dressed as the hostess of the establishment, in the Spanish style. Akane (drummer) is dressed as a chef, and Misa is dressed as a bouncer (martial artist)

You have a great concert schedule coming up. You're going to have a great rest of the year. congrats! And don't worry, if Band-maid are coming back here it is likely in mid 2025.

Amazing!!

Great reaction as always. 👍🏽 This is the song that put me over the top. They convinced me that they didn’t have to rely on anything other than musicianship and composition. Regarding MISA, from all I’ve heard and read, she was very close to quitting the band very early on. Not based on the outfits, but it showed she was willing to step away. She was convinced to stay and she did (thank his highness Tiny Hat-san!) “I’ll be in this band, but I’m not wearing that!” Probably is the short version of hers (and Saiki’s) conversation with Miku. Saiki has open animosity towards the costumes. No doubt there were battles between her and Miku. Miku knows the band’s success has been made (pun!) based in no small part upon their unexpected and bold contrasting image. She apparently bent to their demands to keep the thing rolling. Their most recent uniforms are the least cohesive Maid image yet. Miku is essentially alone at this point, with Kanami now in black as well.

TO ALL, A QUESTION: Now that we're counting down to the Two Titans of Rock sharing the stage together June 12, what, if any, song(s) do you think they will partake in together? Will The Sisters join the Maids for a B-M song, or will the Maids join The Sisters set for a Warning song? AND if so, what song(s) will they do together? Love to know your thoughts....

Hi there hope you well I love the outfits smashing drums amazing the way they live themselves in Tops👌🔥😊

"A Masterclass of Awesomeness." Think I've heard that somewhere before. But always the truth. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Peace. 9.04

This band was created by Miku. When Miku asked the vocalist to wear a maid outfit, she was slammed to the floor. However, Miku talked about it as a "laughing story" on a variety show. There are many bands whose members fight, split up, or fall apart. This is because people with strong individuality and self-assertion gather here. If Miku had been the type of person who would get furious over vocals, the band would not have been as successful as it is today. The ability to play the guitar and the ability to play the drums are of course important. However, they are only evaluated when they appear in public. Miku's role as a clown and the glue within the band is actually very important.

From what I understand MISA costume is based on a Chinese Serving dress and it has since been customized to fit her personal taste.

LOVEBITES US Tour 2024 tickets went on sale this morning. They all wore maid outfits in the beginning. See the THRILL video, as wells as earlier photos and videos. MISA was never into the look, and SAIKI dispensed with her white apron after their first concert. (In that video, it's confusing to see both vocalists wearing nearly identical outfits.) Subsequently, MISA's outfits have been informed by Chinese styles or have resembled ninja "pajamas," and SAIKI's by traditional clothing of Spain (I think). Years ago, AKANE's outfit transformed from a skirt to short trousers, more suitable for drumming.

Actually, Saiki also doesn't really wear a maid outfit, and Kanami appears to be evolving her outfit toward something a bit more gothic. Saiki and MISA were skeptical of the maid schtick from the very beginning, and I think that's actually given them an added element of cool. In their very earliest videos you will see all five in straight-up French Maid outfits.

My take on the maid outifits is that they all have some variation of a "maid" outfit it's just that Miku's, Kanami's and Akane's are the most obvious. MISA's is more chinese inspired and referred to as the "Assassin maid". As for Saiki, having a more elaborate outfit, she could represent what is a "lady in waiting" which traditionally was/is a lower ranking noble serving a higher noble or royalty. So while not a servant or a maid, she still fills the same role for her "mistress" i.e the audience.

I have tickets for Heart/Cheap Trick this August. It'll be the 5th time seeing Heart and the 1st time seeing Cheap Trick.

I hear you in concert tickets. I'm from Chicago and got VIP tickets for Lovebites in Dallas, then the next day Babymetal announces a tour and I have to go to Madison, WI to see that, a big ouch in the wallet but worth it. And yeah if Band-Maid announces US dates in the fall, oh boy. With the tickets I have now I will have seen 5 Japanese artists this year.

Recommended Channel(About Their History etc) www.youtube.com/@Ohrenje Greetings From Japan🙂