▶ Do you ever talk to your parents about music?
His incredible works ▶ What are your upcoming plans and the style you aim for in the future?
LARGE400 ▶ Generally, your live performances are on weekends, right?
▶ USGKZ&The equipments started in 2016. I heard that it began when LARGE400 couldn't make it to Less Than TV's Fucker album release, and you ended up doing a solo performance.
Took by Kaoru Murai who is a super hardcore photographer ▶ SK8NIKS and LARGE400 have been consistently active, with their frequency of activities aside, but in my mind, IdolPunch feels like you joined them at some point without me realizin…
▶ Did SK8NIKS also form during your time at the music school?
▶ Nowadays, the members of LARGE400 are scattered all over the place. Did you originally meet Uchi, the vocalist, in Osaka?
USGKZ: After graduating from high school, I came to Osaka to attend a music school, and while I was still in Onomichi Specter, I formed a band during my first year at the music school.
▶ You started playing the guitar in your first year of junior high, how did you form your first band?
Landscape of Onomichi city ▶ I've been a fan of your band sound for a long time, and my first question is about the fundamental origins of it. I saw online and in magazines that you're from Onomichi City in Hiroshima Prefecture, and that y…
This is a personal interview with Kozo Uesugi(hereinafter called USGKZ), who has been active in the Japanese hardcore punk scene for a long time, including LARGE400. (All time my best band!)
未来編
普段の活動編
USGKZ&The equipments始動編
IdolPunchフェイドイン編
SK8NIKS加入編
LARGE400結成編
大阪編 Floppy ass ～ 長谷川マッチョ
尾道編 初バンドのスタート（The CLS～Hip Hole～尾道スペクター）
INTRO（バンド活動前夜） LARGE400をはじめ、長く日本のハードコアパンクシーンで活躍する、上杉耕造さんのパーソナルインタビューです。一筋縄ではいかない、でも耳触りの良い爆裂サウンドの源とは？
2018年10月6日に実施した第1号の上杉耕造さんのインタビューを章ごとにあげていきます。 目次は次の通りです。 リンク張れるのかよくわからないので、後で修正するかもしれません。
