Ellegarden

[2] Its lineup consists of vocalist/guitarist Takeshi Hosomi, guitarist Shinichi Ubukata, bassist Yuichi Takada, and drummer Hirotaka Takahashi.

After releasing five studio albums, including the Oricon number one Eleven Fire Crackers (2006), the band announced an indefinite hiatus in 2008.

of 2001, Ellegarden signed with the Japanese Dynamord label, and released their first EP, Bare Foot, with a full-length album, Don't Trust Anyone But Us, following in the spring of 2002.

The tour, titled The Boys are Back in Town, kicked off in August 2018 at Shinkiba Studio Coast, the same venue as their send-off concert.

[8] Mark Deming of AllMusic found Ellegarden's "tight, punchy but muscular sound" reminiscent of North American bands such as Blink-182, Sum 41 and Good Charlotte, while also displaying the influence of Hosomi's favorites, Weezer.

[2] In the Summer 2006 issue of the American Japanese rock magazine Purple Sky, Hosomi accredited his articulate English pronunciation to the time he spent working as a computer engineer in Oakland, California and later in Japan, where he had English-speaking co-workers.