:: BIOGRAPHY

In August 2006, a brand new rock band "SCANDAL" was formed by four high school girls in Osaka, Japan. They started musical activity with their fearless personality and aggressive rock sound. Every weekend since, SCANDAL has been very actively performing at SHIROTEN, a sacred place for street live performance at Osaka Castle Park in Osaka, Japan. Eventually, more than one hundred fans constantly appeared for every single live performance of SCANDAL on street and live house. In March 2008, SCANDAL was invited to �eSakura-Con�f, a Japanese culture festival in Seattle and went on to US tour, drawing over 7,000 people. In July they joined �eJapan Expo�fin France, �eACGHK�fin Hong Kong, performed at each venue and drew 18,000 audience. In the meantime, 3 indies single CDs were released every month in consecutive 3 months exclusively through Tower Records. 1st single �gSpace Ranger�h was charted #2, and 2nd single �gKoimoyou�h and 3rd single �gKagerou�h were charted #1. In August 8th, indies mini album �gYAH!YAH!YAH! HELLO SCANDAL�h was released, and charted #2 on J-POP chart by Tower Records. In October, major debut single �gDOLL�h was released and totally 40 FM &AM radio stations and CS TV channels picked it up on rotation list. In June 2009, 3rd single �gShojo S�h was released and charted #6 on weekly ORICON chart and #5 on full weekly chart by true tone service �eChaku-Uta�f. SCANDAL is currently one of the most passionate girl rock bands with a lot of attention.