Biography

In March 2007, Versailles was formed by KAMIJO (ex LAREINE) and HIZAKI (ex SULFURIC ACID), then Jasmine You, who was from Jakura and HIZAKI’s solo project, HIZAKI grace project, joined. Lastly, TERU (ex. Aikaryu) and YUKI (ex. Sugar Trip), who were strongly recommended by the Rock May Kan, which is a long established venue in Tokyo, joined the band.

KAMIJO and HIZAKI already had a concept of a new band since Autumn 2006 and took six months to find the appropriate members to express it. Their concept is “The absolute Youshikibi (beauty of form) sound and extremes of aestheticism”.

On the 29th of March, the names of the members were revealed, the name of the band being announced on March 30. On the 2nd of May, they posted a trailer for Versailles’s appearance on YouTube. Since then, they received a lot of proposals for tours and interviews from overseas. So far they have interviews with only international media/press.

At the end of May, a German ..ary TV crew came to Japan and the band was interviewed. In June, the interviews with the German TV crews were on Sankei Newspaper (one of Japan's domestic newspapers) and Versailles was featured in the article. Because of the large amount feedback, “Versailles Band” was in Yahoo's top 5 search-keyword ranking. Since then they have been featured on TV as the hottest band.

Versailles made their first appearance with a showcase on June 23rd, followed by their first performance on the 24th. On these dates they also distributed their very first single and DVD single, The Revenant Choir.

Extracted from the Official Myspace .

Who choose the name of the band was HIZAKI, he said he always wanted to be in a band with this name but the members of his previous bands didn't like it and he was very surprised when everyone from Versailles agreed when they first listened the idea.*

*Translation of the Versailles Official Myspace text.

Who choose the name of the band was HIZAKI, he said he always wanted to be in a band with this name but the members of his previous bands didn't like it and he was very surprised when everyone from Versailles agreed when they first listened the idea.

2008 was an important year for Versailles, they did the first overseas tour in Europe along with Matenrou Opera, after that they gone to USA and a bit late they were invited to come back to America for a bigger performance.

On August 19 the band announced they would have to change their name because of legal issues with the american band "Versailles". The new name chosen was "Versailles - Philharmonic Quintet -", suggestion sent by two different fans. They received over 100.000 suggestions for the new name.
According to the band "Quintet" means five, that's what they are, five musicians, but along with "Philharmonic" (lit. friends of music), that's represented by the fans, they are able to become a true orchestra.

The last single of 2008, "Prince & Princess", reached the #16 position on Oricon's rank. On December 23, at the C.C. Lemon Hall they announced they will become major on June 2009 with the Label Japan label.