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SAKI's First Radio Show Begins on interfm — SAKI no Stella Pluvia, Wednesdays at 25:00 From October 7

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Rock guitarist SAKI now has a radio show bearing her own name. SAKI no Stella Pluvia, new on interfm (89.7 MHz in Tokyo, 76.5 MHz in Yokohama), gives her thirty minutes as DJ every Wednesday from 25:00 to 25:30, the Japanese broadcast convention for 1:00 to 1:30 a.m. on the Thursday. The first episode goes out at 25:00 on Wednesday, October 7. It began as a Tanabata special aired soon after her major-label debut album, PLUVIA, came out in June, and the response it drew led to the weekly slot, announced on September 15.

Wednesdays at 25:00, thirty minutes, pre-recorded

It airs on interfm (89.7 MHz in Tokyo, 76.5 MHz in Yokohama) every Wednesday from 25:00 to 25:30, which on the calendar is 1:00 to 1:30 a.m. on Thursday. The show is pre-recorded rather than live, and interfm also streams on radiko.

Messages go to saki@interfm.jp, and the show's hashtag is #SAKI897. According to the station's introduction, the show means to present SAKI not only as a guitarist but also, through her talk, the side of her that rarely comes across on stage or in the media.

The guitarist who played the Budokan with NEMOPHILA

SAKI took up classical guitar at junior high school and switched to electric guitar under the influence of Seikima-II and QUEEN. She made her debut while studying at Keio University and played guitar in Mary's Blood; with NEMOPHILA, which she co-founded in 2019, she played the Nippon Budokan, and she has also appeared at a major festival in the United States.

She has also taken part in the multinational metal unit AMAHIRU and, since 2023, in Like~an~Angel, led by L'Arc-en-Ciel's tetsuya, and in 2024 she began working in earnest as a solo guitarist. A solo single of hers reached number one in the instrumental charts of iTunes in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. In the readers' poll of the heavy metal magazine BURRN! she has been the highest-placed Japanese woman in the guitarist category for about ten years, and she has appeared on the TV show Matsuko no Shiranai Sekai.

PLUVIA, her major-label debut, in June

PLUVIA, the word in the show's title, is the title of the major-label debut album SAKI released through King Records on June 24; it is Latin for rain. It holds ten tracks: GUS G. plays a guitar solo on "Flores a Flores", and the guests also include Frédéric Leclercq, known for his time in DRAGONFORCE, and drummer Senri Kawaguchi.

It comes as a standard edition (KICS-4255) and a first-press limited deluxe edition with a Blu-ray (KICS-94255). A Japan tour, SAKI SOLO MAJOR DEBUT TOUR 2026 "PLUVIA", followed, opening in Fukuoka on July 4.

Demonstrating Hotone gear at Tokyo Gakki Expo 2026 on November 1

On Sunday, November 1, SAKI gives a demonstration of Hotone products at Tokyo Gakki Expo 2026, a hands-on musical instrument event, from 13:00 to 13:20 on the E stage.

Tokyo Gakki Expo 2026 takes place at the Science Museum (Kagaku Gijutsukan) in Tokyo, from 10:00 to 18:00 on Saturday, October 31 and from 10:00 to 17:00 on Sunday, November 1; same-day tickets are also sold at the venue.

A solo show in Roppongi at year's end

On Monday, December 21, SAKI plays a year-end solo show, SAKI Year End Bash 2026, at Rock Bar Bauhaus Roppongi in Tokyo. Doors open at 18:00 and the show starts at 18:30; tickets are on general sale through eplus.

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