It has been revealed that the popular group "WEST." will collaborate with WOWOW on the regular program "WESSION" (5 episodes in total), which will be broadcast and streamed from June 29th. It will be a music program in which artists who are friends with WEST. or who WEST. would like to work with will be invited to the studio to talk about music, and they will have a session of songs that WEST. has written for them or songs that they would like to sing.
The first episode will be broadcast and streamed on WOWOW Live and WOWOW On Demand from 9pm on June 29th. Kiyosaku and Satoru Takazato from the Okinawa-based rock band MONGOL800 will appear as guests. They will perform a session of "SOUTH WEST BEACH!!", a song that Kiyosaku wrote for WEST., with an original MONGOL800 arrangement. In addition, the members of WEST. will delve deeper into what they want to ask MONGOL800 and the attention to detail they pay when creating songs.
In addition, the first sponsored festival "WESSION FESTIVAL 2025" will be held on October 12th and 13th at the Expo Commemoration Park East Plaza (Suita City, Osaka Prefecture). The program "WESSION" will feature talks and sessions with the artists who will be performing at the festival, which will come to fruition at the outdoor festival.
