I have been meaning to write this since Saturday night, but I keep getting distracted and doing something else...
So Finally here it is!
This day started out like any other day that ends awesome, horribly! First I try to catch the door before it slams from the wind and instead get my finger slammed in there and a lovely chunk of skin got taken off. And right when I'm leaving the house I almost fell off a small step by the gate. I'm starting to see a trend of days that i do see concerts...
Anyways, after the wonderful Yakisoba my Okaasan made for lunch I caught up with Meri at Hirakata shi station and we headed off to Shinsaibashi. We got there with plenty of time so she wanted to run into Book Off. Once again I was SO tempted to buy Kagrra's concert that they had. I also found IRIS (Korean drama) there!!! But the thought of Japanese subs rather than English made me turn away. But they also had the first 2 disks of Kimura Takuya's Beautiful Life, and that is also very much tempting me, with or without subs of any kind!
After that we meet up with Sandra and Ebba and made our way to OSAKA MUSE for the concert! I think there is something about us and concert halls that make them not want to be found. Just like when we went to KYOTO MUSE for Kagrra, we couldn't find with when it was right there. This time though we walked right past it. And to make it worse right at the spot where I though "Hey i bet it's right down one of these side streets", it was right down THAT side street...
OSAKA MUSE was even smaller than KYOTO MUSE! It could probably only hold about 200 people and there weren't even that many there.
So first up was 2nd Dyz. First off their outfits had lights in them! So even before the curtain opened we could see them. They had an awesome sound, they we're on of my favorite of the night. They guitarist with the red hair was awesome and jumping all over the stage. The drummer also had some sweet skills!
Best part about them, I got to talk to them after the show (when I say talk, I mean say a few random words in Japanese and make lots of big hand movements). And they were so shy can cute! One of them got kinda red in the face and turned away from us. The guitarist and one of the others got big smiles on their faces and kinda repeated what we said then thanked us!
Lycaon was next. They were by far the most entertaining band of the night! Can you see the picture above? If you can't click on it to make it bigger. This is what they were wearing for the concert! I kid you not, there was less clothes on them than it looks! We got a strip show from Yuki, the vocalist (red hat). You can't really see his pants in the picture, but there are no sides to them at all, had to have been about 4 inches or so of skin and the strings holding the pants on all the way down his leg, and to top that off he kept playing with his red thong...pulling it up and his pants down! It was quite distracting, in a very good way!!! Then there was the guitarist! His pants were literally half way down his butt and he also had a thong on! Between each song he had to pull them up. And his shirt! All that there was to it was the cloth on the front and 2 straps that crossed in the back. And let me tell you he had an AMAZING back (thank god he kept turning around and playing backwards!!!)!
Anyways about their songs...They played all my favorite songs! RED RUM was so awesome to hear live! They were also super energetic and they kept calling out to us to sing along! Yuki has such a great voice! I love listening to it. Both the guitarist had a little battle at the front of the stage for their solos.
Next on stage was EVER+LAST. Along with 2nd Dyz, they were the other band I hadn't heard of before. And to give them the props they deserve they were my favorite of the whole concert. That is saying something, cuz I love Lycaon and Sel'm quite a lot! It all had to do with their transformation.
When they first came on stage, I'm not kidding you I thought they were a couple of Hosts that picked up instruments and decided to start a band...I was really freaking out that they were going to be cheesy or try to hard. But they were amazing!!! The bassist (with the dreads) was awesome! And the vocalist's voice was so good! But the best thing about them was how they acted, the whole time where were up there smiling and playing around with each other! The bassist got a solo in one of the songs and the vocalist and one of the guitarists kept smacking him on the head. And the vocalist was head banging so much he fell of the back of the cage at the front of the stage and almost took out the bassist and drums!
東京ヒーローズ (Tokyo Heroes) after EVER+LAST. They weren't bad at all. The bassist (blonde guy) was VERY entertaining to watch. And the guitarist on the left of the picture had an amazing voice! I was surprised I almost liked him more than the vocalist. They had some great songs. But they ended on kinda a slow note. The last song the played wasn't anything special.
However after the show I got to meet the bassist and drummer. They were at the merch table selling their merch rather than having other people. I had to buy something since they were out there personally! So I got their new single and apparently it came with a free poster, I think they said something about it being signed but I haven't opened it yet to check cuz I know I'll never get it rolled up nicely again!
Sle'm was next! This is about when the crowd started to get crazy!!! When an adorable five foot tall Japanese girl dressed in a cute Gothic Lolita dress with matching headband starts growling, it is time to get scared!!! You really wouldn't think someone fitting this description would be all that fearsome, but take my word IT FREAKING IS!!!
When the band started up there was lots of head banging and jumping around. It was pretty energetic. They were much more hardcore than the one before them and Kagrra. There is this one move, it's kinda like moshing, you throw your hands up alternating them and start hoping one way then the other! So fun!!! UNTIL...Until the cute little girl next to you comes flying at you and sends you into the group of people next to you! You really wouldn't expect that to come from her!
SHE SCARED ME!!!
The vocalist was pretty awesome to watch. There was one point in one of the songs where he just fell backwards onto the stage and was just laying there singing and making his feet, which was about all of him you could see, dance. So fun!
Awoi was the headliner and last to go on stage! They had a stage presence that was epic. I mean it was a small theater so being that close to any of them was pretty epic, but as soon as they came on you could feel the crowd waiting in anticipation for them. Before this I'd heard of Awoi, but never really many of their songs. They have a very heavy dark sound to them, but the songs are beautiful at the same time. The Drummer was amazing, I usually don't pick up on the drums in a song, but I did for some of their songs. And the Vocalist's voice was amazing. He screamed a lot, but when he sang it was awesome!
They kinds ended on a bad/sad note though. They were on one of their last songs and and the vocalist was sitting on the metal cage and was about to stand up. But his foot slipped off the cage and he went crashing to the ground where we all were. There was a collective gasp as he fell. The girls in the front bent over the rail to check on him and some of the band members did to. Now it wouldn't really seem all that bad, because it was only about a 3 maybe 4 foot drop, but there was a large metal pipe that I'm pretty sure he landed right on!
After a few moments he popped up and slowly crawled back up on stage. He went to the back by the drums and in a few more moments he was back singing and screaming! But I happened to notice there was some red stuff on his face that hadn't been there before, it was blood. I think when he fell he hit his head on the pipe. Because as soon as they finished that song he ran off stage. The rest of the band did their thing, thanked us for coming and supporting them and they too left. And that was it, they still had a few songs to go I think, but since the vocalist fell they had to end early.
Over all it was one hell of a concert! I love going to the One-Man concerts, but going to see a bunch of smaller bands was so much fun! After it was over and we bought a bunch of merch, I had to by something from TOKYO Heroes just because the bassist and drummer were the ones selling the stuff, we passed by 2nd Dyz out on the street. I mean at the larger One-Mans you will never see the bands after the show just standing there in broad night light!
More concert recaps coming soon!
Gilli
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