Sunday, April 22, 2007

D'ERLANGER NIGHT「薔薇色の愛と死と恍惚」

Because of this live, which i got to know only 2 nights before i was supposed to fly to tokyo, i changed my entire accomodation plan for this trip! O_o;;; Thinking it would really be a waste if i missed this live, since i was going to be in tokyo, i changed my hotel to one amidst the host clubs at shinjuku XD XD Cos Shinjuku Loft is smack right in the middle of Kabukicho, and the live starts past midnight at 2430, so it makes more sense for me to stay at shinjuku rather than take a cab back after the live (the cabfare would have cost the same amount as one night's stay at the hotel)

But it's all worth it!!!

The live consisted of performances by a series of session bands, playing tribute to D'erlanger (D'erlanger's live at Yaon was the following day). Miya was in one of the session bands, and Tatsurou was in another. I must confess I'm not familiar with D'erlanger's music, but by the end of the live, I've definitely got acquainted with their style. "La Vie En Rose" was played at least 4 times that night ^^; Tatsurou's session band (called "I CAN'T LIVES" XD), unfortunately played only 1 piece, but wow, it was SUCH a solid performance! It was the only band which had an acoustic performance, so Tatsurou's rendition was literally instrumental in bringing out the piece. I was really happy to hear Tatsurou's voice back to normal! Am so relieved!!! There were lots of english in that song too ^^;

As for Miya, he cosplayed D'erlanger's guitarist, complete with the slicked back hair, '80s eye-lined eyes, and yes, no goatee! The vocalist for his band was Ao-san, and yeah, i reckon most people were there to see this session band, cos i noticed its "cup" had the most ticket stubs stuck into it (for events, when you enter you're asked which band you came to see, and they will stick your ticket stub into this paper cup with the band's name). It was also the last band to appear. The wait was really loooonng. The whole live ended at 4+am! But woa, Miya was a good form too! His guitars held up the band's whole performance, in my opinion! You can see they were really all enjoying themselves. (yeah and there was one part during a song where Ao tried some fanservice and had his arms around Miya... the crowd went mad)

As with most events, all the members came out at the end and sang a final song together (what else, "La Vie En Rose"!) And..and... Daisuke appeared onstage too!!! In the beginning he stayed at the side of the stage together with Tatsurou :) ... Miya emptied a cup of beer at one go (at the prompting of the audience...) ... Then, when they were playing the finale piece, Daisuke went over to Miya's side, and he picked up a guitar and tried to play alongside Miya :) :) Tatsurou was one of the vocalists, of course, and did his part well in making the atmosphere really high. Then at some point during the song, he went over to Daisuke, and the three of them, Tatsurou, Daisuke and Miya, were side-by-side and performing together --- it was GREAT! :D

As the song was coming to an end, Tatsurou did a yasashii thing... he passed the mike to Daisuke, and urged him to sing. So the final "growl" of the song came from Daisuke! Hurrah~

K, gotta go. Have spent way too long at this public computer. Write more later!

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The rumor is "concert in June" but nothing has been confirmed. Please tell me you'll be here for it whenever it happens!

Just got back from Hong Kong. ARC was denied, so now must leave every six months on my multiple-entry visa to begin new round. Oh well, I like my Hong Kong friends, and it's cheap.
 
You're so lucky~ I saw this a few days ago! I wish I could see Ao-san someday. I love his work! (such as lab., cali=gari, blablabla)
So to my mind, it'd have been the most interesting part as well.
And I'm glad to read that Miya and Tatsurou are fine.
Good trip!
 
Marla,

Gosh, i really don't get the whole ARC thing... it's like the mechanics behind the whole thing is so complicated... and isn't it rather presumptuous of them to make baseless assumptions about the period of study of a language?

I got a surprise when i went to see a live at Shibuya O-West, a livehouse in Tokyo, just 2 days ago. On the live schedule for May was 五月天 Mayday! Can't remember which date they're having their performance now, but I think it's towards the end of May...

kozue,
it was an awesome event indeed, but events are so very tiring... not just cos this one was dead into the night, but it's the waiting between bands for their instruments to be set up that's tiring... the waiting before Sex On The Carpets felt like an hour O_o;;; and i didn't really want to walk around cos it was quite packed that night and i was in a good position. but later i still had to move cos Miya was standing so close to the extreme right side of the stage (as you can see, in the loft pics that you linked in the ljcomm), it was impossible to see him if you're at that side of the stage!
 
it looks like it was a great appetizer (i dont know if this expression will be correct in english XD) for the mucc shows!
 
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