I'm back!...with some La Loco first :)
YO! I'm back from an absolutely wonderful trip to Paris & Slovenia.
Couldn't have asked for anything more! Yep, yep, yep... was fortunate enough to be able to catch mucc's live at La Loco, Paris.
As for Slovenia, work-wise things turned out great! And I've really taken a liking to the country and its people... both are equally beautiful!
First, a short one on the mucc live @ La Loco...
Pic of queue outside La Loco at around 2pm. It stretched over to the end of the street and round the corner! What an awesome turnout! And cos it's next to Moulin Rouge, there are lotsa tourists stopping by to take a look, and they were all curious about why we were queueing up.
A lady driving by stopped her car at the side and shouted to us: "Who are you waiting for?"
We shouted back: "Mucc!"
She went: "Who??"
Then we laughed... XD XD XD
Anyway, they only started admitting people into the livehouse at 4pm, even though it was stated on the ticket that it was supposed to start at that time! I don't know if it's because they forgot about daylight saving (which just started the night before) or was it because of Tatsurou's injury.. whatever it was, the live only started proper at around 5.40pm or so.
Inside the livehouse, i got a good standing position at the stepped balcony area near Yukke. I was really happy, cos I had a good view of all the members (though ironically not Yukke at times)!
The setlist was basically an extension of the Psychedelic Analysis tour, except for 路地裏, haven't seen that on their setlist for some time! And of course, the new single in May, フライト. I agree with Josu, it's not going to be my favourite mucc song. But we got to hear it 4 times! XD Yup, cos mucc sprang a surpise on the audience during the encore and told us they were filming the PV for the song during the La Loco live!
--->
First take - normal live performance. Kinda strange to see Tatsurou mouthing the lyrics XD
2nd take - members were suppose to come up close to the edge of the stage and play more...erm... expressively XD XD
3rd take - members play with their back to the audience, so that the audience gets into the shot!
4th take - audience-only shots! By this time, only the 2 camermen + Tatsurou were left on stage, each with a camera. Tatsurou looked like he was having lotsa fun filming us.
In between the takes, the members were all figuring out with the cameramen how best to take the shots... i remember it was Yukke who was the first to perform with his back to the audience so that more of the audience gets into the shot, how sweet! In between takes the audience also shouted each member's name in turn, prompting the cameras to focus on each of them for the next take XD When it was Satochi, he grinned and puffed up his chest, haha! XD XD
By the end of the 4th take, i was tired like hell from jumping up and down. i'm sure if i even get into the scene (i never have luck for such stuff!), i'm sure to look like some exhausted idiot! :oP There were a few guys who dived and ended up on the stage, and Tatsurou and the cameramen had a field time filming them XD
Performance-wise, the condition of Tatsurou's voice still got me worried... he couldn't reach the high notes of some songs... later i brought this up with one of the muccrew and she said, well, it's the 3rd consecutive night of lives. Still, it's worrying cos he really has to maintain his voice on a sustainable basis... there are so many more lives to go... i hope!
Speaking of which, there was another highlight of the Paris leg of the trip. Turns out i was staying at the same hotel as some of the muccrew, and the hotel owner kindly introduced me to a lady muccrew. That was after the hotel owner realized i was going to watch a live at La Loco, and asked me whether it was to see a Japanese band. When I said "yeah!", she dug out an issue of Shuunoto newsletter, and pointed to a picture of Yukke and a little boy, saying "My grandson!" She was pointing to the little boy, of course, not Yukke XD
Anyway, the lady muccrew was really nice, and we chatted for a while before the live, as well as the next day before i left. She gave me Yukke's pick as a parting gift... that really made my day! ^_^
Couldn't have asked for anything more! Yep, yep, yep... was fortunate enough to be able to catch mucc's live at La Loco, Paris.
As for Slovenia, work-wise things turned out great! And I've really taken a liking to the country and its people... both are equally beautiful!
First, a short one on the mucc live @ La Loco...
Pic of queue outside La Loco at around 2pm. It stretched over to the end of the street and round the corner! What an awesome turnout! And cos it's next to Moulin Rouge, there are lotsa tourists stopping by to take a look, and they were all curious about why we were queueing up.
A lady driving by stopped her car at the side and shouted to us: "Who are you waiting for?"
We shouted back: "Mucc!"
She went: "Who??"
Then we laughed... XD XD XD
Anyway, they only started admitting people into the livehouse at 4pm, even though it was stated on the ticket that it was supposed to start at that time! I don't know if it's because they forgot about daylight saving (which just started the night before) or was it because of Tatsurou's injury.. whatever it was, the live only started proper at around 5.40pm or so.
Inside the livehouse, i got a good standing position at the stepped balcony area near Yukke. I was really happy, cos I had a good view of all the members (though ironically not Yukke at times)!
The setlist was basically an extension of the Psychedelic Analysis tour, except for 路地裏, haven't seen that on their setlist for some time! And of course, the new single in May, フライト. I agree with Josu, it's not going to be my favourite mucc song. But we got to hear it 4 times! XD Yup, cos mucc sprang a surpise on the audience during the encore and told us they were filming the PV for the song during the La Loco live!
--->
First take - normal live performance. Kinda strange to see Tatsurou mouthing the lyrics XD
2nd take - members were suppose to come up close to the edge of the stage and play more...erm... expressively XD XD
3rd take - members play with their back to the audience, so that the audience gets into the shot!
4th take - audience-only shots! By this time, only the 2 camermen + Tatsurou were left on stage, each with a camera. Tatsurou looked like he was having lotsa fun filming us.
In between the takes, the members were all figuring out with the cameramen how best to take the shots... i remember it was Yukke who was the first to perform with his back to the audience so that more of the audience gets into the shot, how sweet! In between takes the audience also shouted each member's name in turn, prompting the cameras to focus on each of them for the next take XD When it was Satochi, he grinned and puffed up his chest, haha! XD XD
By the end of the 4th take, i was tired like hell from jumping up and down. i'm sure if i even get into the scene (i never have luck for such stuff!), i'm sure to look like some exhausted idiot! :oP There were a few guys who dived and ended up on the stage, and Tatsurou and the cameramen had a field time filming them XD
Performance-wise, the condition of Tatsurou's voice still got me worried... he couldn't reach the high notes of some songs... later i brought this up with one of the muccrew and she said, well, it's the 3rd consecutive night of lives. Still, it's worrying cos he really has to maintain his voice on a sustainable basis... there are so many more lives to go... i hope!
Speaking of which, there was another highlight of the Paris leg of the trip. Turns out i was staying at the same hotel as some of the muccrew, and the hotel owner kindly introduced me to a lady muccrew. That was after the hotel owner realized i was going to watch a live at La Loco, and asked me whether it was to see a Japanese band. When I said "yeah!", she dug out an issue of Shuunoto newsletter, and pointed to a picture of Yukke and a little boy, saying "My grandson!" She was pointing to the little boy, of course, not Yukke XD
Anyway, the lady muccrew was really nice, and we chatted for a while before the live, as well as the next day before i left. She gave me Yukke's pick as a parting gift... that really made my day! ^_^
posted by scenic at 11:33 PM
