Post by Asuka Ogawa on Aug 27, 2007 9:32:13 GMT 1
August 15th
From Tokyo we'll arrive in Sendai on August 14th,welcomed by very high temperatures.We visited the Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan on the same day,for seeing where it was exactly.
Fortunately it was a 30 minutes walking far from the ryokan when we stayed.
Since the ryokan served breakfast very early,at 8 am we were already walking in the direction of the hall XD
While we approached the hall,I saw the famous pink truck of L'Arc~en~Ciel parked just in front of the hall!I think it's the most photographed truck of the whole Japan and I took a pic too XD
We inspected the hall and we saw the staffs putting out the goods and the big Ciel-chan.
Since we didn't know where to go(and it was so damn hot),we sat on the hall's stairs.
At about 11.30 I saw staff members taking launch to Laruku(I wrote it for chronicle XD).
At 14.30 they opened for the first goods sell and I,as a good fan,left there lots of yen XD I think I didn't buy only a couple of stuffs XD
The opening is at 17.30 and around 17 I heard one of the staff calling for something.It seemed he was saying "tachimi tickets",so I went to him and show our tickets that were of that type,standing seats.I wasn't wrong,in fact he set us in the line in front of the door on the left,based on the number we had on the ticket.We were lucky 'cause we had 7 and 8(thanks Toshi!!!).
At 17.30 they started to open the doors.Tachimi tickets owners entered about 15 minutes later.Our places were at the ground floor(well,the first floor for Japanese,in my country is the ground floor)and thanks to our numbers we were just behind the last row of seats.The hall is small so we saw everything perfectly.We were in the space between tetsu and hyde.
Entrance in the hall was slow 'cause many people stopped for buying goods,so the concert started at 18.40,10 minutes later.
The stage was covered by a curtain in the beginning.On that,the names of the members appeared like in the opening screen of a movie(it appeared also the word "CAST" XD).
After the introduction the tour logo appeared and on the first notes of SEVENTH HEAVEN the numbers of 2007 started to jump(well,not really jump,I don't know how to say it in English).
Then the curtain was removed and finally I saw them.I tried to remember what they were wearing,but I'm 100% sure only for tetsu and ken,so I give up XD *bad memory*
01.SEVENTH HEAVEN
I said since the beginning I don't like this song so much.But listening to it live is totally different.I'm not saying it's one of my fave songs now,but the performance was captivating and attractive
02.Killing Me
As a tradition of this tour,during the song hyde went behind tetsu,he put an arm on his shoulder and he made to sing tetsu
03.the Fourth Avenue Cafe
When the first notes were heared,the hall exploded.Listening to it live was wonderful and they performed it very well
hyde MC
Obviously I didn't understand almost anything of what he said XD Fortunately I found the reports on Mixi(I would like to know how they can remember everything...)and I understood the meaning.
As usual hyde talked about food XD (I remeber the tetsu x sakura interview of last year XD)
04.DAYBREAK'S BELL
05.Sunadokei (砂時計)
06.Yuki no Ashiato (雪の足跡)
I think the new album will be awesome.I didn't listen to the registration of Yokosuka's concert,so it was everything absolutely new for me.
These three new songs are beautiful,mainly ballade.Finally after 3 years tetsu should have composed entirely Sunadokei(sorry,but you know how much I love tetsu's songs).During this song green light beams was on hyde,then extended to the other members and then to the audience.
CM
The Magic Bean CM is terrible XD Censor XD There were a little girl!I'm wondering who invented it XD *looks at ken with suspect*
07.Caress of Venus
Another song where the hall exploder.hyde performed from the sofa XD
08.SHINE
09.MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM
I listened to SHINE as the Seirei no Moribito opening,but live is even more wonderful.MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM is amazing,at the end tetsu and ken sang together
ken MC
He tried to teach us a play of clapping hands,but everytime someone failed.Desperate,he tried to show it ot us again,but he made a mistake too and he started to laugh.
In the end he renounced and introduced Driver's High XD
10.Driver's High
The whole hall started to jump at the beginning of this song
11.REVELATION
It's not one of my fave song,so when I saw it was always in the setlist,I hoped for a change.
Still,they played it so well that it was fun
12.Pretty Girl
Between the new songs is the most different one from the others.The previous ones were more ballade,while this one as a quick beat.The screen on the back was full of semi-naked girls dancing and in the end hyde danced with them(he was almost better than them...)
13.READY STEADY GO
Nothing in particular to say.From the high dropped silver tapes with L'Arc~en~Ciel written on them.
14.Ibara no namida (いばらの涙)
Yay!!I was hoping to hear it live and I was lucky!!!It was wonderful! ^0^
Pause for preparing the staeg for P'UNK.When the curtain was removed,they went on.Last was tetsu with a banana watergun XD
He soaked audience and band XD
P'UNK~EN~CIEL
15.Round and Round 2005
16.HONEY 2007
Meditating singing isn't the tetsu's main activity,he was super-good!He performed very well and did everything right.He learned to manage the high tones.
It was touching for me seeing tetsu singing live ^____^
17.bye bye
18.metropolis
bye bye is the famous L'Anniversary song.
During metropolis on the screen appeared a pic of yukihiro XD I don't know what they were doing to yukki,but the hall was laughing while he was keeping to play XD *cuddles yukki*
19.New World
At the beginning hyde stopped and came back to watch the monitor 'cause he forgot the lyrics XD
20.Link
The haitsu song!hyde went behind tetsu,he cowered,he flipped tetsu's skirt and he tried to lie bakc to tetsu but he escaped XD
hyde MC
hyde talked about the new single.He said in the week of stop from the tour thy recorded the part of P'UNK.
He tried also to make speaking yukihiro,but he's so shy that he said only a couple of things ^^
21.Jojoushi
A song that take your heart.The hall was in complete silence.
At the end they greeted everyone and left.The only one on the stage was tetsu for the usual launch of bananas ^^ At first one person from the staff gave them to him,then two baskets came down from the high.He launched them to the first floor(or second if you prefer) O___O
One was taken by a girl two rows in front of me and she started to cry.Around her people touched the banana like it was a relic XD
Three facts happened during -I don't remember which songs- :
-on the screen there were a bear(not the one from the commercial)dancing and ken started to dance with it
-hyde stumbled and almost felled
-ken took the digital camera of one of the cameramen and first he filmed him and then the audience
This is what I remember of the first day.I was so shocked that I missed something XD
Tecnically they were impeccable:hyde sang wonderfully,he didn't make any mistakes.tetsu at the bass is something amazing,he moved around all the time,he didn't refrain.ken is the usual funny guy,but when he did solo guitar he was incredible.yukihiro is so shy,but he has a great energy while playing drums.
They were harmonious,they had fun,they laughed and joked even if they were on tour since more than two months.They were real.Nothing to compare with the tv shows,where often it seems they would like to be in another place.It seems they prefer lives,where they can express themselves freely.And this tour in the halls,where the audience is so near,should be an experience also for them,like years ago when they weren't so famous and palyed in clubs.In the halls the audience can see everything of them and it's the same for Laruku.
I'm not an expert,but for a band it has to be a big difference between playing in big arena like Tokyo Dome and playing in small halls.
I feel lucky for having experienced this thing.Seeing them so closely was something I could never forget.
So I told you about the first concert ^^ I know it's not the best report,but I'm not good in writing and expressing such emotions in words isn't easy.I hope I satisfied your curiosity a little bit and if you have questions feel free to ask ^^
From Tokyo we'll arrive in Sendai on August 14th,welcomed by very high temperatures.We visited the Miyagi Kenmin Kaikan on the same day,for seeing where it was exactly.
Fortunately it was a 30 minutes walking far from the ryokan when we stayed.
Since the ryokan served breakfast very early,at 8 am we were already walking in the direction of the hall XD
While we approached the hall,I saw the famous pink truck of L'Arc~en~Ciel parked just in front of the hall!I think it's the most photographed truck of the whole Japan and I took a pic too XD
We inspected the hall and we saw the staffs putting out the goods and the big Ciel-chan.
Since we didn't know where to go(and it was so damn hot),we sat on the hall's stairs.
At about 11.30 I saw staff members taking launch to Laruku(I wrote it for chronicle XD).
At 14.30 they opened for the first goods sell and I,as a good fan,left there lots of yen XD I think I didn't buy only a couple of stuffs XD
The opening is at 17.30 and around 17 I heard one of the staff calling for something.It seemed he was saying "tachimi tickets",so I went to him and show our tickets that were of that type,standing seats.I wasn't wrong,in fact he set us in the line in front of the door on the left,based on the number we had on the ticket.We were lucky 'cause we had 7 and 8(thanks Toshi!!!).
At 17.30 they started to open the doors.Tachimi tickets owners entered about 15 minutes later.Our places were at the ground floor(well,the first floor for Japanese,in my country is the ground floor)and thanks to our numbers we were just behind the last row of seats.The hall is small so we saw everything perfectly.We were in the space between tetsu and hyde.
Entrance in the hall was slow 'cause many people stopped for buying goods,so the concert started at 18.40,10 minutes later.
The stage was covered by a curtain in the beginning.On that,the names of the members appeared like in the opening screen of a movie(it appeared also the word "CAST" XD).
After the introduction the tour logo appeared and on the first notes of SEVENTH HEAVEN the numbers of 2007 started to jump(well,not really jump,I don't know how to say it in English).
Then the curtain was removed and finally I saw them.I tried to remember what they were wearing,but I'm 100% sure only for tetsu and ken,so I give up XD *bad memory*
01.SEVENTH HEAVEN
I said since the beginning I don't like this song so much.But listening to it live is totally different.I'm not saying it's one of my fave songs now,but the performance was captivating and attractive
02.Killing Me
As a tradition of this tour,during the song hyde went behind tetsu,he put an arm on his shoulder and he made to sing tetsu
03.the Fourth Avenue Cafe
When the first notes were heared,the hall exploded.Listening to it live was wonderful and they performed it very well
hyde MC
Obviously I didn't understand almost anything of what he said XD Fortunately I found the reports on Mixi(I would like to know how they can remember everything...)and I understood the meaning.
As usual hyde talked about food XD (I remeber the tetsu x sakura interview of last year XD)
04.DAYBREAK'S BELL
05.Sunadokei (砂時計)
06.Yuki no Ashiato (雪の足跡)
I think the new album will be awesome.I didn't listen to the registration of Yokosuka's concert,so it was everything absolutely new for me.
These three new songs are beautiful,mainly ballade.Finally after 3 years tetsu should have composed entirely Sunadokei(sorry,but you know how much I love tetsu's songs).During this song green light beams was on hyde,then extended to the other members and then to the audience.
CM
The Magic Bean CM is terrible XD Censor XD There were a little girl!I'm wondering who invented it XD *looks at ken with suspect*
07.Caress of Venus
Another song where the hall exploder.hyde performed from the sofa XD
08.SHINE
09.MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM
I listened to SHINE as the Seirei no Moribito opening,but live is even more wonderful.MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM is amazing,at the end tetsu and ken sang together
ken MC
He tried to teach us a play of clapping hands,but everytime someone failed.Desperate,he tried to show it ot us again,but he made a mistake too and he started to laugh.
In the end he renounced and introduced Driver's High XD
10.Driver's High
The whole hall started to jump at the beginning of this song
11.REVELATION
It's not one of my fave song,so when I saw it was always in the setlist,I hoped for a change.
Still,they played it so well that it was fun
12.Pretty Girl
Between the new songs is the most different one from the others.The previous ones were more ballade,while this one as a quick beat.The screen on the back was full of semi-naked girls dancing and in the end hyde danced with them(he was almost better than them...)
13.READY STEADY GO
Nothing in particular to say.From the high dropped silver tapes with L'Arc~en~Ciel written on them.
14.Ibara no namida (いばらの涙)
Yay!!I was hoping to hear it live and I was lucky!!!It was wonderful! ^0^
Pause for preparing the staeg for P'UNK.When the curtain was removed,they went on.Last was tetsu with a banana watergun XD
He soaked audience and band XD
P'UNK~EN~CIEL
15.Round and Round 2005
16.HONEY 2007
Meditating singing isn't the tetsu's main activity,he was super-good!He performed very well and did everything right.He learned to manage the high tones.
It was touching for me seeing tetsu singing live ^____^
17.bye bye
18.metropolis
bye bye is the famous L'Anniversary song.
During metropolis on the screen appeared a pic of yukihiro XD I don't know what they were doing to yukki,but the hall was laughing while he was keeping to play XD *cuddles yukki*
19.New World
At the beginning hyde stopped and came back to watch the monitor 'cause he forgot the lyrics XD
20.Link
The haitsu song!hyde went behind tetsu,he cowered,he flipped tetsu's skirt and he tried to lie bakc to tetsu but he escaped XD
hyde MC
hyde talked about the new single.He said in the week of stop from the tour thy recorded the part of P'UNK.
He tried also to make speaking yukihiro,but he's so shy that he said only a couple of things ^^
21.Jojoushi
A song that take your heart.The hall was in complete silence.
At the end they greeted everyone and left.The only one on the stage was tetsu for the usual launch of bananas ^^ At first one person from the staff gave them to him,then two baskets came down from the high.He launched them to the first floor(or second if you prefer) O___O
One was taken by a girl two rows in front of me and she started to cry.Around her people touched the banana like it was a relic XD
Three facts happened during -I don't remember which songs- :
-on the screen there were a bear(not the one from the commercial)dancing and ken started to dance with it
-hyde stumbled and almost felled
-ken took the digital camera of one of the cameramen and first he filmed him and then the audience
This is what I remember of the first day.I was so shocked that I missed something XD
Tecnically they were impeccable:hyde sang wonderfully,he didn't make any mistakes.tetsu at the bass is something amazing,he moved around all the time,he didn't refrain.ken is the usual funny guy,but when he did solo guitar he was incredible.yukihiro is so shy,but he has a great energy while playing drums.
They were harmonious,they had fun,they laughed and joked even if they were on tour since more than two months.They were real.Nothing to compare with the tv shows,where often it seems they would like to be in another place.It seems they prefer lives,where they can express themselves freely.And this tour in the halls,where the audience is so near,should be an experience also for them,like years ago when they weren't so famous and palyed in clubs.In the halls the audience can see everything of them and it's the same for Laruku.
I'm not an expert,but for a band it has to be a big difference between playing in big arena like Tokyo Dome and playing in small halls.
I feel lucky for having experienced this thing.Seeing them so closely was something I could never forget.
So I told you about the first concert ^^ I know it's not the best report,but I'm not good in writing and expressing such emotions in words isn't easy.I hope I satisfied your curiosity a little bit and if you have questions feel free to ask ^^
