I have never seen so many middle aged women with pink hair in one place. It was actually kind of cool. Also the ratio of guy to girl was a lot more balanced than most shows over here.
There was a main stage, a right and left side stage. DJ OZMA, RIZE, Maximum The Hormone, TM Rev and Spread Beaver all played the main stage. Daizy Stripper, Ra:IN, Versailles, MarBell, Phantasmagoria and hurdy gurdy played the side stages.
1 - DJ OZMA. When his set started, I was a bit confused. They opened the main stage curtains and all I saw was some hide cosplayer standing there. Then I saw the pink hair was curly and realized he was DJ OZMA dressed up as pink spider era hide. At one point he let his backup singer, who is a lot more than he is, do a song while he changed into a Rocket Dive era costume. At the beginning of the last song he takes of his jacket to sing shirtless and then rips his pants off to show his yellow heart patterned boxer briefs. The best thing about the set was the pink haired dancer girls in skin tight green camo body suits during the first 3 songs of his set. The second best thing was the technopop-ified version on everfree he played. Everything else pretty much sucked.
2- Daizy Stripper started things off by ruining the hide song Misery. Seriously, hide was by no means a great vocalist, so if you can't sing his songs in tune you have no business being a singer. They also played 2 original songs that were bland pop with a tiny bit of rock thrown in.
3- Ra:IN. I am renaming this band "Pata and the Raving Lunatics" because thats what they are. They played 3 or 4 songs, and if they had a vocalist they'd really be a great band, as an instrumental band I doubt the fun of their set will translate to album. By the end of the set, DIE had destroyed a midi controller, the bass player was sawing at the edge of the stage with his bass and the drum kit had been disassembled by other band members while still being played.
4- RIZE does a pretty good cover of pink spider. Their own music isn't bad per say, I just can't get into it. They play a punk-ified hard rock and the vocalist raps every now and then. Also they can't MC in between songs worth shit. Half of the time we just had to wait while no one said anything and the vocalist dragged himself back from whatever random corner he had ran off to. He liked to jump off stage and play with the audience. Oh yeah, the singer's English is really good, I think he grew up in America.
5- Versailles. A good percentage of the audience was confused by the fags in strange costumes. Though they did sound good live and Kamijo is a better vocalist than I would have ever thought. If he has always been able to sing so good, why did he always sound all nasal and annoying in Lareine?
Set List:
1) The Love From a Dead Orchestra
2) uh...Shout and Bite, maybe?
3) The Revenant Choir
6- MarBell. Holy fuck that performance sucked the life out of me. MarBell consisted of a Japanese, slightly gothed up Avril Lavigne wannabe and a backing band that looked bored out of their mind. She didn't even look like she wanted to be there.
7- Maximum the Hormone. They were fun live, I doubt I'd ever buy a CD of theirs unless it gets released in America but I'd see them play again. The drummer chick was really funny and they just had a really nice vibe.
8- Phantasmagoria. Dear fucking god, the choreographed dance with the hands crap has got to stop. As a straight male fan of the band, I was embarrassed by it. Ugh, it made Sid's hand waving crap look like child's play. The music though was great. Jun was by far the most charismatic though Kisaki and Riku did good themselves. Iori just kind of stood there and ruined the energy of the other three members not stuck behind the drums.
Set List:
1) kami uta (a really long version of the song and their fans, some of who left after they played went crazy.)
2) gensoukyoku~Eternal Silence~ (probably my favorite song by them)
I really hope Kisaki changes his mind about not performing anymore. Hell, I hope the whole band changes their mind about breaking up. Though Iori can go away, his heart just ain't in it anymore.
9- TM Revolution. He's a good singer, his music is catchy enough, but I would have rather had him show up and play wit abs. The coolest thing about his set was miki noticed Yukke of on one of the sides hand gesturing along with all the songs. He was there with a guy neither of us recognized who was wearing sunglasses a button up shirt and bowler hat. We tried figuring out who we was but couldn't. To me he looked like he should play in a ska band so I'm calling him Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra's trumpet player. Oh he was dancing along and stuff too.
10- hurdy gurdy consisted of the Zeppet Store vocalist and an acoustic guitar. I wanted to dislike him since I never liked Zeppet Store but he did alright. He talked to the audience a lot, saying how important hide was to him, etc. He played two hide covers and one other song and honestly I think he was the perfect act to play before SB came out.
Set List:
1) LEMONed I Scream
2) ...a Zeppet Store song, I believe
3) Flame
11- hide with Spread Beaver. They used old live and studio recordings of hide vocals for all the songs and even used old hide inbetween song MCing a couple times. Most of the time they were showing old live recording or PV clips of hide on the video monitor.
Set List:
-pre recorded hurry go round video with shots of hide through out his career
-Spread Beaver introduction track as the band walks out
1) Rocket Dive
2) Pose
3) Celebration (Pata joined them for this one)
4) Doubt
5) pink spider
6) Dice
7) Everfree
8)Tell Me
-pre recorded Misery with more hide video
There was a main stage, a right and left side stage. DJ OZMA, RIZE, Maximum The Hormone, TM Rev and Spread Beaver all played the main stage. Daizy Stripper, Ra:IN, Versailles, MarBell, Phantasmagoria and hurdy gurdy played the side stages.
1 - DJ OZMA. When his set started, I was a bit confused. They opened the main stage curtains and all I saw was some hide cosplayer standing there. Then I saw the pink hair was curly and realized he was DJ OZMA dressed up as pink spider era hide. At one point he let his backup singer, who is a lot more than he is, do a song while he changed into a Rocket Dive era costume. At the beginning of the last song he takes of his jacket to sing shirtless and then rips his pants off to show his yellow heart patterned boxer briefs. The best thing about the set was the pink haired dancer girls in skin tight green camo body suits during the first 3 songs of his set. The second best thing was the technopop-ified version on everfree he played. Everything else pretty much sucked.
2- Daizy Stripper started things off by ruining the hide song Misery. Seriously, hide was by no means a great vocalist, so if you can't sing his songs in tune you have no business being a singer. They also played 2 original songs that were bland pop with a tiny bit of rock thrown in.
3- Ra:IN. I am renaming this band "Pata and the Raving Lunatics" because thats what they are. They played 3 or 4 songs, and if they had a vocalist they'd really be a great band, as an instrumental band I doubt the fun of their set will translate to album. By the end of the set, DIE had destroyed a midi controller, the bass player was sawing at the edge of the stage with his bass and the drum kit had been disassembled by other band members while still being played.
4- RIZE does a pretty good cover of pink spider. Their own music isn't bad per say, I just can't get into it. They play a punk-ified hard rock and the vocalist raps every now and then. Also they can't MC in between songs worth shit. Half of the time we just had to wait while no one said anything and the vocalist dragged himself back from whatever random corner he had ran off to. He liked to jump off stage and play with the audience. Oh yeah, the singer's English is really good, I think he grew up in America.
5- Versailles. A good percentage of the audience was confused by the fags in strange costumes. Though they did sound good live and Kamijo is a better vocalist than I would have ever thought. If he has always been able to sing so good, why did he always sound all nasal and annoying in Lareine?
Set List:
1) The Love From a Dead Orchestra
2) uh...Shout and Bite, maybe?
3) The Revenant Choir
6- MarBell. Holy fuck that performance sucked the life out of me. MarBell consisted of a Japanese, slightly gothed up Avril Lavigne wannabe and a backing band that looked bored out of their mind. She didn't even look like she wanted to be there.
7- Maximum the Hormone. They were fun live, I doubt I'd ever buy a CD of theirs unless it gets released in America but I'd see them play again. The drummer chick was really funny and they just had a really nice vibe.
8- Phantasmagoria. Dear fucking god, the choreographed dance with the hands crap has got to stop. As a straight male fan of the band, I was embarrassed by it. Ugh, it made Sid's hand waving crap look like child's play. The music though was great. Jun was by far the most charismatic though Kisaki and Riku did good themselves. Iori just kind of stood there and ruined the energy of the other three members not stuck behind the drums.
Set List:
1) kami uta (a really long version of the song and their fans, some of who left after they played went crazy.)
2) gensoukyoku~Eternal Silence~ (probably my favorite song by them)
I really hope Kisaki changes his mind about not performing anymore. Hell, I hope the whole band changes their mind about breaking up. Though Iori can go away, his heart just ain't in it anymore.
9- TM Revolution. He's a good singer, his music is catchy enough, but I would have rather had him show up and play wit abs. The coolest thing about his set was miki noticed Yukke of on one of the sides hand gesturing along with all the songs. He was there with a guy neither of us recognized who was wearing sunglasses a button up shirt and bowler hat. We tried figuring out who we was but couldn't. To me he looked like he should play in a ska band so I'm calling him Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra's trumpet player. Oh he was dancing along and stuff too.
10- hurdy gurdy consisted of the Zeppet Store vocalist and an acoustic guitar. I wanted to dislike him since I never liked Zeppet Store but he did alright. He talked to the audience a lot, saying how important hide was to him, etc. He played two hide covers and one other song and honestly I think he was the perfect act to play before SB came out.
Set List:
1) LEMONed I Scream
2) ...a Zeppet Store song, I believe
3) Flame
11- hide with Spread Beaver. They used old live and studio recordings of hide vocals for all the songs and even used old hide inbetween song MCing a couple times. Most of the time they were showing old live recording or PV clips of hide on the video monitor.
Set List:
-pre recorded hurry go round video with shots of hide through out his career
-Spread Beaver introduction track as the band walks out
1) Rocket Dive
2) Pose
3) Celebration (Pata joined them for this one)
4) Doubt
5) pink spider
6) Dice
7) Everfree
8)Tell Me
-pre recorded Misery with more hide video