Kagerou x D'espairs Ray report with pics
I had strawberries and cream today oh how British XD
It's Public entry time :D
I hope some of you will appreciate this it's seriously taken me about 2 days to write. lookit the time it's taken me forever D:
Yes I am back and My god what a fucking awesome trip it was. I went with rikku16 Aka Kyo's BiAtch and met disco_lolita and ladypussinboots whilst we were there. If you don't like reading long entries then here's some basics
OK firstly Magazines do fuck all justice for Kagerou. I've always thought of them as a rather ugly band apart from Daisuke. Kazu especially comes out ugly but he is really not ugly at all. He's actually very pretty XD.
anyway some basics
*no photo's were allowed at the meet and greet :(
*I won't say who was there XD you'll have to read on
*We were allowed to get autographs though
*Me and Sammeh (rikku16) started que'ing at summat like 11am the next day
*Sammeh went off to find a cashpoint and OMG D'espairs Ray and Kagerou arrived in a car with no tinted windows or very bad tinted windows. Cue much screaming and fangirling from me and the small crowd there.
*The que got bigger and spilled out onto the pavement by about 4:30-5 the police arrived and told us to move XD so we were allowed to que up inside the gates to the concert hall.
*Scanning the concert hall inside there was a bar at the back, merch table at the far left, nother bar far right back but fuck that I rushed right to the front of the stage.
*Kagerou came on first damn their song titles such complicated names DX.
*D'espairs Ray came on after the intervals. Dear god so many ppl fainted in this concert.
*Only D'espairs Ray came on for an encore of 2 or 3 songs
*Kagerou's concert was more about performance and putting on a show whereas Desray was more about interacting with all the crowd. The audience was definitely more into the D'espairs Ray part of the concert I'd say.
Onto the details now
ok so I missed my train by like 1 min! Seriously really pissed me off XD I blame it on the old guy driving in front of my mum. Old ppl x cars just don't work.
Anyway yeah I ended up sitting in the quiet zone for my first train which sucked. How can you listen to Grudge when it's on volume 3 DX. Next train though I didn't even have a seat it was so packed. I was standing up for 4 hours @_@ then about 15 mins before arriving in bournemouth there were seats. 'OH WOW' still it was nice to sit down XD. Met Sammeh as soon as I got off and her dad took us back to hers. We had something to eat and then watched the macabre DVD before her dad wanted to watch starship troopers. Sammeh packed and I just like stood in her room lookin at all the printouts of Kyo XDD so many and a good few of Ruki too \o/ I also gave her the drain away pic and some other stuff. After the film was done we watched the rest of macabre and then her dad took us to the station to catch our coach. It was about 1am at this point.
On the coach we listened to J-rock *DUH* and Sammeh checked on her nintendogs Shinya and Toshiya XD they're so cute. At the next coach stop there was like a load of paki's/asians and Sammeh was like 'OH god were going to die' and actually took a photo of them XD
About 15 mins before we were due to arrive at the next coach station the guy on the other side of us TOLD us to lower the J-rock down ¬¬ which was blah considering he'd slept right through it and we were nearly there anyway.
On the next coach we went right to the back and then had a bit of a sleep seeing as it was like 3am at this time. We took some J-tard photo's on the coach also XD. Bear in mind we look like shit or me at least cos my hair hasn't been straightened D: and no makeup on and I am ugly anyway XD. We randomly took photo's of our headphones too. Special HMV J-rock BiAtch club headphones X)
At Stansted we checked in and bought some food etc XD and then had to wait an hour or 2 to board our flight. More random photo's and Sammeh bought some black nail varnish
On the flight we got some more sleep because we had been up for god knows how long.
When we arrived we got a taxi to our hotel which was yet again in the 'porn' district XD hmm the hotel website failed to mention that.
It took a while for us to get into the room XD I'm so retarded. Sammeh got the whole thing on her phone so if you want to laugh at the fact I can't open a door-
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We did manage to open the door XD and then Sammeh filmed the inside complete with guided tour XDD
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So after that we changed into our outfits for the meet and greet and did our makeup before J-tard posing XD. I wore pretty much the same thing for the concert too. Here i'm wearing Black jacket, Red and Black striped Death Kitty shirt with detachable sleeves, 2 belts, black hat, black trousers with red buttons down the sides, black scuffed boots, black tie, Fishnet hand warmers, cross chain, chain choker and headphones/MP3. I fucked up my mascara so did Die.. Child Prey Kyo esque makeup that you can't see very well but it was child prey esque XD with the random looking bruise thing.
With our makeup done we then headed off to Neotokyo
Wow German ppl are so helpful I like them XD. Even just standing there they asked if we needed any help. Though due to what we we looked like we got stared at a lot XD. Some German looking chavs were talking and laughing or summat at us on the escalator so Sammeh loudly said something like 'so where is..' just to let them know we were English and couldn't understand them XD. We got the underground train so we arrived in no time at all then started looking for neotokyo. We turned around it was right there in front of us XD and ahh with our own kind.
Sammeh stopped to talk with disco_lolita who was sitting outside waiting for the meet and greet. I looked through the door to the shop and saw Shoxx magazines @__@ whicn meant spazzing and impatiently tapping Sammeh on the shoulder XD. We went inside and spent a while in there just because of how amazing it was XD so much J-rock and anime it was awesome. When we collected our tickets we had to pay there and then because they hadn't been charged to Sammeh's mums card or summat.
I grabbed both the Shoxx volumes there one with a Kagrra special from last month and the other with Plastic Tree and the Fools Mate from last month with a Kirito and Kiyoharu special then thought I should save money for the concert. The UV was the dir en grey special but none of the other bands really interested me. Though at the back of the fools mate and UV I spotted the only Neo vol.2, if I remembered correctly it was the one with those gorgeous Reila Gazette photoshoots. A quick flick through it and I was right so I decided I just had to buy that XD. I put back the plastic tree volume because the others had better Gazette photoshoots XD. Sammeh bought the Kagrra shoxx, UV just because it was dir en grey, it withers and withers pamphlet and the Macabre pamphlet on display in a glass case and a Kagerou poster for them to sign. Such a Dirutard XD.
Inside the store behind the table for the meet and greet there was a display of D'espairs Ray outfits. They looked fuckin amazing and thankfully you were allowed to take photo's of them.
We talked with disco_lolita and her friends some more and they told us about this really expensive store called Japan salon. We had lots of time to kill so decided to visit it XD wow it was far away and fuckin hell expensive. over 100 euro's for a choker @__@ made of material and 70 for a wristband that could of easily come from Claire's.
On our way back we spotted a really cool looking goth, punk, rock shop but it was nearly time for the meet and greet so we went back to neotokyo and que'd with disco_lolita and ladypussinboots group. The doors shut shortly after meaning the meet and greet was getting set up.
I peeked through the windows and spotted Kazu from Kagerou I knew he'd be there XD I dunno why I just knew of all of them he would definitely be one. Sammeh tried to get a photo through the window but failed XD.
The doors opened and the first 4 or 5 ppl were allowed in. I was getting really excited by this time. Shortly after we found out who was at the meet and greet. We were betting both vocalists wouldn't be there at all. It turned out that Kazu was there for Kagerou we already knew that. Tsukasa*squee* and Karyu were representing D'espairs Ray and finally the last member of Kagerou was DAISUKE. REALLY DAISUKE!! We never expected him at all our fav member HOMG. I totally spazzed out and Sammeh just stood there speechless XD. And so another attempt at getting a pic of them.
Finally our turn to go through. We both bought tour posters neotokyo were selling for them to sign and then waited for the security guy to let us go up and see them. Sammeh was first she said Hello to Kazu and he said Hello back then him and the Japanese security person next to him started laughing XD WTF. Bet he was like OMG I'm speakin english, bless.
My turn and wow Kazu is so pretty in the flesh. He smiled and said summat to me in Japanese that I didn't understand but I said 'yeah' anyway I was grinning like an idiot because I was that excited. I handed over my poster then asked could they sign my shoxx (i'd bookmarked the pages they were on) and handed that over aww he quickly found his page then handed it over to Daisuke.
GODDAMN I always thought Daisuke was pretty but in real life he is hot as hell and this was when he was natural, casual looking and everything. He seemed so shy it was really cute XD because you'd never expect him to be shy based on his live performances and pvs etc. I spazztically said 'OMG we have the same birthday' (cos we do) to him and I think he didn't understand any of that at all cos he looked at me with a blank expression XD. I'm so retarded but well I was never gonna meet him again so thought I'd say it anyway.
D'espairs Ray didn't wait for you XD they'd signed the poster by the time the shoxx was being handed over and then signed that quickly after each finding their own page. I found that cute for some bizarre reason. Though both Tsukasa and Karyu held out their hands for you to shake and well if the offers there take it XD. They both looked alike to me XD but both were very pretty X3. I told them they were great and love their stuff before leaving.
Outside me and Sammeh met each other excitedly seriously my knees were shaking so badly I thought my legs were going to give way XD. It took a while to actually stand properly. Some girl had her camera aimed at us I didn't think she wanted to get a pic of us but turned out she did XD. Weird. we posed anyway then headed off back to our hotel both saying about a 100 times how we couldn't believe we'd met Daisuke XD. We were also starving so looked around for quite a while for something to eat and finally settled for baguettes we ate back at the hotel. It was only 9pm or summat but we were both exhuasted and tired due to the fact we hadn't had a proper sleep since the night before. 9 is usually too damn early for me so I read some Harry Potter and the goblet of fire(to refresh my memory before the movie comes out) but I was so tired I fell asleep reading it then woke up and decided to actually just sleep and turn the light off
Next day we were spared the heart attack inducing alarm clock that is Kyo's scream from Kodou on Sammeh's mobile XD due to the fact we were already awake. We changed into our concert gear then went downstairs for some breakfast. Blergh foreign tea is always so horrible XD especially when you pick herbal tea by mistake. After a quick breakfast we went back to our room and did our 'J-makeup'
We both decided on CLEVER SLEAZOID eyelashes before we went and I attempted Ruki eyemakeup XD(which didn't work so I made it my own design thingy XD) though using an ordinary eye liner pencil because liquid eyeliner would smudge in the concert like a son of a bitch. For anyone who doesn't know Kyo has white eyelashes in the CLEVER SLEAZOID pv. They look really cool XD
I wore the same jacket, trousers, hat, belts and tie but this time wore a thin black lace top in case the concert got too hot and a white shirt over it with black slashed arm warmers and my chequered and chain wristbands. I also wore ribbons this time XD 'Have you seen them they wear ribbons in their hair' XD I couldn't resist that but no didn't wear them in my hair. So yeah we J-tard posed again :D Hmm I shoulda painted my nails.
At the dir en grey paris live we'd que'd early and had absolutely fuck all to do for about 6 hours so this time we weren't gonna make the same mistake. We took our MP3s and I took my dir en grey tourbag with my homemade Gazetard sketchpad XD, my pencil case, batteries, drinks and chocolate. We got the underground train again then walked up to the concert hall. The que was really small :0 which was good we found a place and dumped our stuff there then Sammeh went off in search of a cash machine because she'd spent most of her money on dirutard stuff in neotokyo XD. Shortly after she left a car drove up and everybody started screaming so I jumped up and well it was only D'espairs Ray wasn't it XD. Apparently Kagerou were in the same car but I didn't see them I remember clearly seeing Hizumi and fangirling. If those were supposed to be tinted windows they were really shit XD
Sammeh came back so I told her and she said a car like that with some guys in had beeped at her and waved and she'd just been like fuck off XDD which I found funny. Fuck off to D'espairs Ray nice XD.
Time passed slowly and it was quite warm and you couldn't sit too long cos your arse would get numb XD so had to keep standing up. Though it wasn't too bad we had our MP3s and we could hear the ppl around us quietly singing along to whatever was playing. When Saku was on one girl asked what it was cos she recognised it. After a while I decided to draw some J-tard stuff starting with Kyo chibi's :D
1. All the outfits are suggested by Sammeh apart from J-tard Kyo because he's my personal J-tard comic Kyo XD.
2. It's so easy to take the piss outta diru. Here we are using the BBC interview again and why Miyavi because 'Miyavi desu' can fit with absolutely anything XD. Toshiya made us laugh for the longest time even the day after we were still laughing about it XD. Even after watching the Corpse Bride we were laughing about it.
3. Somehow Sammeh said summat about Kyo x Die being a horrible pairing XD and well I decided to be evil and draw it. Not only that Kyo would be the uke and would be all pretty and shoujo esque bwahahaha. Not only that but Die would be reaching for his 'mr bone' XD and they'd both look happy and lovey dovey together. Sammeh made me change Die a bunch of times cos she said he wasn't ugly enough XD and still looks too pretty now.
4.ARGHHHH MY EYES BURN. Sammeh got me back with this which is 100,000000x worse XD OMFG Mana x Ruki is the most disgusting bizarre plain fucking wrong pairing in the world DDD:
The que got outta hand spilling onto the pavement so the police were called and we were allowed to que inside the gates to the concert hall at about 4:30-5. The crowd was getting restless and began to push each other and there was still another hour to go yet! Me and Sammeh started talking to some German fans next to us in the que who were more of a D'espairs Ray fan than Kagerou. That seemed to be the same for the majority of ppl there. Me I like them both but I'm about 10% more of a Desray fan though Daisuke wins on sex appeal for me XD.
6pm came and all hell broke loose. There was pushing and shoving I was at the front but I got rammed into the bar. I was getting squashed right in the middle and for anyone who doesn't know it's painful DX. Luckily I am used to getting through tight spaces and luckily I'm thin so I managed to get around the bar but still the pushing came and people began to scream. I just yelled and told them to fuck off XD. The security guy got pissed off at them all and started shouting. Behind me 2 girls seemed to have gotten hurt from it because they were crying in pain. I got through and then had my bag checked for drinks blah blah. It was taking valuable time away from me getting a front space in the concert hall >O. Finally I shown them my ticket and went inside.
Now I am slightly more of a Desray fan so sorry I may have forgot some Kagerou stuff like titles of songs XD;
I quickly scanned inside the hall. It was a helluva lot smaller than the one for dir en grey. There was no balcony and the floor was the same no matter what distance. This meant if you were at the back they'd be less chance of seeing them. At the very back of the hall was a bar to the far right there seemed to be another bar and then to the far left there was a merchandise table. I had planned on buying merchandise first but I saw the left side of the stage was empty and rushed over to get a place throwing my bag over the side like everybody else.
I could see the set list Kagerou were on first the very last song was XII Dizzy and I spazzed XD. Sammeh wasn't near me so I tried to communicate my excitement to the person next to me who was German and apparently knew no English. How hard is it to understand XII Dizzy :/ anyway.
The hall got more crowded and tighter so I was left with the tiniest space on the bar ¬¬
We all waited and I looked to the side of the stage and saw Kagerou pass by the stage door that was slightly open. Someone came on and blah blah'd about the rules aka no diving XD and the like then he asked who we were here to see and we shouted Kagerou or I did. Kagerou came out on stage one by one and stood there lapping up the cheers and screams. Yuana seemed to like it a lot he stayed there for a while XD and kept raising his hands to make us shout louder.
Finally Daisuke came on and I screamed XD he looked beautiful as ever and was wearing the Guroshoku suit from all the photoshoots lately. He had 2 blonde streaks in his hair which was shoulder length at the front and then longer at the back and he was wearing his usual makeup. Heavy black eyemakeup that formed a small sort of triangular shape towards his cheeks with a perfectly black upper lip and then white or very pale contacts.
I was on Kazu's side he was looking pretty and wearing his Guroshoku outfit with curls in his hair.
Shizumi was wearing his Guroshoku stuff too to start with including the shades =O though obviously he took them off and wow he has such pretty shaped eyes X3 I thought he was hot altogether but Sammeh didn't XD.
Yuana was a spaz XD he was just plain weird a little spaztic wearing his guroshoku gear also and a hat and I thought he didn't really look all that good in the flesh either XD. So mags aren't really doing any harm making him look ugly most of the time because its how he is *gets bricked by Kagerou fans*
SONGS
People criticize Dir en grey all the time for their live performance and the fact Kyo sounds different well you could not crit Daisuke and Kagerou at all they played perfectly. Every note was sung just how any Kagerou fan would remember it only it was live making it a whole lot better and the music was more alive and energetic X3 the band played very well.
Damn Kagerou and their Japanese titles XD I can never remember them though I clearly remember the following songs being played. I think anyway :/ I can't remember the order though XD
Ragan this gave us a a nice lil break from headbanging, jumping up, pumping our fists in the air and so on. Though some ppl will have headbanged to it cos you get the odd few at every live XD or even the band such as Toshiya headbanging to Kodou XDD freak or Die headbanging to every song :D hey he does XD on Sammeh's DVD he's headbanging to Ain't Afraid to Die lmao.
Akatsuki I didn't like this song much on Guroshoku but it was fun at the live. A very lively happy go lucky bouncy tune so there was lots of jumping from me and my row and the one behind. And hey I like it more now XD
Te I don't remember much about this one D: but Sammeh loves it and remembers it so erm yeah XD I just remember hearing the chorus.
Junkan kikei shoujo A I think this was 1 of the fanservice or Kyo take off songs *i'll explain those later XD* Either way I remember hearing this.
Mourou Epilogue HOMG YES Sammeh totally got me loving this song before the concert so spaz time when it started XD followed by much headbanging and jumping. Was this the song Daisuke fell on the floor with his legs in the air I can't remember XD. I think he did something 'active' anyway.
3.2.1 I think this was Daisuke's Kyo take off song aka scratching in an attempt to bleed XD seeing as the song isn't really much at the beginning just Daisuke's orgasmic screaming and growling. Anyway there's a gap of just music and I think he did the wrist scratch bit......that was hot.
Zetsubou ni Sayonara YES I love this song it was awesome jumping from me and it was just a very cool song that was neither brutal or calm just there in between. Some ppl chose to take a break and others carried on jumping XD.
XII Dizzy HOW could they not play this?! It is like Kagerou's trademark song. Sammeh was convinced they wouldn't but I was sure they would and gladly I was right. Ahh second song I ever heard and a big fav of mine. I was dreading this just because the crowd was gonna get rowdy XD and I was kinda squashed already. They played this last and it did so rock much headbanging and jumping from the crowd. Daisuke jumped down from the stage and went right up to the barrier where he was grabbed at until security got him back on stage XD.
Songs I'm not sure about
They ring a bell but I'm a little unsure :0 one song they didn't play which I wished they had -Mousou kurau shikabane- they played a lot of Guroshoku anyway.
hotoke no seiheki God I hated that song on Guroshoku. I'm not sure if they did it but I think they did only live it sounded a lot different the voice alter effects etc were gone and yes I think they did sing it cos I seem to remember the chorus/loud bit :0 and I like it now XD weird
Kurokami no Aitsu I like this song I can't remember if they sang it I think they did but my memory is like shite XD.
Shiroi Karasu why yes I do like this song a lot and it does ring a bell. I think they played it but again memory plus I was hot and dehydrated for Kagerou's half XD.
I can't remember any others but they played around 14 songs or summat.
Fanservice and parts of the show
Can Daisuke compete with Kyo's touching himself? Fucking hell yes! I'd heard from somebody on a community that Daisuke wanked off on stage XD wow I remember thinking 'Wha...surely he doesn't XD'. There was only one way to find out.
After nearly every song Daisuke took the mic wire placed it under his chin and knelt down with his head hung low as if he'd been hung or summat. It was really cute XD.
Kagerou fangirls(or boys) didn't have to wait long for fanservice seriously the second song Daisuke went straight into it. GODDAMN that person was right XD he shoved his hand right through his zipper a number of times and 'rubbed his bits up and down' pretty fast whilst doing his crazy mouth and lips thing. If you've seen Kagerou live DVDs you should know what i'm talking about. Anyway it was hot but it wasn't over yet he took the mic placed it in front of his zipper and then swung it up and down whilst licking his lips it was funny and seriously hot to watch at the same time. My God Daisuke is good at self service yes yes.
A number of times he took a swig of his water and sprayed it on the audience it hit me like 3 times :D yay Daisuke spit = very happy fangirl.
About twice he left the stage and went right up to the barrier where we all were. Of course he got grabbed at and so on and security always had to pull him out and back on stage XD.
Anyone who's seen Kagerou live or live DVD's should know he falls down on purpose a lot or rolls around on the floor screaming or singing well he didn't disappoint and did it a good few times for us. All I could see was his legs in the air XD.
A couple of times during the loud and heavy songs Daisuke did what I call his Kyo take off/impression XD because it consisted of him scratching himself like a maniac and c'mon Kyo is famous for that XD. Anyway Daisuke scratched his neck a few times like that and then at one point knelt down placed the mic wire in his mouth allowing the mic to dangle and scratched his wrist trying to make it bleed most likely though it didn't work XD bless him. Call me weird though but the mic wire in the mouth thing was so damn hot o.o
The guitarists couldn't really do much well Yuana did his spaztic guitar playing thing and both him and Kazu would go to the edge of the stage so all the fans could yell and attempt to grab them. They both threw guitar picks out and Kazu's was kinda close to me but I never caught it :( I dunno who did. Shizumi threw his drumsticks at the end and Daisuke threw half a bottle of water so it sprayed and soaked those below on its journey XD. Very generous of him.
It was hard to believe this was the same person who'd seemed so quiet and shy the day before.
Interval time and time for water the security guy handed a bottle round to ppl who were reaching out and dying of thirst or dehydration XD I was one. I drank some then decided to take my lips from the bottle and let it spill all down my shirt. OH God it was heaven XD. Interval time brought the most casualties yet. They'd been about 5 ppl i'd seen having fainted and being lifted out during Kagerou's performance. Dunno bout you but it's creepy watching a limp lifeless body go past you and get lifted out the crowd. But anyway so many ppl were lifted out during the intervals most of them hadn't actually fainted but I guess they were exhausted and couldn't stand or summat they all looked like shit anyway. 1 of them was the girl i'd shared water with and been next to at one point before getting pushed to the 4th row. Another was the girl i'd been next to when I was actually on the very front row. But god there was a lot @_@ glad I wasn't one I was quite happy and hydrated at this point XD.
Everybody spread out or moved back a little and I'm guessing it was because security told us all due to the mass of people fainting @_@;
The announcer guy came back on (a sign Desray would follow *o*) he mentioned something about being drunk and then told us all to cheer for D'espairs Ray. Well the crowd went wild most of them seemed to be bigger desray fans after all. The music to BORN played as if taunting us and we waited all the while chanting 'D'espairs Ray' finally after what seemed a century the curtain rose and we all screamed like the fangirls and fanboys we were as D'espairs Ray entered and took their places. There was no intro to each member as Kagerou had done they just took their places and began to play.
Hizumi looked seriously awesome as hell. He was wearing a slim longer than average black leather looking jacket that we found was laced up at the back (very elegant) and possibly side of the jacket sleeves. Either way there were ribbons or threads attached to the sleeves of the jacket (that would get caught on his gloves XD) and he was wearing black probably leather gloves. Also the left sleeve was rolled up to his elbow. He wore no shirt underneath and had a necklace to compliment it. I thought it looked like a miniature microphone was attached to it but I could be mistaken. He was wearing plain black trousers and a belt. His makeup was the typical style he wears the dark eyes and pale contacts you know and his hair was slightly messed up but still looked great. I've always thought Hizumi has a really noticeable nose XD so I remember that standing out his teeth are also kinda goofy but that just added a cuteness appeal along with his nose XD.
Karyu looked VERY Uruha esque XD I swear he had the same hair colour and style and everything. He was on the opposite side to me so didn't get really good views. He wore a long black sleeveless jacket which I think was buttoned up if not he simply had a black shirt on underneath. He also wore a red diamonte cross symbol studded tie that stood out quite well. I was pleased to see him wearing long black arm warmers (me=arm warmers whore) that reached past his elbows and could of almost been sleeves. Wah I can't remember if he was wearing trousers or not I think he was and they were black. If not he wore black shorts as I said he wasn't on my side.
Zero was on my side (the left) he looked stoned XDD....nothing new there *gets bricked*. He did look amazing though he had his braids in pigtails and they were so cool :0 especially when he headbanged which he did a good few times they kinda stuck in the air and then fell back down XD. Zero's clothes I think were pretty plain a long black jacket with black trousers and boots I think. It didn't stand out that well but I think Desray were going for simple and stylish so it worked. It was his hair that stood out if anything.
Tsukasa nooou I hardly saw him ;_; he looked very pretty and natural from what I did see of him. He had his hair down and one side of his hair slightly hung over his face. He was wearing a black sleeveless top with small black hand warmers/fingerless gloves and most likely black trousers though I didn't get to see. He looked hot anyway you could see the muscles in his arms =O lets leave it at that XD.
Songs
Again you couldn't fault them Hizumi's vocals were pure sex and the music was fuckin awesome. I always did like the the way they played. All my faves \o/ made me very happy. They didn't play Garnet or Murder Freaks though if they had it would have been the icing on the cake. Can't remember the order again. There was about 1 song I didn't recognise so I prolly didn't have it. Songs I wasn't sure about-Gemini, Forbidden, in vain, Valentine, Yami ni furu kiseki
BORN what kinda concert would it be without this song this is like one of their most popular I think this might have been the first song prolly was cos it was playing in the background so long and then they just came on and started up.
Infection dgnjbfgbhj GOD I love this song so much so when Hizumi announced 'it's time for infection' or rather INFEK-SHE-ON I entered screaming fangirl mode XDD. They played it perfectly was so happy.
Reddish More fantard spazzing this is the song that made me a fan it's so addictive. There was lots of jumping from me and Hizumi's vocals in the growly scream bit were so sexy :0~ damn his voice is hot XD
Grudge *spaz spaz spaz* This is possibly my fav song by them I just love it so when Hizumi growled GRRRUUUUUDDGGGGE before it started, again I screamed like a fangirl. There was lots of jumping from me and my row XD and some headbanging. There's a bit that sounds like 'Fuck or Die' so I yelled that along with other yells from ppl XD I didn't care if it was wrong. Hizumi's screams were orgasmic during this. Have I mentioned his voice is really hot.
Abel to Caine I love this song too so more fan spaz and why yes Hizumi's vocals were so goooood.
Maverick I think this was one because I seem to remember the no pain no gain bit.
Marry of The Blood this gave us a nice little break and allowed some singing along because a lot of it is in English. Anyway I sang to the beautiful creature and unbeautiful creature and Neo rebirth bits and yes I love this song.
Dears Apparently this is the favourite song of most of the band so how could they not sing it. I don't remember much about it only the chorus and prolly jumping with the crowd.
Tainted World WAH love this one unfortunately at the time I was buying merchandise but hey I could still hear them and surprisingly you got a good view from the merch table of them all =O so it wasn't too bad.
parts of the act
No real fanservice unfortunately ;_;
But instead Hizumi was a lot more interactive with the crowd. He spoke a lot to us in Japanese XD and we just yelled back. He also said 'Motto, Motto' loads which got lots of yells in return. Every now and Again he'd use some English I clearly remember he said 'everybody sing along' for one song and I was just like I would if I knew the words >_> and then he announced the next song title etc and the dreaded 'Last Song' also.
He didn't spit on us which was like not fair but he did throw water out XD. OK so Hizumi didn't spit but Zero took a long swig of his water then he didn't spray it out he spat it out like a fountain @_@ damn me not being near enough XD.
Zero and Karyu switched sides a few times which was nice because we got to see and scream at both when they came close to the edge. The desray guitarists were slightly more active than Kagerou's and both headbanged a good few times. Likewise Hizumi headbanged also, headbanging to his mic stand HAWT.
Hizumi came close enough for ppl to touch him but still not as far out as Daisuke had.
1 of the Japanese security guys was constantly moving Hizumi's mic stand XD
After the last song ppl began to chant ENCORUU over and over I saw my jacket getting passed about and decided to leave for merch. Typical that just after I'd escaped the crowd they come back on and play tainted world and 1 or 2 other songs. Still the merch que was empty and if I hadn't gone then I might not have got any of the pamphlets etc.
Zero put his guitar picks in his mouth and spat them out for the audience to catch I dunno if Karyu did the same. At the end of the concert there was still 2 left so me and a bunch of others were yelling for them but WTF they cleared up anyway D:
Overall Kagerou had been the fanservice more active side and D'espairs Ray had been the interactive side it was a great combo and they complimented each other well with their styles and all.
After the concert we looked dead i'm too lazy to post the pic XD.
Over at the merch table I sort of impulse bought a lot of stuff XD so on reflection now I may sell some of it I dunno yet.
Anyway I went back so many times I'm sure the guy got sick of me XD.
stuff I got
*D'espairs Ray wristband
*2 Kagerou pamphlets from previous tours
*Kagerou key holder
*Kagerou tour bag (Cannot compare to my diru one at all cos it's so cheap)
*3 sets of D'espairs Ray stickers (yes 3. 1 to use, 1 for show XD, 1 for bishounenboy)
*D'espairs Ray mobile phone sticker thing (WTF I don't have a mobile)
*Tour T shirt (ran outta small so got the medium which is like too big so I just wear it round the house)
*Murder Day DVD
*Maverick single (that looked like a DVD >O thats why I bought it)
Stuff I wanted-
Kagerou Zekkyou psychopath DVD(didn't have enough ;-; stupid Maverick single)
[Coll:set](OMG no way I'd wanted that in neotokyo they'd sold out and then at the concert it sold out D: clearly I wasn't the only person who thought it was 1 of the best albums this year. I shoulda bought my merch early.)
Guroshoku(now that I'm back I want it XD it has suddenly sounded good. Fuck sake I had enough for it n all there.)
After getting back to the hotel with food to eat we took photos of our spendings this is mine I spent more than Sammeh XD actually I dunno she paid 50 euros for a Diru pamphlet alone XD. I do so love that pic of Ruki X) and now I actually have the mag with it in \o/ so after that we went to sleep.
Applause if you've read this far XD. Next day we headed to the airport and met disco_lolita and ladypussinboots again. Then me and Sammeh got trapped in the wrong section XDD our check in was in the B section we were stuck in C for about half an hour trying to get out.
On the plane we listened to J-rock Yay and did more J-tarded stuff XD. We laughed and sniggered and talked pretty loudly anyway yeah this made us both laugh just for
A. Kyo
B. How many times Ruki can swear
C. Miyavi's shirt and flat desu XDD
On our way back to Sammeh's we passed through London and pretty much made up a whole story of dir en grey in London (because they were you know) and tried to guess where they went what they did. We decided Kaoru and Die would of been the spaztic ones taking all the photo's and Toshiya would have just laughed at everything like 'Hahahaha that bus is red' or 'hahahaha look how big that clock is' man Toshiya has a really annoying laugh XD. We decided Kyo would be a moody git and Shinya dunno we didn't think of him XD.
We also decided next year to try and cosplay around london :D why because we both love getting strange looks from ppl cos of our clothes it's awesome.
Hours later we arrived back at Sammeh's she put her posters up and whatnot and then we headed off to watch the corpse bride. Some kids got on the bus and I swear they were 12-13 and were totally fuckin pissed/bladdered/drunk off their heads and it was only 9pm. Kids these days eh U_U. 1 of stumbled down the stairs *it was a double decker* and was most likely gonna throw up so got off. We arrived just in time to watch the movie and wow we are such J-tards we even related Kyo to one of the things in it XD. The movie was awesome though it had the cheesiest jokes ever but still made you laugh and Victor Johnny Depps character was fuckin adorable and so dorky. For some reason I lmao at the drunken skeleton in it XD WTF how does a skeleton get drunk but yeah I'm weird like that I was the prolly the only 1 laughing. When we came out we remembered Miyavi's shirt and flat desu and started laughing again then got the bus back to Sammeh's. There was a group of drunk chavs at the bus stop and 1 was so pissed he couldn't even stand XD and it was only 11 summat. When we got back to Sammeh's we watched her Kagerou DVD which was fun Daisuke is so great XD. We went to bed after that cos we were so tired.
Next day we watched her Murder Day DVD also very good but nowhere near as many lives as Kagerou's. It did have a really awesome high quality Reddish PV though. I sketched a quick J-tard comic involving Hizumi *gasp* and Kyo before we left for the train station.
And that meant our awesome trip was over D: but next year we hope for more XD and blitzballbaby better join us >O we hope Gazette come to Europe and Dir en Grey again. Diru have said they're definitely going back to Germany so now we just have to wait. I wanna see kagerou and desray again too XD and 12012 would be cool too.