Rentrer en Soi @ Holiday Nagoya, 12/4
Yay, my lynch. 4th Anniversary ticket came! But the number is 122, bleggh. Everybody's doing presales these days, so there's like no advantage. Except I guess, getting a ticket vs. not getting a ticket. So presale = sale.
Went to the final RES gig in Nagoya last night, part of the "Millenarianism" (I can't even pronounce that) Tour. It was a sad show, but also a good show.
Set list:
MURDER INTENT
I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE
LAST SCENE
BAPTISM
THORNY RAIN BREAK
DAMNATION
gedoku magai ni SUICIDE
taiyou no todokanai basho
CRUSADE
AMONGST FOOLISH ENEMIES
STIGMATA
UNENDING SANCTUARY
JUST MAD PAIN
EN.1
ushinawareta fuukei no yume (Unplugged)
LAST WORD 「 」
SECRET SCARS-BESIDE YOU-
EN.2
hamon tsutau memai
binetsu shita de shajitsu shita shinsou wa atesaki fumei no tegami to naru
EN.3
ichigo oblaat
haikyo to kashita hakoniwa
bunretsu LE+DD jinkaku
METEMPSYCHOSIS
SPECIAL ENCORE
OASIS (short ver)
I hope I got the romaji right-- I stopped following them on their later material.
I met notafanboy at Likea (where I bought a ticket for the Giru oneman in February... I've spent so much on tickets lately!) and we made our way over to Holiday, the most annoying-to-find place. They started late, about 6:45pm. It's been so long since I've listened to any RES that a good chunk of the main set was unfamiliar to me. But it was still a great time, nonetheless. Satsuki wore a white coverall suit with shiny belt, and I could barely recognize anyone else except Mika (the last time I checked what they looked like was the s/t album era!).
Holiday was not really filled up, but I'd guess about 200 people showed. A lot of casual fans stood in the back, but we went to the main floor, towards Takumi (I think?) side. The lolita next to me was FIERCE! She was hilarious-- the best live-neighbour ever. She must've killed herself headbanging... and she had so much hair it was sweeping my face all the time. Of course, my neck hurts today, too. During the main set, Satsuki dived like 4 times in one song (don't know which). He'd just fall back into the receptive crowd again and again. There were a few songs where he sang without the mic and it was particularly haunting.
So off they went for the first encore (slow and eerie), the second encore (fast and jammy), and the third encore (intense! gyaku-diving!). Between each encore, the Nagoya fans were kind of lethargic. I think we-- meaning me, I. and K., the lolita next to me, and maybe 3 other girls around us-- were the loudest shouters for encore. The lolita had a vicious death grunt.
Satsuki was really cheery for the MC, not maudlin at all. I guess he wanted to end things on a happy note. He thanked us for coming, mentioned that it was their first (and last) one-man here, and jokingly accused us of low tension (I think the gyaku-diving in encore 3 proved him wrong).
So after they went off stage for the last time, it was around 8:50pm. And we yelled for another encore, even though a lot of people were making preparations to leave. After a few minutes, it caught on and nobody was leaving. The house lights were up, the curtains were down, the venue staff was telling us to get out, but we kept on clapping/yelling. The venue staff started circulating the audience trying to convince us to leave. After 15 minutes, Satsuki's voice suddenly filled the PA system. "Sorry guys, but our manager was really strict and told us to pack our stuff up! Everything's disassembled so we can't do another encore. Please come to 12/25 Tokyo for the encore." But everybody went "EEEEEEEEEEEEEH." So Satsuki pleaded again, "You can check under the curtains. Our stuff is gone for real!" So the entire saizen lifted up the black curtains!
Their equipment was all over the floor, and indeed gone, but the audience was still begging for an encore. And Satsuki goes, "dou shiyou?!" Finally, he said that a guitar could be plugged back in and so he and Takumi would do an acoustic number. The fans were ecstatic. So the curtains closed again, and they came back for OASIS (short ver.). That had to have been one of the strangest but most moving encores I've ever experienced. It hit me during this encore that I'd never see them again, and I got a little misty-eyed. But I couldn't think of a better way for it to end. The other members came back to take their bows, too, with Mika trying to throw out his last drumstick about four times (he just couldn't aim it to leave the stage area) and then it was goodbye again, with more than a few girls walking away teary.
Went to the final RES gig in Nagoya last night, part of the "Millenarianism" (I can't even pronounce that) Tour. It was a sad show, but also a good show.
Set list:
MURDER INTENT
I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE
LAST SCENE
BAPTISM
THORNY RAIN BREAK
DAMNATION
gedoku magai ni SUICIDE
taiyou no todokanai basho
CRUSADE
AMONGST FOOLISH ENEMIES
STIGMATA
UNENDING SANCTUARY
JUST MAD PAIN
EN.1
ushinawareta fuukei no yume (Unplugged)
LAST WORD 「 」
SECRET SCARS-BESIDE YOU-
EN.2
hamon tsutau memai
binetsu shita de shajitsu shita shinsou wa atesaki fumei no tegami to naru
EN.3
ichigo oblaat
haikyo to kashita hakoniwa
bunretsu LE+DD jinkaku
METEMPSYCHOSIS
SPECIAL ENCORE
OASIS (short ver)
I hope I got the romaji right-- I stopped following them on their later material.
I met notafanboy at Likea (where I bought a ticket for the Giru oneman in February... I've spent so much on tickets lately!) and we made our way over to Holiday, the most annoying-to-find place. They started late, about 6:45pm. It's been so long since I've listened to any RES that a good chunk of the main set was unfamiliar to me. But it was still a great time, nonetheless. Satsuki wore a white coverall suit with shiny belt, and I could barely recognize anyone else except Mika (the last time I checked what they looked like was the s/t album era!).
Holiday was not really filled up, but I'd guess about 200 people showed. A lot of casual fans stood in the back, but we went to the main floor, towards Takumi (I think?) side. The lolita next to me was FIERCE! She was hilarious-- the best live-neighbour ever. She must've killed herself headbanging... and she had so much hair it was sweeping my face all the time. Of course, my neck hurts today, too. During the main set, Satsuki dived like 4 times in one song (don't know which). He'd just fall back into the receptive crowd again and again. There were a few songs where he sang without the mic and it was particularly haunting.
So off they went for the first encore (slow and eerie), the second encore (fast and jammy), and the third encore (intense! gyaku-diving!). Between each encore, the Nagoya fans were kind of lethargic. I think we-- meaning me, I. and K., the lolita next to me, and maybe 3 other girls around us-- were the loudest shouters for encore. The lolita had a vicious death grunt.
Satsuki was really cheery for the MC, not maudlin at all. I guess he wanted to end things on a happy note. He thanked us for coming, mentioned that it was their first (and last) one-man here, and jokingly accused us of low tension (I think the gyaku-diving in encore 3 proved him wrong).
So after they went off stage for the last time, it was around 8:50pm. And we yelled for another encore, even though a lot of people were making preparations to leave. After a few minutes, it caught on and nobody was leaving. The house lights were up, the curtains were down, the venue staff was telling us to get out, but we kept on clapping/yelling. The venue staff started circulating the audience trying to convince us to leave. After 15 minutes, Satsuki's voice suddenly filled the PA system. "Sorry guys, but our manager was really strict and told us to pack our stuff up! Everything's disassembled so we can't do another encore. Please come to 12/25 Tokyo for the encore." But everybody went "EEEEEEEEEEEEEH." So Satsuki pleaded again, "You can check under the curtains. Our stuff is gone for real!" So the entire saizen lifted up the black curtains!
Their equipment was all over the floor, and indeed gone, but the audience was still begging for an encore. And Satsuki goes, "dou shiyou?!" Finally, he said that a guitar could be plugged back in and so he and Takumi would do an acoustic number. The fans were ecstatic. So the curtains closed again, and they came back for OASIS (short ver.). That had to have been one of the strangest but most moving encores I've ever experienced. It hit me during this encore that I'd never see them again, and I got a little misty-eyed. But I couldn't think of a better way for it to end. The other members came back to take their bows, too, with Mika trying to throw out his last drumstick about four times (he just couldn't aim it to leave the stage area) and then it was goodbye again, with more than a few girls walking away teary.