Fukuoka DRUM Be-1 (2010/04/05) & Okayama IMAGE (2010/04/06)

[ko_miyavi_3500]

雅-MIYAVI- Japan Tour 2010

2010/04/05 Fukuoka DRUM Be-1

Live Report #3

The City: Fukuoka is always a great place for a Miyavi show - the weather is hot and the kids are even hotter. It was a comparatively cool day - in fact it was downright cold once the sun went down, and we all wished we’d brought better coats with us for demachi - but aside from

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[ko_miyavi_3500]

You're definitely someone who would know firsthand how difficult joking in your second language is, with all of them that you speak! You're one of the funniest non-native speakers that I know, though. And his English IS really amazing! He's even using it on his Japanese kids - though not to much effect. He can yell "Put your hands up!" all he wants, but no one really does anything until he's like "Te wo agerou!" I think he just likes the sound of the English, honestly XD

[ko_miyavi_3500]

I'm so envious of you for your linguistic prowess - all I can speak is English, decent Japanese, and my French gets less and less passable the more time that passes. In 2008, Miyavi kept trying out his French on this one French chick that came to his shows, and she could never seem to understand a word he said, but it was an awesome effort nonetheless XD

[ko_miyavi_3500]

French Canadians will pull the same thing on you; they're very, very picky, and one little mistake will have the majority of them looking down their nose at you. When I went to school at an international college over here, I had the chance to make friends with some absolutely WONDERFUL souls from France who were loving, silly, and totally patient with any mistakes I made with the language, but that really does seem to be the exception and not the rule.

And that really is a great feeling, isn't it? One of my favorite moments each night is at the end of the show, when the house lights have already come up and Miyavi is still standing onstage. "Aishiteru! I love you!" he always tells us in two languages. "Love you too!" I always tell him back - it's one of the only times I'll speak English at the concerts, and it's always such a warm, wonderful feeling know that we all really mean it.