London trip + Gazette report.
Yes, a proper report from me now.
So, Thursday at 12:30 pm I went off to the train station on my bike, because my dad had taken the car to go to work >_>. My mom went with me, because I had way too much baggage to be carried on one bike D: Arrived at the station right on time, bought a ticket and went to search for the bus I had to take, because there was something wrong with the trains so I had to take a bus instead... Which took twice as long, bastards. *shakes fist*
ANYWAY. I got on the bus, listened to Gazette on my mp3 player, and dozed off a bit. At Roosendaal I had to get off and take a train from there, so I did, and around 4 pm I arrived at Den Haag Central Station where
_pinkfish was waiting for me ^___^
We did some shopping first, and then went to her home where her mom made us dinner (pasta with yummy sauce <3). After dinner we went back to the station where we would have to get on the Eurolines coach. Which arrived 15 minutes too late, but ah well. We got on the coach, got two seats all the way in the back, and it took off. We were both really excited, but after a while we wanted to sleep, so we tried, but didn't really succeed... After a while we had to get off because we were on the boat that would take us from Calais to Dover (this was at 3 in the morning >_>;;). So we hung around the boat for a bit, found the arcade there. Saw a DDR machine there, so of course I had to play a round, even though I was dead and tired XD. After that we went to sit somewhere, waiting until we could go back on the coach. After we could get back in we tried to sleep again, but it was kinda hard.
We arrived in London at Victoria Coach Station at around 6 am, so we took a taxi to our hostel which was located on the other side of London. We got there really tired, checked in, but we couldn't get into our room until 02:30, so we left our luggage in the luggage room there and went to walk around the neighbourhood, and had English breakfast with yummy tea at this really cute and cosy place. Then we decided to try and find the venue, we knew it was close to the Angel underground station. We bought a map at the hostel, and found out it was supposed to be really close. So we walked and walked and found it! There was a small group of people already, but we decided to go back into our hostel and try to sleep for a few hours. We went back, fell asleep, but woke up again after one hour or so because this dude was coming in >_> (we had a shared room). As we couldn't sleep anymore, we decided to go to the venue already. We got our stuff and left.
There we more people than before, but we were good kids and went to sit at the back of the line. I recognized
cloudsovertokyo in the group of people in front of us (who were all so kind to us, thank you all, you were the sweetest! <3), so yay :3. Later
golden_kimono arrived as well and joined us ^_^. At some point
_pinkfish wanted to sleep, so we started to inflate the inflatable bed thingy we brought with us (which had the shape of a glass of beer 8D). She slept on it for a while, but it had a leak so it slowly deflated again D:
That whole night I barely slept, but had a blast talking to people and watching people and just being there, I didn't talk a lot because I was kind of shy D: But everyone was amazing! I did manage to sleep a little, though. Just not a lot >_<.
In the morning
aleilisth joined our little group, and she and
_pinkfish went to the MacDonalds to get them some food and coffee for me (thanks you guys, I needed it badly <3). Then Gazette's tourbuses arrived, I already knew about the awesome truck thingy with the tour data and the picture of the guys on it, but it was awesome to see it again. Everyone went to see if the band would come out, but we got sent back because they were sleeping, or something.
A long day of waiting, fangirling, some drama, being nervous and keeping ourselves alive with Dr Pepper followed, until at 6 pm the doors opened *o*. The people who slept there got to get in first, it was all so much better than in Cologne, and much more fair. So we went in, and because
_pinkfish wanted to stand close to Ruki and I wanted to be at Aoi's side, we parted. I got to stand 4th row, which was really close to the stage. Anxiously I waited... And then after what seemed ages, ART DRAWN BY VOMIT started to play. I freaked out, and with me the rest of the crowd *O*. And then they came up. They were so beautiful. They immediately started to play AGONY, and the crowd went really wild.
Set list:
SE ART DRAWN BY VOMIT
01 AGONY
02 Filth in the Beauty
03 Hyena
04 BURIAL APPLICANT
05 Sugar Pain
06 Ganges ni Akai Bara
07 GENTLE LIE
08 CALM ENVY
09 Taion
10 Chizuru
11 Nausea&Shudder
12 SWALLOWTAIL ON THE DEATH VALLEY
13 COCKROACH
14 CIRCLE OF SWINDLER
15 MOB 136 BARS
16 DISCHARGE
SE PEOPLE ERROR
Encore 1 Ride with the Rockers
Encore 2 Ruder
Encore 3 Cassis
Encore 4 Kantou Dogeza Kumiai
Encore 5 LINDA~candydive Pinky heaven~
During Sugar Pain, Ruki got a water bottle and spilt all of the water over his crotch and rubbed himself X_X <3 I love you Ruki, you horny bastard. Oh, and we sang Happy Birthday to Kai too, inbetween two songs (I can't remember which). Then we started to shout "KAI! KAI! KAI!" and after a while the rest of the band started to join in (well at least Reita and Aoi did <3), and Kai stood up from behind his drum kit, and said "Thank you so much!" with the most ADORABLE accent ever. I LOVE YOU KAI, YOU ARE AMAZING SWEET CUTENESS!
And now, the thing that made my night the most awesome night ever. Sorry if I sound like a silly fangirl here, but this was how I experienced it.
During Taion and Chizuru I was crying so, so hard. The people around me were looking at me weird because I was sobbing >_>. I was already crying at the end of CALM ENVY, and then they started to play Taion and I cried even harder, and when I heard the beginning of Chizuru after Taion I knew I was going to completely lose it.
But anyway, from the beginning I was crying, Aoi had seen me. And he was looking at me the entire time. I locked eyes with him for about 2 minutes straight. His look was so intense and caring, as if he wanted to say it was okay for me to cry, it was okay. Even after I had not looked at him for some seconds because I was rubbing my eyes to wipe away some tears, I looked at him again to see he was still staring at me with that intense look of his. And after that he looked at me a couple of times more, as if he wanted to make sure I was alright. Honestly, all I wanted to do at that point was run into his arms and cry my heart out with him. (Yes, I know. I am a silly fangirl. But those songs always make me so emotional and Aoi looked at me as if he understood, which gave me so much courage.) He is so beautiful and elegant. (And I actually like him better without his lip piercing now.) Really, I already liked Aoi best before, but then it was more like a tie between him and Ruki... And as much as I love Ruki, Aoi just stole my heart that night. <3
Some other things that happened worth mentioning:
If any of you went to Cologne, you know how Aoi lifted up his shirt a little bit every time to tease us? This time, he only did it once, BUT he lifted his shirt up ALL THE WAY, so we could admire his bare chest and tummy. Holy shit, that man is made of sex. *¬* Even though he let his shirt down shortly after he lifted it up... FUCKING HOT HE IS, I TELL YOU.
And of course, Reita was awesome during Ride with the Rockers. It was like:
Reita: *growls* ARE YOU CRAZY UK?!
Us: YEAHHHH!
Reita: ARE YOU CRAZY UK?!!!
Us: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Reita: *giggles* Me toooo. :3
XDDD I love him <3
Just a pity I didn't see a lot of Uruha, but I saw him the most last year in Bonn. And he came over to our side during Kantou, and as
aleilisth said, pictures don't do that man justice. His smile is so beautiful, and as I heard it he was smiling all the time <3 ;_;
I don't want to be arrogant or brag or whatever, but Aoi seemed to have picked me. He smirked at me a couple of times after the whole crying thing, as if he was glad to see I was happy again XD But yeah, that's what I like to believe, maybe it was just a coincidence. But who knows :3. (Anyone remember how I said that I could die happy if Aoi smirked at me? ;_;)
Also, he just happened to be looking at me when I got handed over a cup of water. So I lifted the cup up at him as if I was saying "Cheers!" and took a sip, and that made him laugh. XD <3
LINDA was probably the most fun song they played, probably also because it was their last... Everyone was partying along and jumping and dancing and the band members were being awesome, doing their thing <3 I mostly watched Aoi's dancing, damn that man can move in the most awesome ways. (That sounded weird >_> XD)
After the concert I went to the merchandise stand to get some merch for
sarcasm_chan because she couldn't get a shirt and poster in Cologne, but the security guards told us to immediately get outside and that the merchandise stand was closing. BASTARDS. T_T I'm glad I already bought merch, but it was so unfair to all the people who had saved up especially for it and now couldn't get anything. I hope they're going to sell stuff on the internet, like they did with last year's merchandise...
I found
_pinkfish again together with
aleilisth, we cried on eachother, talked for a bit more, and then
_pinkfish and I had to leave and get some sleep at the hostel, before we had to get up at 6 to get to our bus again, to go home. We said goodbye to everyone and left.
The next morning we had to wake up ridiculously early, because our bus would leave at 8. We got dressed, packed our stuff and left. We took a taxi back to Victoria Coach Station, where we checked in and got on our coach. We both listened to music on our mp3 player/phone, and I cried a lot during the trip home. We had to get off the coach again when we got on the boat, so we went to buy something to drink. Since we had been eating and living pretty unhealthily the whole weekend, we decided to buy healthy smoothies, which were DELICIOUS. Then we could get back on the coach, and we slept for a bit and listened to music some more. At around 7 pm we arrived at Den Haag, and I said goodbye to
_pinkfish and her mom, who had come to pick her up. I took a train to Roosendaal, where my dad would pick me up by car. I got home at about 10:30, took a shower and went straight to bed. I cried myself to sleep, and I'm not exactly sure why. Probably because the concert was over and it was so intense and overwhelming...
I didn't go to school today, because I was still exhausted. Mom was kinda pissed I asked her to call me in sick, but she did it anyway. I really couldn't get out of bed, I was just too dead and tired. I'm okay now, so tomorrow I will go to school. Even though I'm really not looking forward to it. Blegh.
Oh, and before I forget: Thank you so much to everyone who I was with in the queue. You were all amazing and sweet and kind people, I love you all <3 I wish I had all of your LJs so I could add you all D: I only have some of you on my f-list... T_T
So, Thursday at 12:30 pm I went off to the train station on my bike, because my dad had taken the car to go to work >_>. My mom went with me, because I had way too much baggage to be carried on one bike D: Arrived at the station right on time, bought a ticket and went to search for the bus I had to take, because there was something wrong with the trains so I had to take a bus instead... Which took twice as long, bastards. *shakes fist*
ANYWAY. I got on the bus, listened to Gazette on my mp3 player, and dozed off a bit. At Roosendaal I had to get off and take a train from there, so I did, and around 4 pm I arrived at Den Haag Central Station where
_pinkfish was waiting for me ^___^
We did some shopping first, and then went to her home where her mom made us dinner (pasta with yummy sauce <3). After dinner we went back to the station where we would have to get on the Eurolines coach. Which arrived 15 minutes too late, but ah well. We got on the coach, got two seats all the way in the back, and it took off. We were both really excited, but after a while we wanted to sleep, so we tried, but didn't really succeed... After a while we had to get off because we were on the boat that would take us from Calais to Dover (this was at 3 in the morning >_>;;). So we hung around the boat for a bit, found the arcade there. Saw a DDR machine there, so of course I had to play a round, even though I was dead and tired XD. After that we went to sit somewhere, waiting until we could go back on the coach. After we could get back in we tried to sleep again, but it was kinda hard.
We arrived in London at Victoria Coach Station at around 6 am, so we took a taxi to our hostel which was located on the other side of London. We got there really tired, checked in, but we couldn't get into our room until 02:30, so we left our luggage in the luggage room there and went to walk around the neighbourhood, and had English breakfast with yummy tea at this really cute and cosy place. Then we decided to try and find the venue, we knew it was close to the Angel underground station. We bought a map at the hostel, and found out it was supposed to be really close. So we walked and walked and found it! There was a small group of people already, but we decided to go back into our hostel and try to sleep for a few hours. We went back, fell asleep, but woke up again after one hour or so because this dude was coming in >_> (we had a shared room). As we couldn't sleep anymore, we decided to go to the venue already. We got our stuff and left.
There we more people than before, but we were good kids and went to sit at the back of the line. I recognized
cloudsovertokyo in the group of people in front of us (who were all so kind to us, thank you all, you were the sweetest! <3), so yay :3. Later
golden_kimono arrived as well and joined us ^_^. At some point
_pinkfish wanted to sleep, so we started to inflate the inflatable bed thingy we brought with us (which had the shape of a glass of beer 8D). She slept on it for a while, but it had a leak so it slowly deflated again D:
That whole night I barely slept, but had a blast talking to people and watching people and just being there, I didn't talk a lot because I was kind of shy D: But everyone was amazing! I did manage to sleep a little, though. Just not a lot >_<.
In the morning
aleilisth joined our little group, and she and
_pinkfish went to the MacDonalds to get them some food and coffee for me (thanks you guys, I needed it badly <3). Then Gazette's tourbuses arrived, I already knew about the awesome truck thingy with the tour data and the picture of the guys on it, but it was awesome to see it again. Everyone went to see if the band would come out, but we got sent back because they were sleeping, or something.
A long day of waiting, fangirling, some drama, being nervous and keeping ourselves alive with Dr Pepper followed, until at 6 pm the doors opened *o*. The people who slept there got to get in first, it was all so much better than in Cologne, and much more fair. So we went in, and because
_pinkfish wanted to stand close to Ruki and I wanted to be at Aoi's side, we parted. I got to stand 4th row, which was really close to the stage. Anxiously I waited... And then after what seemed ages, ART DRAWN BY VOMIT started to play. I freaked out, and with me the rest of the crowd *O*. And then they came up. They were so beautiful. They immediately started to play AGONY, and the crowd went really wild.
Set list:
SE ART DRAWN BY VOMIT
01 AGONY
02 Filth in the Beauty
03 Hyena
04 BURIAL APPLICANT
05 Sugar Pain
06 Ganges ni Akai Bara
07 GENTLE LIE
08 CALM ENVY
09 Taion
10 Chizuru
11 Nausea&Shudder
12 SWALLOWTAIL ON THE DEATH VALLEY
13 COCKROACH
14 CIRCLE OF SWINDLER
15 MOB 136 BARS
16 DISCHARGE
SE PEOPLE ERROR
Encore 1 Ride with the Rockers
Encore 2 Ruder
Encore 3 Cassis
Encore 4 Kantou Dogeza Kumiai
Encore 5 LINDA~candydive Pinky heaven~
During Sugar Pain, Ruki got a water bottle and spilt all of the water over his crotch and rubbed himself X_X <3 I love you Ruki, you horny bastard. Oh, and we sang Happy Birthday to Kai too, inbetween two songs (I can't remember which). Then we started to shout "KAI! KAI! KAI!" and after a while the rest of the band started to join in (well at least Reita and Aoi did <3), and Kai stood up from behind his drum kit, and said "Thank you so much!" with the most ADORABLE accent ever. I LOVE YOU KAI, YOU ARE AMAZING SWEET CUTENESS!
And now, the thing that made my night the most awesome night ever. Sorry if I sound like a silly fangirl here, but this was how I experienced it.
During Taion and Chizuru I was crying so, so hard. The people around me were looking at me weird because I was sobbing >_>. I was already crying at the end of CALM ENVY, and then they started to play Taion and I cried even harder, and when I heard the beginning of Chizuru after Taion I knew I was going to completely lose it.
But anyway, from the beginning I was crying, Aoi had seen me. And he was looking at me the entire time. I locked eyes with him for about 2 minutes straight. His look was so intense and caring, as if he wanted to say it was okay for me to cry, it was okay. Even after I had not looked at him for some seconds because I was rubbing my eyes to wipe away some tears, I looked at him again to see he was still staring at me with that intense look of his. And after that he looked at me a couple of times more, as if he wanted to make sure I was alright. Honestly, all I wanted to do at that point was run into his arms and cry my heart out with him. (Yes, I know. I am a silly fangirl. But those songs always make me so emotional and Aoi looked at me as if he understood, which gave me so much courage.) He is so beautiful and elegant. (And I actually like him better without his lip piercing now.) Really, I already liked Aoi best before, but then it was more like a tie between him and Ruki... And as much as I love Ruki, Aoi just stole my heart that night. <3
Some other things that happened worth mentioning:
If any of you went to Cologne, you know how Aoi lifted up his shirt a little bit every time to tease us? This time, he only did it once, BUT he lifted his shirt up ALL THE WAY, so we could admire his bare chest and tummy. Holy shit, that man is made of sex. *¬* Even though he let his shirt down shortly after he lifted it up... FUCKING HOT HE IS, I TELL YOU.
And of course, Reita was awesome during Ride with the Rockers. It was like:
Reita: *growls* ARE YOU CRAZY UK?!
Us: YEAHHHH!
Reita: ARE YOU CRAZY UK?!!!
Us: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Reita: *giggles* Me toooo. :3
XDDD I love him <3
Just a pity I didn't see a lot of Uruha, but I saw him the most last year in Bonn. And he came over to our side during Kantou, and as
aleilisth said, pictures don't do that man justice. His smile is so beautiful, and as I heard it he was smiling all the time <3 ;_;
I don't want to be arrogant or brag or whatever, but Aoi seemed to have picked me. He smirked at me a couple of times after the whole crying thing, as if he was glad to see I was happy again XD But yeah, that's what I like to believe, maybe it was just a coincidence. But who knows :3. (Anyone remember how I said that I could die happy if Aoi smirked at me? ;_;)
Also, he just happened to be looking at me when I got handed over a cup of water. So I lifted the cup up at him as if I was saying "Cheers!" and took a sip, and that made him laugh. XD <3
LINDA was probably the most fun song they played, probably also because it was their last... Everyone was partying along and jumping and dancing and the band members were being awesome, doing their thing <3 I mostly watched Aoi's dancing, damn that man can move in the most awesome ways. (That sounded weird >_> XD)
After the concert I went to the merchandise stand to get some merch for
sarcasm_chan because she couldn't get a shirt and poster in Cologne, but the security guards told us to immediately get outside and that the merchandise stand was closing. BASTARDS. T_T I'm glad I already bought merch, but it was so unfair to all the people who had saved up especially for it and now couldn't get anything. I hope they're going to sell stuff on the internet, like they did with last year's merchandise...
I found
_pinkfish again together with
aleilisth, we cried on eachother, talked for a bit more, and then
_pinkfish and I had to leave and get some sleep at the hostel, before we had to get up at 6 to get to our bus again, to go home. We said goodbye to everyone and left.
The next morning we had to wake up ridiculously early, because our bus would leave at 8. We got dressed, packed our stuff and left. We took a taxi back to Victoria Coach Station, where we checked in and got on our coach. We both listened to music on our mp3 player/phone, and I cried a lot during the trip home. We had to get off the coach again when we got on the boat, so we went to buy something to drink. Since we had been eating and living pretty unhealthily the whole weekend, we decided to buy healthy smoothies, which were DELICIOUS. Then we could get back on the coach, and we slept for a bit and listened to music some more. At around 7 pm we arrived at Den Haag, and I said goodbye to
_pinkfish and her mom, who had come to pick her up. I took a train to Roosendaal, where my dad would pick me up by car. I got home at about 10:30, took a shower and went straight to bed. I cried myself to sleep, and I'm not exactly sure why. Probably because the concert was over and it was so intense and overwhelming...
I didn't go to school today, because I was still exhausted. Mom was kinda pissed I asked her to call me in sick, but she did it anyway. I really couldn't get out of bed, I was just too dead and tired. I'm okay now, so tomorrow I will go to school. Even though I'm really not looking forward to it. Blegh.
Oh, and before I forget: Thank you so much to everyone who I was with in the queue. You were all amazing and sweet and kind people, I love you all <3 I wish I had all of your LJs so I could add you all D: I only have some of you on my f-list... T_T