Kagerou - Le Splendid
Kagerou in Le Splendid report
Set-list
裸眼 [ragan]
仏の性癖 [hotoke no seiheki]
手 [te]
３・２・１
循環奇形少女A [jinkan shinkei shojo A]
螺旋首 [rasen kubi] *
羞恥の檻 [shuuchi no ori] *
夕闇を裂いた花 [yuuyami wo saita hana] *
迷走本能 [meisou honnou]
XII dizzy
痺れ心 [shibire gokoro]
腐った海で溺れかけている僕を救ってくれた君 [kusatta umi de oborekaketeiru boku wo sukuttekureta kimi]
落葉と君と僕と [ochiba to kimi to boku to]
光の影 [hikari no kage]
暁 [akatsuki]
淋しさと眠れ [Yuugure no Shaznai]
朦朧エピローグ [mourou epirogu]
ENCORE:
淋しさと眠れ [sabishisa to nemure]
NEW SONG!!!!!!
絶望にサヨナラ [zetsubou ni sayonara]
Note: Credit to xaoitsuki. She remembered the set-list from Berlin and it seems about the same as in Lille. Except I’m the one who put in Yuugure no Shaznai.
After having left from home at about ten, we arrived in Lille two hours later, and started our search for Le Splendid, the venue where Kagerou would be performing. We’d decided to leave early so we could beat the possible INSANE crowd, as such was the case with Dir en grey in Berlin. There wasn’t actually much of a crowd, and as such, we’d decided to go eat something first. After driving around for a while, we found a small pizza place, the owners of which were really nice. The whole while, me and Kevin were worrying that in the hour that we were gone, a million people might have arrived to wait! So we finally left again, much to our relief, and then had a really hard time finding the venue again!! It’s so small! But we were very happy to see it’s a live house instead of an actual concert hall! Lille is a really complicated place to drive around too.
So eventually, I think we arrived at about 2 pm, and not many more people had arrived, so we were very happy! We planted ourselves in front of the doors, at the left side, taking turns in playing Final Fantasy Tactics. Eventually they opened the left door to… wheel out some bins. Then they told us it would be one of the other two doors to let us in. So we stood in front of the middle one and waited for half an hour, and then FINALLY. They open the door to let us in. The RIGHT door. Yes. This was very frustrating, but we managed to get in really quick nonetheless. Because so many people were pushing (which is teh total pointless) one of the security guys said he’d close the door if we didn’t stop. When we got in, we ran to where the smoky stage was and ended up on the second row, right in the middle! O_O At first, it seemed like very few people would come, because it is such a small venue and it only holds 400-500 people (Diru in berlin had 3000 I think?). At first we were unsure about whom would be the actual guestband, and kept hoping at least Kagerou would perform for a good length of time. It seemed to both of us that many more people had come for Kagerou than for the other band, and I’d started joking about a one-man moshpit forming. Then suddenly the lights went out, people went nuts, and SUP was displayed on a crappy small screen. Yeh. The band’s name was SUP. Like. Sup yo.
That band was so the sux. And my one-man moshpit tale came true when suddenly this old guy starts bashing around in the crowd and going wild. Eventually two more people joined in, like three songs after, but yeh. The one-man moshpit shall be in my thoughts forever.
Anyway, the only interesting things that happened during the performance were the following:
1) The oneman moshpit, obviously.
2) The screen, which showed pleasant images of mental patients and bugs eating each other and more of that fun stuff. Yeah it was really disturbing, but at least it was more interesting than SUP were.
3) The way the bassist was always spinning like crazy o___o always spinning his head! It was creepy!
4) How the pushing of the girl behind me, in an attempt to get IN FRONT of me, resulted in my being pushed straight into the first row. Thank you, you twit.
5) When the vocalist tripped and I mocked him so hard he might have just heard me.
During each and every song they played, I was thinking ‘This will be the last song, it HAS to be! For sure!’ When I looked around, I noticed the crowd was more dead than a happy Gazette crowd. And, I pity them for this , Gazette’s crowds are pretty damn dead no? At least as far as I’ve seen. *mean* The most cheers SUP got was when they said ‘goodbye’
Don’t worry mister, at least your English was almost as amusing as Kyo’s. But not quite.
So then the Kagerou roadies started preparing the stage for kagerou, and when I saw the mic stand plus that little platform thing both Daisuke and Kyo insist on taking everywhere to put their foot on, so close to me, I felt my legs shake. I was so excited that Daisuke would stand that close to me! The main reason I went, after all, was because I am so in love with Daisuke and Shizumi. I am not that familiar with their music, and thus, I went purely out of stark raving mad fangirlism. But in a lesser extent than I just described.
But yeah. They’re hot, hot feckers. *lovelovelove* Rawr.
Then a while after that, Kazu’s bass was brought in and we started laughing cause it’s colour was SO ugly. It was like this greenish blueish colour? The next bass they brought was the same but darker. Kazu has a bad taste in colours. And that’s not all, I must say.
So, our patience started to wear thin, when finally the lights went out again. Everyone started screaming, and out of the slight fog that still lingered from the SUP performance (they probably had a fog machine), suddenly came a figure. At first, I’d thought it was Daisuke, but when he came to the edge of the stage I noticed it was Shizumi. Now I must say, I was very much against the idea of Shizumi with a kaogoatee, but he really pulled it off. I’m happy with the way he looks and decided not to send him a package of razorblades as a birthday gift. When I saw him, I’d screamed like mad, and was all like OMFG SHIZUMI. So then either Yuana or Kazu came, I’m unsure because I was kinda dazed at the beauty that is Shizumi. After those two came Daisuke and my eyes almost dropped out of my skull. I was stunned beyond belief and when they started playing Ragan, I almost cried. I was really emotional at the sudden realisation that Daisuke, one of the people I admire so much, was standing this close to me, and I could see him, nearly touch him and I could almost have smelled him. (as such, the splodie count begins.) *splodie count 1*To see that, he too is another human being was so emotionally overpowering that I burst out in tears. It’s really hard to explain but I was really happy. In an odd way, I guess. But anyway, it was a great song to start with, and the entire crowd moved as one, singing along with Daisuke during the chorus. It was a very nice atmosphere~! Near the end, when Daisuke’s singing part was over, he got down on his knees with the wire of his mic in his mouth, just staring at all the fans. Then came Hotoke no Seiheki and I recognised it pretty quickly as ‘that annoying second song on Guroshoku’. But live, it was really fun! It was great singing and screaming along with Daisuke, and everyone went CRAZY during the chorus. The barrier wasn’t holding very well and kept near-toppling over, and the security guys had to hold it down. Sometimes, when it was lifted, my foot got stuck in it. That was really annoying! >__< But anyway, Daisuke went CROTCH-CRAZY!! He was unzipping his pants, swirling his hips, rubbing his crotch, licking his lips,… etc. I almost went crazy! Don’t play with my perverted teenage hormones please, Daisuke! *splodie count 2* He held his hands out toward the fans at one point and everyone was trying to grab him, but alas! There was just enough space between the barrier and the crowd to stop us from being able to pull any crotch-crazy singer off the stage.
When Te started, I freaked, because I LOVE to sing this song. It’s such a damn catchy song!! I used to know the lyrics pretty well but all I still really knew during the concert was the chorus… So, hey, at least I could still go “Takaku, Takaku! Akaku, Akaku!” Daisuke kept encouraging the crowd to sing along, but often, people seemed to have trouble remembering the words. When Yuana had the solo bit, he came to the front of the stage, and yet again the fangirls went nuts. He smiled at us, teased us by coming closer and going away a bit, and when he was done, flipped us the birdie and ran off. Losing his shoe in the process! It could have been divine punishment for having teased us with his far-offness! XD I was laughing so hard and he was blushing a bit! X3 Eventually, he shuffled back towards the front, all embarrassed and crap, so he could slide his foot back into his hoe. It was so cute! I didn’t really know the next song, ３・２・１ when it first came on, but it was really easy to get into, with it’s simple lyrics… XD everyone counted along when Daisuke sang “3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1” (he sang sree! Aww. Sree. Sree Tew Wan!). It was a great song and I went NUTS! I was headbanging like a maniac and the barrier was moving forward again. I think my food got stuck under it for a while, but it got out quickly, cause this song was wild enough~ *thankful* XD At the end of the song, Daisuke sat down in front of Shizumi’s drumset and he didn’t move for a while. A roadie came out and talked to him, which kinda worried me. Eventually, Daisuke did get up on his feet, back to his microphone and said “Jinkan Kikei Shojo A” Wow. I never knew how sexy a simple letter could sound when pronounced properly and in the right tone of voice and all that. But when Daisuke said “A” I went nuts at how SEXY it sounded. I’m so fucking weird. As comparison;
Kyo, whose English is always the suxxor bad, would say A like this = ARGARIHABAJKLRNSE!!!
Daisuke, whose English is moderately nice and sexy sounding, said A like this = SEXSEXSEXSEX!!!!!11!1!1!1111!1!1!!!!1!1!11
Yes. So anyway, the song started and the crowd goes wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild. I couldn’t breathe for a moment there, but I got right into the song and went wild. Now, before I hadn’t listened to this song a lot, because I don’t like how it starts, but at the live I fell in love with the chorus! Anyway, we chanted Shojo! Shojo! Shojo! and growled with Daisuke. It was a great song to hear live!!
Then Rasen Kubi came on, and when it started he grabbed his crotch. Not again Daisuke, you bastard. So again he started with the mad hormonal crap, driving all us fangirls nuts, And taking off his first piece of clothing for the night. It was kinda cute cos when he threw it away he was like ‘oop! Must untuck my shirt first so I can be ultra-sexy!’ In his own perverted way it was really cute. Then again back with the unzipping. And the rubbing. And the *collapse* *splodie count 3* I really loved the chorus and it made me appreciate Daisuke’s voice more~! It’s one of the songs I didn’t really know that well, but now I love it~!!! I never recognise Shuuchi no ori as a Kagerou song at first, not even after having heard it live. It’s a very good song though, and very great to mellow out to a bit, after some very hard songs. It’s not a ballad, but not their hardest song either. I was a bit annoyed though cause my foot got trapped under the barrier and I was all aaaargh. When I looked around during a not so active bit, I noticed how everyone around me was DRENCHED in sweat. Those fortunate enough, like me, to have been standing at the barrier, were still as dry as could be. XD It was kinda entertaining. /doesn’t know what else to say/ When Yuuyami wo saita hana started, and I was being all amazed at Yuana’s MAD guitar skills, one of the security guys randomly RAN over to me going “Are you OK? Do you feel alright? O__O” I was like??? O___O “Yeh?” XDD I might have gone pale at Yuana’s coolness. Another guitar solo, and again he ran to the front, and everyone was trying to grab him again, but he teased us again, holding his hand out far enough for noone to be able to touch him. Then he smiled at us and was like “c’mere!”(well he didn’t say it. But you know.) then ran off again, smiling some more. He’s a smug bastard but he did leave us all screaming his name and fanning ourselves. (well no. Not that.) As much as I loved Yuana’s skills during the entire gig, I’d expected more from this song, since I love it so much as it is, I really wanted him to make it really great. And while it actually was, it wasn’t as great as it could have been. Also, I was starting to regret my poor knowledge of Kagerou-lyrics. Sorry guys. I think Daisuke was a bit disappointed too, cause he’d encouraged us to sing along in the chorus, but it seems I wasn’t the only one with insufficient brainpower? Then came another song I didn’t know, Meissou Honnou. And again, I rather regretted it. Next time, I’m doing research before going to a live performance. There was another mellow chorus with hard everything else, which seems to be happening a lot in kagerou-land? Anyway, he took of his shirt, *splodie count 4* and at a certain point, Daisuke jumped off the stage, and ran to the front of the barrier, RIGHT WHERE I WAS STANDING? TT_______________TT SO HAPPY TT__________________TT *splodie count 5* I was grabbing him like mad, going aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh daisuke, daisuke, ahhh!! Just a total fangirl in general, you know. And WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW I TOUCHED HIM TT-TT I’d grabbed his arm, and looking at him all ‘I love you TT-TT’ and he smiled~ I was really happy. Then he went back on the stage, and I thought ‘someone kill me now.’ And as if I wasn’t happy enough, they started playing XII dizzy. I love this song, and not because it’s that great, but Yuana’s guitar is just that fucking awesome. Then again, I really do like a lot of the vocals in it too. Anyway, more Daisuke fanservice ensued, this time he went over to Kazu and was all like “Look at me, I’m going to kissy kissy.” He leaned really close into Kazu’s neck, *splodie count 6* smirked and then went back. Bitch. xD I screamed like nuts when Yuana did his little nutsy guitar thing, which is what made me fall in love with the song, and this time, his mad skills were up to par. Then after a while, Daisuke went back to Yuana’s side of the stage, and again performed some teasing fanservice on us. *splodie count 7*“Hey bitches, I paid good money to see you two get it on, now gimme my mansex!” is what I thought at the time? *pervert* ….
… WAIT WHAT? They actually DID play Shibire Kokoro???! FECKERS. I missed the intro, that much is for sure, otherwise I would have freaked out and been all “they played shibire!” The song I love only for the creepy piano. Did they really play this?? I guess I vaguely recall some piano but…. Wou. This is weird. *spaces out* *Comes back.* Wow! I was really happy when Kusatta umi de oborekaketeiru boku wo sukuttekureta because I was starting to seriously run out of breath. At the front, we were all swaying our arms, but when I looked around noone else was doing it. After a while, the rest of the crowd started joining in more too. Once again I regretted my bad knowledge of the lyrics. I was so in love during this song, because they performed it so well. While Yuana’s guitar playing was a bit flawed at the beginning, it only became stronger and stronger while they went on. I am so happy I had a chance to hear this live………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ochiba to kimi to boku to became one of my favourite songs of theirs after I heard it live. I already loved it so much, but when Yuana did the guitar solo, I freaked out. This is the best guitar solo you’ll ever hear. No doubt about it. Never again will I experience an excitement as great as when I saw it. *splodie count 8* That’s all I really have to say about it. Even though it’s such an amazing song, that was the essence. That guitar solo probably blew a hole in my mind. ANYWAY! As if Yuana hadn’t made me go splodie enough times, he starts Hikari no kage and again it left a lot of us flabbergasted. This song was so great, and everyone was moving their arms up and down. I don’t remember much else. Sorry.
Then Akatsuki started and I had this feeling of impending doom. Because this really sounds like a song to go out on. It’s like an outro song. I was like NOOO DAISUKE, NOOOO DON’T STOP THE CONCERT I’LL CRY. And then they played Yuugure no Shazai was confirmed. Wow, I could have cried if, this live wasn’t so frigging awesome. I had never heard this song before but yeah the way they played it really confirmed it. I actually recognised it later, I was like OMG THAT AWESOME SEX WOW WOW WOW song.
So yeah. Everyone headbanged, swinging our arms and growling with Daisuke, and once again the atmosphere was WOW!!! The lyrics were easy to remember, so I could sing along a few bits after a while, which was great. Daisuke kept encouraging us to sing along, again, and this time it did work better than before. The band itself was going nuts, running around the stage (well except for Shizumi. He sat nicely behind his drums.) And Daisuke jumped off the stage again, this time going somewhere else to get groped by the fans again. The stewards made him get back on the stage, and he was taking waterbottles, licking the straws in them and throwing them out in the crowd, then shoving the bottles in his pants and thrusting them around furiously. Man. The first straw landed right in front of me, and the security guy who’d asked me if I was OK gave it to me. It was pink and still has a bit of the tape on it where it was attached to the bottle. I was kinda excited at that? XDD It was like WOU DAISUKE LICKED AND KISSED THAT THING!! *splodie count 9* Well anyway, he drank water and spat it out on us which was so refreshing, and we were so thankful TT-TT I got spat on like a million times? I’d attempted counting it, but it wasn’t possible. *splodie count 10* after a while he got off the stage AGAIN!! And he ran from the right side of the crowd to the left, spitting water on all his fans, holding his hand out and touching the fans, and because he’d been messing with my hormones that much, when I touched him, I’d first touched his chest (mmm, nipple contact and everything) and then reached for his, well, private parts. The security guy who was running after Daisuke slapped my hand away before I could touch anything. MAN I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE TO GROPING DAISUKE. D= *splodie count 11* and when he got back onstage, he went back to doing dirty things to waterbottles. I caught another straw and there I was, screaming with my two straw in my hand. I was so excited… *splodie count 12* Then he took his pants down *splodie count a million. Or 13* And the last water bottle got spat out on us, while he was standing there with his pants on his knees and his boxershort out with a nice bulgey looking bulge. *splodie count 14* and he put his hand in his shorts *splodie count 15* rubbing the bulge furiously again *nosebleeding splodie count 16*, then grabbed the near empty bottle, shoved it in his shorts *splodie count 17, and feet are drowning in this sea of nose-blood.* thrusting it like a madman *splodie count 18* and threw it out to the fans. It landed so close to me TT-TT I really wanted that bottle. I mean with the other bottles he could have shoved it between his shorts and pants. But here. Wou. Definite contact of the valuables. What I did catch however, was the straw that originated from that bottle. Which made me appreciate that second straw a bit more. (cause yeh, that one was the second one) Omg my brain hurts. I WANT TO GO BACK. It was a really extended version of the actual song, and it was great to see the members going this nuts. (even though I only had eyes for Daisuke’s sexing of the bottles.)
Then Morou Epilogue started and I wanted to cry. Daisuke was spitting again and everyone went nuts. It’s a really great song but it really does make you realise the concert’s coming at it’s end. Anyway, I think Daisuke had an endless supply of waterbottles, cause I always thought “This is the last one.” But it never was. (hey haven’t I ever said that before? XD) And at the end, Yuana and kazu threw their picks, and Shizumi his drumsticks and they wandered off the stage.
I was standing there, half refusing to move, half incapable of doing so, screaming “KAGEROU! DAISUKE! YUANA! SHIZUMI! KAZU!” yeah, I was desperate enough to call Kazu’s name. The roadies had even started putting guitars and microphones away. My throat felt really soar, and the girl behind me, who was pushing me real hard felt like she had a boner in her pants. Why did the transvestite have to stand behind me? TT-TT And at one point, the girl standing next to me, whom had been whispering suspicious crap to her friend for a good while by then, randomly GRABBED my PINK straw. I was like OH NO BITCH YOU DI’INT!!! Luckily it fell to the floor, over the barrier, and she was calling for one of the security guys to grab it for me, but bitch, that’s my straw. I hung over the barrier and grabbed it. Fo sho! The security guys gave us cups of water and poured water in the mouths of everyone behind us, when after a lot of chanting….
The guy got back onstage and started playing Sabishi sa to nemure. The front row held their neighbours hands and swayed, but it was interrupted halfway because I refused to hold that bitches hand, in case she’d steal one of my straws again D=!! Anyway, even though this is one of the songs I like less than the others, it still touched me deeply. It was performed so much more beautiful live than on mp3 or cd. Not only was Daisuke’s voice perfect, so were all the instruments in their own respective ways. *splodie count 19* I’d have cried again, but I was still too excited from Yuugure. Then the New song was played and well… I just don’t remember that much of it, because I can’t put the song on and recall things that way. I liked the song though= ! Err. kudos guys. =D
And then the song I had been waiting for ALL night finally came on! Zetsubou ni Sayonara (actually, there were some other songs I was waiting for too but I knew they wouldn’t be played cause they’re ancient) I cannot describe how happy it was when I heard the intro. Everyone yelled “SHURAGUUU OFFFFUUUU-AH!” (shrug off.) and it was great!! Not only that but so many people knew a lot of the lyrics! Even me! XDD Anyway, the band went nuts again and now Yuana was teasing the crowd by throwing water too. Daisuke, whose shirt had randomly disappeared, jumped into the crowd! Right on top of us O___O He was crowd surfing and again, I tried my luck at groping, but all I got was an arm, a leg and a small bit of chest. *Splodie count 20* He kissed a bottle cap and threw it, and this was really weird cause, I hadn’t properly noticed, and other people probably hadn’t either? Cause it landed right in front of me on the barrier and noone grabbed it. I took it quickly before anyone noticed, and when I turned around to gloat, I saw that Kevin had grabbed the bottle! It wasn’t a very pantsy bottle but still. It was a bottle, which Yuana had licked and kissed and whatnot, so it was a good bottle. I would have liked to be that bottle. XD At the end, the band threw their things again, and one of Kazu’s picks brushed the tips of my fingers. It was impossible for me to catch it, but I was happy cause I was so close! I didn’t catch anything Daisuke related anymore, which was a shame, but then, when Shizumi came to the front last, and started throwing drumsticks and I was giving up on catching anything, and the last drumstick he threw wasn’t thrown very far cause… I CAUGHT IT O___O *splodie counter explodes. At 21* I was the first to lay my hands on it and the fangirls were furiously trying to grab it out of my hands, when the security guy came and told them to lay of the drumstick. OMG Mr. Security guy, even though you stopped me from groping, I love you. TT-TT. Then Daisuke came back and threw his towel, which went somewhere to the right side of the crowd, and when Shizumi threw it, it landed in front of the barrier, and I was like O___O *broken splodie counter meekly flips over to 22* sadly though, the security guy put it back on stage. *broken splodie counter’s second 2 falls out to make it 21 again* Hey, Mr. Security guy, I thought you were my friend! You’re just a traitor!!!
Well after that, When they’d left and the crowd was chased away, I was shaking on my legs, with Shizumi’s drumstick in my hand, going Oh. My. God. Repeatedly. My heart was beating so fast in my chest it felt like I was going to explode. This was probably the greatest experience I will ever have in my entire life. *splodie counter nods and falls apart* Afterwards, when I was done going nuts over the drumstick (and getting A LOT of evil stares) we went to buy a bag (for me), two posters (for both of us) and a shirt (for Kevin). The girl who stood next to me and had tried to steal my straw was near the merch stand and glared at me particularly evil, going, just a bit too loud, that’s the one who stole MY drumstick. I was like. Yeh bitch, in yo dreams. Yeah. It was great. And I wish it could have lasted forever….