DIR EN GREY @ ATL 8/30/10

Aug 31, 2010 17:45

Setlist:
Sa Bir
Red Soil
Agitated Screams of Maggots
Gaika, Chinmoku Ga Nemuru Koro
Inward Scream
Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami
Obscure
Shokubeni
Bugaboo
Inward Scream
Dozing Green
Vinushka
The Final
Reiketsu Nariseba
Rasetsukoku

Encore:
Saku

So earlier in the day, and the day before, I had been told I was absolutely not allowed to go to Dir En Grey's concert because my mom was being pretty ehhh. But at about 7:00, I noticed my friends' car outside, and ran out there. joaquinzhengyou got out while narcoticsweets and Jenn went inside Sam's house to primp their hair a little. So joaquinzhengyou comes running over to my house since I live right next to narcoticsweets and we both proceed to beg my mom to change her mind, haha. Finally, she relents! So at 7:10, we are all ready and in the car, and on our way to ATL!

After some funny looks for rocking out in the car to diru on the way down, and plenty of joking around and pictures, haha, we arrived at the venue at 8:01. The problem was -- We missed the turn. And the road we were on was a one way street. So after some yelling and frustration, we found a place to turn off and try to find our way back. Unfortunately, we got lost doing so, and it was 8:50 before we actually managed to find our way back to the venue, park, and get out. We proceeded to run to the front doors, buy our tickets and rush into the pit. Apparently, we'd only missed Sa Bir, and half of Red Soil, because Kyo still had his jacket on. The experience was surreal. I was extremely excited that we had made it, and so early, too! When I walked in, Kyo was already crouched on his black grate, giving a high pitched scream that honestly chilled me. I loved it, haha.

Depsite being late, the entrance on my ticket had allowed me to come in directly along the stage, so I managed to get into the third row directly in front of Kaoru and Toshiya, while narcoticsweets ran to the bathroom, and Jenn and joaquinzhengyou were still buying their tickets. As Red Soil came to a close, my group returned and all managed to get up beside me. :) Once Red Soil was done, Kyo took a short break to tug his jacket off, get some water, and prepare for ASoM. As we all sorta filed into the second row, where a gap had come up because some girl got too hot. We linked arms because people were starting to get really rowdy, and we didn't want to get too seperated. The opening chords to ASoM started, and the crowd became an ecstatic mess of headbanging. A lot of people were screaming the lyrics and stuff, but I was focused on Kaoru and Toshiya at the moment, who had been spending the whole concert interacting with each other. Toshiya was having a blast riling up the crowd and jumping around. He kept pointing people out in the crowd, like the people sitting in seats and stuff, and just kept mouthing, "YOU. YEAH YOU." and nodding and stuff, and beckoning them to come join the crowd. He's definitely a wild guy. :D

During Gaika, however, Kaoru began his teasing. I can name like four songs where he started acting like he was throwing his pic out to the crowd, just so he could laugh when a bunch of the girls dived for it. Jenn was on the ground at least twice looking, and I kept trying to tell her he didn't really throw them, bahaha. He was really amused by that. But once Kyo did his first Inward Scream, the whole room got really fucking quiet. It was great. You could hear him perfectly, and he got really into it. The lighting was gorgeous and everything. It lasted for about a minute or two, and I realized just how amazing Kyo's lung capacity is. Unfortunately, the whole night his mic was swallowed by the guitars and Shinya's drums. Shinya's drums were seriously shaking the floor. So at first it got kinda hard to hear what song was happening when.

Hageshisa came on next, and at first I honestly had no idea what song it was, because it started to get really hard to hear Kyo, the closer we got to Kaoru and his amps. But it was okay! I was still enjoying it. The sound itself was awesome. I've been to concerts where it's all a blare of noise, but you could hear everything (save Kyo's voice) perfectly. Hageshisa is really nice live, though, once I figured out what it was, haha, and I definitely like it a lot more now. At this point, Jenn was beside me, rocking out, narcoticsweets was too my left and like right behind me, and joaquinzhengyou was on my left right next to me, and I was taking pictures. However, suddenly, Obscure started playing and I screamed as loud as I could, haha. I love that song. I really started to rock out, and Kaoru and Toshiya were totally enjoying how wild our side was, since compared to Die's side, we were crazy. Die's side really seemed to be just sorta rockin' there, and our side was all over the place. Unfortunately, during this song, haha, we had a mishap. Jenn had been next to me, and we were all shoved up closed while Toshiya and Kaoru were leaning over the crowd, when Jenn jumped up. However, when she came down, her elbow ended up going right into my cleavage and down. It didn't stop. She ended up dragging both my shirt and my bra down for a moment, and as I scrambled to yank it back up, I'm pretty certain that both Toshiya and Kaoru got an eyefull, because their expressions quickly changed to, "... :o" I tried to laugh it off though I was embarassed, and went back to rocking out.

The next two songs flew by me in a blur, and I took a lot more pictures during them. I managed to get some nice shots during Kyo's second Inward Scream, which I was happy about. I'll upload those soon! However, the second Dozing Green started, I was freaking out and shoving the camera back at joaquinzhengyou, because that is seriously my favorite Diru song ever. I totally fucking rocked out to that song, sang every word, and was pretty much jizzin' haha. Toshiya started doing some awesome tricks with his bass where he pulled it onto just one shoulder and smacked it from behind the neck, making the bass strings vibrate without touching them. It made an awesome sound, and he was so into it. :D Kaoru had propped a leg up onto his amp and was posing with his guitar while he played, so Michael snapped some sexy shots.

Vinushka was next, and I've never really been too into that song, so I just kinda rocked with it while Toshiya and Kaoru went to pay Die's side a visit. I focused on Kyo while the three played around, Totchi and Die leaning against each other's shoulders. Toshiya and Kaoru came back towards the end, and the lights dimmed.

As The Final started, everybody screamed. Kyo took a stance on his grate, and the stage became very emotional. People were crying, and even though you could hardly hear Kyo, you could hear the whole audience singing every word. It was really touching, and a lot of the members were all smiles at this point. they really liked that we knew the words. :)

After this, Reiketsu started. This is where things got rowdy! Die came to our side, and after some momentary freakout from me and the other fans, he laughed and played around with us, before hopping back over to his side. He is a very attractive man, and God his hair is so long. It's like a permanent Herbal Essences commercial. I love it. Well as he left, Toshiya decided he was going to take a drink from his water bottle, and start pouring it on us. After sufficiently soaking me, he smashed the bottle and chucked it at us. Chucked. It. At. Us. It was still half full, haha. So because he threw it, the first two rows of girls smashed into our row and shoved us backwards trying to get it. Because of this, me, my friends, and the girls behind us ended up falling onto the ground. However! By the time I got up, joaquinzhengyou was quickly behind me and goes, "KIM. LOOK." And holds up Toshiya's water bottle. He gave it to me, and I jumped up to show it to Toshiya in victory. He grinned, and it was great. I clutched that for dear life, ahaha.

Rasetsukoku came on last, and with some more playing around, the song (which seemed much too short) came to an end. ): Kyo blew us a kind of wicked kiss, and smacked his fist over his heart in a symbol of affection, before waving and leaving before the others. Kaoru grabbed some pics, chucked them, and soon after, so did Toshiya. Die threw some on his side, and they left the stage.

But ATL was too hot. We wanted more! After five minutes of screaming "DIR EN GREY." at the top of our lungs, Diru returned to the stage! Ecstatic that they got to actually perform an encore, the crowd went wild. The members threw some more water bottles and began to play. The lovely rocking of saku began, haha. But again, as soon as it started, it felt like it was over, and Kyo pretty much launched from the stage to the wings to get backstage. Kaoru threw some more picks, tons really, almost his whole mic stock, and left, followed by Toshiya's pics and leaving, and Die grabbed a bunch and paid our side a visit. I tried hard for his pic but didn't get it, haha. He waved, blew us a kiss, and ran off. Shinya jumped up onto Kyo's grate and started throwing out his drum sticks. Once he was out, he lingered, smiled a little, waved, and left. The concert was officially over (for me anyways!).

But me and my friends weren't done! While Jenn stayed for Apocolyptica, me, joaquinzhengyou, and narcoticsweets ran outside to go sit behind the venue. After about forty five minutes of joking and talking with the staff, we got what we'd been waiting for.

Kyo came out by himself with Nora, first, and he was weary at first I think, because we were sitting out there and a few other girls were, but they weren't waiting for diru. So after popping his head out a few times, he came out with Nora leading, and I tried to be really polite and was just like, "Kyo~. :) -wave.-" We stayed where we were since he was walking past us, and we didn't want to get in his space or anything, and I think once he realized we weren't gonna hassle him, he smiled and waved.

He slowed down a little, so I told him how it was a very good show, and thank you so much for playing. He told me I was welcome, and then I asked if I could have a picture, out of manners since I didn't want to snap one without permission. And he told me "No, sorry. I'm tired." So I told him it was okay and thanked him again for the show, and he smiled and nodded and followed Nora the rest of the way to the van. :D

It was short, but it was very nice. ;o; I've heard stories of him being rude to fans and ignoring them, but he was very kind to us. And he has a sweet smile. XD

The other members came out together about fifteen minutes later, except Die. I'm not sure if he was still inside socializing, but before Kyo had come out, a staff member told us that part of diru had gone to the bus already. So I think Die went out to the bus, because we met everyone else.

When they came out, it was Shinya, Kaoru, then Toshiya, all led by Nora. I stood up but stayed where I was like with Kyo, and just thanked them for the show, and told them how great it was, and gave them a few bows. Shinya was super tired I think, because he just nodded at me, but kept walking. Kaoru and Toshiya slowed down though, and Kaoru smiled and said, "Thanks," before following Shinya. And Toshiya started laughing and nodding and walked up to us a little with his suitcase and was like, "Oh? Great show?! Thanks! Thank you!" and waved bye at us before walking after Kaoru. :)

It was well worth missing Apocolyptica in my opinion, haha. Because they were very sweet. All the staff members were nice to us too! We complimented them, and they stood and talked to us about the show and stuff before they started loading equipment. A few even joked with us, because they were racing the cases up that little hill (they had to run to get them up because they were heavy) and so we were "cheering them on" and stuff, and they started joking with us about who "won."

After the last of the members left, we escaped the venue, drove to walmart, grabbed some snacks, and headed home. I was out, the second I touched the pillow, haha.

All in all, the concert was perfect and I loved it so much. I'd definitely do it again.
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