YFC lives - a comparison?
Hey Dears, now that the tour is over, and with lots of you having been to at least two lives, i was wondering if you'd be interested in comparing those YFC lives you went to. Which of them was the best in terms of sound, performance, crowd etc etc? Also maybe you'd like to tell us how the band has evolved throughout those lives you've seen?
For starters, I had this short Swedish girl in front of me (she was a head shorter than me as I was using my platforms, she had travelled what, 10-12 hours to get there on Sunday and the live was on Tuesday, and she knew nothing of the band aside from G/Cha/You. She was totally shocked when Noa and I told her Jon would be singing as well). For a couple of the first songs I could hold onto the railing on her left side, but the crowd was inching to the left to the podium so she was as well: my hand wasn't, so my arm was hurting her ribs. I had to let go. But after that it was so hard to maintain balance while fighting away arms that blocked my view of Chacha, or even more so, fight away feet that tried to sneak in between me and the ones standing on my sides. Was unsuccessful in fighting away all of them: the girl in front of me (at that point she had moved one person's width to the LEFT from me) actually pulled a tiny girl (who had snuck her way through the crowd) from my RIGHT side to her spot in first row saying she had deserved the spot.
I say you deserve first row spots if you get to the venue early enough, but since the Swedish girl got to third row because of this I would've been fine with it - IF IT HADN'T CAUSED SO MUCH MOVEMENT THAT A COUPLE OF ROWS BEHIND ME AS WELL WERE ABOUT TO FALL OVER AND CAUSED SOME CHAOS FOR A FEW MOMENTS. It was too packed though, no one could fall backwards. (And it was totally packed that way for 1,5 hours already before the live even began... thank god the staff gave us water before and during the show.)
As for contact with the members... no, I was too close to G+Jon. When Jon took off his tie and looked to Chacha's side of the crowd I went F*** NO!! out loud. Of course it didn't matter, it landed close to me (like all the water bottles seemed to land two heads to my right) so of course the crowd went after it (and the bottles) and OH GOD THE RIPPLE EFFECT... I felt like a leaf in storming water. Aside from that I was stuck on my spot most of the time, thanks to my platforms keeping me in place.
After the Swedish girl's stunt I was behind another fan - a crazy Chacha fan with dreadlocks who started squealing and bouncíng like a bunny that's had RedBull instead of water whenever Chacha took a step toward her - and that was often. He smiled at her and beckoned at her a lot and I was going all DAMMIT, I'M BEHIND HER, LOOK UP A BIT! but as it is, I'm happy whenever Chacha smiles so even if it was at her, I don't feel bad about it and just enjoyed the view. Ah, the pretty... ♥~(´w`)~♥
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Noa and I finished our banner while lining in Amsterdam. I held it open in Amsterdam when the band got there, we held it open during the encore in Amsterdam, my memory fails me if we had it open when they left Amsterdam (I think we didn't, I had it open when they arrived in Berlin and left from Berlin, I had it open for a moment when the first crazy circle-driving Red Car with the film crew arrived in Stockholm. The crew and Chacha himself has seen it a couple of times. Stockholm was the last time me, Noalani and Purpl_kitten would see them for a while (for Kitten it was the only YFC this year) so I had decided already before Berlin that I'd throw the banner at Chacha in Stockholm as a goodbye.
When the band finished playing and Chacha stepped to stand in front of the mike stand I held it out toward him so that he could see it was coming, held it for a couple of moments, and then threw it when he moved to stand closer.
And he caught it.
And started smiling WIDELY.
And started unfolding it (it didn't take him as long as it did for Chirolyn last year in London but it did take him some adorkable time anyway~)
And then he only had it double folded anymore and when he started completely unfolding it and saw what it was he laughed a bit. And then pulled it open, turned to showcase it to the fans, AND THEN DRAPED IT OVER HIS SHOULDERS.
I was screaming my lungs out in happiness by that point and jumping up and down because THAT was what I had been after. To make him smile and fully acknowledge that he does have fans who love him abroad. (I kinda bet he knows that already but showing the love is hardly a bad thing, right?)
And then he turned to the fans again, sought me out and held my eyes for a couple of moments, pointed toward me a couple of times (Noalani grabbed my left hand at some point, I think he saw that but I'm not sure) and then turned to entertain more fans on my right.
He put the banner away for the shouts GACKT made us do along with the promises to be back, but CHACHA WAS THE ONE TO CHEER THE CROWD AFTER THE SHOW! Oh gawd, I thought for a moment that he'd leave the banner on the stage but he got his water bottle, sprayed fans with the water (it was a pretty waterfall going up and then down, not aimed straight at fans) and then threw the bottle into the crowd. AND THEN HE WENT AND GOT THE BANNER AND ABUSED IT SO MUCH! He was waving it around so that he had a sparkle shower around him most of the time as part of the decorations fell off XD
...but in the end he threw it to the CROWD. DDDDDDDDDDDDD:
I'm so happy I somehow managed not to see that, only after he was gone and the lights were back on and I got my bag from the floor Noa told me about it. We went after it and somehow managed to get it back in one piece. It's 95% done by me, I bought the fabric, the decos, the superglue, the pincers, the markers, I drew and colored the text 去年よりもっと茶々が大好き ("I/we love Chacha more than last year") with Noa only scrutinizing a couple of characters first, and glued most of the decorations by myself with Noa helping with some of them. I rarely do craftwork and I was really really REALLY happy with this banner, I would've been torn if it had been cut into pieces.
I think the band was exhausted after the Stockholm live though, as it took forever for them to come out when usually they've emerged after about an hour. Noa and I were soaked with sweat and it wasn't warm outside anymore and even sharing body heat didn't help fight against the cold. We're both really stubborn, but still we ended up giving up before they came out, leaving nine fans behind us to wait for them. That's really few, as in Amsterdam I think there were 25-40 fans when they got out, and I'd say more than 50 fans waited for them to come out in Berlin.
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I miss them all so much already... and I'm not able to attend the tours in Japan or America, so all I have to say to those who are going: HAVE A BLAST! \m/
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