Pride!
French version, from JaME forum, by Tanja, about Dir en Grey's last dvd:
(if I'm not wrong, "Pink_Crevette" is a French girl who manages to go to Japan quite often to follow bands on their tours in Japan, especially Dir en grey)
D'après ce que m'avait dit pink_crevette pour ne pas la siter, effectivement le public japonais chante énormément lors de cette tournée. A vrai dire les filles ont eu le déclique lorsque les Dir ont dit en interview qu'ils avaient trouvé trop génial que les fans Européens chantent sur les chansons. Du coup elles s'y sont mise, alors que c'est relativement rare normalement (hormis les chansons de type ballade).
English:
Trusting what Pink_Crevette told me, the Japanese audience sang a lot on this tour indeed. To speak the truth, the girls "took the trick" when Dir members said in interviews that they loved the fact that European fans sang along the songs. Japanese girls then began to do it too, whereas it's quite rare usually (except on songs like ballads).
We rule!
It's true that one of my best rememories of Dir en Grey's concert in Paris was -especially- The Final, where -everyone- sang along, especially on the chorus, when things begin to get "strong". And it made this moment quite "strong" indeed.
And! Today I went to a concert, to Koritni's concert, and it was -awesome-. Samples can be heard on their official website: http://www.koritni.com/cadre1.htm (hard-rock, kind of glam, to sum up, really great!)
I'll write a long comment when/if I have time, but: THEY PLAYED A BEATLES SONG!!!!! They also did covers of Motorhead, Guns'n'Roses, Judas Priest... and The Beatles! aaaaah would it be only for this song I love them to life! + It was a really good version of Got to get you into my Life (the Beatles song), not a copy-paste of the original at all, really great... THANKS TO THEM!!!
About more serious life: I had one of my entrance exams today, to the school in Paris this time. Of course we were a lot to wait in front of the doors (thousands, maybe 4000, or more? I'm not exagerating at all), but I found a very nice place to eat my sandwich and wait for 1.30pm, when we had to enter the exams-rooms: under trees shadows, a nice wind sending us petals once in a while, definitely a pleasant wait. The exam was... ok... at least I think: I usually firmly disagreed with the corrections I could read in some books I bought (these corrections were done by authors, not by the schools themselves: can't know if they would have agreed with me or the author): can't know if they will like my answers or not. Note: I'm talking about a text comprehension here: the usual game of making an author say what he didn't say and such. Conclusion: we'll see in June.
One thing really amazes me though: my inability to stress. I admit I barely slept last night, but I barely sleep every night, for a few months, so well... And in front of the doors, like when they were giving the questions for the exam, I felt like I feel when I'm buying my daily bread. Sometimes I really feel like the only time in my whole life I really -stressed- was when I met Andre Matos, meaning one of the five persons on Earth I admire: I didn't dare go talk to him, while he was one meter far from me, talking to a few other fans... and in the end I ended up talking about classical music with him for nearly 10mns, mwaha! And I had the same reaction every time I met him after that... Although it's not really "stressing", it's more "being over-shy". So well... maybe it's because I'm always getting stressed for several matters in my personnal life that I don't "feel the need" to stress for a simple sheet of paper, would it be an important exam? Maybe, don't know... but it's funny, somehow, and definitely better than being unable to think and unable to answer an exam because of over-stress!
(if I'm not wrong, "Pink_Crevette" is a French girl who manages to go to Japan quite often to follow bands on their tours in Japan, especially Dir en grey)
D'après ce que m'avait dit pink_crevette pour ne pas la siter, effectivement le public japonais chante énormément lors de cette tournée. A vrai dire les filles ont eu le déclique lorsque les Dir ont dit en interview qu'ils avaient trouvé trop génial que les fans Européens chantent sur les chansons. Du coup elles s'y sont mise, alors que c'est relativement rare normalement (hormis les chansons de type ballade).
English:
Trusting what Pink_Crevette told me, the Japanese audience sang a lot on this tour indeed. To speak the truth, the girls "took the trick" when Dir members said in interviews that they loved the fact that European fans sang along the songs. Japanese girls then began to do it too, whereas it's quite rare usually (except on songs like ballads).
We rule!
It's true that one of my best rememories of Dir en Grey's concert in Paris was -especially- The Final, where -everyone- sang along, especially on the chorus, when things begin to get "strong". And it made this moment quite "strong" indeed.
And! Today I went to a concert, to Koritni's concert, and it was -awesome-. Samples can be heard on their official website: http://www.koritni.com/cadre1.htm (hard-rock, kind of glam, to sum up, really great!)
I'll write a long comment when/if I have time, but: THEY PLAYED A BEATLES SONG!!!!! They also did covers of Motorhead, Guns'n'Roses, Judas Priest... and The Beatles! aaaaah would it be only for this song I love them to life! + It was a really good version of Got to get you into my Life (the Beatles song), not a copy-paste of the original at all, really great... THANKS TO THEM!!!
About more serious life: I had one of my entrance exams today, to the school in Paris this time. Of course we were a lot to wait in front of the doors (thousands, maybe 4000, or more? I'm not exagerating at all), but I found a very nice place to eat my sandwich and wait for 1.30pm, when we had to enter the exams-rooms: under trees shadows, a nice wind sending us petals once in a while, definitely a pleasant wait. The exam was... ok... at least I think: I usually firmly disagreed with the corrections I could read in some books I bought (these corrections were done by authors, not by the schools themselves: can't know if they would have agreed with me or the author): can't know if they will like my answers or not. Note: I'm talking about a text comprehension here: the usual game of making an author say what he didn't say and such. Conclusion: we'll see in June.
One thing really amazes me though: my inability to stress. I admit I barely slept last night, but I barely sleep every night, for a few months, so well... And in front of the doors, like when they were giving the questions for the exam, I felt like I feel when I'm buying my daily bread. Sometimes I really feel like the only time in my whole life I really -stressed- was when I met Andre Matos, meaning one of the five persons on Earth I admire: I didn't dare go talk to him, while he was one meter far from me, talking to a few other fans... and in the end I ended up talking about classical music with him for nearly 10mns, mwaha! And I had the same reaction every time I met him after that... Although it's not really "stressing", it's more "being over-shy". So well... maybe it's because I'm always getting stressed for several matters in my personnal life that I don't "feel the need" to stress for a simple sheet of paper, would it be an important exam? Maybe, don't know... but it's funny, somehow, and definitely better than being unable to think and unable to answer an exam because of over-stress!