I really don’t deserve you 6 people since I got lost for a few days.
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For your convenience, here are some misc gifs of JRockers.
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I won’t get lost again unless school happens.
I have a few more stories, and I’d be super duper happy if you’d submit. ;u;
Here are those gifs I promised
March 18th, 2012
New York, Hiro Ballroom
The Signing session pretty much went like this:
The members were seated left to right in this order: Omi, Naoto, Jyou, Miko, Mally.
The line would wrap around the venue, those who bought a CD would go first, then anyone who had any other merchandise who wanted it signed, then those who had bought a VIP ticket or spent over $100 at the merch table would go to get a photo taken with the group.
I bought TWIN GATE and headed around, messed up my handshake with Omi and the we fixed it, had a laugh about that, told Naoto she was my favorite in awkward english as we stared into each others eyes (she’s so cute asdfghjkl), joked with Jyou about being a big apple (She called herself that during the show while talking about New York since she has red hair), told Miko she was really pretty, and told Mally she was really sparkly and we laughed about that.
THEN I got two posters (Omi and Naoto <3) And went around with my friend (who held the Omi poster; originally we wanted to go together with the CD but they wouldn’t let us so I just got two posters instead cuz I wanted her to meet them too) said Hi again to everyone, Jyou joked about how scary Naoto was on the poster and I said that, Noooo, she was really cute, messed up my handshake with Miko this time, then fixed it, then forgot that I shook Mally’s hand the second time around after she handed me the poster and went to shake it again and we ended up laughing about that too.
They were all super sweet and the signing deal was AWESOME. awesome. just saying. Lotta people missed out on a lot by not going.
March 18th, 2012
New York
I LOVED this show like nothing before it or after it.
They were so interactive, it was lovely. The setlist was a mix of old and new songs, which I found extremely appealing. It was fun, and active, but with enough medium/slow paced songs to allow the audience to catch their breaths.
They had two opening bands, which were both surprisingly awesome. One had a female singer and the other was all male.
What was great was that all three bands were different kinds of rock genres, which kept it fresh.
But, obviously, I was there for exist trace, not the openers. :P
I was right in front of Jyou, where she had a crate that I was able to use to support myself and lean on and stuff.
Since I was right in front of her, I didn’t abuse that and just grope her the whole time.
They started off with Daybreak, quickly letting the audience express their spazzing of seeing them on stage. After Honnou they played JUDEA, SACRIFICE BABY, and I Feel You in a row, which really had everyone jumping and headbanging.
When they played Little Mary to Utsukushiki Nikushimi no Donau, it was really lovely because everyone came out in masks, Miko and Omi danced together, and then they all fell. Jyou just so happened to fall onto the crate and I was patting her on her fluffy shoulder-covering thing.
Next thing you know, they whip off the masks and Jyou comes out in a short sexy dress for KISS IN THE DARK and everyone’s screaming, calling her sexy, and swooning over her hip-swinging.
Four songs later, they’re closing the show up with liquid and VANGUARD.
Everyone catches their breaths during the encore, murmuring about who got to touch who (I’d touched Jyou, Miko, Omi, and Naoto by that point, ohjesustouchingNaotowasundescribable) when all of a sudden this guy on stage yells “IS THAT ALL YOU’VE GOT?” (New York audiences suck at yelling at an encore) and Mally comes out, giving people high fives. I got one from her >w<
They play RESONANCE and finish off with Owari no Nai Sekai, and then leave. Mally throws her drumsticks into the crowd, my friend got one of them (so happy for her ^^), Naoto throws the last of her picks into the crowd (she’d thrown about 10 total), and everyone runs to the merch table to prepare for the signing.
During the show, they were all so interactive, and so lovely. They all ran to the opposite sides of the stage. Miko, her lovely self, was touched by hands wherever she went. Omi was practically flirting with the audience. Her and I made eye contact at least 8 times, most likely more, and I often greeted her with an eyebrow raise of my own. Mally, being in the back and on drums and stuff, she was always smiling and rockin hard. I got eye contact with her about twice, and each time gave her a supporting ‘rock the fuck on you awesome person you’ kind of look. At one point, Jyou was talking to us in Japanese. Somehow we understood, but I don’t remember it all. I do remember her looking at this giant dragon head which is also a smoke machine, and I was like, “Ryu da yo” and somehow she heard me and looked at me and she was like, “Aa, Ryu?” and all the members looked at it in curiosity and it was super cute. Then she talked about the disco ball the place had. She also had Miko speak in English, and we were all cheering her all and helping her out. Naoto wasn’t as interactive as the rest of the group, she went up to the audience about 5 times through the show. Once she propped her leg up right onto the crate and leaned into the audience and when I tell you I was on the verge of molesting her, it’s ridiculous how true that statement is. But I didn’t. But I touched her a lot. She’s really an entertainer, she looked like she was enjoying it so much. Jyou was the most entertaining, I think. Bouncing everywhere, smiling, singing so so well. All of them were brilliant.
And super sweet at the signing afterwards.
I wish they had had better turnouts at these shows because they were really worth it.
Sunday March 25th, 2012
Madison Square Garden
March 25th was definitely one of the most memorable nights of my life. As the Japanese band to ever perform in Madison Square Garden, it was surely one of the most memorable nights for L’arc, too.
When you got into the venue, you could feel the excitement in the air. Every time the automated recording went on to ask people to turn off their cell phones, the whole venue started cheering.
After about an hour or so, the venue went dark and all the glow sticks went up into the air. There was an animation about the tour, which showed the locations they’d be playing at.
Moment they went up on stage, everyone was screaming louder than ever
The show was amazing. It had a great flow and the visuals were so so so so perfect.
Hyde was so flamboyant. Yukihiro was super focused on his drumming. Tetsuya kept kissing bananas and lollipops, touching them to his bass, and throwing them in the audience. Ken, well, Ken was just great. He apparently went around as a tourist and also bought Yuki a “Nightmare before Christmas Monopoly” board game. Hyde was the only one who knew to look into the camera, and so a few times it was as if he was staring into your soul. The whole band was super interactive though, bouncing around to all the sides of the stage and showing themselves off. They each had awesome solos that everyone cheered to, and it was superb.
Before the encore, the audience kept doing waves. They had an animation of a these weird creature thingies doing the wave and so we mimicked them. It was fun.
All in all, it was AWESOME. The turnout, although not sold out, was pretty fucking big.
Tetsuya sure knows how to throw a banana.
