Found this show by chance and it was very, very cool that The Challenge gave their CD out for free to whoever who did a ticket reservation through their email!!! Isn't that cool??
Anyway, actually I was really happy that The Challenge was playing with The Girlhunt and monokuro too... I've really been wanting to check out Masuzawa's band (HE HAS A BILLION BANDS, I'm confused!).. and back in Malaysia last year, I was trying to check out The Girlhunt's songs but there were nothing available.
Anyway, it was GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT the show had the three bands!!
I really wanted to check out Ryo-san's new band and this was actually The Challenge's third live!! So, lucky!!!
The Challenge.
They were really fun!!
They had their own dresscode!! Everyone wore black (SORTA!) and sunglasses!! hahaha...
The Challenge is also just a side band for 2/4 of their members.
If I am not mistaken, Sawada-san (Vo.) was ex-Tokyo Parade....
Ryo (Dr), of course, is ex-Lunkhead.
Taijuwada is the bassist and DJ of Hare-brained Unity
____ is the guitarist of butterflyinthestomach,
and..... is.... from.... ANOTHER BAND... ahahaha...
Actually, I was a little worried if I'd like this band.. Maybe I was hoping I would like them because I'd really like to fall in love with a new band.
And I was holding my breath all the way!!!
Actually they had pretty cool, catchy, very.... melodic pop-rockish kind of songs... Yes, like Mr. Children and Bump and so on.. They didn't have those recently emerging kind of funk rock songs, and they didn't have those typically Japanese-rock songs either.. It was overall really catchy and definitely very fun! They had some rap going on here and there, actually, I think just coming from the background of the band members.
But I ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY love their last song Ogenki Desu Ka... In fact it's still in my head right now...!! I just love how the bridge goes, "Boku wa koko ni iru, kimi wa doko ni iru?" (I am here, where are you?) waaaahhhh.... I wanna say that to..... Isshiki... ahahahahaha!
Neways! They were really cool.. I like them and I will DEFINITELY check them out again.
monokuro
Wow... relic of the grunge age!!
I kinda like monokuro's set, but I just thought that their performance lacked dynamics... and smacked between two bands like The Challenge (with Sawada-san) and The Girlhunt (with Masuzawa-san), this band just fell like a brick.
It's weird tho, coz today's event is suppose to be monokuro's celebration or something, but they didn't headline...
I don't know.. I was just bored during their set. Their songs were quite okay, relics of grudge, but.. I wouldn't want to stand another 40 minutes again watching this band. Sorry.
The Girlhunt (ザ・ガールハント)
Ohhhhhhhhhh MASUZAWA-SAN!!!
Seriouslyyyyy...
That guy is like on a sugar high most time!!!!
He's just so brilliantly enthusiastic. Gets people going, gets people laughing, gets people rocking. Frontman 100%.
I don't know what to say about Masuzawa san's performance except that, well, you just gotta see it for yourself :)
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