was gonna skip this show! Well NOT. I almost missed this show, actually, coz i didn't bother to check the time of the show and found out last minute that the show started at 2p.m. coz there was a whole load of bands lined up for this one.
I only really wanted to check out hare-brained unity, Lunkhead and of course, Tsubaki, since this was the first Tsubaki show post Isshiki.
hare-brained unity
I feel really, really, really bad because I've not been to a single HBU live since I came. I always see the bands posting on twitter about their shows and they actually play LOADS of show in Tokyo VERY frequently, too. But I just never checked them out coz I don't know many of the songs.
But I must say, their set was the highlight of the day!!!
最強！part of their set was when they actually played Disco Music!!!!! I'm not sure if this is one their usual live favourite but I didn't think they'd play it because it's like the 5th track on a very, very old album...
BUT THEY DID!!!!!!!!!!1
AND IT WAS BRILLIANT!!!
It was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo super wonderful to sing with them...!!!! Taijuwada was awesomely coooooooooooool too!!! hahaha... He DOES rock out with his DJing and bass! ^_^;; then again, I think I am biased!
Thanks hare-brained!!! I really had fun singing the song with you and dancing with everybody... It was surreal how I'd listen to that song every morning as I drove to work on Jalan Tun Razak, and there I was singing it with you... Thanks :)
Lunkhead
They didn't play a long set, just five songs... But... Hmm... Well it was a Lunkhead set :) I've not seen Lunkhead much since coming here... I think I've seen Sekaiichi way more than Lunkhead!
But they played some old songs in the set so I was happy. They also played some new songs so it was cool to check out the new songs.... But hmmm... as you can see... Not much of a review here! haha!
Anyway, because there were so many bands playing that night, as each band played, people started leaving the pit, so I was able to get right up front (third row probably), by Lunkhead's set... So that was pretty cool.
Tsubaki
Well, Tsubaki finally went on at 6:30... (Yes, a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG four hours since the start of the show!!!)...
This was the first show with Tsubaki without Isshiki... It's very natural but so weird to not have your frontman in a band, yet have the band playing the band's songs, don't you think?
But I really, really, really, really salute and am thankful to Ogawa-san and Okamoto-san for making the decision to not cancel the Tokyo shows and to go on with Tsubaki lives despite a missing Isshiki. I think it's really, really, really, really great for them to do that for the fans, and I think they're a true band for not going on a total haitus but for the sake of the fans, continuing on the band without a frontman (I mean who would have thought?!)
Anyway, OGAWA-SAN talked WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more than usual!!! hahahaahahha!! He was MCing and explaining about Tsubaki deciding to continue and to support No Regret Life for their show... And I was thinking to myself at that time "oh my... if only Isshiki was around to witness this!! He would be soooooo pleased that Ogawa is talking so much!!!" Isshiki could never get Ogawa to say more than a few words!! hahaha.. and it had always been a running gag in the show!! haha...
Anyway, they didn't play any new song from the previous show (the Tsubaki 10th anniversary show) and they only played 3 songs, instead of 5 as the other bands did. But that was because they got a few people to come up to play with them.
So, Tsubaki's set was done by Odaka &Yamashita pair from Lunkhead. They played the same song as they did in the anniversary show, Moussoressha. Odaka, however, was very, very, very reluctant to take the stage. You can tell he felt very, very uncomfortable trying to take over Isshiki's shoes. And I think that's a true reflection of Odaka's... "humble" (???) nature... I think, it was very touching that he felt that he can't and he shouldn't even be trying to take over Isshiki's shoes.. and you could really see that in his demeanor... In the anniversary show, because he covered Tsubaki in his own set, he was much more confident and in charged of the stage... But in this Tsubaki set, you can see he was quite apprehensive to take up the vocals to sing the same song he sang in his own set two weeks before.
Kudos, Odaka. I think you're stepping back up on my book.
Anyway, the second song was the same, the EVER BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS, Masuzawa-san took the vocals to cover Brown Sugar Hair... He was not sooooooooooooooooo crazy this time as he was the previous time but still crazy enough!! The difference between this set and the previous was that... Isshiki played the guitars previously. This time Odaka &Yamashita did the guitars while Masuzawa sang...
Masuzawa Brown Sugar Hair!!!!!
HERE IT IS!!!
Finally, the third song was covered by No Regret Life's singer... He did quite okay with the vocals but やっぱり、つばきの歌はつばきの歌だ。Lol... Tsubaki's song is Tsubaki :) And that's the way it should be, probably.
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