No thanks to my iPhone calendar notification, I almost missed this show. Fail.
BUT I DID NOT AND THAT'S GREAT!!!!!!!!
But if it wasn't for Riki, I think I would have most definitely skipped this show for being tooooooo lazy...
HOWEVER, I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUPER GLAD I didn't miss it!!!!!
So this was the second time I've seen Riki perform at Liquidroom in 2 months. The layout of Liquidroom this time was more like what I remembered it to be when I came to see Lunkhead here 3 years ago. They closed off the side of the hall with black curtains, so there was just the mosh pit in the middle.
However, a few minutes before the show started, they opened up the black curtains by the side so people could stand on the steps, thus widening the pit.
I wonder if this is why they call it Liquidroom ahahaha... Coz the layout changes as the crowd size changes!
Anyway!
killing boy
Hmmm... I thought it was very cool that Riki came out FIRST on stage, which I thought was very, very cool and like "whatever I don't need a ceremony" for him. I don't like how vocalists are always the last to come out, as if the other band members are less important and just supporting this one dude. So I liked that Riki came out FIRST and everyone cheered for him one and the same as for everyone else in the band. That was really cool of him or he probably just didn't give a damn, really.
So anywa, Riki, as ALWAYS, was very, very, very quiet. He didn't say anything except "arigatou" at the end of each song. The highlight of the show was probably when he asked the technicians to set up another mic, but for the guitarist to speak and do the usual "thank you everyone for coming" MC. hahaahah.... And it was so Riki when the technician was going to give him the mic when he went " X " no. ahahahahaha... Riki, Riki....
Anyway, they came back on for an instrumental encore and then Call 4 U... Which was brilliant!! ANDDDDDDDDDDD... BEFORE Call 4 U, Riki FINALLY spoke and thanked all the bands that played that night. I thought he was eating his words again, and perhaps a little stuttering. HA! Oh... Riki!!
Oh... by the way I mentioned the killing boy show to a client who works at a UK Label the next day. He didn't know killing boy so I asked if he knew art-school. Then he said "Yeah, I know Riki-kun." ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Then he said that Riki is very good but "he's a very nervous guy." and went on to stress, good but "very nervous" again!! ahahahahaha... WOAH!!! He said Riki is very nervous when he talks... HMMMM.... I guess that explains the whole no MC thing.. I guess if he's nervous around a closed group of people, what more an audience of a thousand!! What a TOTALLY UNLIKELY candidate for a lead vocalist!!!!
ANYWAY. Killing Boy live is AWESOME. Actually, their SONGS are AWESOME live.
I don't particularly pay attention to instruments because I know jack shit about them. HA! But, this band really caught me. The lead guitarist, to me, is just plain awesome. Wonderful riffs weaving so seemlessly to join in with incredible bass, coupled with spot on drumming. With such awesome parts, actually, sadly, sorry Riki, but I really thought that perhaps the most ordinary member of this band was Riki. I think the pure talent of the other members just shines through in their parts and their composition and performance. I am usually, totally not a bass person, but seriously, I was very, very impressed by Hinata's bass. His playing makes you NOTICE the bass lines, not just the way bass is usually drowned out and over-spotlighted by the rest. He made his bass STAND OUT. Jumps out out you. Makes you notice it. Makes you go "woah! wow...". The guitarist just blew me away with his parts, so silently playing in his corner of the stage, but his parts just flowed in like water washing over the songs giving them its waves and texture. And why I say perhaps HINTO has a better guitarist is because he his riffs courses through the song, carving it's lines in and out through the flow of the song and melody. And he plays it so well, so well composed, so well performed, silently but its presence felt. sears an impression through the skin of the song. And then there's the drumming. Ah... I think I am a closet drummer lover. haha! Srsly. Plain COOL, in his world, drumming so effortlessly, where every beat followed the next, rolling the band onwards, onwards. Damn. He was cool. Cool. So seriously, of all, sorry Riki, seems like his part was the simplest. His guitar parts seem simple too. I swear he held on to ONE CHORD throughout the entire verse. ONE! But to his credit, I think Riki's part is the base on which all the rest build their sounds upon. While everyone's parts stood out, Riki's stayed in the background, unnoticed in its presence but perhaps, definitely incomplete without.
I feel as if killing boy is where all these members that are usually buried in other's compositions in their own main bands actually come out in these songs to strut their feathers, spread their wings, and show the world, show their fans, their actual, own stark talent and brilliance. This is where they shine from their own.
andymori
Oh yeah, killing boy played with andymori today too...
Kinda weird... The first time killing boy played in Liquidroom, they opened for Andymori... Second time they played, andymori opened for them...
Oh well, maybe in Japan it doesn't matter.
Andymori has some very rocking out songs! And damn, their vocalist is INCREDIBLY CUTE. INCREDIBLY.INCREDIBLY.
lol.
Anyway, it was cool to see like a 50-year-old obaasan rocking out to this cute young boy's rock tunes! Hell yeah, rock on!
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