I actually once liked People in the Box ALOT.
In fact today, I actually woke up with that song they had with "tatta ichido dake", acoustic song in my head.
I remember when I was taking the CELTA back in 2008, I had their songs on constant play.
In fact I think I can still recall going up the KLCC LRT station while listening to their songs. So their songs are a marker for that period of my life.
However, subsequently I had not checked out their newer albums.
A bad habit of mine. For some reason, once the band becomes famous or suddenly releases too many albums on short succession, I stop listening to the band. It's sooooooooooooooooo tedious to check out their new stuff when you haven't even processed in the first album entirely.
Same thing happened with D.W二コロズ, LOVELOVELOVE, Any, Androp... Hmm.. I guess all the newer bands... They had REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY good songs, actually! But like suddenly there's an explosion of 5 Albums and mini albums and a flood of 20 30 songs..
Forget it, am not gonna check them out.
SO thus it was in this atmosphere that I went for their One Man Live at Parco, a movie theater, no less. WHY?!
So anyway, the set.
Acoustic.
They started with an acoustic set.
It was INCREDIBLY quiet.
I mean these Japanese indie rock shows are already usually incredibly quiet. Couple that with having an acoustic show ANDDDDD in a frigging seated movie theater, it was beyond pin drop silence. I swear there was more buzz going on in the crowd in my History of Ancient Civilization hall room back in college, than in this show.
Because it was so quiet, I think, so the vocalist and the drummer really overcompensiated by trying to talk more and more and more and more.. I mean they were funny and all that but all I was thinking was "Dude, get on with the show already!". So that's not good.
However, as for the songs, they did a very good rendition of their sets! I think of so many rock bands, I think People in the Box translates their songs the best into acoustic versions. It was very well done! Well.. I guess if they're confident enough to play a dual set, one of which was completely acoustic, I guess they are damn good with an acoustic arrangement of their songs to begin with.
So on that note, the vocalist played his parts really, really well! You can see his skills shine through the techniques. Incredibly well done!
The drummer too was incredible in translating percussion into an acoustic arrangement and stood as a very strong backbone for the rest of the band to build on acoustically. Well done!
Highlight of the acoustic set was their cover of Nirvana's All Apologies.... Well, the vocalist nearly ruined it by going on and on and on about something.. He started by talking about when he first heard Nirvana when he was in Junior High School. After that he went to talk about something that happened in the recording studio which I couldn't follow and didn't bother to follow because it was just too long (kinda like this sentence).
But it was really cool they covered Nirvana.
It's true... If you were born anywhere between 1978 - 1985/6, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Radiohead and the likes will always be part of your music history. Hell yeah.
Anyway, they had an intermission and played a video at that time. It was about their drummer being dragged from Tokyo to Nagoya to Osaka to try out Ramen. It was really funny.
And FINALLY, the real electric set started with the vocalist screaming: Don't just sit!
And so everyone got up but yeah.............
that was about as much moving as Japanese audiences would give their bands.
Standing up.
C'MON people!!!
I don't understand Japanese crowd.
This is a One Man Live.
A SOLD OUT One Man Live.
And YET! No one moved =_=
In fact, there was probably only 4 people in the whole entire theater who were rocking out.
Fucking Japan.
Yeah..
AREN'T YOU FANS?!
Geez..
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