Awesome, dude! You've got me jealous now! haha, try to get an autograph for me.
Have fun, though. I expect a full report of the concert... with pictures!
So, I am back from the Jikuu Kaizoku (space-time pirate) SEVEN SEAS gig in a Live Club in Shinjuku.
I hate myself for not getting there earlier, as it was already quite full and I was stuck in the back :-(
Anyway, it started with Gachinikofu (drums) shooting with a (toy)gun at the audience followed by (like their first CD) some story telling including an introduction of each space-time pirate. Every band member had a nice entrance with a sound effect (haha sorry don't know how to describe it better). But Eita had a cute magic one wohooo.
Every member seemed quite true to their role. Prince-YO was the cool bishie one (with mostly females in standing on his side) handing out roses, Tatsuhowa Sho-Gun was the funny guy providing the most laughs from the audience, Eita being of course the cute one (with a mostly male audience in front of her) throwing out plushies and other cute things and Marshal K being the best stereotype warship captain/general doing salutes and stuff. Gachinikofu was stuck in the dark area of the stage behind his drums only saying one word before/after the encore. But according to the webpage he's a russian spy from the year 2030 - maybe that fits :-)
The show itself had some interaction with the crowd, but with only about 100 people you can't get much out of the crowd even if you're the best entertainer. There was one song where the crowd was supposed to follow the flag waving of the Marshal but only very few of the audience even had the flags which we were supposed to buy/get before show started (if only I had known).
Every once in a while during the gig sho-gun and the Marshal hit each other like a manzai comedy duo. Not quite sure about them, but apparently they are the funny two together.
Eita played just like in the clips and on the CDs very good and fast and was quite active during it - Either by head banging or jumping around. The people who had a better view than me probably enjoyed her show a lot :-) She was even singing quite an amount of background vocals into her microphone which almost can't be heard.
Here are my two 'best' pictures I was able to make. I wasn't sure if I could use my camera, but a few songs before the end someone took a pic with his cellphone so I took the camera out and tried - and failed.
Eita was mostly moving (as you can see in the pics) or behind heads (since when is everyone so big in Japan??) or the light wasn't enough for a pic.
I like how in the first pic it looks like Marshal says 'Hey drop that camera!' :-) He did that a lot to the audience were usually the pointed at person replied with the same hand sign.
Here are 4 very short movie clips I took with the camera (including crappy quality video AND audio) joined to one single XVID file which looks imho better than the pictures I took:
Jikuu Kaizoku Seven Seas - Small Clips Live in Shinjuku (2007-04-30).avi (8.42 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejn4iny22mmAnd here is what maybe everyone was waiting/hoping for. The new (mini) album called Confusion. 9 Tracks, 27 minutes, 128kbit Ogg Vorbis, no story talking (but a short rapping part in one track which wasn't in the live gig):
Jikuu Kaizoku SEVEN SEAS - Confusion.zip (26.73 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?75mnz3mgcmnThat was probably my only chance seing them live as the only other announced show of them in Tokyo where I am still here is some kind of festival where they are only listed as opening act and not under the main performing artists... So I am not sure if I even want to attend that... Anyone knows these acts Imitation PoPs 宇宙戦隊NOIZ/人格ラヂオ/Phantasmagoria/R*A*P and would recommend me to go there (the name R*A*P scares me the most)?
PS: Thanks for reading :-) Didn't think I could write so much even without much complaining about my place in the room and how much I'd liked a fixed numbered seat like an H!P concert :-)
Topic: General Japanese Rock Thread (Read 248570 times)