ganstream1 wrote:They played SATISFACTION instead of LOVE SURVIVE for Nakano Sun Plaza.

tonymiller wrote:I am glad to see she is using a Japanese bass at last, Yamaha are superb, as good as anything
Fender can make.

From L to R: Zech/zechzech, Sam/320x200, Erich/wat, myself, Jerry/pacrimguru

4 of us from the US and one from Singapore came out to go to a few of the QAT shows + the Happy Music LIVE. All of us went to the Nagoya shows; Sam and Zech went to Kanazawa; and Erich, Jerry, and I went to Happy Music.


-As most of you have seen, their set is pretty cool. There's a Harry Potter-type of look about it with a huge clock being the centerpiece of the set. It's made to look like it's built of bricks, has two floors with the clock tower on the right side, has circular street lights adorning it, and has LED panels around the edges of the set. There are also 2 chandeliers that come down for a song or two ("Queens are trumps" being one of them), which are replaced by "floating" lights that look like the circular bulbs on the street lights.

-The hands of the clock actually work; the "time" that it's on before the show starts is 11:55. Once the show starts up the hands turn to 12:00. I'm sure it has to do with a line of lyrics to their opening song "Rock'n Roll" ("The magic won't be broken when the clock strikes 12"). During "Kill the virgin" it goes to 4:44 and stays there until "Space Ranger." The hands then continually revolve throughout the entire song, stopping again at the end at 12:00.

-I don't really know how to describe it any other way, but the music they played in the venue before the show started was pretty Harry Potter-like too haha. Also, when the lights dimmed right before the show started, the Disney opening music was played.

-As posted before, TOMO uses a new bass: a Yamaha BB2024X in Vintage White.

-And also as posted before, HARU puts down her guitar and just sings on "Queens are trumps." HARU's pretty awesome as just a lead singer

-I don't know why, but "Kill the virgin" was so cool live! As you all know, RINA plays the keyboard and wears white headphones and HARU acts as DJ for the song. I guess that + the lights + the LED panels lighting up just made everything seem awesome haha.

-The other girls left the stage at the end of KTV while HARU was left on stage mixing. She continued for about a minute or two before leaving the stage as well. When she did, TOMO and RINA came back out with Hanshin Tigers (a popular baseball team in the area those 2 are from) happi coats and plastic bats and sang "OSAKA." During the "Hey!" part they picked up Nerf dart guns with HARU's black/green Fender strap attached to TOMO's gun and TOMO's black/white Fender strap attached to RINA's gun and shot autographed darts into the audience. Zech was actually able to get one!

-After "OSAKA" was done, HARU and MAMI came out and talked a little about being back home and such. On the second day, HARU talked about how she went to eat with her mom and MAMI went to a instrument shop with her older brother. They then asked everyone to sit down and they played "Aitai" acoustically.

-Since both HARU and MAMI are from Aichi Prefecture (the prefecture in which Nagoya is located in), the MC was mainly of all of the girls talking about Aichi/Nagoya. The number one thing they talked about: food, of course. They mentioned yakiudon, which I suppose is popular in Nagoya? Though it's a popular Japanese dish in general. Forgot exactly what they talked about on the second day, but they had MAMI sing this well-known song from a commercial in Nagoya haha.

-Just like in the TEMPTATION BOX DVD they let the crowd sing the verse of "SCANDAL BABY" (Hontou wa itsumo anata ni wakatte hoshii to omotteta yo...). It was pretty cool to do that.

-The encore chant on the second day started off kind of strong and then died down right away, so Erich put back on his CANTA head and ran down to the foremost part of our section. It was crazy: immediately everyone started cheering and started the chant back up haha.

-During the encore, right before "Right Here," they did their introductions and talked about stuff like their new tour goods. TOMO also had the crowd saying "いぇいいぇいうぉううぉう！(yay yay whoa whoa!)" constantly.

320x200 wrote:
- Rina hits her drums HARD... So yeah, moral of the story is never step into a boxing ring with Rina...
- Apparently Mami has her effects set up so that her guitar tuner is just always running. Just funny to see her rocking out like crazy and down by her feet her poor tuner is spinning away going "G?? wait wait wait... low E??... F? no, high D???"

Ender wrote:I wonder if she recognized you as the girl from all the cosplays they feature and retweet.

Ender wrote:Were you dressed up as Dobondobon-Tomo? I think she'd be able to piece together that you guys must be those crazy SH Americans from that hehe!

320x200 wrote:Nice writeup!

I'm not sure what I could add.. I remember a couple oddities,

- Rina hits her drums HARD. lol... I play the drums, and from other shows and DVDs I thought she played a little on the light side actually just from seeing her play. For one of the Nagoya shows though because where my seat was and where the speakers were I was hearing the drums from her set not the speakers and she was completely slamming them. So yeah, moral of the story is never step into a boxing ring with Rina...

- Apparently Mami has her effects set up so that her guitar tuner is just always running. Just funny to see her rocking out like crazy and down by her feet her poor tuner is spinning away going "G?? wait wait wait... low E??... F? no, high D???"

- The intro reveal was cool, they flooded the stage with fog thick enough that you couldn't see them come out and then when the show starts it clears quick.

- Mami was really impressive this tour. I don't really have a bias but Mami was really killing it, more so than I've ever seen before and a lot of people were commenting about her performance.

- Rina was really on fire during the Kanazawa live. I can't describe it but at one point I was just blown away by her performance, and ended up just standing there for a couple songs until I was like "Ahh! What am I doing! Not cheering or anything?!" I was just standing there dumbstruck lol