Sunday, October 9, 2011

Live-report: Rabbits and Rainbows in Tokyo





Any LM.C concert in Japan is full of rainbow, rabbit, Mayas and mini Aijis and throughout the audience. One can imagine the fun the band's music, lights and color image attracts people who like the style enough to imitate them even in subtle ways, as with striped socks, hair 'teased' or any accessory rainbow .  
The band soon will go to South America, Europe and other parts of Asia, but was present in musicJAPANplus fantastic show they made ​​less than a week before they left for Santiago, Chile, on January 18 in DC Lemon Hall in Tokyo. 


On that January afternoon, and within the vicinity of the CC Lemon Hall in Shibuya, there were crowds of screaming fans LM.C, who were standing outside the venue smoking a last cigarette, on the run inside to find places, or having found them, they stopped and waved to friends sitting on the other side of the house while they all waited for the music starts. Heads of rabbits and rainbows, the logos of the family band, designed in a kaleidoscope of lights, bounced through the hall ceiling and walls, while rainbow lights flashed red curtain on the stage, and the floor could be decorated seen pointing out tissue underneath. 17:30 When he passed, the time scheduled for the beginning of the show, fans began to make noise while they waited, with some screaming as the guitar was tuned Aiji behind the curtain.  About 10 minutes later, a cry made ​​her happy way through the audience when the lights dimmed and the intro music began playing. The beginning was not very different from the Queen song "We Will Rock You", but that quickly changed to a different type of music, with many synthesizers, instruments with gothic sound that made ​​it seem a piece of music gothic opera. When the curtains opened and the music eventually stopped, the fans screamed for Maya and Aiji, and bright flashes of the pair, along with its support members, began playing the first song of the night.  Just the opening notes of "Galileo" did fans jump up and down, making the ground tremble with the site to your animation. Maya LM.C wore a shirt, the logo in the format as Superman but designed in a tone aqua and pink, together with a black cardigan, light brown shorts leopard print, black and pink striped socks, sneakers style black Converse, and he jumped around the stage during the intervals of the verses while fans copied his movements and bright lights shone in either singing on stage rotary casting lines of light on the crowd happy and dancing. Aiji wore the same black shirt that Maya about something similar with leopard prints, although it look more like a skirt, complementing your outfit with black leggings and a pair of black boots the height of cinnamon. The middle of the song has a keyboard solo, followed by the battery, then down, then again for battery, in which the beats were accented by bright flashes of light across the stage. Maya ended the song with a "Woo!" Which was echoed by the fans, and then the next song began without much pause.  The sound vague ska "Bell the Cat" made ​​the fans clapped and encouraged them Aiji where he was with his guitar on the right side of the stage. The fans stretched their arms toward the stage during the chorus, making easy to see the amount of pulses that were with the rainbow wristbands, a symbol of LM.C. In the middle of the song was a duel of guitar solos and bass, after which Maya shouted, "Shibuya" to encourage fans to clap their hands even more. While the chorus of the song ended, Maya sang in front of the stage with his leg sustained on the amplifier, and then did an interpretive dance to the end of interesting music.  "Hey!" Maya called the brief interval between the songs. "Shibuya! Are you ready? Yay! Yayay "  The next was the heavy rock music "" BOOST BUSTERz "", which again wiggled fans between verses. Fans waved their arms in unison to the stage before the chorus while Maya was on stage doing a rap lyric. Aiji and bassist came closer to the center stage to play together at some point. Maya then stirred the fans with some "Woo!" To yell back, then shouted "Jump!" To make the fans jump in unison until he sang the last verse of the song means. The lights are paid after the music ended and the fans screamed and cried with happiness for both Maya and Aiji in the dark.  "Shibuya Hey!" Maya said, starting a short-MC. "Are you all ready? Who is here watching LM.C the first time? Wow! You came for fun? "The fans screamed so, but caused the Maya. "I heard nothing, you are right? You came here to have fun? "The fans screamed even louder again to placate him.  "Hey staff," he called, "Staff! You came for fun? "Some loud cries came from the backstage area while the staff responded to his call, making the fans laugh. "You all came to have fun?" He asked again, and fans screamed as loud as he could. "Are you ready? You came for fun? Okay, so let's have fun right up to the end! "  "Joker, my name is-" began with a heavy guitar and drum sets, but unlike the other had Maya singing songs instead of singing. The stage behind the band was decorated with some metal rings lined with red lights that light up in solid lines throughout the song. The stage was lit mostly red, although some yellow dots that glowed in the crowd as they jumped during the intervals between chorus and verse. The song ended in a long note, but there was barely a pause before the next start.  Small video screens, sixteen in all, lit up by all around the stage when the band started playing "La Dee Da." The recording was mostly abstract, lines showing diamond-shaped sinuously across a building that appeared to be rotating in a style of architecture with Arabic or Russian in round roofs. Maya sang the verse of the song with her ​​darkly played, and played a solo Aiji fast with your fingers before the chorus, while lamps 'magic' and crowns flashed on screen. The fans jumped during each chorus, bringing your arms toward the stage along with the fast beat of the music. The lights were the total darkness when the song ended, and although it was a brief interval between the songs the fans jumped at the chance to scream for Maya and Aiji.  "TABOO" rifes also began with guitar and half the video screens went out while the rest showed abstract images of orange lines curling into a kind of background. Fans shook their hands to the stage during the chorus, and Maya stopped and danced in the middle of a column with spiral lights flashed and spun around. A spiral of pale pink and blue also shone on the same wall, and the video screens showed images kaleidoscopic until the orange lines Aiji returned when a guitar solo played rough and dry. The music faded as the mysterious intro the next song began.  The unmistakable intro of "Haunted House Make A Secret" started as the lights changed, beginning to glow green around the stage. The main spotlight chased the green lines around the stage, and orange lights flashed behind the band while Maya sang the chorus of the song. For relaxing, not too slow this time music, the fans stood to enjoy it. During the second part, while Aiji played a guitar solo in the higher register of his guitar, band member support, who always wears a skull with a mohawk and is known to Denki-man, was on the platform behind the central stage and did a dance routine alone. The crowd was torn between laughter and applause by the show fun for talent in dance, which eventually confirmed to the latter when the music began to fade with the lights. The applause after the music was loud and genuine, lasting for several seconds before the screams started again Aiji and Maya.  under the stage lights lit up in purple and a mysterious red while the band was preparing for the next item set list the night, and videos that were hanging over the stage once again lit up to display the logo of a white rabbit head, making the audience scream loud.



The stage lit up with small but bright lights flashing blue and white as the beginning of "cosmology" played, making it look like a night full of stars behind the musicians. While Maya sang the first verse, the lights flashed and more solidly colored lights in green and a pale orange lit up under the stage. The lights flashed while Maya all sang the chorus in his voice light and cute, and the audience swayed their arms in the fast beat of the music. Maya sang in a spotlight, and soil Aiji late in the second half of the song was also played under a spotlight while the rest of the band was in darkness. The video screens are also lit with bright sparks of light all around the stage, making it appear as if the audience was looking straight at the Milky Way. The lights went out slowly as the song ended, and the next song intro took place. 




Bubbles coming out of the stage two machines you make bubbles in both corners when "-Sora Namida Iro-" started. The skull-masked man, standing on the left side of the stage lifted up his hands up and clapped, and the crowd soon picked up his pace and began to clap along. For the first chorus, white lights were lit all over the stage and lit up the band and the audience too. Aiji touched a light soil that echoed loudly over the rest of the song before Maya sang the gentle melody of the second part, the second chorus and the music had a few strings in the background. The fan reaction was changed, and most simply shook their heads as they watched the presentation of the band. Some bubbles floated through the air even after the machines have stopped running behind the scenes. When the song ended, the hall was put in darkness, and the fans were quiet for several seconds before the band began to cry again.  "Woo," Maya said, starting another MC when the lights came on. Fans echoed his 'woos' and 'yays'. "So, are you having fun? Yay. So this tour, the tour LM.C LM.C tour ... uh ... ... 0809, that name, has had seven ... eight ... "he let his voice fade while thinking," Twenty! Er, nineteen? Well, this much here about the shows. "The audience laughed.  "From where are you?" Fans across the audience shouted from where they were, and Maya nodded thoughtfully. "What a cool place. Yes, I know that! "  "They Aiji," Maya said, taking the focus to Aiji. "Are you having fun?"  "Yes," said Aiji, going to the microphone to respond. "Thank you all in Shibuya! Our first show of 2009 yesterday. Let's have fun tonight. "  "We will present our members" said Maya, and then proceeded to introduce and talk with her ​​keyboardist / programmer, drummer, skull-masked drummer (who called Maya 'Denki-Man ') and bassist. Denki-man entertained the audience by bringing a small video camera and began recording their every move in mini screens. Maya picked up the camera at one point and had no idea how to shoot with it.  "What do you do with these things?" he said, "Put this on YouTube? Not? "Denki-man does not speak, so he can not answer.  "You've all read our Ameblo? The blog that we do at Amoeba? "Maya asked the audience. "So many people visit us to climb in the rankings, right? And if you took all your phones now and access ... "  "That would stop the show, would not you?" Aiji intervened.  "Stop?" Maya considered. "Huh." Denki-man had begun to take pictures with your cell phone, and Maya did pose for one of them before sending him off the stage to show it to their manager.  "Look at you," said Maya for the bassist. "You look ... with whom? "  "The kind that I am in the MUCC," the bassist said.  "MUCC" Maya laughed. "Wow, really?" He encouraged Denki-man to zoom in the face of the bassist and all agreed with him, since he wore dark makeup around his eyes, a black hat, and his long hair passed the shoulders.  MC continued for a time very, very long before finally finishing with six players being in the middle of the stage to drink a dose (of sake?) together.  "Okay," Maya said finally. "Come on! Are you ready? Come on! Yay! "  The crowd threw their fists into the air when "CRAZY A GO GO" started playing, started strong and hit his head when machines have tall columns of smoke haze in front of the stage, white and thick enough to obscure the location completely for at least thirty seconds. The video screens showed the words 'crazy' written with the colors of the rainbow, moving to the beat of music while the audience members hit the head, making her hair flying in all directions. Both programmers wandered to the front of the stage to join the headbanging and Aiji and bassist were on opposite sides of the stage while playing the rifes heavy and fast music. It ended suddenly when Maya raised their hands to the end of it. "Are you all ready?" he yelled, getting a "Yeah!" the audience, and "CHEMICAL KING-TWOON" started playing. A thick curtain of smoke covered the stage for practically the entire first verse, after which Aiji sang during the interval between the chorus and verse. The fans jumped in unison, sometimes after the chorus, the beat of the music, and turned their heads to the stage during the times I sang Aiji. The keyboardist / programmer at stage right, sang along with Maya.  "Z-Man" followed, starting with a throbbing beat as oranges and green flashing lights on their heads. There were more head knocks in the audience during the verse and chorus. The song ended with applause and happy Maya shouted to the audience more "Yay!" S until the next song began.




"METALLY" Denki-man and have Maya running across the stage holding torches, which they point to the crowd as Maya sings the lyrics. With a harsh, high noises like growls, and in the audience fists in the air and hits his head, the music is certainly right in its title. The video screens showed flashes at the bottom of the letter written in white, and images cut from the rabbit's head logo, a pentacle, and many other things that went too fast to be recognized. Denki-man eventually returned to his place, and the music ended in a "Woo!" S Maya.  

"OH MY JULIET." He got a lot of excitement in the audience when he started playing, and fans head hit heavily during the intro music, throwing their fists in the air while Maya sang the first verse. Everyone shouted "Saiaiaiai" and "Saikoukoukou" s before each chorus, Maya and motivated everyone to scream louder and sing along with it. The fans stood and waved their hands toward the stage during all the choruses. The video screens sometimes showed a line or two of the letter, and Maya did a "woo" to the audience as the song ended.  
"Hey, everybody," he said. "Who wants to go? Right ... hey, what day is today? Tuesday? Oh, it's Sunday? "He told the audience informing them, and then the band played the next song.  Maya danced moving their hips as they played the beginning of "my girl". The video screens showed mirrored globes (disco balls) decorated with the logo of the rabbit's head that turned the band, then on stage, on both sides sides, mirrored globes real lit and sent rays of light a rainbow throughout the house. The audience moved from one side to the other during each chorus. The lights reflected in the mirrored globes that have shone a light blue during the second verse, and music, as well as several other previously ended with a "woo" of Maya.  Denki-man was somehow cloned, and then two men dressed-skull masked and danced across the stage on platforms from the bottom while "Love Me?" began. Maya was at center stage and sang in a powerful spotlight as soap bubbles were projected by going to the floor of the rainbow, dancing around as he sang. The crowd moved enjoying the sweet refrain, and the two-man Denki performers danced a choreographed routine, which was not much different than something that would make a boy band. For the second part, Maya went to sing the last lines of the letter with his back leaning against running in Aiji getting screams from the audience by their gestures. The two dancers Denki-man went to the stage for siding with Maya, and he danced with them until they began to sing the next chorus. The song had an especially sweet and fun tone, and the audience started clapping to the beat of music while she was finishing, being encouraged by two dancers. Maya danced with them again until the song ended with the three staying in line in the middle of the stage, only Maya shifted to make a heart with their hands. The hall faded into total darkness for only a few seconds before they started the next song.  The intro to "Yellow Beauty" had the fans dancing in their seats. The video screens showed rabbit heads moving in several different colors, with various scenarios in the background. The audience moved their arms side to side during each chorus excited, and some even hit his head while singing Maya before the guitar solo in the second half. Maya sang the melody of the second part of the song in a weak spotlight at center stage, and then intermittently shook as he sang the last chorus, and while all waved their arms to the beat. When the music began to end, the screens showed video recordings of an army marching together heads of rabbits across a field of yellow light. The lights on stage began to dissipate and left the house in darkness for several seconds before the screams started again Aiji and Maya.  It was time for a new MC when the stage lights lit up again. "Are you having fun tonight?" Maya said. "Yes, that's cool," he then quickly called by Denki-man to dance again, and drummer began playing a lively beat, and Denki-man encouraged the audience to clap before he started dancing like a robot.  "Okay okay, stop, "Maya said. "I thought you were dancing like that!" He began to imitate break dancing, and even rolled on the ground, getting his legs in the air.  "Like this?" Aiji asked, surprised. "Well this way, are you sure?"  "Well, maybe a little different," Maya said.  "It was like the MC Hammer dance. MC Hammer ... you know him? "Aiji asked the audience, and some voices said that they knew.  Maya then began a conversation about going to a gaming center in Sendai with all members, and Aiji swore that he did not remember so he could not have been there.  "No, you were!" Maya said. "You were there! Remember? "He cited some details about the place, and then Aiji nodded and said that he remembered.  "See, I told you," Maya said, "You were there."  "No, I still say that I was not. "Aiji said.  "You all heard it," Maya said, turning to the audience, "He said he was there. Either way we were going to take purikura together, but we all feel weird about it because there was no girl there. It's weird doing this with a group of men. You all should come along with us next time then there would be some girls! "The fans screamed saying they would. "Okay," Maya said. "Come to Sendai and then we can draw purikura us together."  "There are enough men here today," Maya said, continuing. "I like to see men coming to our shows. I like having girls here too, of course, but it's nice to see a mix. We should go to the next song? "He conferred with Aiji and they agreed it was time.  "But you have to sing the beginning," Maya told the audience.  The drummer played the beginning to establish the time, and then Maya delivered to the fans sing the beginning of the letter "88", which all made ​​in perfect unison. Maya got to sing the first verse when it was time. The video screens lit up with lines that ran diagonally, and the concentric circles of light conductive behind the stage lit up in cascading colors of the rainbow. During the middle of the song the stage lit up in green, and then a screen showed a distorted shape carved on a black background spinning rainbow. The public, during part of each chorus, waved toward the stage and Maya was at the center to sing all the music, seeing the crowd dancing as the last note was played. He made ​​a V sign (peace sign) while the latter sounds crumbled, and many in the audience made ​​the signal back to the house until he fell back into darkness. 



The next song, "Bokura no Mirai" began with a heavy guitar, bass and drums, and a beautiful piano melody in the background. Maya sang the first verse being in the spotlight aqua color, and the audience stood to appreciate what was definitely one of the nicest songs played at night. Maya's voice gave the music a touch of ballad, and the way he touched her breast and gesture with his right arm only reinforced this feeling. The lights went out when the music ended, screams and soon after by Maya and Aiji followed. 

"What?" Maya asked when the lights went on again, laughing with you. "You know what I mean? Anyway, thanks for coming here tonight. I do not have much to say that I have not said, "he continued," We will play some gigs abroad soon. What do you think? "No answer. "Huh? Well, we will, are just a few shows, but we'll come back for more shows in Tokyo in February. But these are shows for fan club only. You are all in the fan club, are not they? "  After another long answer that included MC segregated between boys and girls in the house, the band played "BOYS & GIRLS." The dances were followed by lively during the intro and first verse, and they shook hands on stage while singing the chorus Maya. Aiji, being to the left of Maya, sang along despite not even being close to your microphone, and soon after he and bassist swapped places as they played. During the song, Maya asked again for a "yay!" Boys, girls, or everyone, and everyone was eager to fulfill your requests. The lights shone on stage in a mostly white clear, although the LED lights flash behind the stage in pink, blue and white.  "Woo!" Maya said. "Who wants to go? Yay! "He continued with more calls on" yay! "And then the band started the next song.  Live performances of "Little Fat Man Boy" always sets include beach balls in different sizes and colors bouncing through the audience. Staffs brought masked balls as well as the music started and the crowd jumped in unison in some hits during the intro and the second part, when the balls were collected to be taken to the back of the stage once again. The audience clearly enjoyed playing them so much that I wanted to return them until the moment they could not remedy, giving up the ball as Maya Blue remainder sang the last chorus. The video screens showed scenes in the background of the video clip of the song being projected on different sides of a rotating cube that also had the logo of the band heads of rabbits.  "JOHN" followed, and fans immediately began to move both the ground began to shake to the music. A pair of dancers Denki-man appeared on the platform of the bottom again, as well as in the music video and did a quick dance before descending the stairs on both sides of the stage to dance in front of Aiji and bassist. Fans danced and threw their fists toward the stage in a perfect union with the music. During the second verse, the dancers Denki-man harassed bassist, and then began to harass Maya, who jumped into the rear platform, from where he continued to dance with them during the next chorus. When the three returned to the main stage, Maya repeated his imitation of break dancing for a few seconds, then jumped to sing the part of the bridge of the song contains 'steel drums' in the background. When the song ended, the dancers Denki-man returned to the rear platform and danced while the audience stirred and stretched her arms toward the stage.  "Are you having fun?" Maya said. "You want more? We should continue? Boys, girls, everyone ... yay! "He called bassist to make a 'yay', and got no response, and then shouted" Sempai! "To Aiji, who similarly refused to answer, but got the drummer and high yays programmer and also a loud cry of Denki-man who did stretching his arms.  The hallmark of the band as live music, "☆ Rock the LM.C ☆" was the next one began, and a pair of staffs were masked on each side of the stage waving their flags LM.C. The video screens showed a rainbow text on which was written "ROCK ROCK ROCK" and "LM.C" Maya while singing the same lyrics and heads of rabbits that had been designed on the ceiling and walls before the show started back, dancing through the hall to the beat of the music with the audience excited. During each chorus, the audience took their arms toward the stage, and jumped every time Maya starts singing "Rock the LM.C", singing along with him as he moved. At one point the flags were delivered to one of the dancers Maya and Denki-man, and Maya held her while singing the song, swinging it as he could free his hand from the microphone. He then went to another Denki-man while he sang the last chorus of the song, and both dancers took to the corners of the side of the stage to rock the rainbow flags for the rest of the music. When the song came to an end, fans jumped up and down, moving heavily and shouting "Rock the LM.C" with Maya as he sang. All clap and wave their arms, letting out "Wooo!" S pretty high when the last notes of music were played.  "Thank you," Maya said. "Thanks for coming here today. Are you having fun? Which of us two do you like best? "The audience cheered both names, and he scolded them. "I can not hear you!" This only made ​​the fans scream even louder, and it was impossible to distinguish the "Maya" s of "Aiji" s.  "Okay, okay," Maya granted. "You like LM.C?" That question did get a loud cry of "We love LM.C! ', Which extend Maya left for several seconds. "Ah," he then said, "I love LM.C too." He spoke briefly about the changes in the support members, saying that the bassist and programmer / keyboardist had joined them on this tour, then noted the obvious: " You're almost done, huh? "  "We can play one more song?" Maya asked the audience, who screamed loudly for more. "Okay!"  The final song of the night, "LIAR LIAR" began to play loudly and the crowd immediately began clapping in rhythm as they recognized the music. The lights on the audience moved to a clear and bright tone, and the crowd clapped head slowly for several minutes until the chorus, when they began to move as energetically as the ground began to shake again. A burst at the beginning of the final chorus, had a mix of paper cut in the color of the rainbow on the public, that grabbed the air and waved eagerly as the music ended.



"Yay!" Maya said several times, while Aiji and left support members take notes and the last beats of the music. 
"Everyone yay! Shibuya, you rock! Tokyo, you are too! Honshu (the largest island of Japan), you are too! Japan, you are too! "Maya continued to say that everything was great until he reached the level of the planets and stars, and then began to praise the work of the backstage helpers and staff. "This tour has been awesome! It's awesome! And the LM.C? "  "It's awesome!" the public responded.  "LM.C is what?" Maya asked again.  "It's awesome!"  invisible punching the air united with the latest music beats, Maya Aiji and the band moved to support, and spat a mouthful of water over the audience when the last note of music played. Aiji started playing guitar picks, and crossed the stage to make sure you throw them all over the place. Maya then took a mini stand with several lollipops stuck with it, your favorite brand called Chupa Chups, and threw several handfuls of them into the crowd while behind him and support Aiji members left the stage after waving to the fans.  Aiji eventually returned to his microphone. "Shows are over for a night we can have some fun again," he said. "Thank you all for coming. I had fun with you, then we'll meet again another day. "The audience cheered when Aiji finished speaking and waved.  "That was fun, was not it?" Maya nodded. "We'll meet again, okay? Now we call our members support back. "He called them one by one, and the whole group got on stage and joined hands.  "When I tell you, we will all jump together and say, 'Too!". Okay? Everybody hold hands! "And all through the audience held hands with each other the next person and had explained Maya, Maya, and put his microphone down so he could join hands with the center of Aiji stage. Speaking without a microphone, said Maya and all jumped in unison, chanting "Too!"  The band left the stage, but a screen suddenly went from the ceiling and began to spend a short documentary of the tour LM.C 08-09. A film was shown about the gigs that the band had done, and the dates of all the shows that were to come. There was a reminder of the show exclusively for fan club on February 21 in Tokyo's Akasaka Blitz, and then a big announcement: the LM.C would play their next show opened in Hibiya Dai Yagai Ongakudou on 2 May 2009. Cries went through the audience excited bringing the show to an end completely and took all their things and left their seats vacant when the ceiling lights go out again.  LM.C abroad and will conduct its first show in Santiago, Chile within a week from the date of this presentation on January 23. Will you be there to see? Do not forget to take a look at musicJAPANplus for more updates on the progress of LM.C as they travel across the globe spreading their rock music with style, fun, color image, rainbows and little heads of rabbits.  Set list  SE  01 Galileo  Bell the cat 02  03 "BOOST BUSTERz"  04-my name is Joker-  La Dee Da 05  06 TABOO  07 Haunted House make a Secret  SE  08 Cosmology  09-SORA-Namida Iro /-SORA涙色-  CRAZY A GO GO 10  11 CHEMICAL KING-TWOON  12 Z-MAN  METALLY 13  14 OH MY JULIET.  my girl 15  16 Love Me?  Yellow Beauty 17  18 88  19 Bokura no Mirai. /僕らの未来.  20 BOYS & GIRLS  21 little Fat Man boy  JOHN 22  23 ☆ ☆ Rock the LM.C  LIAR LIAR 24



No comments:

Post a Comment