March 24 and 25, 2003
Okay, this is a temporary summary and commentary of the two Kyushu lives put together. Later, I'll do a report on each one separately.
1. Opening Instrumental: Same as LAREINE's last live (I think it was the opening), except they played only the beginning. (If you went to the Tokyo live, you may remember that the opening instrumental had a couple of buildups before the members came out.)
2. PHANTOM: Not new, but first time performed. Kicks butt. ^^
3. Sound of the Beauty: New. I think that's the title, or it's something that sounds similar. Must be a YOU-kun song, considering he's given credit for "ADVENT", "PHANTOM", and "CAT WALK". That should give you an idea of what kind of song this is. ^^
4. Audrey: A good opportunity to touch KAMIJO-sama's hand. The line "kono te o hiite" is just irresistable. ^^
5. Fantasia: New. A MAYU-kun song. KAMIJO-sama introduced it as such at the Kumamoto live, and that was the only mention of MAYU-kun besides the members' intros. It's very full of feeling...
6. Refrain
7. AYA-kun guitar solo with Maeda-san (the drummer) and recorded piano: Jazzy and excellent. ^^
8. KAMIJO-sama solo: "ano hito no aishita hito nara". Yep, he sang it. Absolutely beautiful and moving.
9. shizuka na yatsu: This was performed once before, at the first one-man. Too bad it's so short. And I'm not absolutely sure about the title. It sounds odd, but I'm pretty sure that's what KAMIJO-sama told me it was.
10. ADVENT
11. CAT WALK: KAMIJO-sama accidentally skipped this at Fukuoka. ^^;
12. Miss CARMILA
13. A way of life
14. Romantic Season
15. farewell
Encore 1 (er...numbering here is kind of awkward...)
1. Birthday Party (Kumamoto only): Two cakes with 21 candles each = AYA-kun is now 42! ^^
2. KAMIJO-sama (guitar) jam session with Maeda-san (Kumamoto only): Improvised.
3. YOU-kun jam session with Maeda-san (Fukuoka only): YOU-kun talked to us a bit first. Same as the first one-man, but with improv on both bass and drum...very cool. As at the first one-man, AYA-kun walked on and joined the session on guitar.
4. squall: If you come to a NS live, know the lyrics for the first refrain. This seems to be the song of choice to let the audience sing. ^^ There's also clapping for the bridge now. ^^
5. actor: KAMIJO-sama introduced all four members at both lives. He did it normally at the Kumamoto live (but YOU-kun before MAYU-kun), making a cute face when he did MAYU-kun. However, at Fukuoka, there was a long pause between YOU-kun and MAYU-kun, and he did himself immediately after, giving us no time to cheer for MAYU-kun. T_T
Encore 2 (again, the numbering here...)
1. AYA-kun jam session with Maeda-san (Kumamoto only): AYA-kun came out first and talked to us. KAMIJO-sama and YOU-kun were so cute when they were squatting to watch. ^o^
2. CAT WALK: At Fukuoka, KAMIJO-sama grabbed the camera and pointed it at the audience during his rap thing. He really only focused on the central part of the audience though and not either wing. T_T
3. Variation on "CAT WALK": Or something. It seems to take a couple lyrics from "CAT WALK" anyway. Right at the end of "CAT WALK", YOU-kun started up the bass again to begin this song. Fun. Energetic hand movements. ^^
4. squall (Fukuoka only): We were all rather expecting "CAT WALK" again, so this choice of repeated song caught us by surprise. ^^
At the end of the Kumamoto live, YOU-kun ripped a couple strings off his bass too. O_o
Other things: KAMIJO-sama didn't play guitar after all. AYA-kun rearranged all of MAYU-kun's instrumental parts. I really loved the redone instrumentals, although "farewell"'s was of course not as moving as MAYU-kun's. ^^
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