[CON] Yellow Gold Tour 3011 @ Kobe World Memorial Hall, 17/02/2011 19:00
How awesome was that last show? That's the best A Page I've heard since NYC!
After some entertaining ticket shenanigans, sweetpaopuwind, pithetaphish and I attended the final show of Yellow Gold 3011 tonight. Tori was in the arena but unfortunately stuck behind a couple of tall girls, while Lauren and I sat in the second row of the stands, directly opposite the stage, and just above the technicians. Fantastic view, except that during Yellow Gold and Paparats the one bank of yellow lights on the stage shone straight into my eyes. Other than that, great! And the DJ got fixated on Michael Jackson songs for ages, which kept us entertained for a while - up until he went back to the Jackson 5, anyway...
No binoculars, no notebook, no nothing tonight, so here's what remains in my memory.
The intro video changed again! It started off with the scene set to Magnitude that came in last night (with the photoshoot), then carried on as before (minus the cute, squirmy Jin with Sky bit), and after the recording at Beluga Heights they showed some footage of Jin with Jason Derulo - not stuff that's been on the news, I think.
Lots of passion in Care and Magnitude today - after the first chorus of Care, anyway, which was a touch on the quiet side.
A Page was terrific! He was a little breathless from the dancing at first, which changed his pronunciation of a few things - improved it, in some cases. And then, um...the best way I can describe it was that Jin played around with the song the way he did in the US shows, changing the tune and so on, and while he did leave a "You and I" empty for the audience they failed to fill it in - after that I guess he figured it just wasn't going to happen in Japan!
I have absolutely nothing more to say about Paparats, because frankly, I could watch an entire show made up of nothing but that song and it still wouldn't be enough.
Once again, Josh was the "guest", according to the end credits, so there he was in Hey Girl, attaining new heights of dorkiness by wearing neither jeans nor long denim shorts, but having one leg up and one leg rolled down. Seriously, why does anyone do that? He made a few more attempts at dancing with Jin. Maybe by the next tour he'll have got the hang of it?
When Juice tried to get us all to make some noise (because of course, the dancers need that!) he did first one side then the other, and then said he didn't like segregation so we all had to come together for it. I've really come to be rather fond of Juice. When he got introduced at the end of Tipsy Love, he started stripping and tried to flash us. The fans seem to like Lizzy better, though, if the way they shout her name is any indication.
Edited in because I completely forgot about it till this morning: after the member intro, when Juice called Jin out again, Jin reappeared with a tissue stuffed up his nose and danced like that for a while. (Nosebleed? Cold? Who knows?) I just...every time he think he may have succeeded in appearing cool, he goes and does something like that and I just can't take him seriously. He's a lunatic but I do adore him.
Jin screwed up Tipsy Love again. :-) In the fourth line of the intro Jin started to sing "If I say do you love me?" again, then realised it should've been "need" rather than "love" and changed it part-way through the word. He tried to distract us then with a complicated "ye-oh", and clapped after we managed to get it.
I'm convinced Tipsy Love is a stroke of genius, albeit one probably induced by too much alcohol. By that point he's got the audience dancing (Wonder starts them off and Yellow Gold gets them properly warmed up), he's got them singing along and he's got everyone in the whole damned place doing the hand movements. It's like Paul McCartney doing Hey Jude, only you can't pull out lighters at a concert venue anymore. This is the perfect closing song for a show, making Eternal the added treat at the end.
Speaking of Eternal, the girl next to me cried; I was very touched. We were in the noisy section and you should've heard the amount of screaming going on. Surprisingly enough, one of the biggest screams was when they were leaving the stage after the Tipsy Love intros and Jin kind of ran after various crew members to hug them - and the hug with Josh somehow got the girls squealing. So, what, the Japanese fans ship Jin/Lizzy and Jin/Josh? I don't know whether to be horrified or entertained. The latter, I think.
When doing his little ending speech Jin said that because it was the final show there would be a special thing afterwards. This turned out to be that some of the ticket holder names in the end credits were highlighted in either pink or yellow, and those people were going to get a gift or something? I don't know - we obviously weren't included in that. I guess the info will show up on the Internet at some point? The screen shown just before the credits (I think) was that Yellow Gold 3011 would continue...
Since it was the last show, everyone hoped for an encore and the girls in the section behind us got the screaming started. I have no clue how long we were all there for, but it's not like we could've left, so we stayed and clapped and chanted. Eventually the staff had to come along with megaphones and make people move, so we went out into the rain and got momentarily excited by the appearance of a Jin cosplayer near the queue for the Port Liner.
Speaking of cosplayers, when we got to Sannomiya station we ended up talking to a bunch of girls who had, in their number, a w/o Notice!Kame cosplayer (but with skull sunglasses) and a Miroku. Another one had chibi Akakame uchiwa in her bag. I love Japanese fangirls. :-)
Tori had managed to get one of the Yellow Gold streamers, so she cut it into three while we were on the train and now she, Lauren and I each have a third, yay!
Anyway, that was it for Yellow Gold 3011. I had a fantastic time! Thank you very much to everyone who left such lovely comments on my reports; I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to them all.
After some entertaining ticket shenanigans, sweetpaopuwind, pithetaphish and I attended the final show of Yellow Gold 3011 tonight. Tori was in the arena but unfortunately stuck behind a couple of tall girls, while Lauren and I sat in the second row of the stands, directly opposite the stage, and just above the technicians. Fantastic view, except that during Yellow Gold and Paparats the one bank of yellow lights on the stage shone straight into my eyes. Other than that, great! And the DJ got fixated on Michael Jackson songs for ages, which kept us entertained for a while - up until he went back to the Jackson 5, anyway...
No binoculars, no notebook, no nothing tonight, so here's what remains in my memory.
The intro video changed again! It started off with the scene set to Magnitude that came in last night (with the photoshoot), then carried on as before (minus the cute, squirmy Jin with Sky bit), and after the recording at Beluga Heights they showed some footage of Jin with Jason Derulo - not stuff that's been on the news, I think.
Lots of passion in Care and Magnitude today - after the first chorus of Care, anyway, which was a touch on the quiet side.
A Page was terrific! He was a little breathless from the dancing at first, which changed his pronunciation of a few things - improved it, in some cases. And then, um...the best way I can describe it was that Jin played around with the song the way he did in the US shows, changing the tune and so on, and while he did leave a "You and I" empty for the audience they failed to fill it in - after that I guess he figured it just wasn't going to happen in Japan!
I have absolutely nothing more to say about Paparats, because frankly, I could watch an entire show made up of nothing but that song and it still wouldn't be enough.
Once again, Josh was the "guest", according to the end credits, so there he was in Hey Girl, attaining new heights of dorkiness by wearing neither jeans nor long denim shorts, but having one leg up and one leg rolled down. Seriously, why does anyone do that? He made a few more attempts at dancing with Jin. Maybe by the next tour he'll have got the hang of it?
When Juice tried to get us all to make some noise (because of course, the dancers need that!) he did first one side then the other, and then said he didn't like segregation so we all had to come together for it. I've really come to be rather fond of Juice. When he got introduced at the end of Tipsy Love, he started stripping and tried to flash us. The fans seem to like Lizzy better, though, if the way they shout her name is any indication.
Edited in because I completely forgot about it till this morning: after the member intro, when Juice called Jin out again, Jin reappeared with a tissue stuffed up his nose and danced like that for a while. (Nosebleed? Cold? Who knows?) I just...every time he think he may have succeeded in appearing cool, he goes and does something like that and I just can't take him seriously. He's a lunatic but I do adore him.
Jin screwed up Tipsy Love again. :-) In the fourth line of the intro Jin started to sing "If I say do you love me?" again, then realised it should've been "need" rather than "love" and changed it part-way through the word. He tried to distract us then with a complicated "ye-oh", and clapped after we managed to get it.
I'm convinced Tipsy Love is a stroke of genius, albeit one probably induced by too much alcohol. By that point he's got the audience dancing (Wonder starts them off and Yellow Gold gets them properly warmed up), he's got them singing along and he's got everyone in the whole damned place doing the hand movements. It's like Paul McCartney doing Hey Jude, only you can't pull out lighters at a concert venue anymore. This is the perfect closing song for a show, making Eternal the added treat at the end.
Speaking of Eternal, the girl next to me cried; I was very touched. We were in the noisy section and you should've heard the amount of screaming going on. Surprisingly enough, one of the biggest screams was when they were leaving the stage after the Tipsy Love intros and Jin kind of ran after various crew members to hug them - and the hug with Josh somehow got the girls squealing. So, what, the Japanese fans ship Jin/Lizzy and Jin/Josh? I don't know whether to be horrified or entertained. The latter, I think.
When doing his little ending speech Jin said that because it was the final show there would be a special thing afterwards. This turned out to be that some of the ticket holder names in the end credits were highlighted in either pink or yellow, and those people were going to get a gift or something? I don't know - we obviously weren't included in that. I guess the info will show up on the Internet at some point? The screen shown just before the credits (I think) was that Yellow Gold 3011 would continue...
Since it was the last show, everyone hoped for an encore and the girls in the section behind us got the screaming started. I have no clue how long we were all there for, but it's not like we could've left, so we stayed and clapped and chanted. Eventually the staff had to come along with megaphones and make people move, so we went out into the rain and got momentarily excited by the appearance of a Jin cosplayer near the queue for the Port Liner.
Speaking of cosplayers, when we got to Sannomiya station we ended up talking to a bunch of girls who had, in their number, a w/o Notice!Kame cosplayer (but with skull sunglasses) and a Miroku. Another one had chibi Akakame uchiwa in her bag. I love Japanese fangirls. :-)
Tori had managed to get one of the Yellow Gold streamers, so she cut it into three while we were on the train and now she, Lauren and I each have a third, yay!
Anyway, that was it for Yellow Gold 3011. I had a fantastic time! Thank you very much to everyone who left such lovely comments on my reports; I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to them all.