ScReW live 3rd March 2012 Hevan's Rock V3 Saitama
SCREW ONEMAN TOUR 2012 糜爛の檻-ビランノオリ- 03/03 HEAVEN'S ROCK さいたま新都心
Exactly a month later, I've finally found the time to write this down.
Live was in a really small (like European sized) venue and it was a standing live which is awesome. Me and illusion1825 got GFC ticket trough yoroshikubitch and we meet with reiichi_27 at the venue.
Here is the picture of the goods. There was no line because we were quite early to pick up tickets and then went for a beer (or two).
Tour goods, venue, my goods, pamphlet and Byou's magazine and flyers, T-shirt and muffler towel (a must buy since it's needed in furi)
Met with reiichi_27 again when we queued and waited for our numbers to be called. We were quite at the back but because it was a small venue it wasn't really a problem. This was my first experience with standing live in Japan and I was pleasantly surprised about it. Even though the venue wasn't big there were no pushing or anything while we waited for live to began..
Set list (not sure if it's in order or not):
糜爛
桜の雨
The Abyss
DIE・KILLER・DEAD
DEEP SIX
邪心に爛る子守唄
DUALITY
ヒガン花
JELLYFISH
UNWORLDLINESS KINGDOM
darling driver
Barbed Wire
鬱と操
Fester
VOID...
Drum Solo
Rhythm Session
ムラッキーヘビーマーチ
スカーレット
VEGAS
Styx
Wing-Ding
S=r&b
Finally Brain stared to play and Jin came out, and then Manabu, Rui and Kazuki and each of them stepped onto platform/speaker at the middle of the stage, lifted their arms and smiled. The last one was Byou and he was wearing like really deep red lipstick (he looks like Madona with it) and he just couldn't help himself but lick his lips.
The whole atmosphere was amazing. I was mainly watching Kazuki and well Byou because one just can't look away when he is licking his lips. Kazuki was smiling or better to say smirking all the time.
Byou's voice live is getting better and he makes it up for small slips with the act. His voice sounded so emotional during邪心に爛る子守唄 and he cried when the last notes of the song were played.
They all moved around the stage a lot, even more during encore and as I said the energy was amazing; back to back solo playing, standing on the speakers in the middle of the stage and speakers at the side, so close fans could almost touched them and Jin was all hyper and smiling behind the drums. They flirted with us and teased us during the whole concert and by the time it was time for encore we were quite riled up. During the Brain songs there were some furi, but where fans didn't know what to do Byou 'helped' out with showing us what to do, he did ask during one short MC if we learnt new songs yet. I'm sure by now all the new songs have furi to go along.
When they came out for the encore after Jin's drum solo, which is new, they were all wearing white tour T-shirts. When Kazuki and Manabu came out they had glasses that changed colours on. Kazuki went to get his water bottle and then got near Manabu, taped his shoulder so Manabu turned and he spat a mouthful of water into his face. He did it to Byou as well; he missed it the first time because Byou moved, not knowing Kazuki was getting ready to spat water onto him, but Kazuki took another mouthful of water and spat it onto Byou's cheek. Byou looked and him and smiled, I don't remember if he wiped it of or not, I think he only wiped what landed around his eyes.
During encore they made fun of Manabu, because he was standing with one hand half in his pocket, Rui went and turned Manabu so we could see (at some point Jin mimicked him). I'm not sure if I understood this right, but I think Manabu's from Saitama (Byou told us that when he was asking members about the gig). Byou talked about the pamphlet, how it's the first time they have one and that is expensive and we were all like noooo, it's not. Byou then took the price and divided it by number of pages and got out 100 yen (1€ / 1,8USD) per page. And said it was expensive again. But then he said it's really nice and we should buy it and I think it was something about doing dirty/pervy things with it (he asked if we have boyfriends before starting to talk about the pamphlet).
When Byou started talking about the bracelet, we all lifted our hands to show we bought it and then Byou pointed to Jin, who was wearing them around his neck like necklaces and Kazuki said he looks like Maru-chan.
They really made fun of Manabu a lot, Rui showed how Manabu is browsing internet on his iPad and I think he said something along the lines of loosing the image of manly Manabu after seeing that.
Kazuki didn't talk much during the encore, I think they made him be quite, reiichi_27 told me he talked the whole time a night before in YokohamaxD.
Jin talked, but fans made him use Shinchan voice, he even sang in that voice (all members had to sing and Kazuki more or less growled his part).
The energy during concert was high, but during encore it got kicked up to a whole new level. I can honestly say it was one of the best encores I've ever experienced and my list of gigs isn't that short. During one song, we screamed out the members name like they stand on stage (Japanese fans do it in a high voice and unintentionally I was doing the same). The mosh pits were thy best! Whole venue did it and we were doing it on Byou's command; he moved his hand one way and we mosh pit-ed into that direction and back, like Byou wanted while he had one leg on the speaker looking like 'I just got laid' sweaty war god look, licking his lips (when he didn't sing or growl into the mic).
Beside mosh pit we also held hands and put the above our heads and ran towards the stage when Byou wanted us to and then he send us back and forward again until we just stayed there in that mass of people. Quite some fans were crowd-surfing and stage diving. During this whole venue was pushed into like 4 or 5 rows. Me and yoroshikubitch came to like 3rd row and I got water showered first by Kazuki and then by Byou. I got Kazuki's pick which was thrown into me (I'm around 1.80cm tall with bright red hair, of course I stood out and when I showed Kazuki I want his pick, he throw it to me). I almost touched Byou's and Kazuki's hand but was a bit late, if I remember right all of them, but Jin came close enough for fans to touch their hands.
During encore when Kazuki was playing a solo with a leg on a speaker Byou came next to him and put an arm around him and pulled Kazuki closer. They had heads really close, but they didn't kiss (to bad). Beside that there wasn't much fan service, beside from back to back playing and some teasing.
After the encore when they were saying good bye, Byou said he loved the encore energy.
To all of you who are waiting for ScReW live in Europe, you have quite something to look forward to (^_^). I doubt there will be mosh pit-ing mainly because it's part of the furi, which isn't done in Europe and encore won't be like a comedy show, but I'm sure they will make it up for it with let's hope loads of fan service...
I apologize for any spelling or grammatical mistakes.