ScReW Europe Tour "SASORI" 6th June 2012 Szene, Vienna, Austria
ScReW Europe Tour "SASORI" @ Szene, Vienna, Austria
Finally, after 6+ hours on a train I'm finally home feed, showered (tho shower washed Kazuki's scent off) and well rested, and hopefully a visit to a spa latter today will help to ease my neck pain xD.
Sasori live in Vienna was my second time seeing ScReW live. I went to "Szene" with takashiaku . We were there almost a whole day and saw when the members arrived, only Rui and Jin looked at our direction and waved. Rui took a walk around the venue at the afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised when they started sealing merchandise before the gig out side, got myself a T-shirt and a poster.
Like Rui wrote on twitter or was it FB live started 20 minutes earlier than scheduled.
Set list (not completely in order):
VEGAS
Scarlet
KAIROS
Death's door
Gather Roses
Cursed Hurricane
DIE KILLER DEAD
The Abyss D
DUALITY
DEEP SIX
Fester
Vanquish
Zansatsu Fiction
Sakura no Ame
S=R&B
UNWORDLINESS KINGDOM
They came out one after another and stood at the edge of the stage and wanted us to scream louder. While the rest of the band was doing last preparations on their instruments Byou came out (he had almost no make-up on), jumped on his box and mouthed 'motto' (more) to us.
When the live started, the energy and tension was high from the very beginning. I think energy of this live can compare to the energy of Saitama encore.
I was on Kazuki's side in second row (this time I actually wanted to see Kazuki, not stare at Byou for 80% of the live because you just can't look away from Byou xD).He was just like I remember him; playful and teasing. He was smiling grinning and licking his lips. There were even smiles when he smiled wide enough for his tongue piercing to be seen. I spotted some guitar moves he picked from his beloved Aoi-senpai and during one song he moved his hips back and forth while grinning like a child with a bucket full of candy. Kazuki only had one, or two solos on Byou's box in the middle, but he did turned around and to Jin quite a few times (and may I say his tush isn't bad at all xD)
Byou's voice sounded amazing ( I got a feeling it was even better than I remember him to be), he surprised me in a very positive way how good he sounded, might be because of the 'brutal' set list where his small mistakes aren't noticeable. The song I was looking forward to the most was Gather Roses and I got shivers down my spine when the song started and he was almost whispering the words to the mic with deep, sensual voice laced with lust, it sounded amazing. There were moments when we couldn't hear him well, but that was technical issues not his voice. He seem to be really into the live, with all the furi he showed for us to repeat.
Byou, Kazuki and Rui really connected with fans, and Jin was doing his best behind drums, smiling and singing along. Kazuki and Byou both did furi very enthusiastically. Byou even tried to get us to do the mosh- pit (he started pointing directions with his finger), but fans kind of didn't want to leave their places to jump around, too bad tho, ScReW's mosh-pits are thy best. Byou left out the towel spinning furi part as well.
I apologize, but I really didn't pay attention to the left part of the stage, because I was at the right and I only saw Manabu whenever he came to right side, which wasn't very often. Manabu only had one centre solo and Rui had one as well.
Beside the really huge amount of furi we did, there was head banging, jumping, fist pumping and all the other things.
As for the fun service Byou and Kazuki spat water on us during the first song, and Byou came behind Kazuki and wrapped a hand in which he held a mic around Kazuki for Kazuki to growl into. But nothing more, sadly~ There wasn't any back to back playing between Manabu and Kazuki, I think Rui and Kazuki did it once and that was it. They did that thing when they change positions on stage and that were the only times Rui or Manabu came to our side.
During Deep Six Byou was wiggling his thin hips like a pro. I think it was during Gather Roses when he slid his hand between his legs, multiple times and he was licking/French-kissing the cable of his mic. But it wasn't just his mic he was licking, but his lips as well and sticking his tongue out of the corner of his mouth. Further into the live, Byou's hand found it's way between his legs more often and when it was time for his excuse of a shirt to come off, he was drinking water, but he let it run past his lips down his chin and onto his sweaty chest; a sight you just can't help yourself but stare. During encore Byou slid his hand into his pants a couple of times and when the final notes were playing he moved aside that skirt-ish thingy he has wrapped around and played with the ziper; puling it open and close and then he just let it open and slid his hand in ( you can imagine typical Byou tongue teasing face along) and then he pulled his hand out and stuck a half empty water bottle in (he was squeezing the bottle before for the water to spill out and onto the fans) and trusted his hips forward, I didn't see how that ended because Kazuki came to our side at that moment.
When Byou dived into the crowd the firs time ,he came all the way to the fence and stepped on the second metal bar and landed over so loads of people could touch him. I got to touch his bare shoulder and neck. The second dive was a real dive, he more or less thrown himself over the fence front first and I don't know what exactly happened, but he was either pulled further into the crowd or he lost balance but all of the sudden fans were the only thing keeping him from falling, stuff member came quickly and pulled him back and helped him back on the stage. I think it was after this dive that Rui picked Byou's mic cable and throw it aside, so he won't trip over it and he accidentally hit Byou's ass with it. Byou threw himself into the crowd again when he was shirtless and when he was about to pull away he was pulled into the crowd again and Kazuki just pointed at him and laughed, staff member was ready to help Byou, but he got out on his own this time. I think this is everything about Byou, he might stage dive a few more times, but I'm not sure.
Byou's MC was really cute it consistent of 'Konbanwa'(Good evening) and 'Aishiteru' (I love you), and we shouted our love back to him/them. He made up for the short MC by smiling <3.
During encore when Byou was on our side of the stage Rui and Kazuki sat on Byou's box in the middle with backs towards us and when Byou came back he made a hand gesture to them to move away xD. I don't remember which song Byou ended with maniacal laughter.
Kazuki was really teasing, first time he came, he stood just far enough so we couldn't touch him and he was all grinning and smiling. Next time he cam he let us touch his hands and knee. The third time, he stage dived for real (I can't remember if he had a guitar or not) and like Byou he was leaning over the first row so fans in the back could touch him as well. I finally touched his hands, (in Saitama I was short for about an inch) and neck, but the most amazing this is having smiling Kazuki's face mere inches from your face, seeing the sweat trickle down his face (he looks so good when while playing guitar and shaking his head and you can see sweat flying from his hair). I saw fans gripping his necklaces (I think they even ripped all three of them, but I'm not sure if they were returned).
At the end of the main part of the live, Kazuki jumped down from the stage and smooched a girl in front of me(when the staff member saw that, he jumped to his feet and his face didn't look very approving of Kazuki's action), before he extended his hands for us to touch them. At the encore when Manabu was on our side, he came behind him and just like in Saitama he tapped Manabu's shoulder and when Manabu turned his head to him he spat water into his face. After the encore, Kazuki came to our side again and spat water on us, I got a mouthful of it on my face and after that he turned his bottle up side down and purred it down my cleavage.
Rui came to our side and let us touch his hands and Manabu came once during the main part, but was standing to far away and the second time was during encore. From what my friends who were in the middle left told me, Rui let them touch his hands, neck and his chest, but pushed hands away if they tried showing a hand inside his shirt. As far as I remember Manabu didn't do much of touching. Jin dived into the crowd after the encore and the live was over ( I was disappointed that lights were switched on a second Jin got off the stage, because I think they could easily pulled a second encore, with the riled up crowed we were).
All and all it was AMAZING live and I was really enjoying it, there were few things that showed me some members were different that I thought and that some rumours might have some truth in them, but that doesn't change the fact they put on an amazing show, worth seeing. I'm looking forward to the day I'll be able to see them again~
Fan letters I give to them And my nails
There were quite a lot of us waiting for them to come out and they just walked on the bus (we were told before they won't be giving autographs) and after that we went back to hostel. Totally ScReW-ed!
Here you can find some official pictures:
CTS Photo&Press Service
No Way Out
They should be up here in a day of two
Now this is only my opinion and what I saw about the whole Byou and improper touching issue. I was standing on Kazuki's side and didn't see Byou's face when he was stage diving (expect for the first dive when he looked our way and he was looking normal, enjoying all the attention even). As for the touching, he knows what he is getting himself into before jumping into a crowd of hyped up fans and if he would have felt uncomfortable after the first dive he wouldn't jump into the crowd front first for another two or three times, he has all the right to set limits (like Rui did). I know that doesn't give the fans the right to touch him all over the place, but there will always be fans who will try touching him and I'm positive not only Byou but every artists who dives into the crowd knows that there will always be fans who will tray touching his privates for whatever reason they feel the need to touch the privates of an idol.
The only moment I could think of Byou looking scared would be the one when he lost contact with the floor and the only thing holding him up were fans, I was talking to my friends who were in the middle and they said that most of them just garbed whatever part of Byou was nearest and hold him up, so he wouldn't have fallen, even Byou himself was gripping fans hands to hold himself up and push back to his feet would touch the ground.
I know Kazuki's necklaces were ripped of off him and I saw fans pulling on his clothes and I know there was pulling on Byou's clothes, but as far as I know nothing was ripped or damaged.
I apologize for any spelling or grammatical mistakes.