Friday 30th September - Going to Germany
Ok I keep this short, because there was nothing too special.. Travelling the whole day. First sitting in a train from Pori to Tampere, then met with Riina. Walked a little to the bus stop, went to the Tampere airport, waited and waited and waited, finally got into the plane, arrived at the Frankfurt-Hahn airport 25 minutes before we were supposed to, found a bus going to Frankfurt, tried to find our hotel but it was't the easiest thing.. XD Finally found it by accident when it was about 10pm.
Sunset over clouds
Frankfurt-Hahn airport
View from our hotel room on Friday night
View from our hotel room on Saturday morning
Saturday 1st October - From Frankfurt to Offenbach
It was raining the whole day. In the morning we had a quick breakfast and checked email & LJ at the hotel. Left to train station at 10am. It took a while to find a train that was going to Offenbach. And we didn't know where we could get tickets expect from the automats but they looked scary so we just went into the train and never paid anything for it. Sorry. o.o; I guess Offenbach is quite typical small town in Germany. I don't know if I liked it or not.. everything seemed quite boring actually but at least this time we didn't get lost. ^^ We ate pizza which was HUGE andit was quite embarrassing not to eat all but I didn't want to kill myself XD We found our hotel and checked in and went to our room which was bigger and nicer (and more expencive too..) than the one in Frankfurt.
Frankfurt train station
Offenbach
Our hotel room
I think it was about 2pm when we decided to go out again to just see places and stuff. Took lots of photos and we also found Capitol Offenbach where Onmyouza was going to play. There were already some Diru fans waiting out there. (Poor them... we went to wait to the Capitol like 3 hours after them and got better places XD!!).
Capitol
<3
We went back to the hotel again and bought umbrellas, because it was still raining.. At hotel we watched MTV on TV (it was probably the only out of 30 channels that wasn't dubbed into German ><).
We went to the Capitol at 6pm or something.. We stood there a little over an hour, but it didn't feel so long. When the door was opened (at 7.30pm or so) we gave our cameras and ran to buy some merchandise (I bought tour t-shirt, wrist band, \/-thingy (called fan or something? XD) and Garyotensei album. Then we queued some more and when we finally were let to the actual concert-hall, me and Riina ran and got very good places! I was in the second row just in the middle, and saw the whole stage well. We still had to wait about half an hour or something before Onmyouza came to the stage. It felt like forever, because 1) it was hot 2) I was thirsty 3) my knees hurted 4) annoying German girl next to me was trying to push me back to get my better place >>;
When Onmyouza finally came, I didn't remember any bad things, I just enjoyed the gig. Onmyouza was amazing and I totally fell in love with them (I liked them before but now they're definitely one of my favorites)!
lmao, drew this on Sunday night :D
Some random things:
- I LOVE Maneki's shoes <3
- I touched Matatabi's bass <3
- I _almost got Maneki's pick >(
- Someone shouted "Onmyouzi" and Kuroneko was like "whaaaat Onmyouzi! O.O ^____________^" I don't know what it means but she seemed so happily suprised ^^
- there was a photographer who took pics and video of the gig and the audience as well, and I probably appear in them.. I hope I don't look too stupid, but I'm afraid I do XO
I found the setlist of the Belgium gig, and now when I listen to those songs I think it was pretty much the same in Germany.
SE. Homura no Tori
1. Hoyoku Tensho
2. Hyaku no Oni ga Yoru wo Iku
3. Samayoeru
4. Oni
5. Youka Ninpouchou
6. Tsuki ni Murakumo Hana ni Kaze
7. Nue
8. Onikoroshi
9. Kouga Ninpouchou
10. Maikubi
11. Inikiri Ninpouchou
12. Kumikyoku "Yoshitsune" - Akki Hogan
13. Rasetsu
14. Inoko Uta
15. Manji
16. Waga Shikabane wo Koeteyuke
17. Gainagateya
Though there were three encores and a few MCs between some songs. They spoke mainly Japanese and I understood only a little (that they are happy and Tora said something about Germany and beer XD and Kuroneko said "subarashii" (=wonderful or something like that) many times). They spoke a little English and German too, like "I am happy, are you happy?!" and "I love Frankfurt" etc.. It also seemed that they really enjoyed playing and they were having a great time, and it made me feel even better ^^ I hope they come back to Europe..
The gig was quite long, but it didn't feel like it! They can really take their audience well. Everybody (at least around me) were shouting, singing along, waving hands and \/ -thingys. XD When they went off the stage after the third encore we still tried to call them back but it didn't work anymore ;~;
After the gig, we drank some coke and bought the older CD (Mugen houyou) I got the last one ^^" Then we got our cameras and went back to the hotel. One Romanian dude who works there was having a birthday, so he asked us to drink some wine with him. We agreed and ended up chatting with him and another dude about 3 hours (or more, I don't remember). I actually was quite drunk.. At first they were very nice but when we wanted to go sleeping they were like nooo you come to a disco with us!! Anyway we went upstairs to our room and the birthday dude kissed my cheeks a couple times and eww his lips also touched my lips but I didn't kiss him back and moved backwards and we escaped to our room with Riina. We locked the door and I was very tired and fell asleep soon. I got two text messages from that dude "I want talk with you. please come aut" and "can u come just for two minutes.. my cef go home. i am alone..no problem. please. please. danny"
Sunday 2th October - Back to Finland
In the mornig we woke up quite early, packed our stuffs and left the hotel as quickly as we could XD I think I was still drunk but thank god it went over soon and I was feeling good, no headache or anything. We walked to the train station, hopped to a train and didn't pay for it anything.. oops XD But I didn't know how to use the ticket automat thingy and no one asked tickets anyway.
We arrived at the Frankfurt train station at 8.30am or so and headed to the place where our buss would leave at 9am. Bus trip was super boring because I was tired and going back to home, so there was nothing exciting to wait anymore.. Then again boring sitting and waiting at the Frankfurt-Hahn airport, then some more sitting in the plane, then a little more sitting in car and then I was at home XD
Things I bought:
- a pink umbrella XD
- Pandemonium in Europe tour t-shirt
- Mugen houyou CD
- Garyo tensei CD
- Chocolate
- \/-thingy
+ a wrist band but I forgot it when I took this picture
(I wrote this very fast so there's probably mistakes and I guess I forgot something, but I just wanted to write this before I forget everything XD I'll write a proper live-report in Finnish later.)