WhirlingBlack

Hello, my old friend. Good to see you found your way here. Come and hang out and hopefully you'll find some cool music along the way!

It's a terrible shame. One of their best songs.

I still have that gazette nazi reich rock pic you made somewhere, lol.

4. Please especially don't insult the infallible leader of the group.

Hi, I remember you. There are a couple of batsu people still around here, most have been lost to time though.

Whenever they play a gig without Sustain the Untruth I feel like I've won the lottery.

They play the entire album at every date so you should leave satisfied if those are the songs you really want to hear!

I attended two of the shows on this old school tour in osaka and posted them on Facebook. Decides I might just as well repost them here: Day 1: " I just attended the best show of my life, and it was a MUCC live. The best way I can describe it is as if I went back in a time machine to 2001 and attended one of their oneman lives. They performed only old songs, including tracks so old several fans noticably did not recognize then, like Kranke (my favorite song!) and Koibito. The entire live felt dangerous and rough, just like one of those 90s lives where the audience are headbanging their necks off and the band is taunting them further into a frenzy. Before VK became a polished business. It was super intense, during some songs the entire audience was moshing and thanks to the intense mosh I ended up in the second row in front of tatsurou during the second half of the live, where I ended up catching him as he stage dived during Orugooru. At the end, when they played Kurutta Kajitsu, we were even ordered to perform a wall of death and delivered it splendidly. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mucc/2017/esaka-muse-osaka-japan-2be5b0e2.html Tomorrow is Homura Uta day... can't wait. Dir en grey, take note. This is how you do nostalgia shows." Day 2: " So... MUCC day 2 was every bit as good as day 1. Homura Uta day, so practically the whole album was performed, along with some songs from Antique and Tsuuzetsu. Especially the performance of Kimi ni Sachi Are and Kurayami ni Saku Hana stood out as soulcrushingly beautiful, and tracks like Kokuen made the whole audience mosh yet again while Tatsurou kept jumping into the front rows to make us work harder. Before OYOGE! TAIYAKI-KUN Tatsurou addressed me directly, asking if I knew the lyrics (since I was seemingly the only foreigner at least in the front of the venue). I made an OK sign and he looked surprised and happy and made some comment about it, and then we all sang it together, the entire venue. During the wall of death during Kurutta Kajitsu today, he jumped into the audience and participated for a bit before being rescued back onto the stage. To be honest, unless MUCC makes further nostalgia tours, I might not attend any more of their lives in the future. Nothing can top this tour no matter how hard they try. Sure, I'd like to see a Zekuu and Kuchiki no Tou tour as well, but until that happens I might just lay off their lives in the future. Todays Setlist: HOMURA UTA (intro) ZETSUBOU SHIAWASE NO SHUUCHAKU KOKUEN YAKEATO KARE GA SHINDA HI KIMI NI SACHI ARE MAMA SHIGATSU NO RENGESOU BOKU GA HONTOU NO BOKU NI TAEKIREZU TSUKUTTA HONTOU NO BOKU KURAYAMI NI SAKU HANA USO DE YUGAMU SHINZOU KAERANU HITO KOKONOKA OYOGE! TAIYAKI-KUN SUISOU MAE E SUIMIN Encore: YUME NO MACHI SHOUFU DAIKIRAI KURUTTA KAJITSU (WARAI)" Hope someone here finds it interesting to read!

Getting drunk due to good weather is almost as good of an excuse as concerts! Here in Japan I have sun and concerts almost every day so... life is quite the party.

It sounds EXACTLY as on CD. They perform it without any changes.

Right, I guess the hair was only in a status update after the live.

Haha, you didn't take my word for it?

Dir is still managed through free will, it was hardly a dramatic separation that needed to be negotiated under the table. I'm just saying that Yoshikis involvement was of marginal importance given their already quickly rising fame at that point. The curve was already pointing in the right direction and he just jumped on the chance to put his brand on another band that was a surefire success. Also, I'm glad you have friends. Keep it up.

Agreed, not be able to even fill Budokan after being around for a whole year is a real disgrace. Also source on that Dir en greys success is due to Yoshiki money. He just produced their major debut singles. Songs which were already written and done by the time he came into the picture, lol. I feel like all newcomers overestimate his importance to Dir en grey vastly.

Okay, got the setlist up at setlist.fm https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/dir-en-grey/2017/kochi-prefectural-culture-hall-kchi-japan-73e4561d.html

the encore was: Taiyou no Ao [Kr]Cube Un deux Utafumi Rasetsukoku I'll have to get back to you about the main set tomorrow when I've checked my notes unless someone else posts it first.

Okay, here's as much details as I can remember right now: They played the entire MACABRE album. They did the original 10 minute version of MACABRE, but the remakes of Hydra and Rasetsukoku. They also played ain't afraid to die and children, but no Ash, hoping for that later along the tour. Of the newer material they did Uroko, Un deux and Utafumi. The band was quite active and put on a good show, walking around and interacting with the crowd. They used a screen similar to the Blitz 5 Days performance during Deity and Macabre.

To be honest, this whole event was a disappointment in comparison to what could've been. Don't get me wrong, Dir performed excellently and based on the reactions of the Pierrot fans so did they, but it was just like watching two shorter than usual oneman sets tacked on top of each other rather than the special clash between the legendary 90s vk bands it was billed as. They barely even acknowledged each other beyond short mcs. Based on what could've been, I did leave feeling disappointed, despite that Dir performed a really good set the second day.