XAA-XAA (ザアザア)

[yakihiko 1480]

I wish all of us could have fun together at a ザアザア x DADAROMA live ^o^

I'm pretty excited for this consecutive releases!

@anakuro Yeah, DADAROMA is on Timely Records too. 

@doombox We will have to see it face to face, only way to discover if DADAROMA are this popular  

Edited June 15, 2016 by yakihiko

[doombox 4421]

I wish this too. ;^; 

[Duwang 676]

Wow it's been a while since I last popped in here. I actually wrote report of some sorts of the Tokyo oneman but honestly it's really extra and shittily written and I don't think any of you would care to read it so here are some highlights from the show. Idk exactly what you guys want to hear about it so feel free to ask questions.

 

- At the beginning of 雨に殺される Kazuki set off a big party popper thing and threw the tube on the floor next to us and we're all like ??????? what do we do with this???? but we just kinda let it chill on the floor. Later on during 大雨警報発令 when we first started moshing a bunch of us tripped on it/each other and there was a big domino effect in the front of the venue but a few kind fans helped us up. I actually still have a bruise on my knee from this. lol

- Before 教えて先生 there was a bit of interlude? I forgot what Kazuki was talking about but he had a little parachute man toy, which he named but I forgot what exactly (something-sensei), and he threw it up in the air towards the crowd after talking about it. My friend caught it and debated asking him if he wanted it back during the satuseikai after the show for the lulz but she chose Roji instead.

- After 教えて先生 was another interlude. Kazuki comes out with a video game controller pretending to play a game and running around the stage, which lead to 情けない男のテーマ, the new song on the upcoming V.A. album which I liked a lot. Everyone was confused as to what to do for furi since I think it was their first time playing it but it was still great. When Reiya had this little solo Kazuki ran back stage and came back with another one of Reiya's basses and "played" with him while we whooooo'd them on

- They played an acoustic version of「うそつき」with Roji on cajon which was awesome.

- Roji had a drum solo which was even more awesome (wow I know a lot of words). He drummed to a piano back track while we all clapped to the beat and eventually the back track changed to Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Roji is legitimately a really talented drummer and he's just so much fun to watch because he drums with so much passion and energy and wow yeah Roji's gr8

- Before the encore they did a MC and talked about Kogoe and tried to get him on stage. One girl in saizen yelled KOGOE SENSEI at the top of her lungs and everyone lost their shit. Kogoe did end up coming out for like 30 seconds then ran away. 

- At one point during 感電 when Kazuki was on the floor with us and we were moshing towards the back and I decided to bash into him to see if I could make him fall. Sadly I didn't because he's a lot bigger than me but I did make him lose his balance because of the step in the back of the venue. Go me. After that he came over to the front-center and he looked like he was waiting for me to bash into him again. He was prepared this time though so I didn't even make him budge from where he was standing.  Boo.

 

And as @anakuro mentioned one girl 4th or 5th row shimote got hurt during  感電 because of a weird hold in the wall and she actually had to get escorted out of the hall. I've seen someone get hurt so badly at such a small venue in all of my time as a bangya. The air completely changed in a matter of seconds and it took a while to get everything going again. Kazuki lighten up the mood by joking about the song title and doing everything 安全に and riled up the crowd by saying things like "we're going to keep playing until the last train!" (which they didn't but no one expected them to) and happiness was restored and the live ended on a happy note yay

 

Other impressions:

- Kazuki's vocals were on point wow

- High energy. I love the running moshing and I wish more bands did it instead of the jumping side to side moshing.

- Their fans are so enthusiastic I love it.

- They decorated the bathroom and it was beautiful. The front hall was also decorated before the show.
- Man are they weird and dumb but I like that. I'm not into bands that take themselves too seriously.

 

And the setlist copy-pasted from Roji's Twitter

 

-イントロダクション-
1.もうすぐ雨が降るから
2.雨に殺される
3.拝啓、あなたへ
-始業チャイム-
4.教えて先生
-中毒者絶叫-
5.情けない男のテーマ(新曲)
6.コワイクライ
7.大雨警報発令
8.青いレインコート

9.「うそつき」(アコースティック)

-朗読-

10.いけない、もういかなくちゃ

-れいや爆裂-

11.子守唄

12.悲しいなら手を叩こう

-おれソロ-

13.ピチピチチャプチャプランランラン

14.チューリップ

15.今宵は鬱くしい

16.雫
 

アンコール

1.どしゃ降りの彼女
2.感電、けがのおそれがあります。

 

Overall, this is one of the best lives I've been to in a long time. I felt the "this might be honmei" magic but I'm not letting that happen because money. lol

 

Also

 @Platy I'll be at that live as well. O-East is a big venue but if you see me feel free to say hi! 

 

Also also,  if you guys want an idea of how popular Dadaroma is, I don't follow them but a friend of mine who does told me that their oneman at Akasaka Blitz (1,300 cap) was pretty filled BUT it filled with a huge catwalk set up. She says there was maybe 400 or 500 people there.
And to add to that, Yoshiatsu's birthday live at K4 which holds like 200 people hasn't sold out and it's on Sunday.

Edited June 16, 2016 by Duwang

[emmny 4139]

so THATS the tea....shady

[platy 3018]

@Duwang sounds insane! I love when bands can interact so personally with fans. Any tips for gigs in Japan?  Any vocab you guys can share so I'm not completely clueless and shame the name of gaijin gig-goers ??

 I have no idea what you look like, but I checked your piercing descriptions, if anyone matches them, I'll approach them assuming it's you haha.

 

These are the shows i'll be attending during my two and a half weeks in JP

17/07 Sukekiyo (I'm so annoyed at how expensive tickets are...but I still bought them -sigh.)

24/07 xaa-xaa

28/07 ダウト/SuG  

I'm also seeing Mix Speaker's, Inc. But I forgot the date. I wanted to go to see 己龍 live as well, but i have already spent  around £170 on tickets alone so maybe next time ;-; And not many bands seem to be active during July  But maybe next time. Going to live shows is definitely one of my hobbies, but at least in England 2016 has been the quietest year so far in term of vk/jrock bands. Think we only got BABYMETAL so far. 

[doombox 4421]

Thanks for that write up @Duwang, it's plenty good enough for me, thanks! They sound so silly but awesome. I hope I get to see them one day eventually. Roji is such a badass, I love hearing about it! XD I love that your goal was to knock Kazuki down lmao! You are my hero. 

 

I hope that fan that got hurt is okay now. Hopefully it wasn't too serious. ;; 

[Duwang 676]

@Platy Yeah XAA XAA's great. Crazy but not too crazy. I just wish they'd play in Tokyo more often on days I can actually go. 
For vocab and other general live info, Ask A Bangya is a good place to get started. Hope you have an awesome time in Japan!

I actually posted a picture a while back in the Show Yourself thread, I think on page 122 or 123? But yeah feel free to say hi!
I feel you on bands not coming to where you live. I live in Japan now but when I was still in the states I only went to two lives back in 07 and 08. Bands rarely ever came even remotely close to where I'm from especially in the past 7 years. 

 

@doombox Silly is definitely a good word for them. haha. Kazuki's antics are especially so.
Roji's so badass behind his drumset but the three times I've talked to him so far he's been pretty silly. He keeps greeting me like "HI HI HI HI HI HI HIIIIIIIIII" and  I already got him to facepalm and laugh his ass off at my stupidity :')
I've actually knocked down band guys close to his size in the past and I'm rather short/skinny. Kazuki seems to be cool with it so I'm gonna keep trying lol

I hope she's ok, too. She didn't look too too bad but the fact she had to be taken out was pretty scary. 

[anakuro 847]

I wrote up about the Osaka oneman on my tumblr as well but I'll copy and paste here in case any one's interested in it too

0611 大阪MUSE
1.冷たい omg i haven’t heard this in like A YEAR?
2.雨に殺される GOMEN NASAI GOMEN NASAI
-れいや爆裂-
3.子守唄 AHHHHH
4.ララララ YESSS kazuki had a gold, silver and bronze  medal for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd people who would run into him
-中毒者絶叫-
5.情けない男のテーマ OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SONG there’s like video game noises and kazuki has a controller and i’m laughing AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG HE STARTED SAYING “JUNKO JUNKO JUNKO” and i couldn’t headbang anymore i was laughing so hard
6.コワイクライ YES
7.大雨警報発令 YES YES YES
8.青いレインコート 
9.花占い(アコースティックバージョン) I had to hold my friend’s hand the whole time I. love. this. song. so. much. ALSO this was my first time seeing roji on the cajón and lol he’s too big for it so he has to get all hunched over (AND ROJI’S NOT THAT BIG) and he had like his PURSED LIPS OF CONCENTRATION face on i love him
-朗読- LMAO KAZUKI WAS LIKE “I’M A HOUSEWIFE” AND I LOST IT
10.いけない、もう行かなくちゃ I had this song stuck in my head for the rest of the night
11.今宵は鬱くしい YES! FANS! YES!
12.笑いたいけど笑えない omg
-おれソロ- OH MY GOD ROJI IS SO GOOD AT DRUMS AND JUST LIKE HIS DRUMMING IS SO COOL I WAS SITTING THERE LIKE (TBH I WAS LIKE THAT THE WHOLE LIVE). also lol smells like teen spirit
13.ピチピチチャプチャプランランラン OMG SO FUN! And so much running around haha
14.君の心臓を食べてしまいたい yessss
15.「うそつき」 my jam tho
16.雫 ok
アンコール
1.独奏オーケストラ they faked us out we thought they’d have the announcement on the screen THEN SUDDENLY THEY STARTED PLAYING IT AND LIKE…IT WAS SO GOOD
2.感電、けがのおそれがあります。 omg it was so fun and the mosh was so long and at one point i was just like pushing kazuki back (during ushiro mosh) like SON YOU CANT JUST STAND THERE 
ハイライト 
・池袋EDGEの最初の一音目から今日のチェキ撮影最後のシャッター音までの全て。2箇所で会えたみんなありがとう。また遊びましょう。

 

it was so fun 
and like roji was in such a good mood his drumming was so tight today and SO MUCH TWIRLING AND DRUM STICK THROWING AND I was just in awe like the whole live (I actually stood there with my mouth open A LOT I’M SERIOUS OOPS)


we sang reiya happy birthday at one point and 


(basically copy and paste from before) Also on stage unmasked eigyo from roji THANK. “who’s from tokyo? Osaka?” Etc and then roji’s like “AMERICA!” And me and brenna raised our hands and everyone (especially those that know me) looked at us like omg he did it for u and they continue on and then kazuki’s like “we’re going to all these places for the twoman tour” and roji’s like wait wait wait wait but kazuki kept talking over him (i think this is the first time that someone was louder than roji) and roji finally was like “WE’RE NOT GOING TO AMERICA!” and I was like “come!!!” And kazuki’s like “we’ll go soon” and roji’s like “we can’t” lmao WHO DO I BELIEVE…


and then satsuei like i asked roji if i could punch him and he was just like OK! without hesitation so i lived that dream and then we were awkward and like thanks okay and i was like NIRVANA! and he was like NIRVANA!!!!!! and then he was like SEE YOU and i was like MATA NE and kogoe was probably just looking at us like i see who you were cheating on nuppe with I C U MISHA


And then aoshi was distributing flyers and as we were walking away i jokingly did the hand sign and said tsunagaritai but my friend started laughing because she turned to look and he was doing it too so i looked over at aoshi and i did the CLAP CLAP CLAP TSUNAGARITAI at him and he died laughing
what a good day this was the best XAA-XAA live i have ever been to bye

 

Glad you had such a good time @Duwang!! I was curious how you'd enjoy them live haha & thanks for the shout out to the ask a bangya blog. @Platy that blog is actually run by me and another person so if you have any specific questions feel free to ask me!

 

and yes roji is such a badass behind the drumset!!
I WISH HE FELT THE NEED TO EIGYO WITH ME JEEZ
When he's in a good mood like at onemans he's a bit more talkative though....but I don't even try at this point so we're just in this awkward "oh hi. kbye." phase now lol

[doombox 4421]

@anakuro lol c'mon guys, COME TO AMERICAAAA! Kazuki make it happen. XDDD

These set lists look great. (ToT) ♥ lol precious awkward babes. 

[anakuro 847]

@doombox barrage him with "COME TO AMERICA!!!" messages :')

 

I thought it was a bit odd on my day though that there were exactly 0 songs off of 死にたい 

I mean it's fine for me, 死にたい's my least favorite but...that was just odd.

[doombox 4421]

19 minutes ago, anakuro said:

@doombox barrage him with "COME TO AMERICA!!!" messages :')

Lol I might try this. XD

[anakuro 847]

The ad for the twoman tour was chosen to be on the back of SHOXX, which is pretty big for them.

 

Also, I've been typing up the lyrics from 雨に殺される & even translated ピチピチチャプチャプランランラン on tumblr. 

In case anyone's interested, I also made a tumblr to talk solely about XAA-XAA from my experiences & to talk with anyone on there who is interested in them (and doesn't want to follow my personal tumblr lol). 

 

As for 雨に殺される (now that I actually own it, lol):

I love the mini-album.
Ame ni korosareru is probably one of the weaker songs on there in my opinion.
Ikenai mou ikenakucha is so catchy I love it and the recitation is HILARIOUS. Just imagine kazuki earnestly saying "I'm just your average housewife" and try not to laugh please
Aoi raincoat is that emo kazuki being murdered in a forest song i've always wanted without even knowing it

pichipichi chapuchapu ranranran I know you guys are meh about it BUT for me it is so fresh for them with the different style and I love it. it sounds so fun but of course, lol, the lyrics... On another note, it gives me life knowing that this drum line was difficult for Roji and he kept fuckin it up :')

ohame keihou hatsurei I've been listening to 5000x a day it's my favorite song
shizuku it's good but ...well, I've never been big on ballads

Edited June 23, 2016 by anakuro

[orange~ 387]

I've gotten more and more interested in these guys for past few weeks. Their material is sort of hit and miss for me, but when it hits, it hits real good!

雨に殺される and 死にたい(shinitai) for example area god-tier stuff for me.

 

They're sort of what I hoped for My Bacteria Heat Island to move towards to.

[Saishu 1589]

Finally listened to the mini, and the MUCC influence is definitely starting to show now. Good stuff again. I'd say these guys have had fairly consistent quality thus far. 

[CCXXVIII 30]

here's the images for their upcoming singles

 

 

on a side note, reiya is absolutely killing me with his abs these days uGH WHY AM I NOT THERE FOR THEIR INSTORES

 

* and if anyone decides to sell their recent reiya cheki or any of xaa-xaa's merch (i'm dying to get their t-shirts, hoodies and stuff lmao), i'd love it if you could pm me or something  

Edited July 31, 2016 by CCXXVIII

[anakuro 847]

@Saishu a lot of people are recently bringing up the MUCC influence too, so you're definitely not the only one. I'll have to take people for their word but I havent really gotten so into MUCC to really know. I think @doombox has also mentioned liking them for the MUCC influence

 

@CCXXVIIII have roji cheki not reiya cheki lol Also haru cheki.... (reiya and kazuki cheki are the cheki i can trade REALLY EASILY plus i don't..particularly want reiya cheki........)

I am willing to part with their pendant though (the one that looks like a watch i think--I'm not looking at it right now so i can't quite remember). I bought it and have yet to do anything with it so I'm not too attached. the IC card sticker too i don't particularly need. 

 

 

 

Anyway, out of the three what is your favorite look??

I like kamisori the most probably but yomei is really nostalgic with the suits

[Duwang 676]

@CCXXVIIII just remembered I actually have one Reiya cheki from their Tokyo oneman back in June. If you're interested feel free to PM me!

 

also@Platydid you end up going to the live on 7/24?

 

 

As for my favorite look out of the three, definitely Kamisori. I'm a fan of suit kei so I like Yomei as well.

Speaking of Kamisori, they played it at Shibutai and while I can't really tell you guys how it went I did enjoy it at the time. They played it at the Osaka shusai too right @anakuro?? 

[anakuro 847]

yeah that's my impression of kamisori too. I liked it at the time but can't recall it.

but to be honest, that's how i am with a lot of songs i hear only 1~2 times at lives so I don't think it's particularly a reflection on the song itself lol

 

oh yeah @Platyif you went let us know what you thought!

[platy 3018]

I did go to their live at the 24/7. I saw over 25 bands during my two week stay and xaa-xaa were my favorites for sure, I was just blown away by the stage presence, the concept and them sounding flawless (specially Kazuki's screams on 青いレインコート). The setlist was spot on for such a short appearance and I was not expecting the crowd to go as crazy as they did. Kazuki always gives off a weirdo vibe from pictures, pvs,etc. But seeing him upclose he really is weird guy. I loved when he just stared at the people in the level above for ages and told them not to be scared, xaa-xaa's appearance may be scary but theyre nice guys. They won't bite. 

xaa-xaa are my favorite band as of now (seriously guys, I don't know why this is happening) and I nearly headbutted a desk when I realised they had an instore event the same day and I was in the area but missed it. 

I really wanted to see them again before I left and even considered delaying my flight back, but alas, it didn't work out.

 

I'm really interested in their merch , if anyone feels like helping a brother out. I bought a couple of releases and got a cheki of the whole group, I would trade it, but I'm no expert in the cheki-trade so I don't even know if it's got any value.

 

But in regards to their look, I love kamisori, it's very striking. The whole concept of the consecutive releases is awesome with each look representing a despair in some way, I'm curious as to what the yomei look represents. But dosuguroi (excuse if I translated it wrong) is the most promising to me, if the look represents the music, I can see this being dark, aggressive and angsty which is always a good sound for xaa-xaa.

 

I'm still butthurt that I can't attend the Kazuki x Yoshiatsu tour, specially since i really enjoyed seeing DADAROMA too.

Spoiler

( Yoshiatsu asked the crowd to make way so he could get down and run down the floor, the crowd split in half but some girl left her bag in the way. He tripped on it and threw himself on the floor, got up and angrily kicked the bag. It was the funniest thing i've seen in ages)

But I bought the SHOXX issue with the interview with the two vocalists and what's with Kazuki trying to be a sphinx and never giving direct answers? He really does like to be edgy and vague. It's a pain to translate what he says lmao. (Like saying he's 2m30cm tall. srsly? )

 

Edited August 8, 2016 by Platy

[Duwang 676]

@PlatyGlad to hear you had a great time! Yeah I was actually shocked how fucking awesome they were that day despite the short setlist. 

xaa-xaa's fans are always crazy but 7/24 was A LOT louder than the other times I've seen them so far,  probably since they played at a bigger venue with a larger crowd than usual, also the fact that quite a lot of non-fans were also getting into them.  A lot of the girls behind me at the front who were meh about them at first were like ザアザアいいね～ after their set. Based on the instore attendance and how much of the crowd was into them that day, they're definitely gonna get popular which I have mixed feelings about....

As for merch, I'll think about it so no promises but I could possibly help you out depending on what you want.

 

lololol at Yoshiatsu. Dadaroma isn't my thing but I would've paid to see that ngl :') 

 

Kazuki is hilarious in that interview. I translated my favorite parts for my Tumblr so my friends and followers could laugh about it but if you'd like I can do the whole thing. It's pretty short.

Spoiler

Height/weight: 230cm / 60kg
Favorite food: people who like xaa-xaa
Food you hate: people who dislike xaa-xaa
Favorite season: oharu
Favorite sport: playing golf with an empty can
Hobby: it’s inappropriate so I can’t say it here 
Strong point (長所, which consists of the characters for “long” and “place”): I have a long face
Weak point(短所 , which consists of the characters for “short” and “place”): I have short legs

 

Speaking of Kazuki, at the last instore I went to he actually spoke to me in English. It was hilarious and sooo bad. lmfao.
He tried so hard so I felt bad telling him Japanese is ok in fear of breaking his kokoro but it was all good.

Edited August 9, 2016 by Duwang

[anakuro 847]

Wow! Glad to hear they were your favorite!! 
yeah the crowd always gets so into it. It's really impressive how for XAA-XAA how almost the entire crowd participates--even if it's an event for like 8 bands. BUT this is also my experience in Osaka so it's really great to hear that they're getting bigger in Tokyo too!! Must be from going there so often these days. The last time I saw them in Tokyo was in January and they still didn't have all that many fans there. 

 

But yeah, XAA-XAA gya are so into it lmao. I didn't go due to work, but one time they did an acoustic set and they played kanden and the girls still yelled at like SHIBIRERU and HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH VOLTAGE which just sounds hilarious and I regret so much not finding a way to go to that acoustic set lol. 

 

That's a shame about missing the in store though! 

 

But yep Kazuki is a grade A weirdo!! He's really, really nice though. 

 

You're right on dosuguroi btw
I'm guessing yomei is like the "white light" you supposedly see when you're dying ?

 

 

It's so crazy to think how big XAA-XAA has become. 
Like their first oneman was just about 30 people and Shellmy lmao It's always so amazing to think how far they've come :')

 

lol @ kazuki englishing i can't imagine 

[anakuro 847]

What do you guys think?

[doombox 4421]

I like it, even if the content makes me squirm a bit, but I think that's the point. And at the same time I like the music so much I have to watch it 10 more times. I love the colors and imagery with these singles. It's so striking and memorable. 

[anakuro 847]

Yeah, I'm not big on the subject matter either. It's why I took forever to get into Shellmy, one of the big reasons why I avoided AvelCain like the plague, etc etc. But menhera is "in" right now so to speak, so all the bands ever have to have at least one wrist cutting song. Given the concept of the three singles (despair) I'm not surprised.

 

I like the song. But it's not my favorite and probably won't rank in the top ten for me, but it's good. Curious what the other song on the single will be like.

 

I've gotta agree about the artwork. Though, dosuguroi's outfits seem pretty cheap lol

Edited August 14, 2016 by anakuro

[CCXXVIII 30]

took a few replays for me to like, i'm really looking forward to it now.

not really a fan of all 3 of their upcoming singles' outfits though lol...

 

by the way, would anyone be selling or willing to share 名も無き空へ and ララララ? i've been dying to hear these since the day i became their fan  inserts crying gif 

Edited August 17, 2016 by CCXXVIII