Pretsy 1343 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) On 12/10/2016 at 4:57 PM, Anne Claire said: Apparently, Mumiy Troll is a visual kei band. Idk but seems like they *intentionally* opted borderline 12012 kei looks there for a moment but yet still obvious oddballs of that show regardless - just what Yoshiki was thinking? edit: Ok, the frontman explained the reason - rough translation off that certain excerpt: Quote - As far as I have understood, the management staff of this festival thought of inviting some foreign groups. They (*COUGH* YOSHIKI - carm's note) had plans on globalizing this whole event. The thing is that our first visit in Japan kinda affected the musical and visual direction of "Tochno Rtut' Aloe". We had PVs in anime style and with some Asian themes. Around that time we even used to be called "Russian Glay" by Japanese press. We have played with acts akin to Rose of Rose, Sharam Q, Sex Machineguns. I have brought Dasein to Moscow, and in each and every V-ROX (Vladivostok-based rock festival with rather surprising headliners each year - e.g. Tsushimamire and Love Psychedelico attended latest V-ROX events - Carm's note) event I personally invited various popular Japanese acts to perform in Russia. I guess for these last 15 years I have brought a lot more Japanese artists on my own initiative to Russia than any other professional promoter or so-called "Gov(-funded) programs". In our repertoire we have also songs in Japanese as well. Seems like all of this has played its role well. source: http://www.musical-express.ru/special/ya_ved_professionalnyy_vostokoved_ilya_lagutenko_o_sotrudnichestve_s_x_japan_i_mezhkulturnom_obmene_/ Edited October 17, 2016 by Alroy 3 suji, Biopanda and IGM_Oficial reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tokage 5930 Posted October 17, 2016 did they even have an audience at all? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CELESTIAL CIEL 985 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) their vocal-san speaks jp and chinese (and he was sort of visiting teacher in my uni x'D), and it's quite cool if he'll bring more visual kei at his own fest... he also said a lot of really right things about cultural relations and stuff. Edited October 17, 2016 by DREAMON DREAMER 2 Anne Claire and Pretsy reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Biopanda 2675 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) Quote As far as I have understood, the management staff of this festival thought of inviting some foreign groups. They (*COUGH* YOSHIKI - carm's note) had plans on globalizing this whole event. YOSHIKI shading hard on Scandinavian flop-kei, inviting a random Russian group but not them. Waiting for some more angry subtweeting from yohio. Edited October 17, 2016 by Biopanda 6 Naaaaani, IGM_Oficial, emmny and 3 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nekkichi 6042 Posted October 17, 2016 2 hours ago, Carmelzors said: Idk but seems like they *intentionally* opted borderline 12012 kei looks there for a moment but yet still album he refers to has an... interesting cover Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CELESTIAL CIEL 985 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) good old stuff btw... that's why i want their collab with mucc Edited October 17, 2016 by DREAMON DREAMER Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IGM_Oficial 1964 Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: VANIRU 01. L’Abime -dizzy disco- 02. LOVE AGAIN 03. コズミック・ナイト 04. DEAD OR DANCE Oh, gawd. 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST 01. DESPERATE 02. 銃創 03. V.I.P Disappointing. 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: JAPAN 01. JADE 02. Rusty Nail 03. Forever Love 04. 紅 05. 新曲（La Venus） 06. Born To Be Free 07. X 08. WORLD ANTHEM 09. ENDLESS RAIN 10. ART OF LIFE OMFG, A NEW SONG 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: A9 01.閃光 02.SHINING 03.RAINBOWS 04.春夏秋冬 05.the beatiful name They should have played one of their new songs, but this setlist is killing, anyway 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: hide with Spread Beaver 01.ROCKET DIVE 02.POSE 03.Beauty & Stupid 04.FLAME 05.GOOD BYE（with YOSHIKI） 06.ピンクスパイダー（with YOSHIKI） 07.DOUBT 08.DICE 09.ever free 10.TELL ME（with PATA） Hide's hologram? 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: Versailles 01.Aristocrat’s Symphony 02.Sympathia 03.The Revenant Choir They should have played more songs, but ok 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: ゴールデンボンバー 01.紅（X cover） 02.抱きしめてシュヴァルツ 03.欲望の歌 04.†ザ・V系っぽい曲† 05.女々しくて（with YOSHIKI） The performance of "Yokubou no uta" must have been epic. And they played "Memeshikute", with Yoshiki. Ok. 13 hours ago, jon_jonz said: 己龍 01.天照 02.彩 03.月下美人 04.ピンスパイダー（hide with Spread Beaver cover） 05.百鬼夜行 They played their new song. Awesome. Edited October 17, 2016 by IGM_Oficial 1 -Arnie- reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pretsy 1343 Posted October 17, 2016 On 12/10/2016 at 5:13 PM, Carmelzors said: I presume Yoshiki made rather rushed assumptions when he clicked on one MT PV off the 90s(I suppose this one, kek) and thought that "hey, they *USED* to be VK too!!!1!" Do they even have a significant fanbase there in Japan though? 3 hours ago, nekkichi said: album he refers to has an... interesting cover Their 1999/2000 era was rather interesting in general lel + that Eurovision PV (also: note the quote) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r... 720 Posted October 18, 2016 I was there and had the time of my liiiife (and I owe it all to YOSHIKI apparently). LUNA SEA is the greatest band on earth. GLAY is awesome. X was X, with all its flaws and problems it still is a good live band. 清春 Was probably the worst show in the entire thing. Dude stunk up the place in a "Neil Diamond at the Last Waltz" proportion. Not even忘却の空 could save his ass. 3 carddass, IGM_Oficial and Takadanobabaalien reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peace Heavy mk II 7200 Posted October 18, 2016 Ohhh, well that explains why Maiju's twitter has been stanning yoshiki for months Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CELESTIAL CIEL 985 Posted October 18, 2016 On 17.10.2016 at 0:10 PM, Spectralion said: Golden Bomber Memeshikute With YOSHIKI 😐 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Takadanobabaalien 3607 Posted October 18, 2016 I think the event was a great idea. A lot of unknown bands (like for example Gossip or Grieva) were exposed to over 100,000 ppl in the audience. I bet they must've gained some fans at least. Old diru and Gazette fans or something, but it is something that's the important part! 2 Euthanasia and Biopanda reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WhirlingBlack 1043 Posted October 18, 2016 I'm guessing only a fraction of the audience showed up for the early bands though, at least on that other big vk festival event in 2011 (?) Where they did invite swede-kei band seremedy, they played to a mostly empty arena. Still better than their average show for sure though in terms of exposure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r... 720 Posted October 19, 2016 6 hours ago, WhirlingBlack said: I'm guessing only a fraction of the audience showed up for the early bands though, at least on that other big vk festival event in 2011 (?) Where they did invite swede-kei band seremedy, they played to a mostly empty arena. Still better than their average show for sure though in terms of exposure. Pretty much. グリーヴァplayed right after ASH DA HERO (2nd band of the day) and FEST VAINQUEUR, who has quite a loyal fan base. Lots of girls were there to see them. now, グリーヴァ didn't play to 100,000 people, but at the very least there were 1500 people in front of the smaller stages when they came on. Plus, everybody who was at the main stage heard them very clearly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sads123 147 Posted October 22, 2016 On 10/18/2016 at 8:37 AM, r... said: 清春 Was probably the worst show in the entire thing. Dude stunk up the place in a "Neil Diamond at the Last Waltz" proportion. Not even忘却の空 could save his ass. What happened, pray tell? He went through the motions and didn't put his heart into it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
