The GazettE Concert - Nippon Budokan 07/09/07


My head and shoulder were still hurt from headbanging... I`ve never done so many headbangs in my life.

Tamara and I arrived at Nippon Budokan before 5 PM. Because the doors were not open yet, we went to MacDonalds to eat. Btw around Nippon Budokan there have been so many guys and girls with J-Rock style. Lots of cosplayers, and there was a guy that really looked like Uruha. I wanted to take his picture, but he was gone before I got a chance to ask him.

Around 5.30 PM we went back to Nippon Budokan, and we got in the hall. We had the worst concert seat ever haha... It was a standing position in the West side, and it`s in the back, the very back. Fortunately there were railings in front of us, so later during the concert I could climb on the railing and got better view, though that position was not confortable at all.

The concert started at about 6.45 PM (15 minutes late). They`re all wearing black, and Uruha and Ruki wore long black jackets. Sorry I didn`t pay any attention to the others (Kai, Aoi, Reita).

Most songs in the concert were from Stacked Rubbish album, and unfortunately I was not familiar with their new songs (I only have Nil, Disorder and some older single). I was familiar only with FILTH IN THE BEAUTY (second or third song), which brought the audience to headbanging during the chorus.

The other song that I recognized was TAION． And it was MUCH MUCH better than the recorded version. TAION was always one of my fave song. And Ruki`s groan was the best, it`s like the wildest thing ever.

There were some new songs, and approaching second hour, the atmosphere was getting intense. The songs were getting wilder, if I may compare, it`s like twice more hardcore than Nine Spiral or Uncontrol. Almost every songs made audience jump and headbang. Jumping, clapping hands, headbanging, doing some hand movements, and jumping again.

After two hours, the concert ended... Ruki laid in the stage, exhausted. Audience yelled for Kai, Uruha, Reita, Aoi, and of course Ruki. Then afterwards Ruki stood up and got back to the backstage.

The light went off. Audience yelled for encore for about 10-15 minutes.

Then afterwards, Kai and Reita entered the stage. I borrowed Tamara`s binocular, and I just wanted to say that Kai looked better in person, than in magazines / photographs. Kai & Reita did a solo drum & bass... and it was amazing. Though the music consisted only of drum & bass, it made us jump and clap hands etc. When the song ended, Uruha, Aoi and Ruki entered the stage and continued with other songs.

The third hour was even more intense. I guessed everyone had already emerged to the atmosphere, and almost eveyone did the headbang etc. Uruha had taken off his long jacket, and he`s only wearing black T-Shirt and that damn sexy thong-boots or whatver it`s called. Using the binocular, you could see his sexy thigh haha... The others also showed more skins (Aoi, Reita and Kai wore T-Shirt that showed their muscles). Though I was in the West side (Aoi`s side) and couldn`t see Uruha`s face (could only see him from behind mostly), I could see his arm muscles with the binocular haha...

The concert ended at about ９．４５ PM. Actually I waited for Cassis or Reila, but they didn`t sing　the　songs this time. But seeing TAION and FILTH IN THE BEAUTY live were AMAZING.

And the concert was really physical. 3 hours of moving your body around, either jumping, yelling, headbanging etc (Mostly headbanging). And Ruki`s voice was amazing in live. When he groaned, it`s like hearing something wild, most like animal`s groan. And Ａｌｌ of them were awesome, Kai was probably one of the best drummer ever, he played it continuoussly for 3 hours, and you know how hard it was to play drum for hardcore songs. I have to say Kai and Ruki ruled. Uruha, Reita and Aoi were not bad, but Ruki and Kai outstood them in performance.

Holy Sith, most of the songs were better in live　than in recorded versions. As comparison, TAION live was probably like Uncontrol R&R live, lots of groans and it`s just freaking awesome. I lost words to describe,

After all, I was really grateful to be able to catch them live in Nippon Budokan... I had been dreaming about it since April ０７, and I thought it`s just impossible to see Gazette live in Tokyo. But dear God, I made it. Thank you very much to whoever up there, thank you... thank you for this experience...